HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows - Detecting Server-in-Maintenance

With the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows Version 26.08 update, we got a handy new feature. First, the plug-in will alert users only once if it detects that HCL Connections is offline. Previously, users would get continuous alerts via pop-ups until HCL Connections was reachable again. Second, we now have the ability to activate the “maintenance mode” for the HCL Connections Desktop Plug-ins, which will tell the plug-in not to alert the users at all.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://milan.matejic.at/posts/hcl_connections_desktop_plugin_maintenance_mode/