WebUpdate - Check One Site - Download another

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I am trying to balance some workload among servers. What I'd like to do is:

1. Have WebUpdate.exe check Site A for new version info.
2. Have WebUpdate.exe download MySetup.exe from Site A
3. Have MySetup.exe download the remaining parts from Site B

Suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Paul

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Hi Paul,

> I am trying to balance some workload among servers. What I'd like to do
> is:
>
> 1. Have WebUpdate.exe check Site A for new version info.
> 2. Have WebUpdate.exe download MySetup.exe from Site A
> 3. Have MySetup.exe download the remaining parts from Site B
>
> Suggestions on how to accomplish this?

The following should work (we have tested it here).

In your "initial" install (which makes the application web update ready),
enter the iDeploy Web Update server configuration for "Site A". As a
result, wupdate.exe will check "Site A" for new version information. Upload
the generated server manifest file to "Site A".

Okay, you have a new version of your software and you create a web update
project. In your Web Update Installer Package (MySetup.exe), enter the
iDeploy Web Update server configuration for "Site B"! But now, upload the
generated MySetup.exe and the new server manifest file to "Site A". Upload
the generated cluster files (MySetup.00001, MySetup.00002, etc.) to
"Site B" (IMPORTANT: *not* to "Site A"). That's it ;-)

wupdate.exe will check "Site A" for a new version. If a new version is
available, it downloads MySetup.exe from "Site A" and executes it. The
update installer will now download from "Site B".

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Thanks Friedrich...

Reading what you describe it sounds like that once someone installs the
update, the update will check "Site B" from then on for the version info,
correct?
So I can't setup the configuration to always check Site A and download from
Site B....?

See it would be a good feature consideration. Benefits:
1. Control over version info at sales site. I read the version file for
info.....
2. Allows moving install to high bandwidth site

Paul

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Hi Paul,

> Reading what you describe it sounds like that once someone installs the
> update, the update will check "Site B" from then on for the version info,
> correct?

No, it always checks "Site A". In your "initial" install, you define that
Web Update checks "Site A" for updates.

> So I can't setup the configuration to always check Site A and download
> from Site B....?

It does exactely this! Always check "Site A" and download from "Site B"

> See it would be a good feature consideration. Benefits:
> 1. Control over version info at sales site. I read the version file for
> info.....
> 2. Allows moving install to high bandwidth site

Correct :)

Does this help?

Friedrich

--
Friedrich Linder
Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder
Create Windows Vista ready installations in minutes

-- Official Comodo Code Signing and SSL Certificate Partner

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Thanks - I'll give it a try....

paul macfarlane