Multiple Machines in FMS deployment?

[eswanborg]

We are running FMS Advanced on Windows Server 2008 and have SC installed using the Server method. We recently wanted to re-do that FMS deployment to have a separate machine handling the IWP/web portion of our solutions.

We were eventually able to relink all our SC webviewers by pointing to the new server handling the web stuff.

One piece we have not been able to figure out is the Auto-Update for SC plugins. Can you help me understand how to have the Auto Update scripts in the databases check with the FM database server (where the plugins are correctly installed in Auto Update) and not the new FM web server? It seems that while it was all a single machine deployment the Auto Update worked fine, but now that we're across multiple machines on the FMS side, it's not working. Maybe something else changed that I'm not aware of, but I don't think so.

As a side question to this - if we were to make that FMS that's handling the web services now a Mac instead of a PC - could we install SC in standalone mode there and have previews and all? Most clients are on PC, so would it matter at all?

Thanks so much. Can't wait to test DocuBin in a few solutions too.

[eswanborg]

Ah - nevermind on the main part of this question. Someone had changed the FM Database server portion of things and removed the plugins from there. Should have double checked that first.

Would still be interested to know anyone's thoughts on using SC on a Mac box that is only serving the Web Services for FMS deployment.

Thanks - sorry for the silly questions.