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In order to update the Access Portal manually please ask for a link of the Access Portal's latest version
That link will contain a ZIP that contains only Access Portal related files.
In the ZIP there are two folders which we are planning to use:
- The Access Portal Folder contains a version of the Installation files of the Access Portal
- The SQL Scripts contain 3 Folders (FreshInstall , Maintenance, Upgrade), For the Upgrade process, we will use the "Upgrade" folder.
Database Upgrade
Note: It is recommended to backup the Database before the process
In the Upgrade folder, there are multiple SQL scripts named in an "X.XtoX.X.sql" format, The X's represent version numbers.
In order to upgrade the DB, they are needed to must run in order starting with the current version installed.
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If the current AP Version installed is 3.36.3 5 then we will need to run:
3.6.35to3.3to36.35.41.sql
3.36.5.4to31to3.36.5.2.sql
And so on.
Note: It is recommended to backup the Database before the process
Note: These scripts need to run against the Access Portal DB. When running the scripts verify that they are not running against "Master" DB
The next step would be to replace the files in the Access Portal installation directory.
In order to do that first stop the IIS service and delete all the files in the Access Portal Installation directory except the "configuration" folder
Make sure to run these scripts against the Access Portal DB ( however you named it) and not 'MasterDB'.
Access Portal Upgrade
1. Stop the IIS service. You can do that by typing the following command in an elevated CMD:
iisreset /stop
2. Replace all the files and folders except for the 'configuration' folder, with new files from the extracted ZIP, to the Access Portal installation folder. Its default location should be
C:\inetpub\AccessPortal
Note: If you edited the Custom.css or the Web.config please back them up and replace them after the upgrade
After deleting the files and folders in the installation directory please copy the new files from the Folder in the ZIP (Make sure not to copy the "Configuration" folder and to overwrite it)
Now we can go ahead an re-enable the IIS service and test that it works.
In the case of upgrading a version that used Form Based Authentication to a version that uses SSO please also modify the authentication method in the IIS so it will be as follows.
3. Start the IIS service. you can do the by typing the following command in an elevated CMD:
iisreset /start
