iManage’s Auto Update technology for Microsoft Windows supports delivering different software versions to different users. This is done through the concept of a channel. An Auto Updates channel is similar to a television channel or radio station. It delivers software updates to a specified set of users. 

All users running iManage’s Auto Update technology and using the same channel will receive the software updates defined for that channel. Channels are typically defined with some business objective in mind.  For example, one of the public autoupdate channels that iManage maintains is called Coming Soon. Releases are published to this channel so administrators and IT teams can preview updates before deploying them to end users. 

We also maintain the Release channel that provides the latest iManage Work desktop client software. We recommend this channel for customers who:

• have a policy of staying up-to-date with all software.

• are interested in getting enhancements and fixes as they’re available.

Information about changes being published to the Release channel is available on iManage Help Center in advance of each update.Channels give IT administrators the power, flexibility, and convenience to automatically deploy different products with appropriate versions to different user groups. Channels are defined in the update.ini file, which is located at: %ProgramData%\iManage\AgentServices\CentralizedConfigs.