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We are pleased to announce that Synergetic v67 is now available for production servers.

v67 Enhancement Summaries

Synergetic is committed to providing new functionality in our software and quality improvements across the board.

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It is important that you liaise and collaborate with your SysAdmin  to gain a meaningful understanding of the new features. SysAdmins are a useful resource if you have any questions or if there are particular new features you are interested in using at your organisation.

v67 Requirements

While there are no significant architectural changes to the database, there are certain considerations depending on your installation requirements.

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• All web products now require a Wildcard SSL Certificate.
  • A single Wildcard SSL Certificate secures all your sub-domains for any test or production environments, ie. https://synweb.yourschoolname.edu.au
• DNS entries required for Middleware and Application Portal.
  • Middleware is software that acts as a bridge between the database and Synergetic applications, such as the Form Builder
  • Our Systems Team will assist you on further details when you arrange an upgrade or a new install of the relevant products

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCDSSD)

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (the national data collection) is a joint initiative of all Australian governments and all state and territory government and non-government education authorities. National data is collected annually to identify the number of school students with disability and the level of reasonable educational adjustment provided for them. The national data collection has been progressively implemented over the period 2013-2015. From 2015, all government and non-government schools participate annually in the national data collection.

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Synergetic has provided support for this in v67 and by way of user forms for impacted clients using v66r2 or earlier. This has been previously advised to Synergetic clients, however, if you would like any more information please contact the support desk.

Supported Versions

With the release of v67, v65 moves out of mainstream support and all clients should already have migration plans in place to move from v65 to either v66r2 or v67.

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If migrating to a new server we recommend Windows Server 2012R2.

SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 mainstream support from Microsoft ended in August 2014.  As a result, all clients running SQL Server 2008 have limited support.

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SQL Server 2016 has a number of exciting features and is expected to be supported for future Synergetic versions.

Supported service pack levels:

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• http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=SQL  – SQL Server support lifecycle
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2755533 – How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2012
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185 – How you can determine the current service pack level
• http://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com.au – Unofficial Microsoft SQL Server version list

Upgrades/SQL Migrations

Please contact support (support@synergetic.net.au) to organise your upgrade or server migration. 

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Please be aware there is currently a 4 week lead time for installations such as new servers and migrations.

Image ModifiedSIF (Systems Interoperability Framework)

SIF is a standard that defines how systems such as Synergetic, can publish and consume school based information with other systems and government.

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https://www.sifassociation.org/Specification/Pages/Australia.aspx

Planned for v68

Synergetic v68 will focus around what we refer to as the Single Database approach. Details around this are included in the attached document.