Cool. Thanks guys. Will give it a shot tomorrow.
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To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] MES Customization Deployment
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From: John Driggers <waffqle@...>
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Vantage] MES Customization Deployment
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On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Ted Koch <tkoch77@...> wrote:
> **
>
>
> Do you mean change the default.mfgsys file in the client folder on the
> server?
>
> ________________________________
> From: John Driggers <waffqle@...>
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vantage] MES Customization Deployment
>
>
> Just change the version in the mfgsys on the server and it will
> automatically trigger the clients to update to the 'new' version.
> We usually set it to something like 9.05.600-NewMES or something like that.
>
> Note that this will cause all the clients to run a full update just like if
> you loaded a patch. It can take a few minutes on slower machines/networks
> but it works like a top.
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> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Ted Koch <tkoch77@...> wrote:
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> > **
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> >
> >
> > A startup script would be the only way to update the file if the Epicor
> > client is already installed though?
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Greg Payne <gpayne@...>
> > To: "vantage@yahoogroups.com" <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 12:46 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Vantage] MES Customization Deployment
> >
> >
> > When you run clientzipinstaller is has fields to include your mfgsys
> files
> > in the release client, so new stations get the info on install.
> >
> > I have 32 and 64bit scripts that IT runs when we have permissions issues
> > with Windows 7 to recopy the mfgsys files.
> >
> > From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> > Of tkoch77
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:52 AM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Vantage] MES Customization Deployment
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a general question about deploying MES customizations to new
> > workstations. Is there an easy way to point a workstation to an MES
> > customization without having to go to each workstations default.mfgsys
> file
> > and updating the MESCustomMenuID field? I was thinking a startup script
> is
> > the best for this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ted
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