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How to Upgrade a Stand-Alone Operations Console from Operations Manager 2007 R2

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager

This procedure upgrades a stand-alone Operations console from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. Perform this procedure locally on the computer that has a stand-alone Operations console installed. You should only upgrade stand-alone Operations consoles after you have upgraded your management group. You do not have to perform this procedure to upgrade Operations consoles that are installed locally on a management server. For more information about each upgrade path and the order in which to perform each upgrade task, see Upgrade Path Checklists for Operations Manager.

Before you proceed, ensure that your server meets the minimum supported configurations for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager. For more information, see Supported Configurations for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager.

To upgrade a stand-alone Operations console

  1. Log on to the computer that hosts the Operations console with an Operations Manager Administrators role account for your Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group.

  2. On the Operations Manager source media, run Setup.exe, and then click Install.

  3. On the Getting Started, System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Upgrade page, click Next.

  4. On the Getting Started, Select installation location page, accept the default value of C:\Program Files\System Center 2012\Operations Manager, or type in a new location or browse to one. Then click Next.

  5. On the Prerequisites page, review and address any warnings or errors that are returned by the Prerequisites checker, and then click Verify Prerequisites Again to recheck the system.

  6. If the Prerequisites checker does not return any warnings or errors, the Prerequisites, Proceed with Setup page appears. Click Next.

  7. On the Configuration, Ready To Upgrade page, click Upgrade.

  8. When the upgrade is finished, the Upgrade complete page appears. Click Close.

To upgrade a stand-alone Operations console by using the Command Prompt window

  1. Log on to the computer that hosts the Operations console with an Operations Manager Administrators role account for your Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group.

  2. Open a Command Prompt window by using the Run as Administrator option.

  3. Change to the path to the System Center 2012 – Operations Manager source media, and run the following command.

      Setup.exe /silent /upgrade

To verify the Operations console upgrade

  1. On the Windows desktop, click Start, and then click Run.

  2. Type regedit, and then click OK. The Registry Editor starts.

    Warning

    Incorrectly editing the registry can severely damage your system. Before you make changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data that is on the computer.

  3. Browse to the HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager\3.0\Setup key. If the value of the UIVersion entry is 7.0.85##.#, where # is any positive integer, the Operations console was upgraded successfully.