I got the link to order the DVD media back in November and received a response back that I would get a tracking number in 7 days. It's been a month now and nothing. I contacted my VAR but was told to submit a ticket with the company that's handling to distribution of the media. Now I feel I'm getting the run around. What the hell do we pay VAR's for anyway?
This crap is getting old, same crap happened last year and to add fuel to the fire we upgraded to premium this year.
Given that SP0 (which is what would be on the DVD) had a bad enough bug that they issued SP0.1 (and you can't download SP0 from the website now), I wouldn't be surprised if they halted / delayed rollout of the DVDs.
Why not just download it from the customer portal?
I rather have the DVD. I've never had a good experience with the downloads. Wish they would just publish a true ISO file so I could burn my own.
Guess they can't even do their jobs right as well. Two years in a row......same garbage.
Carmelo Treviso wrote:
I rather have the DVD. I've never had a good experience with the downloads. Wish they would just publish a true ISO file so I could burn my own.
They kind of have that:
Yeah I'm going that route right now. Not like we have the fastest internet here (2 files @ 7GB Plus) guess I'm on a two hour coffee break.
I never use the web installer.
I always do the Full Install set download to OneDrive and then use that whenever/wherever I need.
Same as having a DVD (only better - I would lose the DVD, I recently opened the tray for the first time in a couple of years and found a DVD that I had been looking for for, well two years).
J. Mather wrote:
I never use the web installer.
I always do the Full Install set download to OneDrive and then use that whenever/wherever I need.
Same as having a DVD (only better - I would lose the DVD, I recently opened the tray for the first time in a couple of years and found a DVD that I had been looking for for, well two years).
I'm with you on this. DVD is SP0 and with a "Complete" download you get the full contents that the DVD should have plus any updates as of that time. Then with each update or SP you get ALL the up to date files. You also don't have to wait weeks or months to get it in the mail, where it could also have been damaged.
My opinion is to always download the FULL package - not just the parts you think you will need - because inevitably something will be outdated or missing from the DVD.
Each time a new SP or patch is loaded I do it again. Has saved me a couple times.
If your worried it will take too long, start it at night and it will be done when you wake up, even with a slow connection.
Then copy to DVD if you want portability (but Hard Disk will load faster)
Rick McDonald wrote:
Then copy to DVD if you want portability (but Hard Disk will load faster)
SP might fit on DVD. 2019 SP1 is 15GB.
Full download would not.
So get a 64GB USB drive and keep everything in there for each version.
They kind of have that: