Warning: This was a nitty gritty session. Excutives and Salespeople need not apply! The Upgrading to GP 9 session was very good. Down and dirty. Not exciting, but clear and concise. The Q&A afterward was great. Here's some key things I learned:
1) The first service pack is due end of April. Partners should be looking for a wave upgrades after that.
2) Macros and Integrations may not update. Test those heavily!
3) The "push" installer will only install GP apps at this time, not 3rd parties or customizations unless 3rd parties are also using the msi installer. This is version 1 of the new install/update process. Expect this to be refined improved over time.
4) The install will automatically set the recovery model to simple as part of the install.
5) FRx 6.7 is the latest, you should be fine.
6) 7.5 won't run on SQL 2k5 so you should update GP first then update the database if you are doing both.
7) If you are going from 8.0, there wasn't a straight answer but it seemed to be up to you as long as you are on the SP that allows 8.0 to support SQL 2k5
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