Hi Bob,
thanks for investigating on this issue.
Bob_Clark wrote:When did you download the 7.03 patch bundle? They may have fixed teh Build version problem since the download
That would have been yesterday ;)
I'm also quite averse to using Add/Remove programs in this context. It would probably work to completely uninstall and then install the clients again, but that is a dangerous PITA process: You have to write down/extract what components were installed and manually select them correctly again, and the uninstall process will (without any way to prevent this from happening lest you shutdown your cell server and wait for nasty timeouts) remove the client from the cell. If you (or some other admin) happens to access a backup spec in this state and Ok a seemingly harmless dialog, you may even lose the entire configuration for this client in that spec (trees, excludes, individual object settings). And while all that may work out for the occasional borked client every other year, it's impossible to do for two-score numbers of clients. Remote update simply has to work. It's also no help that the client installation, when started manually through (c)setup.exe, refuses to do an upgrade. What magic is remote upgrade doing to achieve this, which can't be provided in the interactive installer?
So I still hope to find a way to have this work again. I'll start by establishing a second Windows IS on another client, freshly installed and patched to the state the borked one was in until yesterday. If that can still roll out updates, I'll bump it to 7.03, try again, and then latest patches post-7.03, and try again. I'll report on my findings.
Thanks again,
Andre.