3.6 Support for Roaming User Profile

The roaming user profile is now enabled for Filr Office and Outlook plugin.

The benefits are:

  • When a user logs in and sets a policy for the Outlook plugin the policies are retained when the user logs in to another workstation.

  • If a user installs Filr Office and Outlook plugin on a workstation it will be available to all the users who log in to that workstation.

The support matrix is:

  • Microsoft Windows 7

  • Microsoft Windows 10

  • Microsoft Office and Outlook 2013

  • Microsoft Office and Outlook 2016

  • Microsoft Office 365

Installation location: The plugin will be installed at C:\Program Files (x86)\Micro Focus\Micro Focus Filr Plugin for Office and Outlook.

Enabling Roaming User Profiles

  1. Set up roaming user profiles.

  2. Install the Filr Office and Outlook plugin FilrPluginforOfficeandOutlook-4.2.0.msi.

  3. (Conditional) You can configure the following registry entries at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Micro Focus\Micro Focus Filr Plugin for Office and Outlook:

    Windows Registry Value Name

    Type

    Default Value

    expiryCondition

    REG_DWORD

    1 for attachmentLifeTime, 0 for attachmentDownloadLimit

    attachmentDownloadLimit

    REG_DWORD

    Expire the link after the number of downloads configured in attachmentDownloadLimit

    attachmentLifeTime

    REG_DWORD

    Expire the link after the number of days configured in attachmentLifeTime

    uploadCondition

    REG_DWORD

    0 for Always, 1 for fileSizeLimitInMB

    fileSizeLimitInMB

    REG_DWORD

    File size exceeds fileSizeLimitInMB in MB

    SavedSettings

    REG_DWORD

    1 to pick above policies from registry, 0 to get settings configured by Administrator from server

    SavePassword

    REG_DWORD

    1 to remember password, otherwise 0

    Address

    REG_SZ

    Filr server address (for example, "filr.microfocus.com")

    Port

    REG_SZ

    Port number of the Filr server (for example, "8443")