DUA Question

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Jack Furr

As far as I can tell, DUA does not handle 'versioning' for a file.

In other words, if I want to update my application on multiple devices in
the feild, every machine will download the files listed in the '.DUP' file
and take the necessary steps to update the files. THEN, then next time DUA
is ran, it will _again_ download the files listed in the '.DUP' file on the
server and so on and so on....

Should I assume that DUA is to be used for updating the OS and not my
software.

I'll just do what I use to do and create my own update software.

Jack Furr
 
Jack,

You are right. There is no 'versioning' in DUA/scripting.
But you can always change the DUA pulling settings - scheduled time, pulling location, etc. - through a DUA script.

E.g.:
- you have important fix to be deployed on all devices under <server>/dir_date1
- you put a DUA script under the <server>/dir_date1
- in the DUA script you change DUA pulling location on devices to <server>/dir_date2 (CmdFile name value)
- you schedule next DUA pool on whatever date/time you need.
- next time DUA wouldn't pull script and binaries from <server>/dir_date1

This way you can force DUA to not . But this all requires some structure on the server side.

Sorry for not very clear example. Read it more here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xeconReconfiguringDUA.asp
 
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