在将Dynamics AX 4升级到AX 2012 R2之前，我们是否必须升级到SP2？

Question

We are in the process of planning an upgrade from Ax 4.0 SP1 to AX 2012 R2 (CU 7).

In the Upgrade guide Microsoft "recommends" that you install the newest service pack (For AX 4.0, this would be SP2.)

The client and other internal departments are not to keen to upgrade to SP2 first, mostly because of time constrains.

Does anyone have experience upgrading Ax 4.0 SP1 to Ax 2012?

If we decide not to upgrade to SP2, what kind of issues problems can we expect later in the upgrade process?

Thanks for any advice!

Tina

Answer 1

I would not recommend it at all.

What "unsupported upgrade path" means is that the C\\ReleaseUpdateDB* scripts and shadow tables made by Microsoft are specifically not accounting for the data/schema you have.

That pretty much guarantees it won't work unless you investigate and account for the differences.

Upgrading to SP2 would be trivial compared to investigating the potential data loss and inconsistency differences and feeling confident.