Comments on: Secondary Schools: Things to Consider Before Upgrading SIMS to 7.106 http://www.boltonlea.org.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/secondary-schools-things-to-consider-before-upgrading-sims-to-7106/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Howarth http://www.boltonlea.org.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/secondary-schools-things-to-consider-before-upgrading-sims-to-7106/#comment-11 John Howarth Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:52:40 +0000 http://www.boltonlea.org.uk/blog/?p=18#comment-11 Hi Sam, you''re quite correct, the issue raised its head in the May release, which was only installed by Canon Slade, Turton, Thornleigh and St James''. Your school and Turton needed the release for the Cover 7 Field Trial. It was installed at Thornleigh and St James'' to resolve certain site-specific issues. The re-release of May fixed the majority of issues created by the initial version and June was supposed to resolve the Nova-T6 access issue. According to Capita''s Knowledge Base article KB79814, "The necessary changes were unfortunately not completed in time for the June 2008 release of SIMS .net. They will be done for August 2008". We held back on authorising May to most schools because we thought that June would resolve the T6 issue. I suspect most schools wouldn''t be bothering with June 7.106 if it wasn''t for the fact that it enables Cover 7 functionality (remember that most schools are upgrading from March 7.102) for the newly trained and soon to be on leave cover managers. For your school Sam, there are additional Cover 7 enhancements included in June 7.106 as well as a small fix for Exams Organiser, full details of which are in the release notes (link in original blog post above). I doubt these fixes are desperately needed, however, and I''m sure you''ll be OK to wait for August 7.108. For your planning information, please remember that August 7.108 is a Main Release and as such will include new functionality, which may mean it will be re-released like the previous two Main releases! Hi Sam, you”re quite correct, the issue raised its head in the May release, which was only installed by Canon Slade, Turton, Thornleigh and St James”. Your school and Turton needed the release for the Cover 7 Field Trial. It was installed at Thornleigh and St James” to resolve certain site-specific issues.

The re-release of May fixed the majority of issues created by the initial version and June was supposed to resolve the Nova-T6 access issue. According to Capita’’s Knowledge Base article KB79814, “The necessary changes were unfortunately not completed in time for the June 2008 release of SIMS .net. They will be done for August 2008″.

We held back on authorising May to most schools because we thought that June would resolve the T6 issue. I suspect most schools wouldn”t be bothering with June 7.106 if it wasn”t for the fact that it enables Cover 7 functionality (remember that most schools are upgrading from March 7.102) for the newly trained and soon to be on leave cover managers.

For your school Sam, there are additional Cover 7 enhancements included in June 7.106 as well as a small fix for Exams Organiser, full details of which are in the release notes (link in original blog post above). I doubt these fixes are desperately needed, however, and I”m sure you”ll be OK to wait for August 7.108.

For your planning information, please remember that August 7.108 is a Main Release and as such will include new functionality, which may mean it will be re-released like the previous two Main releases!

]]> By: Sam Prince http://www.boltonlea.org.uk/blog/index.php/2008/07/secondary-schools-things-to-consider-before-upgrading-sims-to-7106/#comment-10 Sam Prince Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:47:49 +0000 http://www.boltonlea.org.uk/blog/?p=18#comment-10 I think Rick at Turton has set up a software restriction policy (i.e. a group policy) to block access to Nova-T6, but when staff click it with the restriction in place I think SIMS.net crashes. Is that better than allowing access to T6? Probably? BTW the issue with the T6 shortcut is from the May release onwards - we have it and I''ve not taken the leap to June yet. As far as I can tell we can hold on until the August release without any problems unless you know different John. I think Rick at Turton has set up a software restriction policy (i.e. a group policy) to block access to Nova-T6, but when staff click it with the restriction in place I think SIMS.net crashes. Is that better than allowing access to T6? Probably?

BTW the issue with the T6 shortcut is from the May release onwards - we have it and I”ve not taken the leap to June yet. As far as I can tell we can hold on until the August release without any problems unless you know different John.

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