Installing a new environment for a client and ran into an issue trying to install the Cumulative Hotfix for Sametime Proxy 9.0.0 ontop.  The documentation is wrong, the location of the registry.xml is incorrect in the document, but let’s not dwell on that one.

I set up the package and ran the Installation Manager and the install was always failing, the package tried to update things in incorrect profile locations and failed with the error it could not find the wimconfig.xml … strange.

I ran the issue past a few friends and compatriots and Declan Lynch had some suggestions: he had run into problems installing HF for Sametime if the WebSphere server running the actual ST process (in this case STProxy) was set to auto-start using the Java Monitoring settings.

So – I disabled the auto-start settings, synced the nodes and restarted the STPRoxy server …. and the update went through without a hitch. I will be disabling this for all servers during updates/upgrades from here on – I noticed the process stops and starts the nodes and the auto-start of the servers probably made the install scripts go haywire.

Good luck, everybody!