We are looking to upgrade our Visual Cron Pro 9.9.7 to the latest stable version. I have learned over the years that upgrading usually break a good number of our automations and causes a good deal of setup for each job to make them work again. Does anyone have any advice or experience in doing this upgrade? Any suggestions that might reduce our downtime to fully operational again?

Another thought is what newer version should I install to get current and comply with the latest security patches. This was suggested because we are currently recovering from a ransom ware attack and I thought now would be a good time to upgrade and refamiliarize myself with this software. Since it was setup it has work great for many years.

Any help, advice, suggestions or comments are welcome and greatly appreciated.

Hello there,

It is recommend creating a test environment with the newest version (v12.2.1) and then export the jobs from whatever version you are upgrading from and import them to the test environment. I'm dropping a link below to help out with this:

https://help.visualcron....#settings---log-settings 

This will help make sure that the jobs will continue to work without issues and to help troubleshoot issues that do arise when upgrading.

You can also implement a test environment and install/test things out with different versions of the client. An example would be to jump from v9.0.0 to 10.0.0 to 11.0.0 etc. If you choose to go this route, please reach out to support to request access to the older versions.

Finally, you can also jump straight from your current version to the latest version but it is recommended to take a look at the change log for all the changes that have been applied:

https://www.visualcron.com/changelog.aspx 

Additionally, as of v12, the client and server version must match, this version is not backwards compatible with any pre v12 versions.