Smart Upgrade

I really need some help with smart upgrade. I am trying to roll out FP2 using smart upgrade but I can not seem to get it to start automatically from the client.

The steps that I have followed are’

  • Create smart upgrade kit

  • Create smart upgrade kit tracking results

  • Create the custom FP2 exe (tested and installs fine under domain user)

  • Create a explicit policy and assign through the person document

I followed the instructions found in the 2 PDF’s found on the links below, the only thing that I know of that is different is that I am not putting it on the domain policy as we have Citrix servers and do not want people to try and install it on there

http://www.thenewdominoadmin.com/blog/?cat=24

http://www.thenewdominoadmin.com/blog/?p=636

My real problem is that I am unsure how I can tell if my test client is even getting the policy applied to it.

As nothing happens, and there is nothing in the windows event logs, I don’t know where to start from

If anyone can point me down the right path it would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: I have noticed that there is this information in the notes.ini

SU_IN_PROGRESS=0

SU_NEXT_UPDATE=03/06/2010 01:03:28 PM

SU_FILE_CLEANUP=C:\Documents and Settings\FNurk\Application Data\smkits

SUT_NEXT_UPDATE=03/06/2010 01:03:28 PM

I have also looked in that folder and I do not see anything in the path “C:\Documents and Settings\FNurk\Application Data\smkits”

And even though I only have the policy assigned to the one user FNurk I see the above fields in everyones notes.ini

Subject: Send me an e-mail and I’ll help you figure out what’s up

jpaganet@us.ibm.com

Regards,

John Paganetti

Subject: Solved

John worked out that I am missing 2 lines from my notes.ini file once these are entered in it takes 2 restarts of notes but it works.

InstallType=6

InstallMode=1