Comments on: SIMS.net bug #8476A75E256

By: ittech

ittech — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:54:45 +0000

Just don’t install the upgrades, there is no point. We only install the main releases, or every 3 months.

Capita break to many things.

By: Sahmeepee

Sahmeepee — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:28:15 +0000

We cut out any confusion with those release notes by not giving them out. I’ll have a quick look through and see if there’s anything big in there to pass on by email, but I think they generally do more harm than good.

I’m quite glad we’re supported directly by Capita (although our LEA’s support team are pretty good) because I’m a bit of a control freak, but wherever possible we still avoid applying the new releases for at least a week and keep an eye on Capita’s SupportNet forums for problems.

I did consider running that commandline version of SOLUS as a scheduled job, but it seems to go wrong so many times I wouldn’t want to trust it and get in at 08:30 to the sound of screaming teachers ;)

By: localzuk

localzuk — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:30:43 +0000

In somerset the releases are fed to us after supposed testing by the LEA sims team. I also have the server set to automatically download and install the updates – so no hassle for me (until the staff log in the next morning that is!)

The only manual updates we have to do are for things like FMS6 which aren’t covered by the automatic script. However, the changes to the SOLUS system that were applied recently seem like they are leading to the ability to handle these issues automatically also – which will be wonderful.

I still love the look on the staff’s faces when when I hand them the release notes listing the changes. Suprisingly, they aren’t too happy when there are 13 pages of changes to figure out.

By: Ric_

Ric_ — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:47:43 +0000

Just added the Feb update yesterday… ours are delayed it seems by the local support team.

Anyway… the instructions we received warned that it may take up to 30mins to apply the update. I don’t think that I should repeat the word I would use to describe this estimate!

I began the upgrade at 15.50 and got fed up at 17.00 when the SQL batch scripts were half way!!! I had to remote in to check that it had worked!!!!!!

Stupid SIMS.