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QlikView Server upgrade and migration manual

StefanBackstrand — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

Greetings QlikCommunity members!

We are currently in the process of putting together documentation on QlikView Server & Publisher upgrade and migration scenarios.

So far, we are focusing on the following topics;

In-place upgrade of QlikView Server 9 to 10/11 (with or without Publisher)
In-place upgrade of QlikView Server 10 to 11 (with or without Publisher)
Machine migration scenarios of QlikView Server 9 (with Publisher)
Machine migration scenarios of QlikView Server 10 and 11 (with Publisher)

We are now looking for more common scenarios! Can you supply us with feedback on what topics might be interesting in an initial version of this documentation?

Please reply in this thread and we will consider your suggestions!

Addition Nov 3: I added an overview of the topics in a post at the bottom. Check it out to get a preview of what's going to be in the document!

Best regards,

Stefan Bäckstrand

Senior Technical Expert

Problem Management - QlikView Support

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ashfaq_haseeb — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:12:50 GMT

Hi Steafan,

I could thing of migration of Qlikview from V9.0 to V10.0 in clustered Environment.

Regards

ASHFAQ

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danielrozental — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:27:11 GMT

Hi Stefan, a few ideas

- Clustered/distributed environments, best practices and considerations when migrating.

- Client side considerations when working with different servers in different versions.

- QVS 9.0 API vs QMS 10 API vs QMS 11 API. Calls that were changed, deprecated or replaced.

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StefanBackstrand — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:23:50 GMT

Thank you both for your suggestions, we'll take it into consideration. Client stuff is a good idea, and clustering will probably be included if time permits at the first stage.

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ruthvikvn — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:21:58 GMT

Hi Stefan,

- InPlace upgrade of only Qlikview Publisher.( Server with only QLikview Publisher Installed)

- Machine Migration of only Qlikview Publisher.( Server with only Qlikview Publisher Installed)

It would be great to have some documentation for

- Qlikview from standalone Server setup ( similarly for Publisher server ) to Disaster Recovery setup. ( with Servers in different Data Centers for Tier-1 DR Plan where the recovery time would be less than 1 hr )

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StefanBackstrand — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:29:53 GMT

ruthvikvn: thank you for your suggestions. The "single service move" is already on the drawing board.

Disaster recovery will unfortunately not be included in the upgrade & migrations manual.

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danielrozental — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:41:55 GMT

Stefan, any chance you'd be willing to share the draft of the QV9 to QV10 migration manual? I'm working on a couple of upgrades right now and it would be nice to have it.

Of course I'd be willing to review them and pass any feedback back to you.

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magavi_framsteg — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:52:23 GMT

Hi Stefan.

Long time no see 😃

Consider we have:

Old server A, QV9

New server B, QV10/11

I would love to see how to:

- Export all publisher tasks from the old QVPR on server A

- Import them to the new QVPR on server B

Kind regards

Magnus Åvitsland

BI Consultant

Framsteg Business Intelligence Corp.

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StefanBackstrand — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:35:32 GMT

Magnus: Indeed! I hope all is good with you!

We actually have scenarios like that in there already, they're being tested right now. We also will bo smaller "overviews" on how to move/migrate separate Qv services from one machine to another.

Daniel: A champion offer! I'll get in touch.

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fred_s — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:39:37 GMT

Hi Stefan,

1. What I was looking for today, was documentation on Migrating from QV Native Webserver to MS IIS.
The reason was the need to use SSL Certificates.

2. So related to the first one; how to configure SSL certificates with MS IIS or Native QVWS.
This isn't Upgrade or migration, but maybe you'll find a way to add this to the first scenario.

Regards,
Fred

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Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:01:08 GMT

Hi Stefan,

We would also like to See how to handle critical tasks or having 3 or more dependent tasks taken care while migrating from qv version 9 to 10/11.

Cheers.

Gaurav M.

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StefanBackstrand — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:58:07 GMT

Hey Community members!

The document is coming to a final draft soon, and I just thought I would share some topics that will be in it in the first revision:

Consideration topics on .NET, EDX, services, QDS, clients, changed URLs, settings/programfiles/appdata locations, service refactoring between versions and new services
Upgrade instructions on QVS 9 to QVS 10/11, QVS 9 to QVS+Pub 10/11, QVS+Pub 9 to QVS+Pub 10/11
Upgrade instructions on QVS 10 to 11, QVS 10 to QVS+Pub 11, QVS+Pub 10 to QVS+Pub 11
Re-location of services between machines on QVS 10/11, DSC 10/11, QVWS 10/11, QDS 10/11
Scenarios on Multi-machine upgrade (in-place upgrade) QVS+Pub 10 to QVS+Pub 11 and Scale-out scenario QVS+Pub 10 (single machine) to QVS+Pub 11 (multiple machines).

I hope that this will cover some of the common scenarios and questions that are out there.

Thank you for your input, and keep on adding suggestions on what you want to see in the document! It is going to be revised in further versions as well.

Best regards,

Stefan

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Joe_Bickley — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:35:42 GMT

HI Stefan,

Great initiative to have in place. One thing that perhaps needs mentioning even if you cant resolve it is related to licensing. Many customers dont have a test server so in order to bring up a new server to test a new release they need to obtain a temporary license some how.

I think different regions may deal with this differently so it may be worth just making a note to get in touch with an account manager for more information

Joe

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StefanBackstrand — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:39:15 GMT

Joe, good idea, but a bit outside of the scope of the paper. I'll see if we can fit it in somewhere.

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Troy_Raney — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:25:59 GMT

Hey Stefan,

There are still a lot of customers out there running 8.5. I would be nice if the process for upgrading from 8.5 to 11 was documented, even if the process is upgrading from 8.5 to 9 and the from 9 to 11.

-Troy

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fred_s — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:29:19 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Part of QV Server upgrades can be moving from Windows 2003 to 2008.
My last two installations where on 2008 and I had serious problems to get these servers running.

It would be great to have some kind of checklist for 2008 settings:
What (kind of) user account to use?
In which groups to put this user (member of group Qlikview administrators)?
Use the same Windows account for installation of QV Server as for Services.
User Access Control (UAC) On or Off?
What if ReloadEngine doesn't appear in QMC after installation (use QEMC to trigger ReloadEngine)?

This is really important!
My last two customers started with doubts about Qlikview because of these installation problems, caused by W2008.

Thanks

Fred

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StefanBackstrand — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:42:41 GMT

try > Unfortunately, 8.50 is not going to be covered in this version of the document, but it is on the list.

fred_s > There are really only one or two things that differ between 2008 and 2003 (except for application data locations on disk) that really have an impact and they are;

UAC on Windows Server 2008. Administrators and technicians installing server software should know if UAC is active, and if so, make sure to run installations with the "Run as Administrator" option (or disable UAC all together). Just as with any other software.
Firewall in Windows Server 2008 by default blocks everything that does not have service role installed. Server 2003 did not block anything by default.

Both of these are basic configuration requirements that lie outside of the QlikView configuration itself. We can of course include them, but the first version of the document focus on the configuration & installation of QlikView Server - not Windows security functionality or network safetey.

Service account membership (Administrators, QlikView Administrators), type of accounts and their location is unchanged between them two - across all three latest major versions of Qlikview 9, 10 and 11.

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Anonymous — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:55:58 GMT

The document is now available and is located here: http://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-2647

Nice work Stefan Bäckstrand and Brett Bleess!

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Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:38:01 GMT

Hello Arthur,

The following error message appears when I try to open the document:

It appears you're not allowed to view what you requested. You might contact your administrator if you think this is a mistake.

Can you help with this issue?

Thanks,
Thomas

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Anonymous — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:02:36 GMT

You should be able to see it now. Let me know if you are still having issues.