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Hi,

The three phase approach is a good one. You should do that!!

Upgraded a Maestro environment from R81.10 to R82 last year and followed the steps described in the R82 Maestro Installation and Upgrade guide. The steps are very well described and easy to follow.

Preperation is very important. Make sure you have all the software downloaded. Hotfixes, Deployment Agent etc. Also make sure you are on the correct hotfix for R81.10 before upgrading. All is in the Upgrade guide.

On MHO's disk space can be an issue, so follow:

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Before upgrading make sure you have backups and snapshots created. An Auto-snapshot will be created when upgarding to R82.

And  make sure Implied Rules are enabled. In the past I had some issues with a policy install during the sp_upgrade script procedure. Maybe caused by Implied Rules not being enabled. Since enabling Implied Rules during the upgrade, I had no issues.

Good luck!!

Martijn