Friday, January 30, 2015

My footsteps on Sitecore 7.5 Upgrade Steps

Recently, I worked on a Sitecore 7.5 upgrade project. Since it was released very recently, the documentation was not that clear. So, I had to ask lot of help/questions from Sitecore support also.

Anyway, with the help of Sitecore Support, we were able to do the sitecore 7.5 upgrade successfully. Following are the final order of upgrade steps that I came up with.



  1. Upgrade Sitecore CMS to 7.2 Initial Release
  2. Run ECM Upgrade tool (Email Campaign Manager v.2.2 rev.141007 upgrade tool)
  3. Upgrade Sitecore CMS to 7.5
  4. Run Analytics Data Optimization Tool
  5. Upgrade ECM
  6. Run Analytics Data Conversion Tool (with ECM and WFFM command line options). You also need to ..
    • copy ECM conversion plugin files directly inside the <Analytics data conversion tool folder>
    • copy WFFM conversion plugin files directly inside the <Analytics data conversion tool folder>\Plugins
  7. ECM Post Installation Steps
  8. Upgrade remaining modules


Hope someone will find this useful. :-)
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4 comments:

  1. benmccallumJuly 22, 2015 at 11:21 AM

    Hmm, I've done steps 1, 3, 4, 5 - missing 2. Will do 2 now and hope nothing blows up. Cheers.

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    1. benmccallumJuly 22, 2015 at 11:28 AM

      Nope... logs after hitting button on UpgradeTool.aspx show:
      Could not load type 'CampaignsRow' from assembly 'Sitecore.Analytics,

      The documentation for 2.1 > 2.2 upgrade barely mentions the UpgadeTool, so annoying. I've got a snapshot of my wwwroot at SC7.2/ECM2.1 which I'll need to restore and try this on...

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    2. benmccallumJuly 22, 2015 at 12:00 PM

      Worked on SC7.2/ECM2.1, so it really is step 2 in the process. Wish the docs were clearer on that Upgrade Tool and were it should be in the process. Thanks for your post!

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    3. scFootstepsJuly 26, 2015 at 8:12 PM

      nice to hear that post helps someone. thanks :-)

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