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Automatic update installation package folder and registry settings

Dominik

Hi,

when automatically updating M-Files Client is there some way to change the default installation package folder? I think it's currently in "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Motive\M-Files Setup Packages", but I may be wrong.

The reason I would like to change the package location is because we are setting automatic updates for users via automatic update registry settings, but we encountered issues with network, because about 80 users started downloading large update installation packages at ones from the internet and the network can't handle it very well. My thought was to download the msi file once, put it into some shared folder and just set the installation package folder location to that shared folder for all users.

I know you can do automatic updates via GPO very similar to this using some XML and scripts, etc., but I was just trying to find the simplest solution to updates accross the whole company.

And my second question, which kind of follows up the previous one, is... Is there any list of registry keys/settings for M-Files? I sometimes find registry keys in regedit that are related to M-Files, but I can't find any documentation for them on the internet. That one I would really appreciate, because sometimes I spend a lot of time searching through the forums, support website and the public cloud only to find out that the key or setting I'm searching for probably doesn't even exist.

Thank you for any feedback.

Regards, Dominik

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    My understanding is that there is a random delay added to automatic updates to make it less likely that everyone would be downloading the updates at the same time. There is a registry setting you can use to modify this delay, check the AdditionalMaxRandomSleepingPeriod setting in the user guide: Configuring Automatic Updates with Registry Settings Perhaps increasing this value would distribute the download events more evenly over time?

  • 0 in reply to Joonas Linkola

    Hi Joonas,

    I just have one follow up question. Do I understand it correctly that If I set this registry key to let's say 21600 (6 hours), it will generate a random delay between 0 - 21600 on each computer it's set on? Or will it delay updates for each user by exactly 21600? The first one makes more sense to me, but want to make sure.

    Thank you.

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  • 0 in reply to Joonas Linkola

    Hi Joonas,

    I just have one follow up question. Do I understand it correctly that If I set this registry key to let's say 21600 (6 hours), it will generate a random delay between 0 - 21600 on each computer it's set on? Or will it delay updates for each user by exactly 21600? The first one makes more sense to me, but want to make sure.

    Thank you.

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