To solve some pressing ePrescribing problems, upgraded a four provider practice over the Christmas holiday - a few observations:
<>Installed without problems on several different OSs - the practice is slowly refreshing hardware to Win7Pro, but has some legacy XP home, XP Pro, Vista home in the mix
<>Running the database tuner afterward was straightforward, but takes some time.
<>There isn't an Overt alert that you are installing a helper program (cassiniwebserver), and since this is hardware that we manage, I found the app on subsequent review of an upgraded machine and promptly removed it and started scanning the machine for intrusion.[color me slightly obsessive about configuration control and security]
<>Overall, the upgrade went fairly smooth. No changes to lab or Updox interfaces.
One anomaly we noted was that an alert popped up on some machines saying the DB was not running on the main machine, but the application continued to load in the background, and we were able to dismiss the alert and connect without any problems.
The biggest complaint is that we rotated the networks passwords with the upgrade, and so everyone had to learn at least one new password. I'd suggest that others consider this as part of their upgrade plan as well; you can blame me if you'd like.
I'll post again once it has run in production for a bit.
