12-17-2015 03:24 PM
People,
Tomorrow I'm going to upgrade the EV v10 to v11.0.4 on the server side, I guess it is just a simple Next-Next-Finish wizard to follow.
But now the problem is how to automatically upgrade the hundreds of EV client installed on users outlook ?
At the moment the majority of the EV client is on v9.0 with Outlook 2010 and some other newer laptop is running with mixed of EV10 on Outlook 2013/2016.
Sadly there is no SCCM or Altiris to do the deployment so I wonder if anyone here know what to automatically upgrade all ev client to v11.0.4 on all Outlook 2010-2013-2016 users company wide ?
12-17-2015 11:13 PM
Without a central distribution tool, that is a challenge I believe.
Are users local admin on their machines? If not, then you definitely have a problem. That then requires an install by someone who has admin rights. Perhaps you can do something with a 'run as', not sure.
Perhaps you can have a custom login script to install? Perhaps you can place the install on a share, and inform people via e-mail to run it? How are you going to verify everyone has the latest version?
After a quick initial check, I believe the next best thing is to install it using a GPO. That seems to bypass the need to have local admin rights.
12-18-2015 05:00 AM