Hello, Thanks Del.
Fortunately, the customer is using a DAG installation of Exchange... -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON ----- Mail original ----- De: "Del Hoobler" <[email protected]> À: [email protected] Envoyé: Mercredi 23 Juillet 2014 21:48:19 Objet: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM BA installer rant Hello, This falls into the same install code as the BA Client and APAR IC92587. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC92587 Del ---------------------------------------------------- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 07/22/2014 09:31:00 PM: > From: Erwann SIMON <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 07/22/2014 09:31 PM > Subject: Re: TSM BA installer rant > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > Hi all, > > I've just installed TSM for Mail (Exchange) 7.1 on two Exchange 2010 > SP3 servers running on Windows 2008R2 SP1 and both servers rebooted > twice during the installation of the prerequisites, without any warning... > > Same behavior with 7.1.0.0 and 7.1.0.2... > > It should not behave that way. > > -- > Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي > Erwann SIMON > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Bill Boyer" <[email protected]> > À: [email protected] > Envoyé: Mardi 22 Juillet 2014 21:28:36 > Objet: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM BA installer rant > > Double-click on the client installer .EXE and if the install says it > needs to install the VC++ libraries or any other pre-req's, cancel > out f the client install. Then go to the " C:\tsm_images > \TSM_BA_Client\ISSetupPrerequisites" directory. There are > directories for each of the pre-req's. Run them manually and if a > reboot is required, you can say no and reboot at your leisure. Then > come back and run the setup.exe and continue the TSM client install. > > As for client upgrades I've found that if you make sure to stop any > of the TSM client services that running (JBB, CAD,Scheduler,...) > before running the install I don't get asked for a reboot. > > > Bill Boyer > “If 'something' 'somewhere' gives 'some' error, expect random > guesses or no replies at all.” - ?? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Hans Christian Riksheim > Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 7:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM BA installer rant > > As many has experienced the 7.1 BA client for Windows not only > requires a reboot, it will in the middle of the install reboot right > into your face without any warning or prompt. On top of this it will > do so despite you telling it not to. The same goes for the TDP SQL client btw. > > Cause is some C++ Windows things that must be installed for the GUI to work. > > For the BA client there is a warning in the Info Center on this. For > the TDP it is not so clear, that crucial information is hidden in a technote. > IBM therefore thinks they are not to blame but in practise a lot of > users fall in that trap and breach their SLAs all over the place. > With a GUI one has certain expectations on how it should behave and > if no unprompted reboot happened in earlier versions why should it happen now? > > My opinion on this: > > 1. IBM should set as a design principle that no customer server should > ever need a reboot when installing, upgrading or removing TSM software. > 2. There should be no exceptions, but if there are at least make the > installer prompt a warning so that the user can delay the reboot until > service hours. > 3. Software versions that will reboot a server without warning should be > immediately removed from PA and other repositories until they are fixed. > > > Regards, > > Hans Chr. Riksheim >
