Currently all of our installs of Point are stand alone.  We send out updates to our LO's in the form of .exe's.  The .exe's manipulate the users computer.  Mainly the PNTDATA and PNTTEMPL folders.  This process was in place way before I even came on board here.  So I've never questioned it.

 

Looking at the Knowledge Base I came across article 0207 under Installation that talks about Networking Point with Admin install for over 10 computers.  I was told by the last guy here that networking Point was impossible unless you had PDS.  Based off of this article it seems like he was incorrect.  It looks like it can be done.

 

We would be trying to network 300 users.  I understand we would need a centralized server that all workstations would be able to access.  If I understand the article correctly you would take the new release of Point and pop it in ther server.  Follow the directions by installing the Admin piece.  Place the PNTDATA and PNTTEMPL folders on the server.  Setup Config.exe to point to the networked PNTDATA and PNTTEMPL.  From there each workstation would just need to access the server and run the file run.exe from netsetup.  Does this sound about correct?

 

Also, I read where it says "Auto-update each workstation with the new version of Point, when release" what exactly does this mean.  Lets say the workstations have 6.1 and the server has 6.1.  Lets say we then update the server to 6.2 - does this mean that the next time the users log into Point it will also update their workstation to 6.2?  To me thats what Auto-update means.  But I could be wrong.  Clarification on how this scenario would play out would be helpful.

 

Just looking to get some answers as it seems we are doing things the hard way.