RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
I have tried Vista SP1. It was a disaster. In Microsoft's defense, it does deliver on many of the "notable changes" most importantly a big improvement in speed and decrease in memory usage. It also does now report a full 4GB of RAM if that is what you have installed, but unless you are running the 64bit version, it still does not take full advantage of the extra RAM natively (requires the /PAE and possibly other switches). The unpublished "features" are the disappointment. They include a slight increase in crashing, trouble coming out of sleep mode (at least for my Dell Latitude D820), and the wonderful show stopper for me ... the bonus where Outlook 2007 SP1 crashing when you try to launch it. A Google search will turn up many blogs (I know most bloggers won't take the time to type the positive) which echo these problems. I did find a couple of users mislead by the statement that uninstall and reinstall of Outlook 2007 will fix the inability to use it with Vista SP1 problem. Through more research I found it was the Outlook add-in's (including the Microsoft ones Outlook ships with) that were the problem and disabling all of them allowed me to launch Outlook again. This was not a guaranteed fix and Outlook still crashed when trying to open on occasion. I unfortunately spend most of my time in my inbox managing support and for monitoring notification. The lack of ability to use the latest version and patches for Outlook 2007 with Vista SP1 has forced me to uninstall the Service Pack. Also the SP1 takes longer to install than any Windows SP I have ever applied. Oh, and sorry, but the uninstaller takes even longer! I did not time the installer, but if I had to guess I think it was about 2 hours on a 2GHz machine with a 7200 RPM drive and 4GB of RAM. Here are my warnings to those buying new business machines: If the option is available choose Windows XP Pro SP2 over Vista (the fact that many vendors still offer XP Pro as a choice for a new machine should tell you something). Don't assume any hardware or software will work with Vista until you have tried it. You may find yourself scrambling for drivers and patches only to find out the application or device (especially printers) just won't work. If you are forced to run Vista, get vmWare and run XP Pro in a virtual machine to be productive (this is how I do it). Since this in a U2 List, let me include this; I have been able to run the following U2 client apps in Vista Business Edition (no service pack) without problems: SBClient 5.4.1 and 5.4.2 You can run UniAdmin v.1.3.4, but the enhanced video features of Vista will automatically turn off causing your screen to go blank and come back up (similar to when you change video resolution) when you start UniAdmin and when you close UniAdmin. Louis Perez F.W. Davison and Company, Inc. Sandri Technologies --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
As far as UniObjects is concerned, we are told by our distributor in the UK that the only officially supported platform is Vista Ultimate. This is apparently because IBM have not, and have no plans to, test on anything else, so I suspect it applies to all the U2 tools. Brett "JPB-U2UG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Does it have to be Ultimate or can it be Business? > > > Jerry Banker > Senior Programmer Analyst > IBM Certified Solutions Expert > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:34 AM > > To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' > > Subject: RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools > > > > Dynamic Connect v5.1.2, wIntegrate v6.0, and UniAdmin v1.3.1 all work > > well > > with Vista Ultimate with no issued uncovered at all. > > > > --Bill > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brenda Price > > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:53 AM > > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > Subject: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools > > > > > > We are getting new PC's soon and they will be coming with VISTA. Has > > anyone had any problems running U2 Tools, UniAdmin, UniObjects, etc on > > VISTA? > > > > > > > > Brenda L Price > > > > Senior Programmer Analyst > > > > Affiliated Acceptance Corporation > > > > Sunrise Beach, MO > > > > (800)233-8483 > > --- > > u2-users mailing list > > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > --- > > u2-users mailing list > > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > --- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
My Vista system has been stable on SP1 until the last Windows Update installed some network drivers that were incompatible with my system. After I determined that ndis.sys was failing I restored to a date prior to the update and reinstalled the update without the driver update and all has been well since. I can not compare before SP1 and after SP1 because I held off installing Vista until SP1 was available. I did experience a couple of problems with software. All but one was resolved by going to the vendor web site and downloading a Vista compatible version. I had to upgrade my Roxio to version 10 and my Norton AntiVirus to version 10.2. My UniVerse 10.1.X will not work but 10.2.x will. The bottom line is that other than having to download some new versions of drivers and application software Vista has been stable and fun to use since SP1. Ron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jenkins Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:25 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools All Just a caution: VISTA Service Pack 1 is a huge beast. It's currently on voluntary download only (around 600Mb I think) and will be in "Windows Update" shortly. Any experience of SP1 out there? There have been various warnings about some program compatibilities and also device drivers. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107921 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107922 Regards JayJay --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
wIntegrate, Dynamic Connect, and UniAdmin all work, no problems seen. --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Jenkins Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:25 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools All Just a caution: VISTA Service Pack 1 is a huge beast. It's currently on voluntary download only (around 600Mb I think) and will be in "Windows Update" shortly. Any experience of SP1 out there? There have been various warnings about some program compatibilities and also device drivers. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107921 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107922 Regards JayJay --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
All Just a caution: VISTA Service Pack 1 is a huge beast. It's currently on voluntary download only (around 600Mb I think) and will be in "Windows Update" shortly. Any experience of SP1 out there? There have been various warnings about some program compatibilities and also device drivers. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb738089.aspx http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107921 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=107922 Regards JayJay --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
Hi Brenda Universe as a database needs to be Rel 10.2 to run on vista. I have run the latest versions of Wintegrate and dynamic connect and they work alright. Uniadmin and webtools has a slight incompatibility with the screen resolution, and Vista down scales resolution to cope. You may have to run some applications as administrator to make them work. Also look out for some VB6 applications may stop working. Be careful of the VPN gotcha. Vista does not support MSCHAP1 and many VPN/routers do not support MSCHAP2, hence vpn does not work in some cases. Regards David Jordan --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
Does it have to be Ultimate or can it be Business? Jerry Banker Senior Programmer Analyst IBM Certified Solutions Expert > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:34 AM > To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' > Subject: RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools > > Dynamic Connect v5.1.2, wIntegrate v6.0, and UniAdmin v1.3.1 all work > well > with Vista Ultimate with no issued uncovered at all. > > --Bill > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brenda Price > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:53 AM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools > > > We are getting new PC's soon and they will be coming with VISTA. Has > anyone had any problems running U2 Tools, UniAdmin, UniObjects, etc on > VISTA? > > > > Brenda L Price > > Senior Programmer Analyst > > Affiliated Acceptance Corporation > > Sunrise Beach, MO > > (800)233-8483 > --- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > --- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools
Dynamic Connect v5.1.2, wIntegrate v6.0, and UniAdmin v1.3.1 all work well with Vista Ultimate with no issued uncovered at all. --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brenda Price Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 8:53 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] VISTA and U2 Tools We are getting new PC's soon and they will be coming with VISTA. Has anyone had any problems running U2 Tools, UniAdmin, UniObjects, etc on VISTA? Brenda L Price Senior Programmer Analyst Affiliated Acceptance Corporation Sunrise Beach, MO (800)233-8483 --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
