Ups Worldship Newest Version

 

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So, we've got about 14 sites, all of which use shipping software for sending material. Each site has 1 or 2 shipping computers that have both FedEx Ship Manager and UPS WorldShip loaded on them. Now, we (IT) do not 'officially' support these programs themselves (the project to install them was directed by a prior logistics analyst, but as many things do, they tend to be de facto'd into IT's umbrella of handing the software), however we do handle the ODBC connection to our ERP system.

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Each system is integrated into our ERP system for importing and exporting customer/shipment data which makes it even more fun to troubleshoot.

So, my rant about these programs (aside having to support them at all that is)

  1. They're not scalable. Neither UPS or FedEx has figured out a way to effectively develop an enterprise-friendly solution to deploying their software. We've got 14 computers that we have to worry about ODBC integration, upgrades and more upgrades, hotfixes, etc. Its a nightmare to manage. Yes, they do have a 'network client/server' option, but all this does is allow a shared shipping database of historical shipments. Would be nice to have shared configs, deployments, shipping history, connection settings, etc.

  2. It's a nightmare to install. UPS and FedEx make it extremely difficult to install their own software. Both UPS and FedEx require you to register each PC to the account to be used using a prior invoice number, amount, etc. This is acceptable but does require a trip down to the A/P department file drawers to find a prior invoice. FedEx however won't even GIVE you their installer unless you give them your prior invoice information, PLUS contact information of the person on your account, phone numbers, tax ID, soforth. Even when you (DO) get their installer, the registration key they give you is only valid for a week. If you plan on doing a computer swap out, better make sure to get your registrations in order quickly and use them because they'll be inactive otherwise. (We did a PC swap out a few years ago, FedEx requires you to individually submit each software request for each account in question, no bulk download option. i.e. had to submit 14 requests to download 1 software program)

  3. Label Printer Drivers - ugh. UPS tell you not to use the drivers that come with your label printer, but to instead use their 'own' label printer drivers for your specific model they provided you. Due to our own lack of consistency in my company in regards to label printers, each site pretty much has their own model of label printers, label sizes, etc which again, nightmare to support.

  4. Both programs are bloated, they take high amounts of system resources. Both programs use a local instance of SQL for its own database and its slow.

  5. Auto-upgrades: In the past few years these programs will now auto-update to the latest version. End users blindly click OK and get the new version which has caused issues with our integration in the past.

Worldship

tl;dr UPS WorldShip and FedEx Ship Manager are awful

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Learning has never been so easy!

We have users who uses UPS WorldShip daily. We don't want to give the users local admin rights on there computers, but WorldShip updates automatically and it happens more than once a week. These updates require admin privileges to run. with these instructions you can easily bypass the UAC rights.

18 Steps total

Step 1: Take over the PC

Take over the Clients pc and browse to the folder c:UPSWSTD open the file RegAcces.exe and run it then click Ok.

Step 2: Download Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit

Download Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit > http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=7352

Step 3: Open ApplicationCompatibilityToolkitSetup

Open ApplicationCompatibilityToolkitSetup . Note : Run it as ADMINISTRATOR .

Step 4: Install

Follow the steps true the installation procedure. At the and click on Finish

Step 5: Open the Software properties

Open the properties of the Application Compatibility Toolkit 64 and 32 Bit .

Step 6: change compatibility

Select the compatibility tab and click on change settings for all users. Mark Run this program as administraotr and click on apply and ok .

Step 7: Run Compatibility Toolkit

Run program toolkit, click right on New Database (1) and select create new > Application Fix...

Step 8: Fill in these settings

Fill in these settings in the right area:

Name of the program to be fixed : runpatch.exe
Name of the vendor for this program: UPS
Program file location : C:UPSWSTD and open runpatch.exe

click on OPEN

Step 9: Fault ...

If you get these fault :

This version of the Compatibility Administrator only support applying compatibility fixes to 64-bit applications. Please use the Compatibility Administrator (32-bit) tool to apply this fix to your 32-bit applications.

Open the 32-bit toolkit Like you did in step 5 except you take now 32-bit version not the 64-bit version.
Next you repeat step 7 and 8 . Click on next

Step 10: Create new Applicaton Fix

Repeat step 8 , if you have the right version of the toolkit , now you can see the folder path in de programe file location. Click on Next

Step 11: Compatibility Modes

In the Addictional Compatibility modes, mark 'RunAsInvoker' en click on Next

Step 12: Next....

Nothing to mark here , click on next

Step 13: Matching Information

Ups Worldship Newest Version

Nothing to mark here , click on FINISH

Step 14: Rename

Now you see your rule, but rename it. click right on the empty name and rename it to UPS

Step 15: Save

Save the file , by clicking on the diskette

Step 16: Name

Browse to c:UPSWSTD and call it 'UAC-Whitelist.sdb'

Close the Compatibility Toolkit

Step 17: Open Command Line

Open the command Line as Administrator (click right and open as administrator)

Step 18: Commands

Ups Worldship Version 2017

Type the following command : sdbinst C:UPSWSTDuac-whitelist.sdb

Click enter , after that the command line say : 'Installation of UPS complete.'

Published: Jun 26, 2013 · Last Updated: May 07, 2013

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  • Anaheim
    gooroo Jun 9, 2015 at 01:58pm

    Very nice and thorough tutorial... It save me a ton of time

  • Pimiento
    col1jgh Jul 22, 2015 at 10:52pm

    Awesome! I know a couple years back but still very relevant!

  • Sonora
    ChrisFromLI Aug 21, 2015 at 07:13pm

    This is perfect, thanks for the tutorial. Just did it on our new UPS CTP systems, verified this works in an Admin/Remote setup. Also just built the file on one PC and ran it on the others with no issues. Keep in mind the newest version installs to C:Program Files (x86)UPSWSTD so you'll have to run

    sdbinst 'C:Program Files (x86)UPSWSTDuac-whitelist.sdb'

    After building the file, on each PC I ran RegAccess.exe as admin using my domain admin credentials and then opened up the command prompt as admin and ran the patch.

  • Anaheim
    Matthew2474 Jan 6, 2016 at 11:09am

    Really good tutorial, used this a couple of times now and works a treat!! :)

  • Jalapeno
    Jonathan961 Jan 8, 2016 at 07:43pm

    Thanks for this. Each year I upgrade Worldship, I run into a new install error. This helped a lot.

  • Anaheim
    AshCo Apr 21, 2016 at 10:13pm

    I did this a few days ago with some Records database software. It got my hopes up as the updater started. However, towards the end of the patch when it needs to extract some files to usertemp and Appdata etc. it fails. If an updater only needed to update some files in the particular applications folder only, it would work. I ended up doing what I was trying to avoid, make a local admin account, give them credentials, tell them the credentials are only good for updating the database and nothing else, annnd hope they don't catch on.

  • Pimiento
    petewoelfel Apr 22, 2016 at 02:20pm

    Wow Thank you, this worked perfect! A great work around!

  • Pimiento
    ezekialaltman Mar 14, 2017 at 11:00pm

    can anyone confirm if this works with WorldShip 2017? Thanks

  • Poblano
    Johnny T Apr 3, 2017 at 05:31pm

    I just did this on WorldShip 2017 and it worked.

  • Thai Pepper
    HiPower May 9, 2017 at 04:28pm

    Worldship 2017 on Windows 10. Worked like a champ. Thanks for the write-up!

  • Anaheim
    CGIJosh Jul 10, 2017 at 03:28pm

    Okay, I have question that's the opposite of this one...

    How can I block Remote Workstations from automatically downloading UPS Worldship updates? If a shipper downloads the update on their remote workstation and accidentally runs it when they first open Worldship in the morning by hitting enter on the update prompt, none of the other workstations will open until they ALL run the update and the update is run on both Admin Consoles...

    This is a problem because ALL of our UPS Worldship stations are down for the length of the upgrade and keeps them from being able to start working first thing in the morning. The users are not tech savvy and I am the only one that really understands how to run the update on the Admin Consoles...

    I schedule regular upgrades/updates after business hours and will remote in to perform these upgrades, but I'd like to disable the prompts to update that the Remote Workstations receive at least a couple of mornings each week to avoid unnecessary and unexpected downtime...

    Any thoughts?

  • Anaheim
    Adult Man Jul 27, 2017 at 04:02pm

    This was a HUGE help. Sometimes getting people permissions is as simple as making a registry edit and folder edit, but Worldship 2017 wants to do more.

    Following this tutorial I was able to get the user access to do his own updates without giving them full admin permissions on the machine (I wouldn't care, but they get viruses around here like crazy anytime I cave and give a user local admin privileges).

    This tutorial worked great and I really appreciate the awesome guide!

  • Pimiento
    marcin7253 Dec 20, 2017 at 02:13pm

    It doesn't work in Windows 1709 because WCT is no longer and it suggests to install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (over 6 GB to download). There should be another way to fix it nowadays.

  • Poblano
    pancakes88 Feb 13, 2018 at 10:32pm

    After we upgraded to Worldship 2018 it broke the existing patch I created for this, but essentially just re-doing these steps allowed for non-admin patching again. Thank you for this. Between the fact that Worldship updates constantly, and that our shipping department uses it on a generic logon account this is solves a huge headache of avoiding the 'lol just give users admin rights' route.

  • Jalapeno
    Bishop19 Feb 15, 2018 at 01:52pm

    Thanks, working nice with Windows 10 1709.

    The Application Compatibility Toolkit are part of the ADK now, but with the online installer, you can just download the part you need.

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