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Plug-ins should be included in client update as a standard solution, as a "pick up" when installing fixpacs.
This is must have; this is really very labour intensive to support
Agree, it is common that people use 2-3 yers old desktop plugin. Automatic updates would help a lot.
I would add there are still issues even with the current plug-ins - especially the endless install, it thinks its not installed, install again of the Meetings plugin.
While auto upgrade might be useful in small unmanaged deployments, customers who have implemented a managed desktop infrastructure with central software deployment would like to keep control about the installed version. It happened in the past, that a new update has broken a feature and a roll-back to the previous version was required (or a complete stop of deployment). The idea of enforcing a minimum version would be worth a separate idea/enhancement request.
We are updating the desktop Plugin with our own Software Management Tool. Of course i have to download the current version manually to deploy it to the clients but it works!
Agree, it is common that people use 2-3 yers old desktop plugin. Automatic updates would help a lot.
Alternatively the sever might have a minimum version of the client configured and warn the user whenever he or she uses an old version (via a pop up window or some icon decoration of the desktop connector)
For admins, it would be also nice to see somewhere which version of the plugin every user uses.
I consider this an important request for high UX with low TCO!