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The Azure File Sync agent auto-upgrades. You can select to install the latest agent version when available or update when the currently installed agent is near expiration. To learn more, see [Automatic agent lifecycle management](#automatic-agent-lifecycle-management).
The Azure File Sync agent autoupgrades. You can select to install the latest agent version when available or update when the currently installed agent is near expiration. To learn more, see [Automatic agent lifecycle management](#automatic-agent-lifecycle-management).
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2.**Configure Microsoft Update to automatically download and install agent updates.**
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We recommend installing every Azure File Sync update to ensure you have access to the latest fixes for the server agent. Microsoft Update makes this process seamless by automatically downloading and installing updates for you.
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3.**Use AfsUpdater.exe to download and install agent updates.**
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#### Automatic agent lifecycle management
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The Azure File Sync agent will auto-upgrade. You can select either of two modes and specify a maintenance window in which the upgrade shall be attempted on the server. This feature is designed to help you with the agent lifecycle management by either providing a guardrail preventing your agent from expiration or allowing for a no-hassle, stay current setting.
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The Azure File Sync agent auto upgrades. You can select either of two modes and specify a maintenance window in which the upgrade shall be attempted on the server. This feature is designed to help you with the agent lifecycle management by either providing a guardrail preventing your agent from expiration or allowing for a no-hassle, stay current setting.
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1. The **default setting** attempts to prevent the agent from expiration. Within 21 days of the posted expiration date of an agent, the agent attempts to self-upgrade. It starts an attempt to upgrade once a week within 21 days prior to expiration and in the selected maintenance window. **This option doesn't eliminate the need for taking regular Microsoft Update patches.**
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2. Optionally, you can select that the agent will automatically upgrade itself as soon as a new agent version becomes available (currently not applicable to clustered servers). This update occurs during the selected maintenance window and allow your server to benefit from new features and improvements as soon as they become generally available. This is the recommended, worry-free setting that provides major agent versions and regular update patches to your server. Every agent released is at GA quality. If you select this option, Microsoft will flight the newest agent version to you. Clustered servers are excluded. Once flighting is complete, the agent will also become available on Microsoft Update and [Microsoft Download Center](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=858257).
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##### Changing the auto-upgrade setting
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##### Changing the autoupgrade setting
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The following instructions describe how to change the settings after you've completed the installer, if you need to make changes.
Azure File Sync is a cloud service which continuously introduces new features and improvements. This means that a specific Azure File Sync agent version can only be supported for a limited time. To facilitate your deployment, the following rules guarantee you have enough time and notification to accommodate agent updates/upgrades in your change management process:
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- Major agent versions are supported for at least twelve months from the date of initial release.
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- Major agent versions are supported for at least 12 months from the date of initial release.
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- We guarantee there is an overlap of at least three months between the support of major agent versions.
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- Warnings are issued for registered servers using a soon-to-be expired agent at least three months prior to expiration. You can check if a registered server is using an older version of the agent under the registered servers section of a Storage Sync Service.
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- The lifetime of a minor agent version is bound to the associated major version. For example, when agent version 18.0.0.0 is set to expire, agent versions 18.\*.\*.\* will all expire together.
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