FARONICS DEEP FREEZE ENTERPRISE - UPDATE PROCEDURE 3-23-2010 Update Manual

Summary of DEEP FREEZE ENTERPRISE - UPDATE PROCEDURE 3-23-2010

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    Technical whitepaper last modified: march 23, 2010 www.Faronics.Com © 1999 - 2010 faronics corporation. All rights reserved. Faronics, deep freeze, faronics core console, faronics anti-executable, faronics device filter, faronics power save, faronics insight, faronics system profiler, and winselect ...

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    Enterprise 2 contents introduction .......................................................................................................................................................3 updating deep freeze enterprise (non-server edition)...............................................................

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    Enterprise 3 introduction this document provides a step-by-step overview of the process to update an installation of deep freeze enterprise and deep freeze server enterprise. Deep freeze enterprise has two editions: • deep freeze enterprise: this is a non-server edition. Deep freeze enterprise runs ...

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    Enterprise 4 updatingdeepfreezeenterprise(non-serveredition) a deep freeze enterprise deployment (6.2 and lower) consists of five components, as shown below: as of deep freeze 6.3 (and higher), the enterprise console and server service manager have been combined into a single component. To update th...

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    Enterprise 5 step1(optiona)updatemode(deepfreezeenterprisenon- serveredition) update mode is an advanced feature of deep freeze enterprise that requires a thorough understanding of command line scripting. Update mode can be used to automatically update an existing installation set of deep freeze ent...

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    Enterprise 6 step1(optionb)manuallyupdateallcomponents(deepfreeze enterprisenon-serveredition) updatingtheconfigurationadministratorandenterpriseconsole any update to a deep freeze installation begins with the configuration administrator. Complete the following steps to update the configuration admi...

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    Enterprise 7 installingthenewconfigurationadministratorandenterpriseconsole complete the following steps to install a new version of the configuration administrator on the administrator computer. 1. Double-click the file df65ent.Exe to begin the installation process. 2. Follow the steps presented. R...

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    Enterprise 8 updatingexistingworkstationinstallfilesandworkstationseeds complete the following steps to update new workstation install programs or new workstation seeds using the configuration administrator. 1. Open previously created files by clicking file > open. Select a file from the standard op...

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    Enterprise 9 step2:remotelyupdatingtheinstalledworkstations(deep freezeenterprisenon-serveredition) to update workstations running deep freeze 6.3 or higher, complete the following steps: 1. Open the configuration administrator. 2. Click create > create workstation install program. 3. Save the works...

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    Enterprise 10 updatingdeepfreezeenterpriseversion5.X,6.0,6.1,6.2to6.6 (non-serveredition) the first step to update to version 6.6 is to install the deep freeze configuration administrator; this creates the file directories where all related programs are subsequently saved to as a default. The versio...

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    Enterprise 11 updatingdeepfreezelocallyonaworkstation complete the following steps to update deep freeze locally on a workstation: 1. Open the configuration administrator. 2. Configure the settings as required. 3. Click create > create workstation install program. 4. Save the workstation install pro...

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    Enterprise 12 updatingdeepfreezeserverenterprise(serveredition) if you are using an older version of deep freeze server enterprise (for example, 6.3), you must uninstall the older version before installing the newer version. • uninstall the older version from start > control panel > add or remove pr...

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    Enterprise 13 updatescriptfordeepfreezeserverenterpriseconsole download dse_updatescript.Vbs file from http://www.Faronics.Com/faronics/documents/dse_ updatescript.Zip . Steps to run the update script is explained in the next section. Download the update script directly from the link provided above....

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    Enterprise 14 shell.Run “””” & installpathadmin & “””” & “ /uninstall”, 2, true if fso.Folderexists(installpath) and fso.Folderexists(tmpfolder & “\deep freeze enterprise server”) then if not fso.Folderexists(installpathserv) then fso.Createfolder(installpathserv) fso.Copyfile tmpfolder & “\deep fre...

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    Enterprise 15 runningtheupdatescriptfordeepfreezeserverenterpriseconsole 1. Launch the command prompt. For windows vista or windows 7, use the run as administrator option. 2. Run dse_updatescript.Vbs file created in the previous section from the command prompt. The script uninstalls the older versio...