Hi all,
I am hoping you can offer me some advice regarding upgrading from v1.8 to v2.3. I have backed up my live db and restored it locally using SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. I then found the upgrade script in the solution folder for 1.9 and ran this against my database which executed with no problems and moved onto to running the update script for v2.0.
However the readme.txt file states that once I execute the upgrade script I then need to perform the following tasks:
Restart your application (for example, modify Web.config file)
6. If your pictures were stored on the file system, then manually copy them into \Content\Images (previously they were stored into \images directory)
7. Now manually complete the following steps:
7a. Confifure Store settings (Admin area > Configuration > Settings)
7b. Configure your currencies (Admin area > Configuration > Currencies). Ensure primary store currency and primary exchange currencies are the same
7c. Configure your measure units (Admin area > Configuration > Measures)
7d. Configure your email accounts (Admin area > Configuration > Email accounts)
7e. Update your message templates (some tokens were changed)
7f. Configure your payment, shipping, tax providers
7g. Update topics (can't be automated)
7h. Reconfigure prices by customer roles (Now we have new implementation of tier prices based on customer roles)
7i. Reconfigure discount requirements for each discount (new implementation)
As I am not sticking with v2.0 do I need to complete these steps or can I just run the upgrade script for v2.0 and then run the upgrade scripts for the other versions all the way up to v2.3. I have not set the site up locally but will do once I have upgraded to the latest version so that I can check everything is working before deploying to the live server.
Kind regards
JT