Meeting Maker upgrade question

[William M. Fennell]

Good Morning,

I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?

Thanks,

Bill

[Erik Froese]

8.5.3? not 8.6?

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?
Thanks,
Bill
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William M. Fennell
UNIX System Administrator
Channing Laboratory
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[William M. Fennell]

yes. I think I need to go to 8.5.3 then to 8.6.

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William M. Fennell
UNIX System Administrator
Channing Laboratory

Post by Erik Froese
8.5.3? not 8.6?

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?
Thanks,
Bill
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[Latesha Williams]

Yes we upgraded last month. The v8.5.3 auto-upgrade feature does not
work for Macintosh users. For Windows users, download the upgrade
client .ZIP file to a Windows machine and follow the MM documentation to
setup a background push of the v8.5.3 upgrade files from the v7.3
MMadmin tool. Give yourself about two weeks if you have several hundred
users. The background push will create a new directory called
C:\Program Files\MeetingMaker\MMUpgrdC on each client. After the server
is upgraded, the client will receive message that the server has been
upgraded and asks whether the user wishes to work offline, or upgrade.
This is a much more efficient method to upgrade clients.

-L

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?
Thanks,
Bill

[John S. Bellendir]

Remember the user must have local admin privileges to install the client. I
found this one out the hard way

John

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Behalf Of Latesha Williams
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:57 AM
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Subject: Re: Meeting Maker upgrade question

Yes we upgraded last month. The v8.5.3 auto-upgrade feature does not work
for Macintosh users. For Windows users, download the upgrade client .ZIP
file to a Windows machine and follow the MM documentation to setup a
background push of the v8.5.3 upgrade files from the v7.3 MMadmin tool.
Give yourself about two weeks if you have several hundred users. The
background push will create a new directory called C:\Program
Files\MeetingMaker\MMUpgrdC on each client. After the server is upgraded,
the client will receive message that the server has been upgraded and asks
whether the user wishes to work offline, or upgrade.
This is a much more efficient method to upgrade clients.

-L

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?
Thanks,
Bill

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Latesha Williams
Applications Support, Information Technology American Museum of Natural
History
212.769.5947 (Office)
917.837.2460 (Cell)


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[Raoul Armfield]

Note however that if you are using intellisync you will have to manually
install the new client. Also if you are installing the server on a
linux box make sure that you review the syntax of the mmserver command.
It is easy to forget some switches and only export data back 6 months.

Raoul

Post by John S. Bellendir
Remember the user must have local admin privileges to install the client. I
found this one out the hard way
John
-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Latesha Williams
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Meeting Maker upgrade question
Yes we upgraded last month. The v8.5.3 auto-upgrade feature does not work
for Macintosh users. For Windows users, download the upgrade client .ZIP
file to a Windows machine and follow the MM documentation to setup a
background push of the v8.5.3 upgrade files from the v7.3 MMadmin tool.
Give yourself about two weeks if you have several hundred users. The
background push will create a new directory called C:\Program
Files\MeetingMaker\MMUpgrdC on each client. After the server is upgraded,
the client will receive message that the server has been upgraded and asks
whether the user wishes to work offline, or upgrade.
This is a much more efficient method to upgrade clients.
-L

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?
Thanks,
Bill

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Latesha Williams
Applications Support, Information Technology American Museum of Natural
History
212.769.5947 (Office)
917.837.2460 (Cell)
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[William M. Fennell]

Thanks. What about users with Palm devices ? Were the conduits
included in the auto-upgrade?

Bill

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William M. Fennell
UNIX System Administrator
Channing Laboratory

Post by Latesha Williams
Yes we upgraded last month. The v8.5.3 auto-upgrade feature does not
work for Macintosh users. For Windows users, download the upgrade
client .ZIP file to a Windows machine and follow the MM documentation
to setup a background push of the v8.5.3 upgrade files from the v7.3
MMadmin tool. Give yourself about two weeks if you have several
hundred users. The background push will create a new directory called
C:\Program Files\MeetingMaker\MMUpgrdC on each client. After the
server is upgraded, the client will receive message that the server
has been upgraded and asks whether the user wishes to work offline, or
upgrade. This is a much more efficient method to upgrade clients.
-L

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3. Can anyone offer a
candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?
Thanks,
Bill

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[Ian Eiloart]

--On 14 February 2007 10:42:29 -0500 "William M. Fennell"

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?

It doesn't work.

Post by William M. Fennell
Thanks,
Bill

[Ian Eiloart]

Post by Ian Eiloart
--On 14 February 2007 10:42:29 -0500 "William M. Fennell"

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?

It doesn't work.

For clarification:

It doesn't work on Macs at all. It doesn't work on PCs with locked down
desktops, such as are often deployed in educational establishments.

Post by Ian Eiloart

Post by William M. Fennell
Thanks,
Bill

[John Astleford]

We had upgraded from version 7.5.3 to 8.5.3 in August of 2006. The
auto-upgrade feature works as Latesha stated. Yes you will need admin
privileges on the computer unless you have a default image that allows the
users certain access. The auto-upgrade feature for Macintosh still does not
work, but when you upgrade your server put the Mac client in the Upgrades
section of the Admin Tool and they will be able to "pull" the client over to
their computers and run the upgrade.

One error we have seen with the Macs is "network not configured properly",
which is a pain but they can go into the Server section and select the
appropriate one which in turn allows them to log in. Other than that it all
functionality seems to be working as it had been; the exception being slower
accessing and loading times.



John Astleford
CTS Help Desk
***@duq.edu
412-396-4357
www.cts.duq.edu

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Subject: Re: Meeting Maker upgrade question

Post by Ian Eiloart
--On 14 February 2007 10:42:29 -0500 "William M. Fennell"

Post by William M. Fennell
Good Morning,
I am planning an upgrade from 7.5.3 to 8.5.3.
Can anyone offer a candid review of the auto-upgrade feature?

It doesn't work.

For clarification:

It doesn't work on Macs at all. It doesn't work on PCs with locked down
desktops, such as are often deployed in educational establishments.

Post by Ian Eiloart

Post by William M. Fennell
Thanks,
Bill