This whole workstation setup is one big inconvenient mess. Sure, it’s no big deal for a two-user system. Unfortunately with constant price hikes most smaller companies eventually move to other systems.
In situations where you have 10+ workstations that aren’t using some type of remote - the need to manually update desktops is very time consuming.
Especially now when people are not all in the office or they’re working different hours/schedules.
Sometimes workstation sync helps a little but it can’t, for example, be set to automatically point a workstation to a new release on go-live day. And sync seems to prefer ( require ) local admin user rights.
Well, guess what?… those two user sites don’t care if their users are all admins. But it’s a completely different story with 10+ user sites that are facing daily ransomware threats and do need to lock down their user rights.
Maybe the pandemic will be the event that pushes remaining users to Citrix/TS type solutions where desktops are easier to manage.
In any event, please remember once you swap in that config file in the server you will have to change every other workstation on the production system by loading the latest Sage wksetup alongside the current version.
Where the testing is simple you can work around this by setting up one workstation with no other Sage and have people test there. So long as there’s not an older Sage on the workstation you won’t conflict. This is how I do testing in most cases.
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Wayne Schulz - Schulz Consulting - 860-516-8990
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