Reddot Upgradation from V9 to V11

[Subhasish Nandi]

Hi All,

 

We in a process of upgrading Reddot from V9 to V11. Our existing environment (Project) is up and running under reddot  v9 with Windows 2003 Server Edition.

• Our assumption is that this version(v9) of project might gets difficulties during project import on top of Reddot v11. Hence we are planning to do a fresh installation of Reddot  with the following sequence

" a)Reddot v9 >>Import project >>v10 & sp2 >>v11" on a new windows 2008 R2 Server .

1.  Please let me know if our assumption/approach is correct?
2. If our assumption is wrong ,is it possible to Import our existing Project(Reddot v9) to Reddot v11.Can we straingway install v11 and import the old project which is build on v9.0?

• Now to start the installation for  Management Server Version 9 Build 9.0.0.31   on Windows 2008 R2 we are getting some issue with MS Soap Toolkit missing etc

     3.  Can we skip that.Or do we need to install latest MS Soap Toolkit from Microsoft site as we are using Windows 2008.

 

 

 

 

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Thanks & Regards,
Subhasish Nandi
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[Ibrahim Sawadogo]

Hi Subhasish,

your suggested approach seems the best way so far.
That is, if you are working on a huge project. One drawback, v11 will inherit all problems from v9.
If we are talking of a few hundred pages. I would suggest a page export/import (not project export/import).

create a new link, call it whatever.
create 1 empty page per template.
link and export them to v11.

I did such an upgrade from 7.5 to 9 to 10.1 back in the days.

Regards,
Ibrahim

On 17 December 2012 05:59, Subhasish Nandi <subhasi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Subhasish

[Gavin Cope]

You can export projects from CMS 9 and import them directly into MS 11. There's no need to go through version 10.1 SP2 unless you are upgrading your existing server.

Cheers,

Gavin

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[Hilmar Bunjes]

Hi,

I totally agree with Gavin. We have successfully migrated a lot of projects this way:

 

Export from CMS 7.5 or CMS 9 -> Import into MS 11

 

We never had problems during this export/import (only when publishing from MS11 to DS11 but there should be a hotfix by Friday).

 

Best,

Hilmar Bunjes

[Ibrahim Sawadogo]

Hi,

Maybe it did not work on my installation because of Oracle database.

Good luck,
Ibrahim

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[Subhasish Nandi]

Hi All,

 

Thanks for your feedback and all. Finally we have successfully installed reddot V11 and successfully imported the project from v9.0.

 

With the following approaches...

1.Install Reddot v10.1 sp2 (Import project into that new environment) and verify the publishing setting and workflow.

 

2.Upgrade to v11.0 into the same environment.

 

During installation to Reddot v10.1 sp2, we had spent 10days to installing Reddot v10.1 sp2 due to  compatibility issues for MS SQL 2008.

 

SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack backward compatibility(SQLServer2005_BC.exe) needs to install.

 

Environment details

1) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
2) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard
3) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack only SQLServer2005_BC.exe needed
4) IIS installed in Server Manager and the following additional Role Services selected:
* ASP.NET
* ASP
* CGI
* IIS 6 Management Compatibility 

6) Windows 2008  R2 (Virtual Machine)

 

MSXML4 needs to be registered into the registery otherwise installation won't successfully complete.Normally Windows 2008  R2 you might have different version of MSXML6/3 etc.

 

So  any project from v9 can be imported successfully  into v10.1 sp2 and system can be upgraded into v11.0 .

 

With Regards

Subhasish

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[Hilmar Bunjes]

Hi,

good to hear that the migration went fine. However, I am wondering why you first installed V10.1 SP2. I think you could have saved a lot of time installing V11 directly.

 

Best,

Hilmar

[Richard Ota]

Hello,

Though this is somewhat related to what Subhasish Nandi has preformed, I am about to tackle the task for going from version 10.1.2 to 11.
Any reason what I just can't point the installation to my existing schema (Oracle) for 10.1.2 instead of exporting/importing the project? And then, subsequently, add the other projects by creating new projects and pointing them to the 10.1.2 schemas? Or will the 10.1.2 projects need to be imported into 11 due to changes/updates to the schema?
Does this make sense?

Thanks.

--Rich

[Hilmar Bunjes]

Rich,

 

Though this is somewhat related to what Subhasish Nandi has preformed, I am about to tackle the task for going from version 10.1.2 to 11.
Any reason what I just can't point the installation to my existing schema (Oracle) for 10.1.2 instead of exporting/importing the project? And then, subsequently, add the other projects by creating new projects and pointing them to the 10.1.2 schemas? Or will the 10.1.2 projects need to be imported into 11 due to changes/updates to the schema?
Does this make sense?

 

You need to convert the project from V10.1 to V11. However, you do not need to export/import them but upgrading the existing system works fine as well.

 

However, I would not suggest to do the upgrade on the production system at first. Either do a test installation and try if the upgrade works fine there as well or, this is how most of our clients want to do the upgrade: Do a fresh install of the V11 Management Server, import the projects there and test them in-depth. If anything works fine, import the most current version of the projects and switch the domains to the new servers. Instead of export/import you can also copy the database and then upgrade the database from that installation.

 

If you are using the Delivery Server: There are some changes on the SOAP communication between both servers so you should try full publications if they work without errors.

 

Best,

Hilmar Bunjes

 

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