Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.15 Installation on Windows

PART 5 ‐ Upgrade to WINDOWS SERVER 2012, EBS 12.2.10

Upgrade Windows

• Windows server upgrade is a pretty straight forward and error-free process. Mount the Windows Server 2012 Standard ISO image and run the setup in Windows 2008 GUI. During installation, make sure:

  • Select Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard (Serve with a GUI)

  • Select Upgrade: Install Windows and keep files...

• After the upgrade is done, restart all Oracle processes to ensure the EBS instance is working as before.

Visual Studio 2017

• Uninstall Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition

• Run Windows Update to get the latest dotNet runtime libraries. It is required by the Visual Studio Installer.

• Download Visual Studio Community Edition Installer from

  https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_community.exe

• Select Desktop development with C++, and select the features as shown. Change install location to C:\VS2017.

• Selected components will be downloaded from Internet and then installation will kick off.

• After the installation is done, edit the context file %CONTEXT_FILE% to change the system variable s_MSDEVdir value:

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  from
  <msdevdir oa_var="s_MSDEVdir" osd="NT">C:\VS2008\VC</msdevdir>  
  to
  <msdevdir oa_var="s_MSDEVdir" osd="NT">C:\VS2017\VC</msdevdir>
  

• Run %ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME%\adautocfg.cmd to update context variables.

• Now the profile is updated. Open a new prompt and set the variable

  SET MSVCPP=C:/VS2017/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.16.27023

• Run %ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME%\adadminsrvctl.cmd start

• Apply these patches one by one for VS 2017 and VS 2019 compatibility.

  • *32061884: CHANGES IN TEMPLATES TO SUPPORT VS2019 ON WIN 2012 R2

  • **32061960: CHANGES TO SUPPORT VS2019 FOR AD ON WINDOWS

  • 27881214: CHANGES REQUIRED IN CZNUM.LC TO SUPPORT VS2017 ON WIN 2012 R2

  • 29441529: CHANGES REQUIRED TO SUPPORT VS2017 ON WIN 2012 R2

  • *31122439: TEMPLATES TO SUPPORT VS2017 ON WIN 2012 R2

  • 32062000: CHANGES REQUIRED TO SUPPORT VS2019 ON WIN 2012 R2

  • 33087758: AUTOCONFIG/RAPID CLONE SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS SERVER 2019, 2016, 2012 R2

  *included in R12.TXK.C.DELTA.17, **included in R12.AD.C.DELTA.17

  • adop phase=apply patches=32062000 hotpatch=yes

  • adop phase=apply patches=29441529 hotpatch=yes

  • adop phase=apply patches=27881214 hotpatch=yes

  • adop phase=apply patches=33087758 hotpatch=yes

• Unzip patch 32991045 and run the cleanup122.cmd

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  D:\patch\32991045>cleanup122.cmd
  Enter the APPS Username: apps
  Enter the APPS Password: ****
  Enter database SID: TST
  Enter RUN APPL_TOP: C:\oracle\TST\fs1\EBSapps\appl
  ECHO is off.
  ECHO is off.
  Tue 10/28/2025 11:26 AM
  ECHO is off.
  ECHO is off.
  APPSORA.cmd exiting with status 0
  De-licensing products MSC MSO MSR WPS FLM
  Executing cleanup on RUN FS....
  Removing ilog libraries.
  No ILog 6.9 Library files present.
  ...
  

• Run %ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME%\adadminsrvctl.cmd stop

• Copy file msvcr71.dll to %ORACLE_HOME%\BIN

• Run adadamin -> Maintain Applications Files and Registry menu -> Relink Applications programs

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.10

• Unzip patch 30399999 (all files) and 33678475 to %PATCH_TOP%. Then apply both patches using merge and downtime mode:

  adop phase=apply apply_mode=downtime patches=30399999,33678475 merge=yes

  • If you encounter error about relinking PONAO.dll, we can edit the patch driver file u30399999.drv, and remove the line

    link pon bin PONAO.dll

    • Reapply the patch by adop phase=apply apply_mode=downtime patches=30399999,33678475 merge=yes abondon=yes

  • If you see error of Inventory Item Location flexfield compilation

    • Start up the app server services, select this flexfield and compile it manually. Then stop all services.

    • Restart the adop process by adop phase=apply apply_mode=downtime patches=30399999,33678475 merge=yes restart=yes

  • If you encounter this error:

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  The following Oracle Forms objects did not generate successfully:
  csi forms/US    CSISYDCS.fmx
  

  • To just get around this issue (and we hardly have a chance to use this form), just replace it with a valid form:

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  mv %AU_TOP%\forms\US\CSISYDCS.fmb %AU_TOP%\forms\US\CSISYDCS.fmb~ 
  copy %AU_TOP%\forms\US\CSIIRTYP.fmb %AU_TOP%\forms\US\CSISYDCS.fmb 
  

  • Then run continue the adop process by

    adop phase=apply apply_mode=downtime patches=30399999,33678475 merge=yes restart=yes

  • After it's done, run adop phase=cleanup

  • PHASE B is completed. You can make a backup of the whole OS (VM files).

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