Is there any issue upgrading Orion servers from Windows 2016 to WIndows 2022?

Question

Can I expect this to be your basic OS upgrade or do I need to build out from scratch?

jameslindsay · Answer

Thank you, I am on 2024.1.0 so it sounds like I'm in good shape for what should be a simple OS upgrade.

brscott · Answer

I have a few polling engines (including the main polling engine) that are in-place upgrades from 2012r2 to 2016 to 2019 to 2022.  The only suggestion would be to upgrade Orion (or whatever it's called now) first, but I have currently orion 2022.4.1 (so not the current version) running on server 2022 in production.  I have tested orion 2024.4.1 on server 2022 in a test environment, and will upgrade prod soonish.

On a side note, if you are upgrading orion 2022.4.1, you might try completely uninstalling the TFTP server form every polling engine before you start.  I don't know the exact reason, but my upgrades failed every time until I did that uninstall, then it was 100% success.