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    Moving A5V11 WAS to Windows 10 from XP

    Hi All,

    I've been reading here about Windows 10 and for the most part it seems A5V11 works with W10 for most users. I have the Runtime running and use it daily for accessing my database over the LAN in the office. But I have not started using the Developers version yet. But my real fear is moving my WAS to this new W10 box. Does anyone have an opinion of the risk?

    I have A5V11 WAS running on an XP box currently. I am trying to close down all our XP systems and moving them to Windows 10. I have already moved my own desktop to W10. But the WAS is still on the old XP box for now because I have been afraid to move it. It's working and I use it every day. But I want to shut down the XP system. I haven't read much here about V11 WAS and W10. Mostly the discussions are about Runtime or Developer. Does anyone see any difference with the WAS version? Are there any significant differences from the Developer version that I might need to prepare for before I move the WAS to this W10 box? I don't yet have another W10 box to experiment with. When I do this I am going to go live immediately so I am a little concerned that I might break the app when I move to W10. I'm not a professional developer. I use A5V11 in my business and it is live everyday. So making changes can be intimidating. I don't went to break this. Any thoughts?

    Sean
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    Do I need Alpha Software's help to move server?

    My apologies if this has been answered already in some other thread. I've been away and my searches today haven't answered my question. So here goes,

    I want to move my copy of A5V11 WAS from my old XP box to my new W10 box. I did this a couple of times several years ago with previous versions. But I can't remember if it is the same procedure for when moving the developer version. Do I need to have the same name for the new computer as the old? In that case I had to get the help of Alpha Software to disable the old name so I could register the new computer. Does the WAS work that way? Or can I disable the license myself and just move it and re-enable on the new computer? When I installed the Developer version on this new W10 box it just registered. No issues. And the computer names are not the same. So maybe this is not an issue anymore? Or WAS works differently from the Developer anyway?

    Thanks,
    Sean

    P.S. I'm an amateur developer and don't do these things everyday (more like every two or three years!) and as I get older my memory on what I did escapes me. it's probably trivial but I really don't want to screw up this move to W10.

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      #3
      Re: Do I need Alpha Software's help to move server?

      Go into the old server and unregister the license from that server.

      Then you should be able to register the same license on the new server.

      It doesn't matter if the server name is the same as the old server or different.

      The developer license works the same way.

      If you have lost or broken the old computer that it was licensed on or for some other reason you can not unregister the license, then you would need Alpha's help.

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        Re: Moving A5V11 WAS to Windows 10 from XP

        Install V11 on your new system and try it out.

        The WAS server will work in demo mode for 30 minutes at a time. (Then you can restart it to get an additional 30 minutes.)

        So you can do all your testing on the new server without actually moving to it.

        When you are sure you are ready, then move the license.

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          Re: Moving A5V11 WAS to Windows 10 from XP

          Ahh, good. I didn't know it had a 30 minute trail period built in. I will give that a try. Thanks.

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            Re: Do I need Alpha Software's help to move server?

            Okay, great. That's good news. Thanks for your help. I will get this done before this XP box finally crashes.

            Sean

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              Re: Moving A5V11 WAS to Windows 10 from XP

              I finished moving the server program to the W10 box today. It wasn't as straight forward as I had hoped but I got through it.

              First, W10 uses port 80 for IIS service by default. I had to turn it off to get past an error message. I changed the port being used by A5v11AS and it worked. I deactivated the XP install. Then when i went to activate the server on W10 I got another error message about disabling UAC. It took a while to figure that out. Turns out you have to use the registry editor and reboot. Once I got UAC off I was able to successfuly activate the server on the W10 box.

              When I tested the server using "localhost" I got some errors. Something was wrong with the grids. I decided to re-publish. But I could not get the profile to use my custom webroot folder. It kept wanting to use C:\A5Webroot. So, I finally caved in and just let it publish to that folder. It works now.

              So, a few initial hiccups but now I have all three A5v11 programs moved on to this new W10 box (Full, Runtime, Application Server).

              Thanks for all the help.
              Sean

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