Laserfiche 8 migration plans
In this blog, Laserfiche Luminary Michael Wells discusses his migration plans from Laserfiche 7 to Laserfiche 8, including new workflows.
June 27th, 2008Our implementation of Laserfiche 7 is very stable and mature, and great care must be taken as we migrate up to version 8.
My current plan is to stand up new hardware as a Laserfiche 8 server. I am not sure that our size warrants a separate server for Weblink and Web Access, but it might. If WebAccess 8 truly is a client replacement I may end up with most of my Client users switching to WebAccess. SQL and file storage on separate boxes, of course.
Having a new LF8 server will allow our migration to occur over a much longer period of time than an in-place upgrade. (I’m not sure if in-place upgrades are even POSSIBLE from 7 to 8.)
This will also allow us to work (with our VAR) on rewriting our custom code and rewriting our Workflows. The new possibilities of Workflow are very exciting, but it will take some work to re-create our old workflows. Of course, this gives us an opportunity to remake them better – faster – stronger! (smarter?)
In the end we should have a nicely tuned and updated Laserfiche 8 implementation.
What are your plans, and what timeline are you thinking about?