If you break something on Wednesday, you have all day Thursday to get something new moving your way and there’s a good chance you can have something delivered Friday or maybe even Saturday. We had missed the shipping cutoff for the day and it wasn’t going out until Monday. Well, it would have been overnight except I found myself with bricked hardware on Friday afternoon. I had to have new hardware overnighted to get it working. Why? Well, one time I installed firmware and it bricked the hardware. If I ran out of time, I did not do it on Thursday, nor Friday. That was the last day I would attempt software or firmware updates. I personally put Wednesday as my hard stop for updates. The last thing you want to be doing during what was supposed to be soundcheck is tracking down new drivers and updates so the teleprompter…er… confidence monitor will work. You never know when an upgrade won’t work, or will break something else.
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Windows 10 can’t install its next group of productivity enhancing features providing unparalleled levels of productivity if it can’t talk to the servers. In fact, it’s a good argument for production machines being on their own network, air-gapped to the outside worlds. I turn off all automatic updates on all my production machines and make sure they are not even checking on Saturday or Sunday. The first rule for me of upgrading is to never, no not ever upgrade on the weekend. Having done my fair share of it, I thought I would share some observations and ideas on what I consider best practices. On the bookFace groups I follow, I often see questions about upgrading software stuff.
It’s simply a catalyst for me thinking about upgrades in general. I have no experience with it and no particular thoughts about it one way or another. Now, this article isn’t about ProPresenter per se. With the recent release of ProPresenter 7, the internets are all abuzz with discussions about upgrading software. The time of year when a young tech directors thoughts turn to…software upgrades.
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