Re: auto-updater

Steve Zimmelman laid this down on his screen :
So how would you go about updating a client that has 200+ users with on-going application development that requires frequent updates? It doesn't seem reasonable to expect the IT dept to update each computer. By the time they finish, another version would be ready. ;)

I have a client that has had me in that exact situation for the last 7+ years. The only way to solve it was to use a service that had sufficient rights to install the updates. This course of action was approved by the IT dept before implementation.

If the service is written correctly, it shouldn't break any policies.

-Steve-

"Antti Kurenniemi" <antti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46aebc07$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Strong advice: *don't* try to be clever here. There may well be a very good reason why some users are running with privilege levels that disallow them from updating anything in their computer. Respect that. Show the user an error message saying that their rights do not allow the update, and also inform them what to do to make it happen.

A service that runs *all the time*, so that it can *break my company's user rights policies*? That's reason enough to never buy anything from that company ever again. You don't want to be in that bunch of morons, trust me.


Antti Kurenniemi

The IT departement is not responsible of accepting or decline an update, the users are or at least one of them. After accepting the update then the autoupdater will get a command from the IT to update when possible and most likely just after the next login.
Do not bug the user to update, if s/he has selected do not bother me with this update then do not bother him/her again.
And give me the option to shut it down AKA do not check for updates it is not all users responsibility to keep up with the updates.

Regards
Yannis.


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