Sorry if this has been covered but I couldn't find a whole lot when searching for side by side installs. So I have a couple questions that are hopefully easy answers. Current environment is a non-clustered production and development environments (2 separate physical server boxes) both running BOE XI R2 with SP4 installed and using the .Net CMC and Infoview. The Dev box is used by a handful of our Crystal Reports developers to upload their reports to for testing before they're moved to the production box where only Admins have access rights. In other words the Dev environment's R2 install still needs to be usable, so here goes.
1. If we install 3.1 with .Net on the same box as R2 (changing port numbers of course) will both installs be fully functional?
2. If the above is possible I'm a bit confused on which install option to choose. Do we go with New Install, or Custom Install?
The idea is we want to install 3.1 somewhere in order for us to learn the new features as Admins before we allow regular users to access it in any way. Thanks for any tips on this.