During an upgrade to a 2.1 the service may fail to start, this is caused by previous Premiere config files existing in the Config directory under Curator Servers directory. All Premiere configuration files under all workgroups must be removed and replaced with the new config file settings.

If the following error occurs, the steps detailed on this page will resolve the issue:

2019-01-15 10:12:11,542 (+00:00) [6] ERROR Curator Server - Curator Server - [ConfigRepository, MigrateFilesToDb] - Error occurred migrating config - removing any successfully migrated files.