Upgrade For All host2.chatblazer.com Accounts

[samuel]

All ChatBlazer hosting accounts on host2.chatblazer.com (CBE 6.0) will be given a free upgrade to the latest CBE 6 version (6.4), which is hosted on host4.chatblazer.com.

Features of 6.4 not found in 6.0 include :

• Multi-room presence
• Hierarchical room structure
• User groups
• Dynamic profile fields

We will begin migrating the accounts immediately. As you are an account owner, you will receive an individual email over the next few days indicating what changes are required.

Basically, the changes are :

• Assignment of new Site ID
• Changing of applet's codebase
• Updating client applet's parameters as necessary

The current chat hosting service on host2.chatblazer.com will continue to run while we assist account owners with the migration. However, it is scheduled to be discontinued by the end of July 2006.

With this free upgrade, you can look forward to using an increased feature set and stay up to date with the latest updates to ChatBlazer Enterprise 6. We can also better concentrate our efforts on serving customers using the same version and service.

[samuel]

For each host2.chatblazer.com hosting account, the following changes have been made and any necessary actions on the part of account owners will be duly highlighted.

1. Change of Site ID
In the upgrade, every hosting account Site ID will be changed. E.g. currently you may be CBS10, in the new server, you may be CBS15. This new Site ID will be emailed to account owners. The Site ID is used to login to the hosting control panel, which is now at :
http://host4.chatblazer.com/login.php

All existing passwords for the Site Admin have been retained.

2. Change of Applet Parameters
The correct and up to date set of HTML code required for the chat clients can be obtained at http://host4.chatblazer.com/getcode.php. The following are the important changes that are required, or else your chat clients may not work.

codebase
From (host2):

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<applet name="ChatBlazer" codebase="http://host2.chatblazer.com" code="com.chatblazer.client.ChatClient" archive="cbe6cl.jar" cabbase="cbe6cl.cab" width="608" height="512" align="center">

To (host4):

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<applet name="ChatBlazer" code="com.chatblazer.client.ChatClient" archive="cbe6cl.jar" cabbase="cbe6cl.cab" width="608" height="512" align="center" codebase="http://host4.chatblazer.com">

site
Change to new Site ID

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<param name="site" value="CBS1">

Connection Settings
From (host2):

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<param name="port" value="18001">
<param name="http.port" value="18002">
<param name="servlet.url" value="http://host2.chatblazer.com/cbe/servlet/HttpComm">

To (host4):

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<!-- connection settings DO NOT EDIT -->
<param name="port" value="29001">
<param name="servlet.url" value="http://host4.chatblazer.com/cbehost4/httpbridge">

Default Resources
If you are using the default resources (emoticons, avatars, audio clips), you have to replace the part "resdef" to "resource". Some of the resource files have changed, so it's best to get the latest from the code generator.
E.g.

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<param name="emoticon.0" value="../resdef/01wink.gif;\;);Wink">

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<param name="emoticon.0" value="../resource/01tongue.gif;:P;Bleah">