on 03-02-2009 7:21 AM
We have deployed our clients from a network share using the installation server.
We are currently preparing a new setup of the installation server on a different hardware.
How do I 'inform' the clients that the installation source have moved so they start looking at a new place for the patches?
I found the answer to my question. It is not a registry setting. If you right click on the SAP Logon shortcut on the Desktop (it is the SAL file) and click "Open with..". Choose Notepad. You will see a section called [InstServer] and it will have the path to the current FIS server it is using. Change it to the new server path and you are good to go. I have tested and validated this works.
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I am in a similiar situation. We are trying to move a group of our users to a different Frontend Installation Server (FIS). We want to use it as a QA box to test against before deploying GUI patches to all users. I have dug through the registry until I know every SAP entry by memory, but have not been able to find the one that will re-point it to the new server.
I even tried running
naatlncsafp1\sapdev$\setup\NWSAPSETUP.exe /UPDATE /NoDlg to force it to pull the update for the "QA" server. It did pull the update, but when I checked the SapStart.log to see if it was now looking to the new server for updates, it was still looking to the "old" FIS.
I am hoping I can find an easy way to move them. I would hate to have to uninstall and reinstall several hundred GUI's just to get them pointed to the correct FIS.
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You can make a registry change via
HKEY Local Machine -- Software -- SAP -- SAPSetup -- General -- Instserver
Change the value to the new server.
Export the key and then import to your client machines.
Most deployment tools will deploy a key for you.
Or, you can just send the export file, which will be <filename>.reg to your users in e-mail and have them double-click it. It will then ask them if they want to accept the key and install it to their registry.
I don't know if this is SAP-supported but it works.
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