Offline upgrade in test environment

Perform the offline upgrade to Power Operation 2024 R1 in a test environment before traveling to the Production site. Complete the offline or online upgrades in the production environment.

Test environment activities:

• Use the Migration Tools for Citect and Power Operation to migrate the existing project configuration to the next product version in the upgrade path and finally to the version you want.
• Fix any compile errors and warnings that appear during project upgrade and migration.
• Validate the merge of the existing Citect.INI file into the upgraded version Citect.INI steps.
• Discovery of hard-to-find files listed in Offline Upgrade steps.

To perform the Offline Upgrade steps in a test environment:

1. Complete all steps of the Offline Upgrade:
   1. In step 3 be sure to install Power Operation 2024 R1 and skip step 13. This action upgrades the current version of the project directly.
   2. Skip step 11. In this step, runtime data and historical data from the existing system are restored, but it is only necessary to do this later when completing the offline or online upgrade procedures in the production system (while located at the Production site).

The project should now be upgraded.

2. Address any project compile issues.
3. Test project functionality, verifying that key features of the solution function as expected.
4. (Optional) Add Upgrade options in Upgrading to the project, recompile and test.
5. Backup the upgraded 2024 project, upgraded include projects, sub-directories, and configuration files.