TS 5.0.1 to TS 5.5.2

Hello Friends,

We are planning an upgrade from TS 5.0.1 to TS 5.5.2. But our upgrade is not a typical upgrade. Our current site is already developed in TS 5.0.1 with some consulting firm. Now we want to bring that in house. We don't want to upgrade TS at the consulting firm as they are in a tight schedule. Since we are starting fresh, we planned to install TS 5.5.2 and import all DCRs, TPLs and other components from TS 5.0.1.

The questions are
1. Is is possible to take all TS 5.0.1 components from one server and place it on TS 5.5.2 on a different server without any problem?

2. Is there a migration involved in this approach?

3. Has anyone taken such an approach and if yes what are the problems that they faced?

Thanks in advance
Regards
Pawan

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Adam Stoller

We are planning an upgrade from TS 5.0.1 to TS 5.5.2. ... Since we are starting fresh, we planned to install TS 5.5.2 and import all DCRs, TPLs and other components from TS 5.0.1.

What do you mean by "other components"?

The questions are
1. Is is possible to take all TS 5.0.1 components from one server and place it on TS 5.5.2 on a different server without any problem?

Branches and workareas - not by direct copy.
Directory structures within workareas - sure.
File assets - sure.
Original custom scripts, wfts, etc. - sure.
Customized files that are part of the product - these should be merged carefully

Did I miss anything?

2. Is there a migration involved in this approach?

Using the upgrade tools and following along with the documentation (check out https://support.interwoven.com/esd2/552/upgrade1.asp) to convert your existing backing store from the 5.0.1 server to the new 5.5.2 server is the recommended procedure. It takes into account the first three things I listed above, and potentilly the fourth (if those scripts are stored within TeamSite as opposed to just being in IWHOME or some other local file system directory)

3. Has anyone taken such an approach and if yes what are the problems that they faced?

I'll have to defer this to those folks working in the field, but I should point out that we've seen a fair amount of success by customers performing their own upgrades when following the information from the link mentioned above.

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)

gsumers22texas

something that may be of immediate interest to you:
within the "upgrade methodology" documentation (and there's a large amount of it), you may want to target a search for the script titled "upgrade_dct_cfg.ipl" - my understanding of this script is that it is to be run on your 5.0.1 server with a flag that assesses your DCTs and outputs a preview of any potential problems with those DCTs on 5.5.2-

does anybody know whether it validates tpls also? we ran it, it listed out the datacapture.cfgs in the output (all with "would be unchanged" messages) but no specific listing of tpls on a one-by-one basis-

Adam Stoller

I do not believe that upgrade_dct_cfg.ipl is included in any upgrade/conversion/migration package - it's been part of the product distribution for a while now.

upgrade_dct_cfg.ipl is for upgrading DCTs from 4.x (I believe 4.2 and earlier) - and should probably *not* be used in an upgrade from 5.0.1.

This script is located in IWHOME/install/ and you can run it with the '-h' option to get more detailed information about its usage.

--fish
(Interwoven, Curriculum Development)