Database Questions Regarding 8.1 Upgrade

(imported topic written by mholder91)

When we first deployed our BES environment, it was configured with a remote database. A couple years later, the database was migrated to the local BES server. I wasn’t really involved with either of these procedures, but the migration was successful and everything has been functioning fine for years. However, there is one small quirk – only the MANUAL upgrade fixlets are relevant for our BES server. In other words, there is something still configured for a remote database that is causing these manual fixlets to be relevant even though our database is indeed local. I seem to recall that this was true for the last couple of upgrades, so it’s not isolated to just this last 8.1.617.0 upgrade. I believe we just followed the manual instructions for upgrading the last couple of times we upgraded even though the database is local and I’m sure I can probably stumble through the manual upgrade process again, but I’d love to make it easy by just running the upgrade fixlets. Is there a checklist of items I can review for how things should be configured for a local database as opposed to a remote database? After briefly reviewing the relevance for the manual upgrade fixlet, I believe the fixlets are relevant because the FillDB and GatherDB services are NOT set up to use the localsystem account. Can I just change these services back to running under the local system account or are there other things that I need to check? Any guidance is much appreciated. Thanks.

(imported comment written by BenKus)

Yep… You can change those services to LocalSystem…

Also, you can just run the upgrade Fixlet and change the relevance to “true” and apply it to your server.

Ben