Upgrade from VSE 8.8 patch 9 to 14

[Former Member]

Hello,

Can you please confirm if upgradeing VSE 8.8 patch 9 to patch 14 would be am acceptibale path? Or do we have to, for example, upgrade to VSE 8.8 patch 12 first?

Also, am i correct to assume you can only have 1 patch for a branch type. So for example, if we have VSE 8.8 patch 12 in evaulation mode, and then we add VSE patch 14 (also in evaluation mode), patch 14 will superceed patch 12 and apply to all servers allocated to the evaluation branch.

many thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi @Former Member 

You would need to upgrade to VSE p10 first.

The same can be seen in the release notes: https://docs.mcafee.com/bundle/virusscan-enterprise-v8-8-14-release-notes/resource/prod-virusscan-enterprise-v8-8-14-Release-Notes.pdf

(take a look at page 4)

You are also correct in regards to the branches. You can only have one patch version per branch. So yes,  you would need to place patch 10 into one branch, then patch 14 in another and you'd need to change your McAfee Agent policy to take the updates from the respective branch.

[Former Member]

Thanks

If we have systems on patch 12 ('VSE Patching' Evolution Branch), and we then apply a tag which points systems to a Previous Branch, would those systsms stay on patch 12 if no patch was assigned to the Previous branch?

We are trying to stage our estate to patch 14 via anumber of steps and would like to use Previous Branch as a buffer rather than downgrading any patches.

Hope that makes sense 

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

As long as your systems don't have a policy assigned to update from a branch which contains a higher version of VSE, they won't update. Of course if there is no patch within a branch, then there is nothing for VSE to update the systems with. When you run a product update task, there is a script which runs and checks the currently installed version vs. the version that is in the defined branch. If the version is same or higher, then no update will happen. If however there is a higher version in the defined branch than installed on the machine, the patch update will be attempted.

Hope that makes sense 🙂

[Former Member]

It certainly does.. many thanks 

[Former Member]

Hello,

Can you confirm if upgrading from patch 9 to patch 12 will require a reboot?

I cant see anything in the release notes but would like to double check

https://docs.mcafee.com/bundle/virusscan-enterprise-v8-8-12-patch-12-release-notes/resource/PD28074....

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi @Former Member 

Whilst it's not mandatory, it's strongly recommended. Here are the main reasons why: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB55962