I am in the middle of upgrading / migrating to ARS 7.01 from 5.12. Our 5.12 server happily coexists with Crystal Enterprise 9. Right as I was planning the 7.01 upgrade I received an upgrade offer from BO and purchased Crystal Reports developer and Crystal Reports Server XI. So I have my XI report design software and CR Server XI now in hand and am trying to plan out the rest of my midtier migration.
The BO documents include something about installing BO Enterprise XI upgrade if Crystal Enterprise 9 is installed with all components on one machine(which it is in my case). However, I find it hard to believe that for my paltry upgrade fee, I have BO Enterprise XI. I'm checking with BO now. Although as I'm sorting through the ARS Midtier documentation I found where 7.01 midtier is supposed to be able to be configured to run with either BO Enterprise XI or Crystal Reports Server XI on the same machine. Looking through the ARSList archives though I have found where this may not be true. Does anyone out there have Crystal reports Server XI and ARS 7.01 midtier successfully installed? If so, what options/config did you use? I was leaning towards setting up a schema in an existing Oracle 10gR2 database (on linux) to store the CR Server XI data during install and using the default IIS web page on my Win2003svr. During the install of CR Server XI, one can specify to use different web component adapters, either a tomcat java app svr or IIS asp.net or both. This same Win2003svr is where I would install the midtier. Since the Crystal install happens before the midtier install, which direction would I want to go? Use the tomcat and forego the ServletExec JSP included with midtier? Or have I confused myself and both are necessary? Are there any outlines or primers that detail the architecture/interaction? I'm sure my management would like for me to setup Crystal to where we could develop and publish non Remedy reports as well. To do that, would I need BO Enterprise XI over the CR Server XI? My understanding of the docs I've read so far seem to indicate so. BTW, this same poor Win2003Svr will be running the ARS service as well. Thanks in advance for the feed back. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
