With the release of El Capitan .1 last week I decided it was time to take the plunge and update. Everything on the Munki server side is now in place for the upgrade – to their credit Symantec were prompt to issue an update for SEP, and updates for other apps came out pretty quickly too. With the .1 update supposedly fixing the Office 2016 issues I figured it was time to move.

First I made sure I had good backups, using Time Machine and also Carbon Copy Cloner. Then I just ran the installer and let it do its thing. Afterwards I ran Managed Software Centre to update SEP, etc, and all seemed fine. Of course I’m now about 2 hours in, so there is plenty of time to regret this…

A few points to note

• The MacPorts update was very slow. I’m not sure of the cause but the self-update step took at least 10 minutes, which seems a lot. I don’t think this is an El Cap issue, just coincidental server slowness.
• GoodSync needs updates to quash various bugs.
• Anyone using GoodSync to backup their local mailboxes needs to note that under El Cap the local mailboxes have moved from ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes to ~/Library/Mail/V3/Mailboxes and update their backups accordingly.