The HP Product Bulletin Gateway (located on the CD) allows multiple users of the HP Product Bulletin the ability to install the application on each workstation and have the network download the data files a single time to be stored on a network drive. The workstations update from the data files that reside on the network drive.

This is accomplished by installing the HP Product Bulletin Gateway on a server or central workstation that has Internet access and configuring it to store the downloaded files into a directory that is accessible by every network user who has the HP Product Bulletin installed on their computer. Local machines can configure their HP Product Bulletin to connect via an alternate location so that they will get their updates from the Gateway maintained directory. To configure a workstation like this, choose the Alternate Connection type and specify the directory in which the HP Product Bulletin Gateway stores the updated and new files. Another option is to configure the workstation to use the data files which the HP Product Bulletin Gateway stores directly. To configure the workstation like this, choose the Update - Update Settings and Preferences tab and set the location of the Data files to be the Gateway data directory. This will allow the user to have the latest files without having to update or connect to the Internet since all files reside on the Gateway data directory.