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209 VOTE
Status Under Consideration
Categories 12. Desktop Plugins
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2018

Automatically upgrade desktop plugin

We would like to suggest an auto-update feature for the IBM Connections File Sync and Share Desktop Plug-In. A number of improvements have been made to this plug-in recently, however our users often run old versions and struggle with issues which are long resolved, simply because they did not update the add-in manually. It would be nice if there was an auto-update feature similar to the one in the IBM Sametime Connect client so that users always get the latest version to their systems.
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  • Guest
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    Jan 18, 2021

    Plug-ins should be included in client update as a standard solution, as a "pick up" when installing fixpacs.

  • Guest
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    Apr 30, 2020

    This is must have; this is really very labour intensive to support

  • Guest
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    Feb 5, 2019

    Agree, it is common that people use 2-3 yers old desktop plugin. Automatic updates would help a lot. 

  • Guest
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    Aug 22, 2018

    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. 

  • Guest
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    Aug 5, 2018

    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.

  • Guest
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    Aug 4, 2018

    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!

  • Guest
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    Aug 2, 2018

    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. 

  • Guest
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    Aug 1, 2018

    I consider this an important request for high UX with low TCO!