Smart Client is the users’ main tool for using DocLink. Here, users are able to search, retrieve, and index documents. Smart Client requires a small ‘bootstrap’ setup to be run on each client. This setup installs the Altec.AppLauncher.exe, which communicates with the DocLink Remote Server to automatically check for and download client updates. Because a single client machine may connect to many DocLink Remote Servers with different versions of the software, multiple versions of the client software can exist and run side-by-side on the client machine.