Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Take a breath, plug your nose, and jump!

Well, I did it.

I had originally set a date of December 27th to complete the upgrade. With the rush of the Christmas holiday, I didn't have time to get everything done that I needed. So I moved it the 29th. I ran into some difficulty importing users, assigning them to roles, and importing receipts, so I bumped it again. This time, I was as ready as I was going to be. January 1st I launched MLS 3.0. The cut-over went fairly smooth, but we did encounter a few hiccups. First problem actually had nothing to do with DNN.. It was a hardware failure. The built in raid controller in the server I'm using started throwing errors and not writing. I had to shut down and reboot the entire server. It's been pretty solid since then. Knock on wood.