CE 10 to 11 1

[eyeswideclosed]

Anybody have any experience upgrading from CE 10 to 11? Is it just a straight upgrade installation? I don't even know if there is such a thing as "CE 11", I hope I don't have to learn a whole new product.

 

[BlurredVision]

I call it CE 11, but it's really called BusinessObjects Enterprise XI.

I've done a couple upgrades from 10 to XI already, with about 20 more to do

On the same server, to upgrade from CE, you just disable and stop all CE servers then run the BO XI setup program with detects CE and leads you through the upgrade process and migrates your data. The documents that come with XI go in to greater detail, but that's pretty much it.

Brian

http://www.briankuipers.com

 

[eyeswideclosed]

Ok thanks. 1 more quick question if you don't mind, BOE 11 will run CR reports right?

 

[BlurredVision]

Yes it will. I've tested over 200 reports written in CR v10, and all have ran fine using BOE

Brian

http://www.briankuipers.com

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
We are upgrading to BOE XI as well and have discovered a major difference that affects us and will affect anyone working with a packet-filtering firewall..
The CE10 method of using a Web Connector ( only) on the server in the DMZ and opening just 2 ports through the firewall for communication between that connector and the Web Component Server that is configured to use your CMS is no longer supported. Instead the new Web Component Adapter ( the WCA) must be installed in the DMZ, AND a port for EACH service ( Page, cache,Job,CMS, etc) must be opened ( and specified in the command line for each service with the -requestport option)..

Our security folks will not allow this so we are switching to a 'reverse proxy' on an Apache web server to handle external clients..



To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[eyeswideclosed]

Thanks. That does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I just recently got CR/CE 10 working reliably after a very painful upgrade from 8.5, now I have to do it all over again with CR11/BOE11, great. And what about calling reports with viewrpt.cwr and all that? Is all that changed too? And scaling? 10 handles very heavy loads without even breathing hard, I hope 11 is as good in this regard.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Actually, XI seems to handle calls to the old viewrpt.cwr more efficiently than did 10 - it is now called viewrpt.asp or viewrpt.aspx and can use the init=Actx parameter, along with the promptex-paramname ones, like :

http://ourboexiserver/CeReports/vie...,18)"&promptex-strEmpID="00015959"&init=actx)

To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[eyeswideclosed]

Excellent, thank you.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
One other change ( and a major one) is that, by default, .csp pages are no longer supported, just asp and aspx --- I changed all the .csp file extensions to .asp and made sure that each page had a meta tag setting the default language correctly ( for most csp pages, JavaScript) - This did not cause any problems ( except tedious work until I found a program called File Monkey that can do mass changes to an entire directory structure - including changing file names and changing references to file names within documents/pages..

http://www.monkeyjob.com/FileMonk.html)

Disclaimer:
I am sure there are other programs out there that can do this, so I am not endorsing this one over those, this is just one that I use and like)





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[eyeswideclosed]

Good to know, thanks. I hate to be a pest but here's another question: if we get BO XI can we open CR 10 reports in it, and is it similar to CR? We're wondering if we should just go ahead and convert to BO across the board since we have to get BOE XI anyway.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
A small revision to my last posting:
.csp pages will work if ( and only if, by default) they are in the businessobjects or crystalreportviewers11 virtual directories.


Yes CR10 designed reports can be published to a BOE XI system ( but you must use the XI publishing wizard, or add them directly from the CMC)or they can be imported from your existing CE10 system to the new XI system using XI's Import Wizard - we have found no issues, so far, after testing the import of over 200 reports..








To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[indasol]

We are on CE9 and in process to migrate to 10 or XI. Does any one the advantages from 10 vs. XI?

 

[eyeswideclosed]

It wants to install Tomcat, is this required? We are on Win2003/IIS.

 

[techie2]

NO, you dont need if you are planning to usee IIS with .Net WCA.

IIS .Net should be anabled while installing CE XI, if not enabled, make sure .Net Framework and ASP.NET are instaleld properly.

 

[eyeswideclosed]

Ok thanks, I let it install Tomcat on my dev server, didn't seem to affect anything, but I'll leave it out on the prod servers, good to know.