BPC 7.5NW - Transports

Hello Gurus,
We just did some enhancements in our Appset in the DEV environment and should now promote these enhancements to the QA and PROD systems. We want to use transports to accomplish this. I am aware of the following:
1. We will have to move the entire Appset as one object from the DEV environment to the QA and PROD systems
2. To do step 1, we should put together a transport using T-code UJBPCTR
3. SAP BPC will use the concept of "Shadow tables" to figure out the objects that were changed, and will move those to the new environments.
4. We log in to the new environments and perform testing.
Did I miss any of the key steps in the whole process?
Also, please let me know how to debug if something doesn't get transported properly.
Thanks for all your help.
Best regards,
Van.

Hi Van,
For your queries relating to the Transports please check the BPC 7.5 NW Operations Guide (available in SMP) pg no. 43.
Regards,
Raghu

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http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/d0cdbccf-0def-2d10-298d-f4223de9a6ed&overridelayout=true
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Best regards..
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Hi,
>
> 1. How does the upgrade process work? Do we have to perform the upgrade in the serial order of the service packs? Meaning, do we have to go from SP 06 -> SP 07 -> SP 08 -> SP 09, or can we directly go from SP 06 to SP 09?
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> 4. When we are performing an upgrade, can we perform the upgrade only on a specific appset instead of the entire server environment?
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> 6. Lastly, what is the typical effort involved? And how long would the upgrade process usually take? We are asking this because we don't want this upgrade process to collide with our financial closing process.
>
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