Migrating Microsoft Commerce Server from Standard To Entreprise

Migrating Commerce Server 2007 (or 2009) from Standard Edition to enterprise is not hard that much, you only have 2 things to know :

– You must entirely remove CS 2009, and then CS 2007 standard from your Web Front. You have then to reinstall the Enterprise edition. Not complicated.

– The thing to know is here; You have to modify the profiles hashing algorithms, because these are differents between the standard and enterprise editions.

These parameters are in the Registry, in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Commerce Server 2007\Profiles. Defaults parameters are :

• Standard :

–  HashingAlgorithm: 00008004

– HashVerificationAlgorithmList : SHA1,MD5

• Entreprise :

– HashingAlgorithm: 0000800c

– HashVerificationAlgorithmList : SHA256,MD5

If you forget to change these values, users won’t be longer able to log in, and new created ones will have a different encryption, therefore rebuilding your database will be very difficult…

hth.