Understanding Product Upgrades and Product Installs

Many new releases of existing SAS products depend on the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2. When you run the SAS Deployment Wizard to upgrade to the new product release, SAS automatically detects any files on your system that are older than the files in your order, and the SAS Deployment Wizard goes into update mode. If you have not applied the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, then this maintenance release is automatically applied. If you have already applied the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, the SAS Deployment Wizard still identifies any files that need to be updated. When you are upgrading SAS products by using the SAS Deployment Wizard, SAS updates the products that you currently have installed at your site. If you are installing a product and the SAS Deployment Wizard is in update mode, then SAS installs the new or upgraded product beside the currently installed version of the product. After the upgraded product is configured, you can use only the new version of the product.