i will be responcible for upgrading an IIS web server from the Microsoft .NET framework v2.0 to v3.5.
I am wondering if there is anything special i need to know or any caveats i should be aware of before proceding?
The site gets a fair number of hits per day and I will be taking it down and performing the upgrade at an off-peak time.
Aside from double clicking the installer is there anything i need to know?
Will the server need to be rebooted afterwards, does the installer handle all of the configuration changes? etc..
Thanks.
Upgrading from 2.0 to 3.5 is largely seamless since everything still hits the 2.0 runtime. I can’t recall a single configuration change I made (aside from running the installer) to our production servers when we upgraded.
If you have a test environment I would really suggest running your upgrade there before your production to make sure you’re not going to break anything. If that’s not an option, I would recommend reviewing the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Readme which contains some known installation issues and workarounds.