Home Forums Discussions General Discussion Has anyone tried the new upgrade?

I stupidly upgraded the entire office during our mid-day break and I couldn't be happier! Everything works beautifully!

We were using V5.0.26 on 4 desktops running XP Pro, two tablets running Vista Business, one tablet running Windows 7 Pro, and another tablet running XP. The server runs XP 2003. The desktops are wired to the server (LAN) and the tablets are connected wirelessly.

I downloaded the installer and the database tuner to the server, which took a few minutes.

I spent a good 10 minutes trying and retrying to run the installer and just couldn't get it to work, even though AC was closed on all the computers. Most of that time was spend double checking that AC was truly shut down on all our computers.

I restarted the server. That took a few minutes.

I ran the installer.
I ran the tuner.

I had the staff run the installer (previously downloaded to a shared public folder on the server).

I upgraded all the tablets.

The whole process from beginning to end, took about an hour and a half, including restarting all the computers after installing.

Was there a problem? In fact, there was one: I was going so fast I hit the yes radio button instead of the no for installing SBS on one of the tablets. That completely buggered up the tablet because I'd never installed any of the necessary service packs.

I restarted in safe mode and went back to the last working configuration - then ran the install program again.

The afternoon went off without a hitch! But afterward I did think that it was pretty dumb of me to do that in the middle of the day. (Clearly I'm not a real IT person!)

I started at 9:30 and finished by 11:30. And everything works.

<going off to knock on wood for the next 15 minutes>