Attached is the following document that we give to our IT staff regarding Raiser's Edge can anyone give me suggestions/comments on if I need to add something or anything else that I need to bring up in the meeting we are getting ready to have with them regarding this? They have had some changes in...

Thanks for the replies! Has anyone had times when the patch affected things in a negative way during testing and you decided not to load ?

We do not test the patches, but we're a very small RE user compared to many. While we run the most current version of RE, we only install the patches if they address an issue we are experiencing. So, one vote for the "no" side.

Just trying to get a feel of how people test patches? We have 1 server and it is a production server, so we don't have a test server. Support said to load the standalone version on to a machine and test the patch that way. Does anyone do this? What database do you use? (Sample???)

We are looking to reach out to anyone who has written their own scripts to effectively run setup.exe or bbpatch.exe with appropriate privileges to push updates out to the workstations. I've seen alot of posts on the forums with people complaining that the users have to have adminstative rights on...

As we prepare to go live with The Raiser's Edge Enterprise 7.91 next week, I am wondering how frequently you have to patch/update your client workstations (ie. MS Office Components, Office fixes, etc.)? We run MS Office 2007 at the desktop and have had a number of work-arounds and patches to install...

Maybe I have done this the wrong way but hear me out. One of the most frustrated things about maintaining Raiser's Edge or Financial Edge is upgrade. Whether it is a whole version or just patches, it is always one of the most tedious jobs. Updates cannot be pushed from the server side to clients...

So a common issue that I have discovered working with Raiser’s Edge is that over time, people forget or don’t understand what the various table entries mean, and therefore start using them for reasons other than their intended purpose. Some of us do our best to document definitions in order to help...

Since Blackbaud doesn't have a list of issues with current RE versions these are some issues I've come across or I've learned about. If we would have known about the first issue we would not have done the upgrade. 1) When posting to FE I get an error: "CFundDistribution: Init method...

Hi Amanda - this issue has been resolved in Patch 4. You can download Patch 4 by going to http://www.blackbaud.com/support/downloads/downloads.aspx and selecting The Raiser's Edge 7.91 and Patch 4. After installing the patch, processes will continue running after 15 minutes of inactivity. Thanks...