PORTAL Migration and Upgrade
Everything you wanted to know about SAP Enterprise Portal Upgrade
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Upgrading your Enterprise Portal to 7.3x / 7.4 / 7.5 release can be a challenging task. As a result of recurring questions from customers we decided to collect all known issues, guidelines, important information that can be helpful before, during and after an upgrade. Read this to get a better idea about the upgrade process.
- Why even upgrade? What is the recommended version to upgrade?
- Read the following blog for the answer: Why You Should Upgrade Your SAP Enterprise Portal
- A mandatory blog before upgrading: looking at top 10 lessons learned from ramp-up
- Take a loot at the New Features SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Portal. Enterprise Portal 7.5 includes all those new features and more.
- Prior to an upgrade, a System Copy is highly recommended.
- To create the list of required software components you need to use the Maintenance Planner
- The upgrade is performed using the Software Upgrade Manager. Read all about it in SAP release note for SL Toolset 1.0 - 1758266 and also check out this page.
- Various Data Base platforms issues .
- SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal – Upgrade from 04/04S to 7.3 onwards
- For finding the appropriate Business Package, take a look here.
- For interoperability with other backend systems check the following Wiki:
Checklist for Netweaver Portal 7.3X, 7.4 and 7.5 upgrade preparation - Software Logistics - SCN Wiki - If you're using KM in your system, read this section.
- If you are already using 7.3x / 7.4, and would like to upgrade to 7.5, your custom applications need to be adjusted to JDK1.8. You can follow the following blog for further information: Switching to SAP JVM8 on Enterprise Portal 7.50.
- Already upgraded and encountered an issue? check the following blog for a solution:
Troubleshooting guide after SAP Enterprise Portal Upgrade - You don't have to go through this alone, see what services SAP offers to support customers' upgrade projects.
- Still have questions? Post them in the migration and upgrade forum.