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Updating Plex When Plex is Running as a Windows Service

If you have setup Plex Media Server on Windows to run as a service, then you lot will find that updating Plex involves a few more steps than just running Plex as a traditional process.

In order to update Plex when information technology is running as a Windows service, you volition need to do the following:

Stopping the PlexService service.
Run the Plex Media Server update.
Restart the PlexService service.

The above does not include downloading the update and validating that the update was downloaded correctly.

If you don't wish to perform the above steps manually each fourth dimension you would like to update your version of Plex, and then y'all can use a tool I created to perform all the steps automatically.

Updating Plex When Plex is Running as a Windows Service

The Plex Server Automobile Updater

I created the Plex Server Car Updater application to make it easier to update a Plex installation when information technology is using the PmsService awarding to run as a Windows service.

The application volition do the post-obit for you lot:

Download and verify the latest Plex Media Server update.
Stop the Plex service.
Finish whatever Plex processes that are running.
Install the latest update.
Delete the Run keys from the registry to preclude Plex Media Server from running outside of the service.
Stop any Plex processes that are running afterward the update.
Restart the Plex service.

Since the Plex Server Auto Updater does perform the Plex Media Service installation, and stops and restarts the service, the application will require an administrative account to run.

Getting and using the Plex Server Auto Updater

The Plex Server Auto Updater application is a portable awarding, which means you don't have to install the application. The updater can be downloaded and placed anywhere on your Plex server.

To download and use the Plex Server Auto Updater application, employ the following steps:

Download the latest release of Plex Server Automobile Updater.
Extract all the files from the downloaded zip file. Yous tin excerpt the files into any folder on your system.
If you are running equally a standard user, right-click the psupdate.exe file and then select the "Run equally ambassador" option, and then enter the administrator's password. If you are already an ambassador, simply double-click the psupdate.exe file.