Migrating sites from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2

[Former Member]

Hey Guys,

First of all, I'm totally new and I've deadline for next week! so I would like to apologize if I don't communicate like a regular user does.

A sale representative sent me here since I've a couple of questions prior to purchase 14.1.

This is my scenario,

We've several web apps developed on Framework 2.0 and they all uses a customize module we built back in time to generate reports with version 10.5. At that time, you were able to download an executable in order to install the DLL in the web server. Now, I found that executable it's no longer available plus the fact that most likely the executable (Crystal Reports for Framework 2.0 x86) it's not compatible with Windows Server 2012 Windows to give it a shot.

The only thing I need it's the DLL files installed on our web server in order for crystal report module to work. Now, we've tried with the SDK for Visual but since it requires Visual Studio installed we can't go down this line since we run several outsourcing audits over the year and we can't have our development tool install in our production server.

My questions are,

1. Is there a way to do this without doing the purchase? I don't want to do an investment that we're not going to take advantage for 100%.
2. If I do the purchase, I'm guessing that the libraries I need won't be available? I need 10.5 version and the SAP guy talked about 14.1
3. This last question I might know the answer but I've to do the question just t make sure! with 14.1 available in the server I'll have to re-build our customize report module using this new version right?

Hope anybody could help me out.

Thanks in advanced,

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

You can get those older redist packages from this link

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-27942

If it's going to work then great, if not only option is to upgrade to CR for VS for unmanaged reports.

If you are/were connecting to BOE then you need the .NET SDK package from Service Market place, requires support contract to get access to it.

You get CR for VS 2010 or above from this link:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

Don

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

And see this thread for more info:

Don

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hey Don,

Thank you very much for the data! this help me a lot!

I ended up doing an update to the CR Version in our visual studio 2010 box, I used the version 13.0.2000.0. My questions now are the following:

How can I install the DLL without having Visual Studio installed in our production server? Is there an executable or something?

Am I still too obsolete with this new version I'm using?

At last, is there an option to include the DLL's from CR to the Bin folder of the web app?

Thanks in advance.

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

You can get the redist packages from here:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-7824

Use the MSI, it's the easiest to use.

FYI, the Assembly version is always 13.0.2000.0, check the properties, that will be the actual version.

Don

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Don,

A BIG thank you for your time and assistance.

I was able to update the crystal report customize module in our web apps and I did install the redist package for version 13.0.2000.0 in our windows server 2012 r2 and it work like a champ!

At least, I was able to save some dollars to the company I work for since we were going to purchase a license and everything.

Thanks you very much Don!

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Marco,

That's great... be sure to check this link out also and how and where and what you can release your application and how our Licensing works...

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-21575

Thanks again