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Perform a Simple Upgrade on Windows

If the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 installation program detects a simple deployment (that is, an entire product line was installed on a single computer), you can perform a simple upgrade to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1. In a simple upgrade to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1, the installation program performs the following steps:

If you perform a simple upgrade to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1, the installation program automatically disables the previous BusinessObjects Enterprise XI system. After the upgrade is complete, the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 installation program asks you whether to uninstall the previous system. We recommend that you uninstall the previous version of the system as soon as you verify that BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP5 has been successfully installed. If you uninstall the previous version of BusinessObjects Enterprise later, verify that the previous version servers are not re-enabled and are not restarted. In particular, enabling the older version of the CMS and File Repository Servers conflicts with the BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 system.

If the installation program does not detect a simple deployment, perform a complex upgrade. This upgrade includes the scenario where your deployment web and application servers are on separate computers.

The BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 installation program writes the details of your existing deployment to a log file. The name of the file is boe_up grade_output.xml; the boe_upgrade.xsl file provides formatting when you open boe_upgrade_output.xml. You can use this log file as a reference when you are configuring the servers and server clusters in your BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 deployment.

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Log File Location