[THIN] Re: Upgrade Farm XP FR3 to MPS 4.0
- From: "Lonnie Truskowski" <ltruskowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:46:41 -0500
Very timely, I am about to perform the same upgrade. You mention "NO
MSAccess". Is it not supported anymore? Or is there a specific problem
with upgrading an MS Access datastore?
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rick Mack
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:33 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [THIN] Upgrade Farm XP FR3 to MPS 4.0
Hi Jan,
An in place upgrade is fairly straight forward although the
methodology varies according to the size of your farm:
Install MF Xp SP4, only issue we had here was one customer who
was using a non system account for the ADF installer service. This
stopped the upgrade at the installing services point but we changed the
service logon and the upgrade worked.
Depending on the timing (how long it's going to take) you might
want to consider installing the post SP4 hotfix rollup. The main
strategy here is that if you're going to stage the upgrade rather than
do all the servers together you need a stable XP platform.
The next step varies. The Citrix recommendation is that you
upgrade to PS4 into a new farm, or at the very least you ensure a
separate zone and ZDC for the PS4 servers. If you're doing all your
servers together I wouldn't worry about a new farm. In this case I
generally copy the datastore (SQL, MSDE, NO MSAcess!!), make a new DSN
file and either use "dsmaint config" or chfarm to point each server to
the new farm at the point of upgrade. There is a minimal risk that the
datastore might get clagged. This way the original production farm is
stil untouched. If the upgrade time is short, the new datastore can have
the same farm name, if it's a staged upgrade, I'd suggest a new farm. If
you have to talk to 2 farms, then having a WI front end wil make ife a
lot easier.
Anyway, once you've sorted out the farm/datastore stuff the
upgrade to PS4 is straightforward. Maybe we've been lucky but no
problems so far. Install the post PS4 hotfixes and the job is almost
done.
Installing SP1 can sometimes be a challenge but the only
significant (show stopper) problem we've had is with the driver signing
subsystem. (can'r validate upfate.inf). If you stop the cryptography
service, delete %systemroot%\system32\catroot2, delete
%systemroot%\system32\catroot\tmp*, and the restart the cryptography
service, SP1 should install fine.
As you're probably aware the "extra" security in SP1 will break
a few things so testing on a trial upgraded server beforehand isn't a
bad idea.
Have fun.
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jan Homan
Sent: Thu 19/01/2006 20:43
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Upgrade Farm XP FR3 to MPS 4.0
We are planning to do an upgrade (according Citrix guidelines)
of a W2003 (no SP1) farm running XP FR3 to MPS 4.0.
Has anyone done this and if so did (s)he run into
issues/problems ?
Thanks.
Jan
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