How to Upgrade EPO.302a to EPO 3.5

[morp]

Dear all,

Please help!
We are currently using EPO 3.02a (member server)and VSE7.1 Enterprise (clients) on a domain, we are planning to upgrade to EPO 3.5 and VSE 8.0i

Is there any manual or guides that I can use on how to successfully migrate our users from EPo 3.02a to EPO 3.5 without any major problems.Or is it possible from you guys to give me some basic / step by step procedure on how to do this upgrade or some do's and dont's. As i am having thoughts about the agent version problem and the potential impact this upgrade will cause to our enterprise.

i THANK YOU ALL IN ADVANCE for any help that you may contribute.

Morp,

 

[dejuid00]

I didn't have any problems. I migrated from 3.02a as well. Have 1 ePO server and 4 Repositories.

1) Full server backup.
2) Disable the ePO server tasks.
3) Change the ePO Deployment task to ignore the ePO agent.
4) Clean up your Directory (duplicate computers, etc.)
5) Upgrade (McAfee docs are fine)
6) Do a manual Repository replication
7) Reenable #2.
8) Run some reports.

Since deployment of 3.5 agent requires a reboot, reenable #3 at your own pace.

David.

 

[morp]

Many many thanks dejuid00 for your quick response, Now i have an idea on how to do this...
But there is one more information I need, this is : what if I Install a fresh one on a new server. would there be any issues or problems if i will join it on the domain and kill the existing 3.02a EPO, what will happen on the old agents
that sits on the clients, would they be upgraded too.

Apologies for being amateur on this matter.

 

[morp]

any body else has got more ideas

 

[vectorgod]

I upgraded mine to 3.5 by formatting the current server and reinstalling it with the same IP address, but a different hostname. Almost all of the agents checked in with the new server and upgraded the agent automatically. I later changed the IP address and still didn't have many problems. I'm not on a domain, but my understanding is that being on a domain makes everything work together better, which is why I'm pushing for it here.

If your network is small like mine you can just try it and if worst comes to worst, manually install the new agent on all PCs. Most of my problems were with Windows 98 PCs, so if you don't have any of those you should be in good shape. We use all 2k/98 so I don't know if XP SP2 firewall will cause problems for you or not.

You will probably want to export all the policies that you want to keep from the old server and import them on the new server.

 

[morp]

thanks a lot vectorgod..