Manually updating the software
Trimble 4D Control Server offers two methods to download updates to the software:
- Software-supported check for, and download of, update files.
- Check for, and download of, update files on demand.
This topic deals with the update download on command.
How to set up the download of updated software on demand
For the automatic download of update files to be disabled, the system properties must be set to Disable download. To do so, do the following:
- Make sure you are logged in with administrator user rights.
- Do one of the following:
- At the System Properties dialog, set the Update mode for software setting to Disabled.
- At the status bar, click the software-update related icon and make sure the Disable Updates command is selected.
The main steps when downloading updates on demand
- Trimble provides a web server, which will contain the newest available updates to Trimble Infrastructure Solution software. The update feature can monitor a specified folder at the web server. Its URL is . There you will find subfolders for the Trimble software products. Use the Trimble web site to visit the Trimble web server and to check if newer versions are available.
- Read the software information and start the download from the Trimble web server to the default update folder on an arbitrary computer. This folder is the <installation folder>\Updates folder.
- Distribute the software to the default update folders on all computers participating in the distributed system.
Installing the software updates
If new software update files are available on a computer, the installation process is started the next time when you (re-)start a service or application using the Trimble Service Administrator software.
Note - For avoiding the interruption of a running system as well as incompatibilities, the installation of the software updates does not start automatically as soon as the updates are available. You can wait for a convenient time for shutting down the system and starting the installation process.
