Gary,
Are you / have you participated in one of the BB Upgrade Cohort programmes? If not I would say get on one of them. The discussions are really quite interesting. We were talking last week about lessons learned as admins from past upgrades and the conclusion seems to be TEST, TEST, TEST with YOUR hardware, YOUR data, YOUR building blocks etc and do not necessarily believe what anyone else tells you - whoever they are - because they were not using exactly the same things as you and have your knowledge / blindspots.
My last fresh install was a disaster even though I thought I had done all the mitigation because I was falsely confident in a single part of the project which ultimately failed me due to the knock-ons.
Peter
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of CLAY Gary M
Sent: 04 March 2011 11:23
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Subject: [BLACKBOARD-USERGROUP] Upgradingh to blackboard 9.1 - question re user accounts
We're starting to think about upgrading from bb8 to bb 9.
I'm tempted by the idea of installing to new hardware and so considering the archive / restore option (assuming of course the reported issues over the restoration will have been resolved in time.)
What advice is there with respect to bringing across user accounts? Obviously snapshot, but what about if you're not using Snapshot?
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Gary Clay
Learning Development Manager
Learning Development and Innovation
Staffordshire University
Beaconside Campus
Stafford ST18 0AD
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