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Known issues in staged-upgrade setups

If you upgrade your Content Delivery software components to SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, but leave your Content Manager software components unchanged, some issues are known to arise, depending on the version from which you upgrade.

Content Manager 2009 SP1 with Content Delivery 2013 SP1

No issues are known to arise in this staged-upgrade setup.

Content Manager 2011 SP1 with Content Delivery 2013 SP1

The following issues are known to arise if you use this stage-upgrade setup:

Transaction package not removed
If a transport package is too large for HTTP transport and leads to a publish failure, the transport package may not be removed from the location %TRIDION_HOME%\bin\transactions\. To work around this problem, ensure that your Web server is set up to handle sufficiently large packages.
Publish Queue lists successful mass publish actions as failed
When performing a successful mass publish (3000-4000 transactions or more), the Publish Queue may fail to show the actual successful state and instead continue to show a Waiting for deployment or a Waiting for transport state, eventually resulting in a Failed state.
Publishing may report success of a huge publish action even though it partially failed

If publishing of a Structure Group containing 500 Pages partially fails (that is, not all Pages are successfully published), the transaction may still return a Success status. To work around this problem, increase your transaction timeout value.

Scheduled publish fails if generation of publishable content and placing content online are scheduled simultaneously

If you schedule a publish or unpublish action using the Publish Content Later option, generating publishable content (phase 1) and placing content online (phase 2) are set to occur at the same moment. This may cause publishing or unpublishing to fail.

To work around this problem, schedule the two phases separately using the Schedule Publish Phases Separately option in the Publish or Unpublish dialog. Select the options Generate Publishable Content Later and Place Content Online Later, and set the first of these options to an earlier time than the second one.

Content Manager 2013 with Content Delivery 2013 SP1

No issues are known to arise in this staged-upgrade setup.