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End of Life (EOL) Policy Statement

AgInfoLink USA, Inc. is committed to providing high quality, cost effective solutions to our customers. To this end, we have established an official AgInfoLink USA, Inc. End of Life (EOL) policy.

Rapidly changing technologies as well as competitive pressures influence the level, timing and character of demand for a particular product or group of products. All of this drives the need to introduce new products and services and to EOL older software revisions as well as products.

Our customers will be notified at contract renewal of any maintenance price changes or support level changes. Formal notification will be made to all maintenance-paying customers of record advising them of the End of Service dates. AgInfoLink USA, Inc. appreciates your business and we hope to continue to serve you in the future.

As such, AgInfoLink has determined BeefLink and associated components will have an EOL as of December 31, 2010.  The following Final Product Update is being provided to allow BeefLink users the ability to continue using this product without annual license restriction, however, no further installation, techincal, data share or reporting support will be provided after the EOL date.

If you have questions or would like referral options for 3rd party solutions, please contact your AgInfoLink representative.

 

Notice
Regarding the message: "Contact AgInfoLink to update your software. XX Days Remaining."

You must download and install the update to extend your AgInfoLink product license.

Final Product Update
NOTE: For BeefLink version 2006 ONLY!
(Individual Animal Manager version 1.01.0320 and above)

NOTE: BeefLink version 2005 (Individual Animal Manager version 1.01.0301 and below),
is no longer supported by this Final Product Update.

 

BEEFLINK FINAL PRODUCT UPDATE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

NOTE:  This installation will stop any Forced Data Share operations and current data sharing from any BeefLink computer.  The machine will be able to continue running forever without further expiration or Data Sharing Checks.  This installation has only been validated against the stock US installation CD.  Custom translated menu items will not be deleted.

1.     Download and Extract the BeefLink Final Product Update below

2.  Run the BeefLink Final Product Update.

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS FINAL UPDATE VERSION: 

1.     Removed Expiration.

2.     Removed Forced Data Share checks.

3.     Removed AgileZip creation.

4.     At installation a batch file is ran that:

1.     Removes that AgInfoDataShareService1 from the system. 

2.     Deletes that “Send Data to Pony Express” Startup Item.

3.     Removes the “Send Data to Pony Express” item from the AgInfoLink Start Menu.

4.     Removes the remote "Data Share" start menu item from the AgInfoLink Start Menu.





User Documents
  • BeefLink Manual DataShare - PDF
  • - .PDF document regarding steps to conduct manual datashare to share.agil files between computers or for backup purposes.



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