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Jeff Rudacille

Windows In Place Upgrade

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Before I ask my question I want to mention that I know in place upgrades of Windows installs are generally discouraged but we have a reason to do it thus my question;

Has anyone ever performed an in place upgrade of their OS with Sage 300 CRE on the system.  Have there been an issues (assuming OS ok)?  We have a convoluted situation with Sage 300 17.1, DM, MyAssistant, hh2, and Textura ALL installed and syncing on the same system.  Doing a migration to a new box would feature extensive downtime possibilities and is fraught with many calls to tech support.  An in place Upgrade of Windows from 2008R2 to 2012R2 solves it all including keeping the host name the same for MyAssistant Licensing and hh2 syncs.  I understand the SID would change. 

I also understand DM is at the end of the line.  We will be moving to Paperless after this migration/upgrade is complete.

Thanks

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    Good Question! I had the same thought this morning. I already migrated to a new test server.. but was just considering a way to get my current system as a clone with an upgraded Sage and Windows OS. Not sure if in place Upgrade of OS would affect the current set up. would be nice to hear what others have to say.

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    I am going to go ahead and answer myself here as I just did it last night.  There were a few issues as noted below, 2 of the 3 I was expecting, but overall it went very well and things are working as well on 2012R2 as they were on 2008R2.  As a reminder I did this because we have a very "over installed" Sage implementation with Sage 300, Dm (soon to be Paperless), My Assistant, hh2 and Textura all on a single system.  I really was not looking forward to doing it all again and being faced with issues that are already solved on this server.  I had inquired with one of Sage's certified consultants and they wanted 8K-10K to do a normal migration!!   In addition this is a virtual instance so if it had not gone well I could have gone back very easily.

    The upgrade itself took about an hour not including updates but that will vary of course based on infrastructure.  The things I had issue with were:

    1-Had to reinstall .Net 4.7.2 as Windows 2012 seemed to remove it in some manner.  I have seen this happen in other upgrades.

    2-We use a virtual USB device made by Silex and the software that was there before would not work on 2012R2 so I had to upgrade it.

    3-The upgrade wiped out all my scheduled tasks so I had to recreate them.

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