How often the Mobile Client updater (MCU) checks for Mobile Client updates?

This article applies to:

• Mobile Client 3.0

Question:

• How often the Mobile Client updater (MCU) checks for Mobile Client updates?

Information:

The Mobile Client updater (MCU) checks for Mobile Client updates after each successful synchronization attempt. By default, synchronization attempts occur once per hour (unless you have modified the Mobile Server configuration to specify otherwise).

When a new Mobile Client version is detected, the MCU immediately attempts to download it. Because the clients do not coordinate their synchronization attempts with each other, the timing of download attempts will follow a random statistical distribution. Nevertheless, it is conceivable that if you have 4,000 client workstations, they might all attempt to download the update within the first hour after it is posted, although the starting times of each download will vary.

Notes:

A full Mobile Client update file size is about 1.5 MB for Windows and 1.4 MB for Macintosh OS X (as of software version 3.0.5).