topic Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky? in QlikView

Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Hello!

We're just about to upgrade from Small Business Edition to Enterprise Edition.

Couldn't find and guidance here or elsewhere on the web for the upgrade.

Does anyone have any experience? Is is easy?

Cheers!

Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Miguel_Angel_Baeyens — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:00:19 GMT

Hi Mike,

That upgrade doesn't have any required setup other than going to the QlikView Enterprise Management Console, System, Licenses, QlikView Server, Server License, and click the button "Update License from Server" and "Apply". You should be prompted to restart the server and a green "Success" just above the button, and see your LEF updated with the new information.

If your license number is different, then instead click first on the "Clear License" button, then enter the serial and the control number for the new one, then click "Apply". You will be prompted and so.

And that's all.

Upgrading license is not upgrading versions, that indeed does some work to do beforehand.

Hope that helps.

Miguel Angel Baeyens

BI Consultant

Comex Grupo Ibérica

Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:02:23 GMT

Hi mikefardell,

Upgrading is not an issue in Qlikview,

Steps:

1. Clear the license information.

2. Take the back up of system folder, which is in c:\Program Data\...

3. Do the upgradation.

4. Better to do restart of the server.

5. Restart the qlikview services.

I hope these steps will help you to do successfully for upgradation.

Regards,

Ravi.

Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:56:33 GMT

Thanks very much Miguel and Ravi...

I will follow your instructions and add any additional feedback for future upgraders!

Much appreciated! Mike

Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

stevedark — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:31:52 GMT

Hi Mike,

The only thing that can sometimes be a problem is if your QlikView server can not communicate directly with the QlikTech server that verifies licence keys. If this happens the new licence will not be applied and you will be left with the old SBS licence.

In this instance you will need to request a LEF file from QlikTech. You should be able to request one of these via your QlikTech partner company - or in the UK you can request one from orderuk@qlik.com , you just need to send your licence key and ask for a 'LEF' (Licence Enabling File).

You will be sent a text file that you can copy and paste over the top of the old LEF key on the Licencing tab. When you copy and paste you need to be very careful that you don't include any spurious spaces or line feeds - these can be introduced via email software in transit.

Hopefuly you should be able to verify the key directly without having to do this - but it is worth being aware of what to do if it doesn't work first time.

- Steve

Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:01:27 GMT

Hi Steve

Not that I think he'll need it but Mike has the LEF file, courtesy of his fantastic QlikTech partner company...!

Kind regards,

Marek

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 10:35:26 GMT

Hi,

just for the records; I've upgraded today my Qlikview Server 11.2SR2 from SBE to EE changing license with the instructions from Ravi and I've lost ALL my existing CAL assignments and I was forced to recreate them manually (thank me I've kept records of them).

Not really painless, uh?

Fabio

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Bill_Britt — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:52:08 GMT

Hi Fabio,

I would see this happening if you CAL type changed.

Bill

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:56:54 GMT

But Miguel and Ravie wrote that there will be nothing to do after a license type change from SBE to EE, so why that happened? I can't find any documentation about that behaviour...

Regards

Fabio

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

stevedark — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:27:30 GMT

Bill - I would assume that a SBE Doc CAL would map to a EE Doc CAL and SBE Full CAL would map to a EE Full CAL? This would then make the upgrade smooth.

Was it perhaps that the old licence was cleared before the new one was applied - rather than just swapping one directly for the other?

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Bill_Britt — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:39:59 GMT

Hi Steve,

I have asked for his license keys offline so I can test to see if I can reproduce the issue. Not sure what would happen if you added session license or useage to the key. So, right now I am waiting on him to reply to my QlikView email I sent him.

Bill

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

maxgro — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:54:59 GMT

I did the same thing some days ago (change license from SBE to EE)

The cal remained (document and named)

Perhaps the difference is I didn't clear the license ("Clear License" button), step 1 in Ravi list ?

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Bill_Britt — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:59:02 GMT

Hi Massimo,

I missed that, and that might be what happened. Thanks for your input.

Bill

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

maxgro — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:09:38 GMT

if this is the reason I have to thank Stephen Redmond because I read it in his book "Qlikview Server and Publisher"

The first button, Clear License, does exactly that. It will remove the QlikView

Server license and leave the server in an unlicensed and unusable state. There is

another side effect of this—all of your Named User license and Document license

assignments will be removed

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:59:15 GMT

Hi,

yes I did clicked the first button (as Ravi said) and I also think that this was the cause of all my problems about the Upgrade.

I think that this argument should be better described on official documentation because it can be a really dangerous task.

Now I'm aware for the next time but what if my doc and named CAL were 1000 instead of 100?

Bill I'm searching for the old license number, do you still need it?

Thanks Massimo for your clear answer, I think it could help many.

Bye

Re: Upgrade from SBE to EE - How tricky?

Bill_Britt — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:35:20 GMT

Hi Rabio,

No, not being you said you clear the license first.

Bill