We are looking to upgrade to version 7.5 of Adobe Connect and this will be a painless process. Apparently there is only a need to allocated two hours for installation and testing and still leave enough time for a rollback if required.

The time consuming portion may be the installation of the updated Adobe Connect plugin. I had a look at what was required, and downloaded the plugin which is a available at http://download.macromedia.com/pub/connect/updaters/meeting/7_5/win/connect_addin_75.zip and then installed it. 

The file is 2 megabytes in size.

Interestingly for a silent install it can be installed from the command prompt by typing setup.exe \verysilent

This allows for silent installation and maybe what our support folk can do to ensure that when we cut across to the new version of Adobe Connect that our key users, our students and teachers have the latest plugin installed and operational.

I have Adobe Connect 7.03 installed and the plugin seems to be happily backward compatible.

It is important to remember that the plugin is only required for sharing your desktop so most activities don't really require the plugin.

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