Auto Update?

[dragon2611]

I'd like to suggest perhaps the outlook connector could come with an autoupdate function to check what version the server is running and then offer an update when approriate?

I did a quick search of this forum and didn't see anything come up.


Is there any plans for such feature?

I often use 2-3 different machines (and webmail) I find it a pain to login grab the connector and manually install it on each of them everytime the server gets upgraded (I'm an end user with a single zimbra mailbox, using one of the hosted providers)

[sam]

its in the works...

Bug 9928 Auto deploy & update ZCO

[Jbrabander]

But will a user with "standard" rights be able to install the ZCO? Or will it still require admin rights?

[JimBobCook]

you could get a script that runs the zco installer as an admin user, therefore being able to "update"

[Jbrabander]

If I log in as an administrator and run the ZCO installer, will it take effect for all users on that machine? If I remember right, with older versions of the ZCO, it had to be run for each user of the machine. If I ran the 5.0.3 (for example) as the admin user, it didn't take effect for the "regular" user of that computer.

[fsiegel]

The 5.0.14 installer now writes keys to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Any user changes will go into HKEY_CURRENT_USER. When we look for reg values, we'll check HKCU first, to see if the given user has overridden any defaults, and if the value isn't there, we'll check HKLM.

[Jbrabander]

It seems to work OK with the 5.0.12 installer too. I've run the install as the domain admin on a couple machines, had the user log in, and Outlook ran fine and had the .12 connector when I checked the "about".

BTW, I did find an MSI to EXE converter online. I created an EXE version of the ZCO MSI file and was able to do a "run as". That worked pretty well!