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Upgrade or remove a host

Install a newer Billet Host over the old one, remove it, or move a desktop to a rebuilt machine.

For
Administrators
Applies to
Billet 1.0
Updated

Upgrade

Run the newer Billet-Host-<version>-windows-x64-setup.exe as an administrator. A machine that is already enrolled skips the enrollment page and keeps its credential, so it stays the same desktop with the same owner.

Without prompts:

Billet-Host-1.0.1-windows-x64-setup.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART

The installer stops the running service, replaces the program and starts it again, so anybody connected to the desktop is disconnected for a moment. Upgrade when it is not in use.

The Billet Stats Agent is upgraded by the same installer.

Remove

On the machine, open Settings, Apps, Installed apps:

  1. Uninstall Billet Host. This removes the host agent service and its firewall rule.
  2. Uninstall Billet Stats Agent too, if the machine is leaving Billet.

Both leave %ProgramData%\Billet and the machine's credential in place. Delete that folder as well to remove every trace, after which reinstalling makes it a new machine that needs a new token.

Then, in the console, delete the desktop from its page with Delete desktop..., or keep it to enroll a replacement machine into.

Rebuild or replace a machine

To move a desktop to a rebuilt or different machine without reassigning it:

  1. On the desktop's page in the console, choose Enroll a machine as this desktop... and create a token.
  2. Install Billet Host on the new machine with that token.

The new machine becomes the same desktop and keeps its owner. See Register a desktop and create an enrollment token.