How To Guide - Advanced

BlueZone Web-to-Host

How to Force End Users to Accept Updates From the Web Server

Force Updates Feature: Click here to learn more about this feature

When using BlueZone Web-to-Host in the Served Desktop mode, one of the features of Served Desktop mode is the ability for the BlueZone Session Manager to deliver updates to your End Users.

You must be using the BlueZone Session Manager in the auto-update mode in order for this feature to work.

When a file is updated on the web server like a new BlueZone CAB file or a new BlueZone Dialog Level Configuration Profile, that file will be automatically downloaded to your End Users the next time they launch the BlueZone Session Manager.  It's the BlueZone Session Manager that controls this feature.

When the BlueZone Session Manager detects that a newer file exists on the web server, the Web-to-Host Control Module will automatically download the file.  A message box will notify the End User that the BlueZone Administrator has posted new files for updating.

The End User can decide if they want to download the files now or put it off into the future.

However, if you do not want your End Users to be able to refuse the download, you can configure Served Desktop so that it will force the downloading of the files.

The following procedure explains how to configure this option.

Configuration Method: Wizard Configuration

Feature Scope: Launch Folder Level Feature

NOTE  This feature applies to the Served Desktop Mode only.

Procedure

  1. Launch the Web-to-Host Wizard.

  2. Navigate to the desired Site and Launch Folder.

  3. Click the Next button two times to bring up the Advanced Settings page.

  4. Click the Served Desktop button.  The Advanced Settings : Served Desktop page will be displayed.

  5. Near the bottom in the Session Manager Options group, place a check in the Force Updates? checkbox.

All new Launch Folders that are created from this point on, will have the Force Updates Feature enabled.

NOTE  If you have already created one or more Launch Folders, you will have to go to each existing Launch Folder, and place a check in the Force Updates? checkbox.