Day light saving patch

[khshankar]

Any one has installed Day light saving patch for BOE XI or CE 10, do we need to follow any special steps to make it work without issue.

Thanks,
Shankar

 

[MJRBIM]

We are working on it now - should have it through our change managers by next week.

There is not one (1) patch for DST, the dependencies are posted on the BOBJ site.

BOE-XI (R2) uses -

1.) MONTHLY HOT FIX 1
2.) CRITICAL HOT FIX 15

They need to be installed in that order.

http://support.businessobjects.com/downloads/daylight_savings.asp

 

[MJRBIM]

Has anyone successfully applied these Daylight Savings Time (DST) patches yet....

1.) Windows Server 2003 DST Patches (from Microoft)

2.) BOE-XI (R2) MONTHLY HOT FIX 1
3.) BOE-XI (R2) CRITICAL HOT FIX 15

We are testing it on our DEV environment - and the Microsoft patch appears to break our page servers.

I'm dowloading the BOE-XI (R2) patches but they are taking hours (probably everyone had the same idea). My first couple of attempts at downloading the BOBJ patches delivered corrupted zip files.

Anyone done this successfully yet - patched the OS and the application...?

 

[MJRBIM]

I managed to patch our stand-alone DEV server yesterday - it was fairly slow.

Next step is to patch everything on our TEST cluster...then the .NET application servers that connect to TEST.

All the vendors seem to be waiting until the last minute on these patches.

 

[dukeslater]

Complete brain lock - how can I tell which patches have already been installed in my recently inherited XI RS system?

 

[dukeslater]

Never mind - it's in the history.txt in the

Program Files\Business Objects\Business Objects 11.5\Patches directory.

Thanks.

 

[smooty]

We are using Crystal Enterprise 10 on Windows 2000 Server and have applied the following patches in order listed:

Service Pack 6 10.0.101.8012 service pack

(this is the order that Business Objects recommends)
1. Common10win_en.exe v10.0.103.1544 weekly
2. CE10win_en.exe v10.0.101.1566 weekly
3. Viewers10win_en_200611.exe v10.0.104.5032 monthly

Also, all Microsoft TZ patches were previously applied to the server.

The effect on our environment after applying all patches for the OS and CE 10 is that ALL of the recurring jobs are now scheduled to run 1 hour later than originally scheduled.

Has anyone else seen this occur on their system?

Thanks.

 

[bubu2006]

We have the same problem. The report which has scheduled for 11am that has actually run on 12pm but the report runtime is 12. We have installed CE patch.

 

[MJRBIM]

Have you Physically rebooted your servers since applying those patches...?

If you are clustered - you need to shutdown every server your entire CE-10 cluster then bring it back online one server at a time.

With CE-10 and BOE-XI, even if a patch doesn't tell you you need a reboot - 99% of the time you need a reboot.

 

[smooty]

We did restart the server after applying the patches (and no we are not clustered).

One interesting thing is that the Microsoft OS patches we applied to the Windows 2000 Server/Professional machines did not work properly. We actually had to go into the Time Zone settings and change from our time zone to another time zone and back again for the fix to be applied properly.

My theory is that our production evironment ran with the psuedo-fixed OS and did not recognize that March 11 was the beginning of EDST. After we fixed the OS problem and restarted the server, the system now recognized ESDT properly but too late for all the scheduled jobs to be set for the proper time.

Still waiting to hear back from a tech at Business Objects to work on this issue.

I wonder what may happen come April 1st.....

 

[bubu2006]

We have rebooted the server. I have just scheduled one report and the report run time is current but the instance time from history is one hour behind. I guess Crystal Repository database did not update for some reason.