Migrate NVivo Collaboration Server (or server projects)

NVivo Collaboration Server

This topic explains how you can migrate server projects to another location—for example, you may want to relocate projects to another disk drive on the server. If you are decommissioning a server, you can migrate the projects and NVivo Collaboration Server itself to another server. This process can also be used to manually upgrade from NVivo Server.

In this topic

• Migrate server projects

• Migrate from one server to another

Migrate server projects

You can migrate project databases to a location on the same server or to a different server using SQL Server Management Studio. If you are migrating projects to a different server, make sure that destination server is running the same version or later of NVivo Collaboration Server.

You might want to migrate projects, if you are decommissioning a server or migrating your system to another server. You can refer to the following MSDN articles:

• Copy Databases to Other Servers

• Use the Copy Database Wizard

• Copy Databases with Backup and Restore

NOTE

• After you migrate projects from one server to another using SQL Server Management Studio, you will need to refresh the list of projects displayed in the NVivo Collaboration Server Manager.

• If you want all new server projects to be created in this location, then you should also set  the file locations for new projects.

Migrate from one server to another

To migrate NVivo Collaboration Server from one server to another:

1. Deactivate active licenses:

1. In NVivo Collaboration Server Manager, click the Licenses tab.

2. Click Deactivate for each license key.

2. Install NVivo Collaboration Server on the new server

3. Activate the installation license key (and add and activate any supplementary license keys).

4. Add users to user groups.