The customer requires us to install our asp.net-based web system on their intranet server. As soon as the initial adjustments are done, the server will be made completely inaccessible to us (due to security reasons as you might have guessed). On the other hand, we are still responsible for maintenance and ongoing development.
So I am after some kind of auto update system. It is deemed like a windows service working side by side with the site and periodically polling central server for updates. Assuming the central server is under developers’ control, such approach would solve the problem.
The question is whether such systems exist, either commercial or free/open source. Have anybody heard of them? We are a bit limited in time and would prefer to accommodate ready made solution rather than writing it from scratch.
Phil Haack has a library that he’s putting together to enable this, although I agree with Dave’s answer that you should not be responsible for it if you can’t be in control of it.
See here for more details.