The system on which ExBPA is running can use an HTTP proxy server to access the Internet for configuration-file updates. However, if you use authentication with the HTTP proxy server or use Microsoft Internet Explorer's (IE's) autoproxy functionality, ExBPA can't retrieve updated configuration files because of a problem in the Windows .NET Framework. Microsoft expects to provide a workaround for this problem in a future version of ExBPA. Similarly, if you block Internet access (even via an HTTP proxy) from the system running ExBPA, ExBPA can't retrieve updated configuration files.
If for any reason ExBPA can't use the automated download mechanism and you know that a more up-to-date configuration file is available, you can manually copy it from the ExBPA Web site and install it on the ExBPA management workstation. To do so, perform these steps:
- Rename the existing exbpa.config.xml file in the appropriate language-specific subdirectory to something like exbpa.config.xml.old.
- Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=34290 and download the Update file to a local computer.
- Execute the downloaded file (exbpaupdate.exe); it's an autoextracting .zip file that creates a set of folders for the supported language-specific versions. Copy the new exbpa.config.xml file into both the common installation directory and the appropriate language-specific subdirectory on the ExBPA management workstation.
Be aware that the folders that exbpaupdate.exe creates will also contain an updated ExBPA Help file—called exbpa.chm—for each language-specific version. Exbpa.chm contains updated Help information and updated ExBPA knowledge base articles (more about the knowledge base in a moment). You should also copy exbpa.chm from the newly created folders into the appropriate language-specific subdirectory. . . .
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