IBM are doing you a favour letting you have PE (yes, I know it's in their interests too :-)
One of the conditions of letting you have it is that you stay bleeding edge. The way they enforce that (and also keep track of who's using PE) is to date-bomb the PE version. So re-installing won't work. What you need to do is reset your system date back to when it last worked, and then it'll probably work fine ... Anyway, what's wrong with having to do a full re-install? I don't know, but hopefully it does an upgrade install (it should), and if it doesn't it helps you make certain your app install procedures are clean and easy :-) Cheers, Wol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony G Sent: 29 August 2008 00:00 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Updating UV/UD PE Thanks for the note Colin! > From: Colin Alfke >I don't think you can get an activation key for the PE versions. Does that mean that the failure of the platforms to initialize may have to do with something other than a PE license expiration? Rather, I'm understanding that a full installation is required to get the software back working, and that there is no key-only re-activation process. Is that correct? > The easiest way to upgrade is to: > -download the new version, double check the ending > date - there was a problem with a new copy not being > up before the last one expired, > plus there have been some issues with some recent releases Well bud, that's not mighty encouraging. Since the versions I'm on work fine, I might be inclined to just re-install what I already have, if I could, but this whole process seems to be a waste of time. > -install overtop of your existing release What I'm getting from this is that: 1) no uninstall is required, 2) files and registry entries will not be left unreferenced and services will be properly unregistered and re-registered, 3) existing accounts will be visible to an update environment. I'm sorry but I don't have that much faith in the U2 installers so some confirmation would really help. I'll check upgrade docs again but for some reason these docs always seem to over-complicate simple processes, or under-emphasize some critical concern (like "of course you need to completely uninstall and re-install the UniSDK and all of your client processes after you've installed this new release..."). Regards, T ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
