Be aware of the following caveats when upgrading an OES server:
Other Novell® products, such as GroupWise®, and third-party applications that you have installed are treated differently by default when you upgrade an OES Linux server, depending on the version of the server you are upgrading:
OES 1: Applications are deleted by default during an upgrade.
OES 2: Applications installed on an OES 2 server are retained, but might not work after upgrading.
To learn more and for instructions on manually changing these options, see Planning for the Upgrade to OES 2 SP2
in the OES 2 SP2: Installation Guide.
If iManager 2.5 is installed on a NetWare server, and you apply OES 2 NetWare (NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 8), iManager and its associated plug-ins are automatically updated to version 2.7. For more information about iManager 2.7, see the Novell iManager 2.7.3 Administration Guide.
If you are using iManager 2.02, iManager is not upgraded.
eGuide, Novell iFolder® 2, and Virtual Office are not supported on OES 2 Linux. If you upgrade an OES 1 Linux server with any of these installed to OES 2 SP1 Linux, the services cease to function.
If your OES server has multiple instances of eDirectory™ running (multiple trees), any attempt to upgrade the server fails.
You must remove all instances, except the one that uses port 524, prior to an upgrade.
For more information, see Section 6.4.3, One Instance Only.
All releases of OES NetWare to this point (except OES 1 SP1) have included Virtual Office 1.6. When you upgrade a NetWare 6.5 SP2 or earlier server to one of these support packs, any Virtual Office installations are automatically upgraded to version 1.6.
When you upgrade an existing Virtual Office installation, all data, teams, configurations, etc. are retained with the following exceptions:
User Bookmarks are lost
E-mail notifications might need to be reconfigured
Team File Share credentials might need to be re-created.