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<blockquote data-quote="HTPCSourcer" data-source="post: 1251961" data-attributes="member: 74879">EDIT: Original posting by [USER=87223]@JSchuricht[/USER] I suspect this is a long shot for development resources on a feature but I would love to see a server update force an automatic client update.Basically, I would like clients to automatically update to the version supported by the currently connected server. IE. If I update server A from 2.1 to 2.2 I would like the clients that are connected to the standalone server A to automatically update to client 2.2 with minimal intervention by me.I currently support multiple friends and family installations of MP2, some are single seat and some have dedicated servers with dedicated clients that aren't always online for me to update. If there was a way to force the clients to detect the server they are connected to is on a new version and update without intervention it would make life much easier.I know this is limited to multi seat installations but even in the basic single site with multiple clients it would save a bit of work in going to each client and manually updating after a server update.Something simple like a prompt on the client when it detects that the server it is connecting to is of a higher version than this client supports. The prompt would allow remote selection of yes, update with previous install settings of client only or no, I want to do this manually with x,y.z settings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HTPCSourcer, post: 1251961, member: 74879"] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#0000ff]EDIT: Original posting by [USER=87223]@JSchuricht[/USER] [/COLOR][/FONT] I suspect this is a long shot for development resources on a feature but I would love to see a server update force an automatic client update. Basically, I would like clients to automatically update to the version supported by the currently connected server. IE. If I update server A from 2.1 to 2.2 I would like the clients that are connected to the standalone server A to automatically update to client 2.2 with minimal intervention by me. I currently support multiple friends and family installations of MP2, some are single seat and some have dedicated servers with dedicated clients that aren't always online for me to update. If there was a way to force the clients to detect the server they are connected to is on a new version and update without intervention it would make life much easier. I know this is limited to multi seat installations but even in the basic single site with multiple clients it would save a bit of work in going to each client and manually updating after a server update.Something simple like a prompt on the client when it detects that the server it is connecting to is of a higher version than this client supports. The prompt would allow remote selection of yes, update with previous install settings of client only or no, I want to do this manually with x,y.z settings. [/QUOTE]

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