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Community Edition Upgrade Questions

phloyd — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 02:27:48 GMT

I have currently in production, Alfresco Community Edition 4.2.c on Ubuntu 12.04 with a Postgresql Database. Total size of the repository is about 160GB. It gets LDAP updates from our Active Directory for user authentication purposes, and there is also a local account option for users who do not hav

Re: Community Edition Upgrade Questions

cesarista — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 07:01:15 GMT

Hi:

1. Yes, Alfresco 5 CE supports LDAP-AD.The subsystem configuration is the same.

2. It does not apply.

3. Maybe, you have to check about the new Postgresql database server requirements in Alfresco installer or default Postgresql in Ubuntu 16.04 (if you plan to upgrade the database too.). Another important thing that is that you probably want to use SOLR 4 or SOLR 6 in recent versions of Alfresco 5, so a reindex time will be necessary. Finally to have to take into account all the things deprecated in version 5 (old APIs, Alfresco Explorer interface, jBPM...)

Some links:

- Requisites and testing plan:

Upgrade prerequisites checklist | Alfresco Documentation

Upgrading Alfresco on a single instance | Alfresco Documentation

- Some instructions:

Upgrading Alfresco | Alfresco Documentation

- Consider an upgrade path like this:

Our road from Alfresco CE 4.2.c to Alfresco CE 5.0.c - keensoft

Regards.

--C.

Re: Community Edition Upgrade Questions

phloyd — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:51:26 GMT

Thank you very much Cesar. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond with such helpful information.

After reviewing this, I feel much more confident that I can proceed and I feel like I now have a good plan to move forward. I will let you know how it goes....