Web Updating

A new feature was implemented in Move Administer recently, web updating!

Web updating is becoming more and more popular amongst software today, so we decided to jump onto the band wagon too.

Basically, rather than sending out updates of Move Administer on CD, we now upload the latest version to our web server. On the Help menu of Move Administer there is now an option to ‘Check for Update’, and when selected Move Administer will run our web update client, which communicates with our web server to find out if a newer version of Move Administer exists, and if so will ask if you would like to download and install.

The great advantage of our web update client is that it will only download those files that are newer, so although Move Administer currently consists of 40Meg of files, it may only need to download 2Meg of newer files, and even then the files will be compressed using compression comparable with WinZip.

This feature was put into action today amongst our testers and so far so good, with those upgrading finding it a very simple and efficient process indeed.

An enhancement to this which we are thinking of implementing is running the web update client automatically every ‘x’ number of days, alerting the user when a new update is available, rather than waiting for the user to select the ‘Check for Updates’ on the Help menu – but one step at a time eh?