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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:
- Windows Installer (.exe)
- Windows Installer (.msi / 32-bit)
- Windows Installer (.msi / 64-bit)
- Mac Package (.dmg)
- Linux Package (.tar.gz)
- Linux Package (.deb / i386)
- Linux Package (.deb / amd64)
- Linux Package (.rpm / i386)
- Linux Package (.rpm / x86_64)
Earlier versions of the Generic Clients can be found here: http://download.powerfolder.com/pro/
Notifying clients about a new version
Once you've updated the clients in the client_deployment directory, they will be available for download on your web interface. However existing clients will not detect automatically that there is a new version yet. 
This can be useful if you want to start with a slow rollout making the updated clients only available for new users.
If you want to have all exisiting existing clients to detect the new version, you need to edit the PowerFolderPro_LatestVersion.txt in the client_deployment directory and set the version number to the number of the updated clients.
Next time one of the existing clients start, it will compare the installed version to the version mentioned in the PowerFolderPro_LatestVersion.txt and will offer the updated version to the user.
Deploying on Windows with the .exe installer using silent mode
The Windows client installer supports some command line options to make it easier to deploy it with batch scripts or package deployment tools:
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| Feature | Default Level | Description |
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| PowerFolder | 1 | Main PowerFolder components, including the jar, binaries and entries in the start menu and desktop. |
| Bundled_JRE | 1 | The JRE distributed with PowerFolder. |
| ShellExtensions | 1 | Integrate PowerFolder into Windows Explorer etc. |
| ServerConfig | 1 | Set server URL on installation. The public installer property CONFIG_URL must be set. |
| StartupEntry | 1 | Create an entry in the Windows Startup folder to automatically launch PowerFolder. |
| DesktopShortcut | 1 | Create a shortcut on the Desktop |
| Kerberos_Support | 2000 | Create registry entries for Kerberos Authentification. |
| WebDAV_Support | 2000 | Create 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 behavior behaviour in the following ways:
- The INSTALLDIR property is used to customize the directory where the main files (PowerFolder.exe, jar etc.) will be placed.
- The LANG property determines the language of the installed shell extensions. For possible values see Language Identifier Constants and Strings. The default value is provided by GetSystemDefaultLanguageID.
- The INSTALLLEVEL property can be set manually. All features with a level lower than INSTALLLEVEL will be installed.
- The ADDLOCAL property allows to specify specifying features to be installed by their name.
- The REMOVE property names features to be removed.
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