inplace and side by side upgrade from windows 2003 64 bit R2 contains SSRS 2008 R2 to windows 2008 64 bit
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Case 1 -In place upgrade
I would like to do in place upgrade from windows 2003 64 bit R2 that contains SSRS 2008 to windows 2008 R2 64 bit. The upgrade would be happened at OS level not at SSRS level.
I would like to know what are the necessary steps should be taken prior/during/post upgrade from SSRS end as we can not rollback if there is some issue with in place upgrade.
Case 2-Side by side upgrade
I would like to do side by side migration from windows 2003 32 bit that contains SSRS 2008 to windows 2008 R2 64 bit. The side by side would be happened at both OS level and SSRS level.
I would like to know what are the necessary steps should be taken prior/during/post side by side migration from SSRS end.
Thanks in advance
Case 1 -In place upgrade
I would like to do in place upgrade from windows 2003 64 bit R2 that contains SSRS 2008 to windows 2008 R2 64 bit. The upgrade would be happened at OS level not at SSRS level.
I would like to know what are the necessary steps should be taken prior/during/post upgrade from SSRS end as we can not rollback if there is some issue with in place upgrade.
Case 2-Side by side upgrade
I would like to do side by side migration from windows 2003 32 bit that contains SSRS 2008 to windows 2008 R2 64 bit. The side by side would be happened at both OS level and SSRS level.
I would like to know what are the necessary steps should be taken prior/during/post side by side migration from SSRS end.
Thanks in advance
Let Check whether you are updating on 32 or 64 bit Windows 2003 with 2008 R2. you are mentioning Inline and Side by side, what it mean? In both the installations either inplace upgrade or Side by Side upgrade the installation steps are similar. First OS will get updated with the latest version and applications which are compatible will run asusally. In services you check for the applications which are manually configured. For SSRS check whether the service is stopped or run as Automatic after upgrade. Might be there will be the compatible issue will SSRS then go for SSRS 2008 R2.
In place upgrade should runs fine and smoothly. It won't have any kind of impact in SSRS but the downtime period.
For a side by side upgrade you need to perform reports migrations and also change the pointers in all application to run the reports from the new SSRS server. A side by side upgrade should be performed only if your old server doesn't has more free resources (hardware renewing).
For a side by side upgrade you need to perform reports migrations and also change the pointers in all application to run the reports from the new SSRS server. A side by side upgrade should be performed only if your old server doesn't has more free resources (hardware renewing).
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I'm not a SSRS expert but MSSQL engine only. I already helped to migrate some SSRS but only had the task #1 (migrate the databases) and really don't know what my colleagues did in their tasks.
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I performed my self with mentioned steps in the solution and found that migration was done smoothly without any issues.