Vault 2012 Client kann auf Vault Server 2013 zugreifen

Autodesk hat was gutes hingebracht: die Vault 2013 Forward Compatibility. Diese neue Funktionalität besagt, das ein Vault 2012 Client auf einen Vault 2013 Server zugreifen kann. D.h. es können zum einen auf einem PC mehrere verschiedenen Vault-Clientversionen installiert werden.

Und auch verschiedene CAD-Addins können auf den Vault Server 2013 zugreifen.

Siehe dazu auch die Readme zu Vault 2013…

…und dabei die Sektion zum Thema Support for Prior Vault Clients and Add-Ins:

• The Vault 2013 ADMS supports the use of Vault 2012 clients. Any Vault 2012 client can connect to a Vault 2013 ADMS of the same edition.
• The Vault 2013 ADMS supports the use of any Vault Add-In which can connect to a Vault 2012 ADMS. The following Add-Ins may be used with a Vault 2013 ADMS of the same edition:
  • Vault 2012 Add-In
  • Vault 2011 Add-In backpatched to connect to a Vault 2012 ADMS
  • Vault 2010 Add-In backpatched to connect to a Vault 2012 ADMS
• It is not recommended to administer Vault or Global settings through an older client. All administration of Vault and Global settings should be done through ADMS Console or a Vault client of the same release as the Vault server.
• New functionality available in Vault 2013 will not be available in older Vault clients and Add-Ins.
• Vault 2013 clients no longer display the ownership icon when another site has ownership of an entity but the lease has expired. As a result older clients will also not see the ownership icon. However, older Vault clients do not automatically request ownership if the other site's lease has expired as Vault 2013 clients do. As a result, users with older Vault clients may experience errors opening, checking out, or performing other operations on files which appear to be owned locally. In these cases, the user should manually request ownership and try the operation again.
• Some functionality in a Vault 2013 client may not work when only an older version of the CAD application is installed or if an older version of the CAD application was last run. Running Inventor View 2013 or the 2013 version of the CAD application and then retrying the operation may resolve the issue.

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