Regular Software Maintenance

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On Thursday following the second Tuesday of the Month perform the following tasks until no updates are required.

Contents

Windows

  • Windows Update - Custom
  • Check with FileHippo

MacOSX

  • Software Update, if downloads are large (>100MByte) copy to portable hard disk for other machines
  • Microsoft Office Update
  • Adobe Plugin is a manual update if required

Ubuntu

  • Software Update

Networking

  • Reboot access point in Bari School room

Notable Releases

Jan 2012

  • Adobe Reader via update
  • FileZilla 3.5.3
  • Windows Update requires restart

Feb 2012

  • Mozilla Thunderbird version 10.0.1 via self-update
  • Mozilla Firefox version 10.0.1 via self-update
  • Chrome via self-update
  • Sigil version 0.50, manual install
  • Security updates for Apple OS X Lion 10.7 to 10.7.2, download and install (1G download)
  • JRE Update to 7u3 and SE 6 Update 31
  • Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.4.634
  • Windows update includes an optional .NET update and requires restart

Mar 2012

  • Mozilla Firefox version 11 via self-update
  • Mozilla Thunderbird version 11 via self-update
  • Sigil version 0.5.3, manual install
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.63 (11.1.102.64 for Macintosh)
  • LibreOffice 3.5
    • Remove Java 6 once LibreOffice updated
  • Chrome 17.0.963.65 by self update
  • Windows update requires restart
  • PDFCreator 1.3.0

Apr/May 2012

  • Windows
    • Libreoffice 3.5.3 (bugfixes to core)
    • Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.228 (introduces auto-updating), 11.2.202.235 (later). Check at http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
    • Mozilla Firefox 12.0
    • Mozilla Thunderbird 12.01
    • JRE Update to 7u4
  • MacOsX
    • Adobe Flash as per Windows
    • Large Downloads
      • MacOSx 10.7.4
      • iPhoto 9.2.3
      • Office 2011 14.2.2 Update

June 2012

  • Windows
    • PDFCreator 1.3.2
  • Ubuntu
    • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
      • Computer 4 done needs Scratch, Silverlight crashes! Use www.go-mono.com/moonlight
      • Computer 3 rebuild, add Synaptic Package Manager
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