Saturday, December 31, 2016

Upgrading VMware AirWatch 8.4 core components (Feature Pack)



Upgrading VMware AirWatch 8.4 core components (Feature Pack)

VMware Airwatch is a powerful and comprehensive Enterprise Mobile Management Solution. It releases update as Feature Pack regularly (version no. does not change).

This article will go through the Feature Pack update of AirWatch core components (i.e. Console and Device Service) progress for version 8.4. Downtime is required for production system.

If you are using AirWatch Cloud, you are lucky as Airwatch do all task for you.
Reporting components upgrade are not required for Feature Pack upgrade in version 8.4 as time of writing.



Let 's go.

On your Console Server

Right-click “Airwatch_Application_8.4_FPXX_Full_Install.exe” to run as administrator

Wait…

Wait…

Repeat the steps above on your Device Service Server
Login your SQL database  hosting the AirWatch Database now.

Right-click “Airwatch_DB_8.4_FP07_Setup” and “run as administrator”

Click “Next”

Select “I Accept the terms in the license agreement” and Click “Next”

Click “Next”

Fill in Database Server location, database name and access credential
Click “Next”

Click “Install”

Wait….

Wait…

Almost done…

Click “Finish”

Go back to Console Server

On Console Server

Click “Yes”
Click “Next”

Select “I accept the term in the license agreement” and click “Next”


Click “Install”


Wait…

Wait…

Click “Finish”
Repeat steps on your Device Service Servers starting at “Go back to Console Server”

Optional but recommended: reboot Console and Device Service Servers after upgrade.

1 comment:

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