The ability to enable, disable or suppress Pulse Connect Secure Desktop client install or upgrades from the PCS device can be useful in the following cases:
- One typical method of establishing a VPN connection is for users to browse to the PCS server’s Web portal, login, and then launch Pulse Secure Desktop client from the web page. (This method is common in environments that used the Network Connect client.) However, when a client tries to log in to the web portal, they are receiving error: "The server configuration requires the application to be pre-installed on your machine."
- When a client has an older version of the Pulse Secure Desktop client which was initially rolled out to their client machine, but the PCS device has a newer version of Pulse Secure Desktop client, users may be prompted to upgrade the Pulse Secure Desktop client version. This will occur regardless if Pulse Secure Desktop client was launched by connecting directly to Pulse Secure Desktop client or if a web browser was used to launch it. See example below:
Note: The default Pulse Secure Desktop client version will change if there was a recent server side upgrade was performed, but you may choose to re-activate your previous Pulse Secure Desktop version if you are using the PCS to deploy Pulse Secure Desktop installations or upgrades.
