Migrating from BusinessObjects 5.x & 6.x to BusinessObjects XI R2
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| Audience | The target audience for this course is System Architects/Administrators who are responsible for planning, assessing and/or implementing a strategy for their organization to migrate from their BusinessObjects 5.x/6.x deployment to the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 platform.
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| Prerequisites | To be successful, learners who attend this course should have attended the following offerings, or have equivalent knowledge:
- BusinessObjects 5i Supervisor BO500 (Instructor-led) OR
- BusinessObjects Supervisor 6.5
BO502 (Instructor-led)
- BusinessObjects 6.5 Enterprise Administration BO601 (Instructor-led) or BO601e, BO602e, BO603e (eLearning) AND
- BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R1/R2: Administering Users and Content with the CMC SA210R2 (Instructor-led) or SA210eR2 (eLearning)
- BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R1/R2: Administering Servers - Windows SA310R2 (Instructor-led) or SA310eR2 (eLearning)
While not required for this course, experience with these products or technologies will be helpful:
- The users, content, architecture, and security in their organization’s source deployment
- Windows NT/2000 and NT administration
- NT enterprise security concepts (global/local groups, and directory structure)
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| Synopsis | This 3-day course is designed to provide students with an understanding of how to migrate from a BusinessObjects 5.x/6.x system to BusinessObjects XI Release 2. By the end of the course learners will understand how to properly plan and assess their migration strategy, understand how users and content will migrate from their source environment, as well as understand the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 security model. Students will have the opportunity to practice migrating different types of users and content through a series of workshops.
The business benefit of this course is that learners will be able to plan for and implement a successful migration from their source system to the BusinessObjects XI Release 2 platform.
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| Topics | Lesson #1 - Migrating Overview
• What is migration?
• Top challenges as you migrate
• What migrates (and what doesn’t)
• Developer Suite
• Supported platforms
• Tools for migration
• Case studies
• Migration roadmap
• Terminology
Lesson #2 - Planning and Assessment
• Assessing your migration strategy
• Installing
• Importing content
• Post migration validation
• Administration
Lesson #3 - BusinessObjects 5/6.x Administration and Security Workshop
• Explaining BusinessObjects 5/6.x administration and security
• Managing Repository security and Repository domains
• Creating overloads, column/row level security, and control restrictions
Lesson #4 - Creating a System Backup Workshop
• Creating a backup before migrating
Lesson #5 - Using the Import Wizard Workshop
• Using the Import Wizard
• Explaining the features of the Import Wizard
• Performing a simple migration
Lesson #6 - Validation Workshop
• Explaining BusinessObjects XI Release 2 administration and security
• Migrating and mapping rights
• Creating overloads, column/row level security, and control restrictions
• Creating and publishing new content to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2
Lesson #7 - BusinessObjects XI R2 Administration and Security Workshop
• Explaining BusinessObjects XI Release 2 administration and security
• Migrating and mapping rights
• Creating overloads, column/row level security, and control restrictions
• Creating and publishing new content to BusinessObjects Enterprise XI R2
Lesson #8 - Merge Versus Update Workshop
• Explaining how Merge works
• Explaining how Update works
Lesson #9 - Migrating Security Workshop
• Setting up the system
• Preparing the target environment
• Validating Command Restriction and access rights
• Validating Access Restrictions (formerly known as Overloads or Restrictions Sets)
• Using the BIAR (Business Intelligence Archive Resource)
Lesson #10 - Report Migration and Conversion Workshop
• Performing report migrations
• Using the Report Conversion Tool
Lesson #11 - Final Migration Workshop
• Performing a final migration
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