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# Working with Upgrade Advisor
  To help ensure that your upgrade to [!INCLUDE[ssCurrent](../../includes/sscurrent-md.md)] is successful, Upgrade Advisor provides a central console to identify issues to address in your installations before upgrading to [!INCLUDE[ssCurrent](../../includes/sscurrent-md.md)].  
  
 You can use Upgrade Advisor to perform the following tasks:  
  
-   Analyze previous version's components on local or remote servers.  
  
    > [!IMPORTANT]  
    >  You cannot analyze remote instances of [!INCLUDE[ssRSnoversion](../../includes/ssrsnoversion-md.md)].  
  
-   View the results of the analysis.  
  
 Upgrade Advisor includes an analyzer and a viewer. The Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard analyzes the components you select. The analyzer then generates custom reports about issues that you must handle before you can upgrade to [!INCLUDE[ssCurrent](../../includes/sscurrent-md.md)]. You use the Upgrade Advisor Report Viewer to view the custom reports. For more information about what Upgrade Advisor analysis detects, see [Resolving Upgrade Issues](../../../2014/sql-server/install/resolving-upgrade-issues.md).  
  
 The topics in this section provide an overview of Upgrade Advisor functionality and information about how to use Upgrade Advisor and Upgrade Advisor reports.  
  
## In This Section  
  
|Topic|Description|  
|-----------|-----------------|  
|[Overview of Upgrade Advisor](../../../2014/sql-server/install/overview-of-upgrade-advisor.md)|Provides an overview of the upgrade process, the Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard, and the Upgrade Advisor Report Viewer.|  
|[Upgrade Advisor How-to Topics](../../../2014/sql-server/install/upgrade-advisor-how-to-topics.md)|Provides instructions to perform common Upgrade Advisor procedures.|  
|[Upgrade Advisor User Interface Reference](../../../2014/sql-server/install/upgrade-advisor-user-interface-reference.md)|Contains topics that appear if you press the F1 key or click **Help** on the Upgrade Advisor Analysis Wizard pages.|  
  
## See Also  
 [Installing Upgrade Advisor](../../../2014/sql-server/install/installing-upgrade-advisor.md)   
 [Resolving Upgrade Issues](../../../2014/sql-server/install/resolving-upgrade-issues.md)