Major version upgrade of WebLogic with zero/minimal downtime

From what I can tell, the recommended approach for supporting minimal downtime during major version upgrades (e.g. WL 9 -> WL 10) is to have 2 domains available in the production environment.
Leave one running to support existing users, upgrade the other domain, then swap to perform the upgrade on the first domain.
We are planning on starting out with WL 9.1, but moving forward we require very high availability...(99.99%).
Is this my only option?
According to BEA marketing literature, service pack upgrades can be applied with "zero" downtime...but if this isn't reality, I'd like to hear more...
Thanks...
Chuck

Have gotten as far as upgrading all of the software, deleting /var/db/.AppleSetupDone, and rebooting. It brought me back in to Setup Assistant and let me choose "migrate from another mac os x server" and is now sitting waiting for me to take the old server down and boot it into target disk mode. Which we can probably do Sunday at about 2am or so...
You know, Setup Assistant should really let you run Software Update BEFORE migrating from another machine. We have servers that can't be down for SoftwareUpdates in the middle of the day...

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Team,
There is a requirement to move the current DBs from existing SAN to new IBM SAN disks. I have outlined the below steps. Request you to please add your inputs/challenges/risks.
This is in Always ON and We have 3 Nodes.
Server A , Server B and Server C
A and B are Synchronous
C is hosting Async replica.
Note: The SQL binaries are installed on E: drive which is a SAN drive. Whether is this going to be impacted based on my steps below?
Present the new SAN of same size on all the nodes in the Availability Cluster.
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Now, Failover the Primary to Secondary replica- This will be a short outage.
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Thanks!
Sharath
Best Regards, Sharath

Hi Sharath,
This can be easily achieved by storage migration by storage Vendor, In your case IBM should be able to do it, since they have sophisticated tools
(one of these tools is Storage Virtualization for Data Migration and Consolidation) to this SAN migration they don't need downtime during the storage sync process. your downtime will be only the Cutoff Time, If SAN Vendor does the Data Migration for you. <o:p></o:p>
Otherwise,
1. Take out read-only replica out of Always on Group.
2. Since SQL is also installed on SAN drive, I strongly suggest you to rebuild the SQL Server as new. (No Copy of Data from SAN to SAN)
Note: Drive allocation and drive letters should be identical
3. Once you rebuild the SQL Server, One Challenge here is to migrate the SQL Logins (You must migrate users using same SID, to avoid permission issues).
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5.
Then manually move the always on group read/write replica to new node.
6. follow the steps 1 ,2,3 and 4 in sequence.
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After I downloaded and installed the latest iTunes upgrade (to 10.5.1), I am no longer able to download free app upgrades for the apps I have on my iPad/iPhone/iMac which i had previously purchased. Itunes tells me I "don't own the major versions".

After I downloaded and install the latest iTunes software upgrade (to 10.5.1), I am no longer able to download free upgrades to the apps on my iPhone or iPad.
The App Store just says I "don't own the major versions", which of course is nonsense. It seems as if Apple's iTunes/App Store has deleted my download history. Any suggestions?
Regards,
Bruce

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[share]Share with you my experience of upgrading PC with zero budgets

I saw an article on Mobile01 and thought it’s quite interested, so here I translate it.
To share with everyone
http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=488&t=4250581
Share with you my experience of upgrading PC with zero budgets
It is believed that many people have the same experience like me, a 3-years-old PC which probably work but unbearably slow. No need to mention that when playing games, it lags all the time.
Now here I want to share an incredible easy way to upgrade your PC; what’s more, it’s free! No need any cost to make PC performance up!!
(you may say: ”What’s wrong with you?! I just wanna play a PC game, rather than mod PC. okay!?)
No worry please~ It’s the era of smart end users! For sure a higher C/P is a basic requirement. I am just talking about a better performance; it not must be along with extra costs. If you have this kind of concern, then “overclocking” may be the answer for you. In one word, overclocking (OC) is tuning you computer beyond the limit to an extreme performance. So that you have a surprising user experience just like bought a new PC without any cost.
Ok, it’s enough! I won’t boast of too much knowledge of overclocking because I don’t know much about it actually. (a truly overclocking….. means tuning voltage/ clock etc. OMG, who knows?! ahhahaha)
In fact I’m only talking about a button! Only one you need to do hold out your finger and press down the button, how easy it is. And then you can feel it get smoother when playing games.
This is what I’ve done. I make an experiment on Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, let's have a comparison of their differences.
First of all, let’s preview the configuration of my own PC:
Motherboard - MSI Z97 GAMING 5
Graphics card – MSI N750 Ti GAMING 2GD5/OC
CPU - i5-4690K 　
Power supply - CoolerMaster (1250W)
HHD - WD 3TB
Memory - WINTEC 1333/4GB DDR3
This is a close up of the model name. cause not every motherboard has this feature.
Let’s open CPU-Z on OS.
Then you can see this is Intel 4960K 3.5G, an original CPU without tuning.
Launching the game of Age of Empires II: The Conquerors HD version (single team of 500 people). BTW, it seems to reveal your age if you also know this game! Saying Age of Empires, which was the bomb of RTS games at that time.
Till here, does there anyone recall the days of the eight guys’ gang war?
Ops! I’ve told too much nonsense. Now I am showing you the differences of OC in the heavy loading condition of 8 teams with 500 people (stand-alone ver.).
Look at the bottom at left corner, you can see the Fraps number of 18. Merely 18 fraps when I tries 500 people per team. Yes, it’s true! A terrible number no wonder it lags over and over. Unbearable….. I can’t wait to try OC to see if it will be helpful.
So, let’s see how to use the easy OC feature- OC Genie.
To boost, press Del and get into BIOS. There is a button at the left upper side, click it and it will turn to red. F10 to saving and leave BIOS. and then re-boost the computer. That’s all.
(You can see a virtual button -OC GENIE. Just click it!)
(Click it and it will turn to red. F10 to saving and leave BIOS. and then re-boost the computer. This is the time to check CPU-Z now!)
(CPU clocks from 3.5G to 4G. which means you earn 15% performance for free!)
Let’s test with Age of Empires II: The Conquerors HD version (single team of 500 people), the same as the previous condition.
Impressive!! It becomes 27 fraps. Feel the smoother motions than before!!
Then, I’m going to check online game! Although Lineage II is not really popular now, I use it for the test because online game usually heavier loading and has higher requirement on PC spec.
The following two screenshots are the original one before OC (Default).
And check the below 2 pictures, those have better FPS improved after use OC Genie.
To summarize my test, here I listed the results to show how OC Genie did.
Through the chart you can find that on the condition of extremely heavy loading, the performance improved significantly. Thus, I think you can feel the differences when playing those games with complex computing such as Age of Empires or Starcraft II.
As for the normal MMRRPG games, OC Genie also contributes almost 15% of performance up. And it even optimized the pictures.
This is my test report of an easy way to make PC performance up and free of money. Share with you guys and wish it is hopeful for you
Thank you ~~~~!!

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After the in place upgrade from SharePoint server 2007 to 2010, the out of the box approval workflow does not prompt for additional information after check in of a major version.

I think it has to do with the interaction between Word, InfoPath, IIS, and /or SharePoint, but I cannot put my finger on it. Maybe client integration or authentication settings? I have looked at it in wireshark
and have not seen anything glaring.
Steps to reproduce the (working) behavior:
Set up a document library in SharePoint 2010.
Under versioning settings, make the following changes:
Set Require Content Approval for submitted Items to Yes
Select Create Major and Minor (draft) versions
Set require checkout to Yes
Create an out of the box “approval” workflow with the following settings:
Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version of an item.
I then create a new document. Save it. check it in. it is now version 0.1.
I then open it again. check it out. Make a change. Close and save it.
Check it in.
Publish major version:
At this point a screen is presented to me to enter workflow parameters. This screen comes up in Enterprise 2013 and MOSS 2007, but not the migrated version of 2010:
This is what I need help with. It should come up in 2010. To fix it in 2013, I had to change the IIS bindings to only have 1 entry for a port. I did this for 2010 and it did not work.
Any help or ideas is very appreciated. Thanks very much in advance.

Hi Chris,
According to your description, my understanding is that the approval workflow cannot work when the workflow was set to start to approve publishing a major version of an item after upgrading to SharePoint 2010.
I recommend to check the approval workflow in Workflow settings of the corresponding library to see if the Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version of an item is checked.
For test, I recommend to create a new OOB approval workflow and set it to start to approve publishing a major version of an item in the same library to see if the workflow can work.
Thanks
Victoria
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Upgrading BEA-Workhop artifacts to newer versions of the Weblogic server

Hi,
We have a WLI 8.1 stack where we have deployed the artifacts(ears) developed using the BEA Workshop. BEA Weblogic 8.1 SP4 is being used as the Application server currently. We are currently looking out for the possibility to migrate to a newer version of the weblogic server for the obvious reasons.
The problem is that we have a lot of reusable code that we want to redeploy on the new version of the weblogic server without going into the costs of redevloping the newer integrations. I want to understand if at all it is possible to move the current workshop artifacts on the newer version of the Weblogic server. I have a vague idea that this could be done some how by using JDeveloper but I am not realy sure on how to go forward with this.
Could any one inform me on how this could be achieved or Is there a plan on how this could be done.
Any help on this front will be higly appriciated.
regards,
Prakhar

This document contains information about the compatibility with previous releases: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/upgrade/compat.html\
Some previous posts that might be useful as well:
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What is the standard practice to make sure a JDK or JRE doesn't upgrade beyond the current major version? >The standard practice is not to impose such arbitrary restrictions on the end-user ("sorry, you cannot use that newest app. because +our+ app. wants an earlier version").
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As a webdev, we've trying to figure out how to hack our CSS to allow FF to support webkit. Ok, we got it, but we've got people internally reporting bugs. 'Well, what version of FF are you running?' we ask. '3.6' is the answer. Wow, thats pretty old, doesn't FF ask you to upgrade? NO THEY DO NOT BEAUSE THATS PROBABLY THE LATEST 3.X VERSION.
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Do you automatic updates set? Options > Advanced > Update tab
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I wanted to create a simple approval workflow. Hence I opted to start from scratch rather than copy the OOTB approval WF. Using SharePoint Designer (not Visual studio) I created a reusable workflow and have added the built in 'Start approval process' action.
It's saved and published globally.
Everything works fine except that when associating the WF with a list the 'Start this workflow to approve publishing a major version of an item' check box is disabled.
Major and minor versioning is enabled for the library.
What am I missing here? Or do I have to start from the OOTB approval WF to get this to work?
Regards
Henning

Again - new ideas pop up right after defining the issue as a problem. :-) Problem solved!
I solved this by creating a new workflow from the original publishing approval workflow (copy and replace), but instead of tweaking the already defined approval process (WF action) I deleted it, then deleted all initiation form and local variables,
and then added the 'Start approval process' action again. This re-installs all the necessary local variables without any initiation form involvement, which is just what I want.
From here I can tweak the workflow to make it more user friendly, much like
described by Bobby Chiang in his great blog.
Remember to add action Set Workflow Variable 'EnableContentApproval' to Yes right before the Start Approval Process action, else the document's status won't be set to 'Approved' or 'Rejected' as an output of the workflow.
Learning every day!
Henning

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I have a MacBook pro version 10.6.7 with snow leopard. After an scheduled software upgrade I could not open Quicken (It said it could not open the files). Now I can only open it if I have my external drive on. Can you help?
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You will get a very different startup screen that looks like the Terminal app has hijacked the screen. Just let the lines of text scroll by. When that happens you will get a text entry prompt. Type in "AppleJack" without the quotation marks.
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You’ve been infected with the “Flashback” malware. See this Apple support document:
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Back up all data, if you haven't already done so.
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