FMS 14 with FMP 13 clients?

[BrentHedden]

This may be too premature to tell at this time, but has anyone either tested and/or running in production FMS 14, but with 13 clients?  I would suspect there shouldn't be any major issues, except for new client features (like reconnect to server), which is nothing new based on past releases.

The one item that I am mostly concerned with is using 13.0v5 clients.  We are using a purchased certificate for secure connections, but haven't upgrade the clients and server to 13.0v9 yet.  Will there be any issues with this, or will I have to at least upgrade the clients to 13.0v9 for compatibility with server 14?

Any gotchas that you've noticed will be very appreciated to me!

 

[tcfitzgerald]

I've tested FMPA 13.v05 against server 14 with a 3rd-party SSL cert installed and it works fine.  I think the compatibility issues are mostly the other way around.  Newer clients with older servers mixed in with using the default SSL cert.

[Wim Decorte]

FMS 14, but with 13 clients?

 

​As with any mixed environment, things may be slower than expected because of how FM and FMS interact.   Even if you use no FM14 features.

On the topic of SSL: as long as you use a custom SSL certificate you are good to go.  Only when you enable SSL without a custom certificate will have trouble with pre 13v9 or 12v9 clients or servers.

[Fitch]

"as long as you use a custom SSL certificate*** you are good to go"

***From the approved list.