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Originally posted on Feb 8, 2017 As most will know, since 9.1 Q2 2016 Blackboard uses a new installer.  We had tried this in our upgrade last year but were not able to get the new installer to work. So this time I reached out to  Andrew Hulme  at Blackboard to see if we could get some extra support during our upgrade.  Andy brought in his colleague  Cherif Abbes  and we all joined a Skype session where we could ask questions if we hit against any issues whilst doing the upgrade.  Special thanks to Andy and Cherif for their help! The upgrade went well after a few bumps and starts.  Here are notes on what we did, and what we found, and what problems we still need to resolve. Note that we have two development servers, both are single instances with Blackboard and Oracle running on the same box.  They have very little data on them and are used for testing purposes.  Our preproduction environment matches our live environment...

Originally posted on Mar 3, 2017 Having successfully upgraded our first dev server and updated our documentation, we were ready to upgrade our second dev server. Once again we enlisted the help of  Andrew Hulme   and  Cherif Abbes ​ from Blackboard, who were on the end of a Skype chat and ready to give advice if we hit any issues. More about passwords Our second dev server turned out to have a slightly different configuration than the first one.  Our first attempt to upgrade failed and we found out the following, thanks to Cherif: 1) The same password should be used for several stanzas in the bb-config.properties file: bbconfig.database.server.systemuserpassword= bbconfig.database.admin.password= antargs.default.vi.db.password= antargs.default.vi.stats.db.password= antargs.default.vi.report.user.password= bbconfig.cs.db.cms-user.pass= bbconfig.cs.db.systemuser.pass= 2) That same password should also be used for the following databa...