Does the IT Management Suite (ITMS) support in-place upgrades of Microsoft operating systems?

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Does ITMS support an in-place upgrade of Microsoft operating systems?

Environment

ITMS 8.x

Resolution

No, ITMS does not support an in-place upgrade of Microsoft operating systems.  This includes Managed systems, Internet Gateways, Site Servers, Notification Servers (SMP) and SQL Server.

 

If you need additional information we offer the following:

204145	Migrating a stand-alone ITMS 8.1 RU7 instance to ITMS 8.5 RU4 using new hardware and a new host name for Notification Server
257157	Migrating a stand-alone ITMS 8.5 RU4 instance to latest ITMS (8.6 or 8.7) version using new hardware and host name for the Notification Server

 

Other similar references:

What are the steps for Migrating an 8.x Notification Server to version 8.5?

 

Additional Information

200623 "Validating Site Servers after OS Upgrade" as reference.

150712 "Backward Compatibility for SMA and plug-ins"

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