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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Shared directory not updating on windows 2008

We have a program that is "updated" by replacing the .exe file on a file share.  End users run the program by clicking a local shortcut on their desktop that points at the single .exe file.  Recently, we've ran into problems where some end users see the updated file and some do not even though they're looking at the same file share on the same file server.

This is on Windows 2008R2 for the file server and Windows 7 clients. We found the following hotfix and will be applying it to all file servers and clients.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2646563

Don't know if it'll work. Sounds promising though.