On Sunday February 4th during the hours of approximately 1:00PM - 11:00pm ET we will begin running check disk on all the Windows servers to be sure they are ready for the upgrade and that the drive(s) are 100% for this upgradeable. There will be sporadic reboots of the servers will this process is taking place so please warn your customers that they may experience downtime during this process. We will send out of a list of the affected servers in a separate email.
On February 5th at 11:00PM ET we will begin to upgrade H-Sphere from its current version. This upgrade will more than likely take at least 8 hours; however that is an estimate and it may very well take longer due to the magnitude of this upgrade. There will be sporadic reboots of all Windows servers so the upgrade(s) can take affect. Please warn your customers that they may experience downtime during this upgrade and to allow for a minimum of 8 hours for the upgrade to complete.
Questions and Answers:Q: Why is this upgrade being done during the week and not weekend?
A: Psoft support only works during the week, therefore the upgrade will be done while they are available to assist us if any bugs do arise during the upgrade.
Q: Why at night for Eastern Time?
A: The upgrade takes a minimum of 8 hours to complete. By this time Psoft support is online to assist us. Also, overnight hours are our slowest time for tickets and we will be able to give our full attention to the upgrade.
Q: Will ASP.net 2.0 be supported?
A: Yes, asp.net will be available on all new servers installed; we plan to install a new Windows server within 7 days of completion of the upgrade. Current customers can asked to be moved to this server and new customers can ask to also be put on this system. It will be off for new signups at first but any can be moved to this if they plan to use .net 2.0.
Q: Will Front Page still be supported even though it has reached EOL ( End of Life ) by Microsoft?
A: Yes, it's still supported in H-Sphere 2.5 and we will keep supporting it for all customers at this time. However, we will be setting a date within the coming year to phase out support for FrontPage to only current customers and then to be removed from all systems by 2008. This is due to the fact there will be no more FrontPage fixes, support or upgrades from Microsoft.
Q: Will SPF be supported?
A: Hsphere 2.5 does support SPF, however at this time we have not had time to fully test it in Hsphere 2.5 on a live system.
Q: Where can I see a list of new stuff and bug fixes?
A: You can view all of this at:
http://www.psoft.net/HSdocumentation/versions/index.php\?v=all&p=r
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