Originally Posted by udayasl
Will it break the server functionality?
I haven’t tried using Elevate.
Personally I don’t like doing in-place upgrades, simply through fear of unexpected behaviour / corruption / etc later on in time.
If it were me, I’d spin up a new server and migrate the accounts.
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