If you perform a new installation using the SAS Deployment Wizard and you choose to perform the configuration at a later time, it is possible that the SAS Deployment Wizard will not allow you to select the Configure option when you attempt the configuration steps. Instead, the SAS Deployment Wizard goes into Update mode to apply maintenance.

This behavior is expected.

Once the software has been installed, the SAS Deployment Wizard automatically compares the software installation with the software that is available in the depot, and it checks for updates.

In addition to checking the version of the installed software, the SAS Deployment Wizard checks the version of components that might be required by the installed software. It does this so that interdependent software is always up-to-date and so that any newly required components are seamlessly included with updates.

In a valid configuration, all interdependent components might not be installed on all tiers. For example, the configuration might need only one installed instance of a component. However, when the SAS Deployment Wizard is run a second time and performs its automatic check for updates and detects an interdependency, it enters Update mode to add the related component if it is not already installed.

Note that this can happen even if you are installing from the same SAS Software Depot and the same revision of SAS.

Here is an example of the display that you see for the required updates in SAS 9.2:

Assessing the Effect on Products at Your Site

How to Install and Configure a New Product Release

Understanding Product Upgrades and Product Installs

This update behavior is new with SAS 9.2 (TS2M3) revision 10w34 and later.

Here is an example of the display that you see for the required updates in SAS 9.3:

Operating System and Release Information