I did exactly that.
It worked on the local miner but didn't work on ANY of the remote miners.
Did you update your awesomeminer remote service or anything?
Worst case stop miner, delete all software (on the remote miner) in the users / appdata / roaming / awesomeminer. the agent will then force download of 9.7 when you start. No update to remote agent with the mining definitions.