I got notification from Solarwinds that FOE 6.7 was in General Availability. I currently and running FOE 6.4. I search all through the install packages documentation as well as all through the customer portal and there are not instructions about upgrading. There are only instruction for installing it new. Now my problem with this are many. If I have to install this like it's a new install, then it's probably going to blow away my Microsoft licenses as it did the first time I installed this horrible software, which will result in my entire system being dead in the water. Unfortunatly, in our organization another group maintains the corporate licenses and it is big time pain to get it relicensed with Microsoft's kludgy license server. There needs to be a way to upgrade this without going through the entire pain of a new install AND if there is then there needs to better listing of documentation. Of course having said all this, this problem is added on top of the entire disaster of NPM 10.5 upgrades that many of us have been experienceing. My position right now, is if there is not upgrade process for FOE and it truly is like a new install, then FOE is going to be dropped and we'll just live with a spare blank server and re-install every thing in the event of a failure. Solarwinds needs to re-think the entire FOE concept
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