Upgrading site from CMS 5 to 6

christian.engvall@sogeti.se

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Im trying to upgrade a site from CMS 5.2.375.236 to cms 6.0.530 but Deployment Center doesn't succed. I get the following error:


An unhandled error has occured:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
When executing

At C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.0.530.0\Upgrade\System Scripts\Migrate Data (SqlServer).ps1:100 char:27
+ 	Set-EPiLongStringSettings <<<<  -DestinationDirectory $wizard.SelectedApplication.PhysicalPath	

=
Get-EPiIsBulkInstalling

At C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.0.530.0\Upgrade\System Scripts\Migrate Data (SqlServer).ps1:100 char:27
+ 	Set-EPiLongStringSettings <<<<  -DestinationDirectory $wizard.SelectedApplication.PhysicalPath	
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at EPiServer.Install.CMS.Common.EPiServerCMSWrapper.InitalizeEPiServer(String webConfigPath)
   at EPiServer.Install.CMS.Common.EPiServerCMSWrapper.Initialize(String destinationPath, String virtualDirectory)
   at EPiServer.Install.CMS.Common.EPiServerCMSWrapper.Initialize(String destinationPath, String virtualDirectory)
   at EPiServer.Install.CMS.Modules.CmdLets.SetLongStringSettings.ProcessRecord()
   at System.Management.Automation.Cmdlet.DoProcessRecord()
   at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord()

#53873

Sep 23, 2011 15:12

christian.engvall@sogeti.se

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I got help by Episerver support on this one. Posting the answer if someone else comes across the same problem.

When upgrading to cms 6 existing xforms-data is migrated to dynamic datastore. To do that the site is initialized and in this case imagevault was installed and caused an error on the initialization. (probably because the installed version of imagevault wasn't compatible with cms6)

So the following was done to upgrade:

1. Remove ImageVault dll's from the bin folder

2. Upgrade to cms 6

3. Upgrade to cms 6 R2

4. Put the imagevault dlls back into bin folder.

#54570

Oct 21, 2011 9:27

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