SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

To troubleshoot a product that failed to install, use the product’s audit files. The audit
files list each file that was added, deleted, or replaced for that product. For more
information, see “Audit Files” on page 67.
How Do I Validate a Deployment?
SAS provides several tools that you can use to validate your deployment.
n To validate products that are part of SAS Foundation, see the SAS 9.3 Qualification
Tools User’s Guide.
n To validate your SAS servers, see “Checking the Status of Servers” in Chapter 6 of
SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
How Can I Determine Whether a
Maintenance Release Has Already Been
Applied?
To determine whether your site is running the latest version of your SAS products, run
the SAS Deployment Wizard. If a machine does not require any product updates, then
the SAS Deployment Wizard will not go into Update mode, and the installation on that
machine is complete.
Can I Uninstall a Maintenance Release?
Can I Uninstall a Maintenance Release? 31
Because of the dependencies between SAS products, you cannot uninstall
maintenance updates. However, when applying a maintenance release, SAS
automatically backs up any files that are modified in the SAS installation directory. It
does not back up any changes that you made to the SAS configuration directory.