You can and should upgrade from Spectra 1.01 directly to 1.51. There is no need from Spectra's side to upgrade 1.01 to 1.5 and then 1.5 to 1.51. Unless you have a very good reason to go to 1.5 in the middle, I would avoid the pain of the extra installation/migration.
I would also start by upgrading to CF5 before doing the migration of Spectra. The Spectra migration seems to run better under CF5. I believe this is due to the increased speed of CF5. I would in all cases think about the need to upgrade versus doing a full install of a newer version. This goes for Spectra and CF both. There is nothing to migrate forward in CF5 from CF4.51, except an advanced security policy store. If you do not have advanced security or you have never created a lot of security rules and policies just install new. Create a new policy store and redo your security policies, if necessary. If you have lots of security, then migrate it from 4.51 to cf5. Again use KB 21551 to avoid the known policy store migration issues. Similarly, always consider whether you really need to install Spectra 1.51 as an upgrade or as a new installation. The new installation goes much more easily. You can migrate your 1.01 and 1.50 CODBs and applications from a new 1.51 installation. Your only loss with the new installation is CFAObjects will be a new database, not a migrated version. The only things lost here should be your userprofiles and applications objects. For many people recreating some userprofiles and application objects will be far less painful then trying to migrate a full Spectra 1.01 or 1.5 installation to 1.51. Migrating cfaobjects forward seems to be the most problematic part of a Spectra upgrade. The upgrade of an application CODB seems far less prone to problems when done using a new cfaobjects and on CF5. The one time you may really be stuck doing a 1.51 installation as an upgrade is if you have created your application(s) using cfaobjects as the CODB, instead of using application specific CODBs. Regards, Ken Smith Senior Engineer Spectra Product Support -----Original Message----- From: Huzir Sulaiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:18 AM To: Spectra-Talk Subject: Re: Upgrade CF451sp2 to CF5? I was running spectra 1.01 lasttime on Solaris 7, did an upgrade to spectra 1.5 and then did an upgrade to 1.5.1 and then upgrade my CF from 4.5.2 to 5. Extra thing to do was create another instance on Netscape LDAP to store my policy. That's it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You must have gotten lucky. I followed the upgrade procedures and even did > the security migration as per the documentation and it wouldn't work. > > Mary > > Why this thing never happen to me ?....I did an upgrade in just half an > hour without any weird stuff happening. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When I upgraded to CF5, I had a terrible time with Advanced Security. I > > had to re-create all my userdirectories and security contexts by hand. > > Otherwise it worked. > > > > Mary > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/spectra_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
