[sims] Solus 3.8 Released

[minimoo]

Thus why you can change it Sorry, I know what your getting at.

 

you can change it - apart from the fact they forgot to update the WIX config for the msi installer generation to take account of the new xml transformation that need to add to handle setting the correct port for the new front end UI - First demo to colleague of the new 'check for updates' that should make his life easier crashed solus as it couldn't connect to server..

 

We've spent a fair chunk of time trying to ensure that all solus agents are upgrading correctly, although - i'm also quite tempted to look at scrapping solus 3 and looking at using APPV5 to deploy SIM's to reduce the amount of time spent managing solus 3. Don't really want to do that as whilst it should work, if any weird issues occur, it could make getting support slightly harder.

[matt40k]

I think when your admitting defeat after upgrading all your workstations and starting to look at App-V, it's time to re-assess your software choices #justsaying

[minimoo]

Or a smart move waiting until 3.8.53 added the ability to auto extract updates, which allows one to implement a separate solution in an automated way whilst still using capita's own upgrade processes - depending on how you look at it

[matt40k]

You're assuming it'll work first time

[IT_Man_Dan]

@minimoo Sorry for late reply.

Yes I believe I've got NT Authority\System as a SQL SA but I will check.

 

Capita have now given me the ISO to manually install Solus 3.8, has anyone done it this way and if so what issues did you come up against. Did the deployment environment need to be re configured or does it remember settings as in theory it should just upgrade the SQL DB?

 

Thanks for all advice.

[gjirving]

Or a smart move waiting until 3.8.53 added the ability to auto extract updates, which allows one to implement a separate solution in an automated way whilst still using capita's own upgrade processes - depending on how you look at it

 

Are you saying if my brain is working this morning that you can use Solus 3.8 to update Solus 2 clients by extracting the updates to a setup folder?

[Atomic_Zombie]

Are you saying if my brain is working this morning that you can use Solus 3.8 to update Solus 2 clients by extracting the updates to a setup folder?

 

Just tried extracting Autumn 2, It extracts them into the SIMSApplicationSetup, SIMSAMPARKSETUP, SIMSManualSetup EXEs, so I guess you could. (although I don't know why you would, I would say SOLUS3 is in a good place now)