The new SE Suite installation process required changes in the corresponding documentation, which, as well as installation tools, went through some improvements aiming at maximizing installation process quality.

The changes made in this new version include:

- Standardization: Document follows international standards used by renown companies, thereby those people familiar with technical documentation will face no difficulties in understanding the whole process.

- Language unification: Document in the English language, avoiding translation problems in the languages where document is distributed.

- New visual identity: New Installation Guide follows the standard created for documentations by SoftExpert marketing team.

- New layout: Installation Guide layout was recreated and adjusted to provide users with a better understanding and visualization.

- New topics for Troubleshooting: Categorized by incidence place, they help the executor identify and solve problems that may occur during installation execution, through a fast and efficient way.

- New typography: A new typography was created to meet documentation new standard. Typography helps in the identification of information on procedures, mainly.

- More content: Section that describes environment preparation and installation prerequisites was improved, and it now details more information.

- More Effectiveness: Installation process will be successful if it has been properly planned and analyzed. It is also necessary that all requirements are completely understood and the environment is prepared according to what was planned. For this reason, topics related to it had their contents improved, making this process more effective and reducing errors during it. Procedures focus on the whole process, so users can better understand them and define the best configuration to be applied.

Take a look at the new Installation Guide at: Installation Guide 2.0

Give your suggestions for Installation Guide and other documentations improvements and troubleshooting at: documentation@softexpert.com.

For more information, contact us at: cleitond@softexpert.com and edilsoh@softexpert.com.

Acessando o site TechNet Media Center da Microsoft (http://www.technetbrasil.com.br/mediacenter), encontrei várias apresentações, vídeos e outros materiais muitos importantes para o dia-a-dia e aperfeiçoamento dos conhecimentos, entre eles um que me chamou muito atenção foi um Webcast sobre o uso no PHP no Windows 2008. Esse WebCast proporciona um bom entendimento de como configurar o ambiente para tirar um melhor proveito das tecnologias envolvidas na implantação de um Software PHP no Windows.

Assista essa apresentação abaixo e acesse o link http://www.technetbrasil.com.br/mediacenter para ver esse e outros materiais.

As a part of the installation process improvement, a new tool to be released will enable SoftExpert Excellence Suite to be installed in an automated way, ensuring process effectiveness.

Being part of this package, there are two new tools for database model and configuration management.

SEDBUpdate: Used for creating/updating objects in database according to a predefined model. This tool compares database structure with a model, generating a script with differences found.

SEConfigurator: Domain and database configuration manager. This tool enables database configurations to be added, edited or deleted through a quick and easy way.

The process has gone through a big change: the environment preparation, solution installation and parameterization steps are now separated. To start the installation it is necessary that all environment verification activities are finished, which makes the process more assertive and reliable.

See the video below for the process demonstration:

SoftExpert international expansion brought the company the opportunity to join the Chinese market. Due to it, SoftExpert realized the need of products validation, which led to the Chinese Language Validation Project by the Technical Documentation team.

The goal of the project is to ensure quality and security in the implementations and in all the development steps, thereby offering the customers who use the Chinese language the same benefits they can find in other languages.

Items to be discussed in the project are:

      - Oracle 9i.
      - Oracle 10g.
      - Oracle 11g.
      - SQL Server 2000.
      - SQL Server 2005.
      - PostgreSQL.
      - Web Server Windows 2008 Server.
      - Web Server Linux.
      - Validation of versions of the Java JRE.
      - Validation of the new Framework.

After the validation, adjustments and improvements will be listed for better operation and usage of the system in Chinese. They will be then sent to manufacture to be analyzed and added to the product Roadmap.

Get in touch at: cleitond@softexpert.com for further information.

Last week, the technical documentation team validated ISOSYSTEM for Windows 2003 64-bit environments.

The Windows 2003 64-bit validation employed the use of Microsoft FastCGI Extension and made it possible to run such application as PHP in Windows 2003 64-bit without emulating IIS.

The benefit of this tool is, it made it possible to run PHP and did away with the need for IIS emulation. This eliminated instability and shut-downs of IIS that occasionally occurred while emulating IIS to run in the 32-bit mode.

It was necessary to just modify the installation procedure to provide compatibility for this environment. There was no need to make any adaptations in the product. Please, see this procedure in the Installation Guide.

Initially, validation was granted only for the Windows 2003 64-bit environment and in the next few weeks, ISOSYSTEM will be validated for the Windows 2008 64-bit environment.

Get in touch at: edilsoh@softexpert.com for further information.