We just upgraded from 4.3 SP04 Patch 7 to BI 2025 Patch 4 10 days ago.
No upgrade is every seamless (done at least 8), but overall it seems pretty stable. The issues we are seeing are likely unique to our environment and upgrade path. We consolidated two production systems running on Window 2016 servers to one production system running on Window 2025 servers mostly using Promotion Management Wizard. We had to bring Users and Groups and Users over with a traditional Promotion Management (not Wizard) job. Some of our issues…
- All file events needed to be resaved in the new system.
- Some schedules failed due to insufficient privileges and need to be re-run and rebuilt.
- Some shortcuts lost their target and needed to be recreated.
- I was not able to figure out how to bring security over successfully so we just rebuilt it on the new system which wasn’t great because we missed some things and have had to add them since the upgrade. This was a case of I wanted to get it to work, but since it was a one-time issue was not willing to fight it anymore.
Performance has been good on our new system. One change that seems to be a feature is how to edit Free-hand SQL.
Noel