CS 2.1 SP2 - upgrade successful!


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Published Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 8:55 PM by Nino

I upgraded nino.net tonight to Community Server 2.1, SP2  from CS 2.0.  I was already running on ASP.NET 2.0, so that saved me a few steps.

I did my upgrade something like this:

  1. Download and unpack CS 2.1 SP2 (ASP.NET 2.0) bits.
  2. Get my host to back up my database. 
  3. FTP down my database backup.
  4. FTP down my web bits and diff against what I have under version control in TFS.
  5. Update my web.config and CommunityServer.config files.
  6. Take a large drink of water (really, water) and a deep breath.
  7. Uploaded my App_Offline.htm file.
  8. Connect to my hosted SQL Server 2005 database via SQL Management Studio
  9. Ran cs_2.x_to_2.1_upgrade.sql via SQL MS. 
  10. Waited (for disaster).
  11. Saw the [happy] green circle with the white checkmark and the words "Query completed successfuly".  </gasp> 
  12. Ran through the output in the message window. Hot damn! It really worked.
  13. Connected to my website with FileZilla and deleted all the CS 2.0 bits.
  14. Uploaded the CS 2.1 SP2 bits.
  15. Uploaded the assemblies for Scott Watermasysk's CS Modules
  16. (feeling optimistic at this point) Renamed App_Offline.htm to App_Offline.htm.foo
  17. Fired up IE and hit the site.
  18. w00t!

My first CS upgrade that has been completely painless. Nice. :-)

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