topic Re: Upgrading Windows version in Administration and Deployment

Upgrading Windows version

Nigel_Pain — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:51:28 GMT

We're just planning for upgrading all our Windows Server 2012 boxes to 2016 or 2019 before they go out of support. This includes our four SAS machines, all on 2012 R2: metadata server, mid-tier server, compute server and VA server. Our SAS version is 9.4M7 (and VA 7.5).

System requirements indicate that both newer versions of Windows are OK. But does anyone have any insights around issues which we might encounter?

Thanks

Re: Upgrading Windows version

Sajid01 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:39:50 GMT

Some time back we migrated from Windows server 2008 R2 to WIndows server 2016.
We had no issues. However we had a stand alone server with all the tiers on the same machine.

Re: Upgrading Windows version

Nigel_Pain — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:20:10 GMT

Thanks @Sajid01 that's reassuring. I don't actually expect any problems but wanted to check if anyone had encountered something.

Re: Upgrading Windows version

andreas_lds — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:03:25 GMT

You should contact tech support, they may have heard about problems other customers may had.