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Determining If an Upgrade Kit Is Required or Optional

You can define an upgrade kit as either required or optional, as described in the discussion of upgrade kits in Siebel Anywhere Terminology. However, it is recommended that you initially define every upgrade kit as optional. Your test client users can test an optional upgrade kit at their convenience, while keeping read and write access to the Siebel application in the meantime.

When you are satisfied that an optional upgrade kit functions appropriately for test client users, you can modify the upgrade kit to make it required, retest it as a required upgrade kit, and then distribute it to production users as a required upgrade kit. For more information about this process, see Converting an Optional Upgrade Kit to a Required Upgrade Kit.

This topic is part of Determining Your Upgrade Requirements.