Upgrading

Upgrading to Version 6.9

To simplify our code, version 6.9 only includes the ability to upgrade from version 6.7 or 6.8. If you are running an older version (v6.6 or earlier), backup your database, upgrade to 6.8, then upgrade to 6.9.

Upgrading from an Earlier v6 Version

  1. Ensure that you have a NEXUS user account which is in the Administrators Security Group, and that the account has read/write access to special permission Upgrade Schema.

  2. In your current version of NEXUS, perform a backup of the database (we suggest that this backup file is permanently archived).

  3. Run the installer on the Application Server (or on users’ individual PCs).

  4. Have one of the users from Administrators security group launch NEXUS IC v6 from the desktop shortcut and click on OK to update the database schema. The schema update will take some time to complete (about 1-10 minutes), so please be patient when the Status dialog appears.

Note

If you are currently using a HASP key license, you will need to switch to Software Based Licensing.

Note

If you’re upgrading from 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2, see this note about SQL Server permissions.

See the relevant What’s News for highlights of changes.