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Deploying clients to users/devices

Preparing clients for download

When is started for the first time, it will start to download the so-called Generic Clients to the client_deployment directory of the Server Maintenance Folder. The clients will then be available for download in the web interface to logged-off users on the log-in page and to logged-in users on the Download Clients tab.

After the client has been downloaded by the user from the web interface, it needs to be installed. After the installation, the client will ask for the server URL, username and password to connect to the server.


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(Warnung) Please take care you download the Generic Client version when updating the clients on the PowerFolder Server. The clients connecting to our public cloud don't offer to enter the URL to your server! 

Download links to the latest Generic Clients:

Notifying clients about a new version

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FeatureDefault LevelDescription
PowerFolder1Main PowerFolder components, including the jar, binaries and entries in the start menu and desktop.
Bundled_JRE1

The JRE distributed with PowerFolder.

ShellExtensions1Integrate PowerFolder into Windows Explorer etc.
ServerConfig1Set server URL on installation. The public installer property CONFIG_URL must be set.
StartupEntry1Create an entry in the Windows Startup folder to automatically launch PowerFolder.
DesktopShortcut1Create a shortcut on the Desktop
Kerberos_Support2000Create registry entries for Kerberos Authentification.
WebDAV_Support2000Create registry entries to use the WebDAV client.

By default, all features with a level of 1 will be installed. Windows Installer allows to override this behaviour in the following ways:

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