Re: Developer 2000 upgrade for 300+ Clients

Deen,
At the last place I was at, they used software called PictureTaker to do this. They had around the same number of clients spread over 4 cities. Apparently it works by taking a "picture" before and after installing software. It saves the differences, i.e. registry entries and files and then creates a file that can be applied to each PC without doing the actual Oracle install. It worked well for them. They were upgrading from Developer 1.3 to 2.1 runtime only. I believe that there are several competitive products to PictureTaker too.

HTH,
Marc Perkowitz
MTP Systems Consulting, Ltd.

In a message dated 5/25/00 2:18:22 AM Central Daylight Time, DDayal_at_dolsun.dol.state.nj.us writes:

<< Hi Gurus,  

 I have tremendous task of upgrading 300-400 clients Running Developer2000  Ver2.0 to Developer2000 Ver2.1, and then apply a patch to make them up to  current level.  

 I am trying to find out easy/better way of doing this.  

 Here is some info on the clients

1. All of them are on a LAN
2. 95% of them run Windows 95.
3. Network Install is not an option as management is worried about network load.
4. All these clients should have only Runtime version of developer2000 ( I mean no Forms Builder, no Report Builder no Builders )

 My biggest concern is, if we have to do it manually, a lot of time will be  spent on selecting multiple pieces in Installer asset manager window. So is  there any way to reduce the number of steps involved.    

 Any info, suggestions, pointers would save us hours of work  

 TAI
 Deen  

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 Author: Dayal, Deen
   INET: DDayal_at_dolsun.dol.state.nj.us Received on Fri May 26 2000 - 16:39:51 CDT