Using Upgrade Campaigns to Upgrade Applications Throughout Your Enterprise
App Portal 2020 R1
Note:This feature requires that App Portal is connected to FlexNet Manager Suite via the Flexera Service Gateway.
You can create a campaign to automatically upgrade an application that is installed in your enterprise or an application that could be installed in the future to an application/version you specify. You create retire campaigns on the Upgrade Campaign Policies view, which is opened by selecting Compliance Management > Upgrade Campaign.
To create an upgrade campaign, perform the following steps.
To upgrade an application installed in your enterprise—To create a campaign to upgrade an application that is installed in your enterprise, click Add Discovered Flexera IDs. The Add FlexeraID From Applications Discovered in FNMS view opens, listing all of the applications that have been discovered by FlexNet Manager Suite as being installed in your enterprise.
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To upgrade an application that could be installed in the future—To create a campaign to upgrade an application that could be installed in your enterprise in the future, click Search Flexera ID. The Search for FlexeraID view opens, listing all of the existing applications/versions in the FlexNet Manager Suite database.
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Locate and select the application(s) that you want to create an upgrade campaign for and click Add. An individual upgrade campaign is created for each selected application.
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Click Back to Campaign to return to the Upgrade Campaign Policies view. The application that you added is now listed.
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Click Configure Policy in the Upgrade Campaign Policy column of the application. The Configure Upgrade Campaign Policy view opens.
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Perform a search in the Applications list and select an application that users will be upgraded to.
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Select the Enable upgrade campaign option to enforce the campaign.
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If you want to notify the user when the software upgrade is complete, select the Notify user option.
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Click Save to return to the Upgrade Campaign Policies view. The application that you selected as the replacement will be listed in the Upgrade To column.
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To view a list of devices where a selected application is currently installed, click View Devices. The Devices view opens.
All of the devices where this application is installed are listed, along with the Computer Name, Assigned User, Last Used Date, Discovery Date, and Status.
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Click Back to Upgrade Campaign to return to the Upgrade Campaign Policies view.
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To view a list of alerts that have been generated as part of an upgrade campaign, click View Alerts. The Alerts view for upgrade campaigns opens.
The Computer Name, Notification Date, Last Used Date, Alert Type, Is Expired, Is Installed, Install Message, and Install Date are listed for each alert.
About Uninstalling the Original Version of the Application
When an upgrade campaign is enforced, the original application is not automatically uninstalled unless:
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The installer of the upgraded version automatically uninstalls the older version, OR
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A supersedence relationship for the application has been configured in System Center Configuration Manager.
