Compatibility and Interoperability

For best practices on compatibility and interoperability, as it relates to upgrading a Strategy system, see the Upgrade Help. Please note, our current release schedule ensures product upgrades on a monthly basis for cloud and containerized releases and a quarterly cadence for on-premise customers.

Definition of Terms

Compatibility: Products that are compatible can function on the same machine without software conflicts. Installing compatible products on the same machine results in no loss of functionality for these products.

You cannot have a combination of Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 and pre-2021 MicroStrategy products installed on the same machine. For example, MicroStrategy Web 2020.x cannot reside on the same machine as MicroStrategy Command Manager in MicroStrategy ONE/2021. For more information, see Important Compatibility Notes. Please note that MicroStrategy ONE/2021 is the only supported platform. For more information, see Support Lifecycle.
Interoperability: Products that are interoperable can function on different machines without software conflicts.

Different versions of Strategy products are, in several configurations, interoperable when installed on different machines. However, pre-Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 versions of clients cannot be used with the Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 Intelligence Server.

Connecting Strategy products to an earlier version of Strategy Intelligence server is not supported. For example, Strategy does not recommend or guarantee support for connecting MicroStrategy Developer on Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 to a pre- Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 Intelligence server.
Certified: The third-party component has been actively tested with the current release.
Supported: A third-party component that has been listed as supported is expected to be used successfully with any and all applicable Strategy functionality.

Important Compatibility Notes

The following provides an overview of several important compatibility considerations.

Newer and older products on the same machine: Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 products are not compatible on the same machine with earlier versions of Strategy products. If you attempt to install a Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 product on a machine that currently has a pre-2021 product installed, the Strategy Installation wizard prompts you to upgrade every Strategy product on that machine to Strategy One.
Intelligence server and metadata: Strategy Intelligence server and metadata versions should always match. That is, the metadata must be upgraded to Strategy One/2021 to use Strategy Intelligence server on Strategy One/2021. In direct connection deployments, client products (such as MicroStrategy Developer) should also be updated to the newer version of Strategy Intelligence server.

Strategy Library and the Intelligence server should operate on the same version, including the same update version.
Narrowcast server (NCS) and the Intelligence server: Narrowcast versions below MicroStrategy ONE (September 2024) are incompatible with Intelligence server versions between MicroStrategy ONE (September 2024) and Strategy One (March 2025). Strategy suggests that Narrowscast and Intelligence servers run the same version for optimal compatibility.
All clients such as Mobile, Workstation, and so on have:
- Full feature support in the same version, including the same update version.
- Interoperability/backward compatibility for older versions across supported platforms.
- Strategy recommends upgrading client products to the same version of Intelligence server. Starting in Strategy One (February 2025), Developer clients with up to one version lower than the Intelligence server are able to connect. For example, Developer on 11.4.x can connect to Intelligence server 11.5.x. However, Developer on 11.3.x is not allowed to connecto to Intelligence server on 11.5.x. Prior to Strategy One (February 2025), Developer on 11.4.x or 11.3.x is not allowed to connect to Intelligence server on 11.5.x. Refer to each client in Compatibility Scenarios for more details.

Compatibility Scenarios

Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 is the only supported platform and as such all Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 products are compatible with each other. While it is possible to install all Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021 products on the same machine, Strategy recommends installing products and groups of products on separate machines and dedicated server machines as determined by your production environment requirements. For more information on various production deployment scenarios, see Installation and Configuration Help.

Analytics Modules

The MicroStrategy Tutorial project has been tested on a warehouse and metadata in Microsoft Access. Some database-specific object definitions may need to be changed if Tutorial is used on another platform.

Command Manager

A project source is required to run MicroStrategy Command Manager and connect to a metadata repository. MicroStrategy Developer and MicroStrategy Command Manager can be installed on the same machine, or on different machines.

Administrators do not need to install Narrowcast server on the machine where Command Manager is installed to be able to manage a Narrowcast server system.

For full feature compatibility and operability, it’s recommended to keep Command Manager and Intelligence server on the same version.

Enterprise Manager

A project source is required to run MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager and connect to a metadata repository.

MicroStrategy Developer and MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager can be installed on the same machine, or on different machines.

Integrity Manager

While Integrity Manager is certified to run against various Intelligence server versions, to ensure proper functionality, workflows created in Integrity Manager should be opened, deployed, and used with versions currently supported by Strategy. See Support Lifecycle for a list of supported and expired Strategy releases.

MicroStrategy Application

MicroStrategy Application is no longer supported after the MicroStrategy 2021 Update 10 release. Please refer to this announcement for more information.

MicroStrategy Developer

MicroStrategy Developer on MicroStrategy ONE/2021 is interoperable with the MicroStrategy ONE/2021 Intelligence server. Starting in Strategy One (February 2025), Developer clients with up to one minor version lower than the Intelligence server are able to connect. For example, Developer 11.4.x can connect to Intelligence server 11.5.x. However, Developer on 11.3.x is not allowed to connect to Intelligence server on 11.5.x. Prior to Strategy One (February 2025), Developer on 11.4.x or 11.3.x is not allowed to connect to Intelligence server on 11.5.x. In cases where connection is not allowed, the client will throw an error and ask the user to upgrade the client first. For full feature compatibility and operability, MicroStrategy recommends keeping MicroStrategy Developer and Intelligence server on the same version.

Strategy Library

For full feature compatibility and operability, Strategy Library and the Intelligence server should operate on the same version, including the same update version. For example, they should both be on MicroStrategy ONE (June 2024).

Operating older Strategy Library versions on newer Intelligence server versions results in partial interoperability. This means that when Library version MicroStrategy ONE (March 2024) runs on an Intelligence server version MicroStrategy ONE (June 2024), only features available in Library until MicroStrategy ONE (March 2024) are operable.

Strategy Library for Mobile

To ensure full feature support, Strategy Library for Mobile clients should be on the same version as the Strategy Intelligence server and Library server. Strategy Library for Mobile clients are interoperable with older versions of Strategy Library servers and Intelligence servers.

Compatibility is currently not supported between clients running a version older than the server instances.

Strategy Mobile

To ensure full feature support, Strategy Mobile clients should be on the same version as the Strategy Intelligence server and Mobile server. Strategy Mobile clients are interoperable with older versions of Strategy Mobile server and Intelligence servers.

Compatibility is currently not supported between clients running a version older than the server instances.

Creating a Configuration of Multiple Strategy Mobile Servers

To create a configuration that includes multiple Strategy Mobile servers, all of the Strategy Mobile servers must be the same version.

Strategy Metadata Compatibility Between Major Releases

Metadata Updates

Intelligence server and metadata platform versions should always match. For example, both should be on Strategy ONE/2021.

If the metadata is older than MicroStrategy ONE/2021, a metadata update is needed before using the metadata.
If the metadata is older than Microstrategy 10, than metadata update is not directly supported. You must use an intermediate version (between Microstrategy 10 and Microstrategy 2021) to update the metadata first.
Strategy never supports downgrading metadata from newer version to an older version.

Object Packages and MSTR Files

Object packages and *.mstr files exported before MicroStrategy ONE/2021 can be imported to Strategy One or MicroStrategy ONE/2021.

Strategy Metadata Compatibility between Monthly and Quarterly Releases of Strategy One or Microstrategy ONE/2021 (including 2024 series)

Metadata Updates

A metadata update is not required when upgrading to a newer monthly or quarterly release, unless you plan to use features that explicitly require a metadata update.

Object Packages and MSTR Files

Object packages and *.mstr files can be migrated smoothly between all monthly/quarterly releases. This includes migration from older to newer versions, as well as from newer to older versions. However, if an object package or *.mstr file contains objects built with features that have not been implemented in the target build, this may lead to unexpected and unpredictable consequences.

Strategy Workstation

Workstation can be installed on the Intelligence server machine, but this is highly not recommended, as there are known usability issues because of having both products on same machine.

To ensure full feature support, Strategy Workstation clients should be on the same version as the Strategy Intelligence server and Library server. Strategy Workstation clients are interoperable with older versions of Strategy Library servers and Intelligence servers.

Strategy for Office

Legacy MicroStrategy Office is no longer supported after the MicroStrategy ONE (December 2024) release. See KB487052 for more information.

The Strategy for Office add-in introduced in 2019 is not interoperable with pre-2019 releases.

Clients	Library Server and Intelligence Server
Clients	2019	2020	MicroStrategy ONE/2021
2019	Full feature support	Not applicable	Not applicable
2020	Interoperable	Full feature support	Interoperable
MicroStrategy ONE/2021	Interoperable	Interoperable	Full feature support

System Manager

To ensure proper functionality, workflows created in System Manager should be opened, deployed, and used only with the same version or newer versions of System Manager.