How to Update

How to update CapaInstaller

Planning

Caution

Plan Upgrade

When planning an update of CapaInstaller, we recommend the following actions.

1. You should plan on running the update procedure in a service window where the system load is low and where downtime for CapaInstaller services will have little or no impact.
2. Be prepared to either have CapaInstaller Security enabled and run the update as a member of the System Administrators group or to run it as a member of the CapaInstaller Administrator group. If these security requirements are not met, you cannot patch CapaInstaller.
3. During the installation or update of Capainstaller, please observe if an antivirus utility locks one or more files when copied to the server. If so, it may be necessary to disable the virus protection during the update process.

Preparation

1. Backup your CapaInstaller Database.
2. Lock the server by selecting Lock this server in > Management server properties.
3. Download the latest Setup. This is only necessary, if updating between Major release versions > Download.

Setup

Run the Setup.

If you are updating an existing installation with a new minor build, just run the setup. It will prompt you to download the latest version.

Click Update to start the update process.

Select Remove downloaded files to clean up the downloaded files (C:\Program Files\Common Files\CapaInstaller\Setup)

Important

After setup has completed patching of CapaInstaller, verify that the patched plug-in has been updated by starting the CapaInstaller Console.

Go to the Help menu and click About.

Verify that the version of the patched plug-ins equals the version number stated in the patch release notes.

Updating the Management Portal

Important

The Windows installer package is located in the root configuration management point share > ”…\Resources\Management Portal\CapaInstaller Management Portal.msi*”*

• • • Execute the Windows Installer package CapaInstaller Management Portal.msi
    • Select Next and complete the guided installer

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Promote the updates

• • • Promote the updates for each sub-point to ensure system components are distributed to the sub-points.

      Select “Promote” on each point to be updated and select all the items to be promoted.

    • After the promotion is finished, update each server on the target Point.

      In the System Administration Plugin, right-click the Management server to Update and select “Update now”.

      Read more here: Update now.

• • • When promoting to all sub-points is done and ‘Update Now’ requests are completed for all servers within the Points, the Management Servers can be unlocked again.

Caution

Validate Update Now requests are completed by checking the changelog for the server and seeing that synchronization is achieved.

• • • Promote OSD point Client and Core Components.

      

• • • Update the boot.wim files to ensure new components are added. Read more here: Create a boot image.

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Read more

• OSDClient update preparation
• Updating the Management Portal
• Updating with an expired license
• Windows Agent update methods