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In order to
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To update the
Access
Admin Portal manually
please
ask for a link of the
Access
Admin Portal's latest version
That link will contain a ZIP that contains only
Access
Admin Portal related files.
In the ZIP there are two folders which we are planning to use:
  1. The
Access
  1. Admin Portal
Folder
  1. folder contains a version of the Installation files of the
Access
  1. Admin Portal
  2. The SQL Scripts contain 3 Folders (
FreshInstall
  1. Fresh Install , Maintenance, Upgrade), For the Upgrade process, we will use the "Upgrade" folder.


Database Upgrade

Note: We recommended backing up the database before this 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 DBdatabase, they are needed to must run in order starting with the current version installed.  

...

If the current AP Version installed is 3.36.3 5 then we will need to run:
3.36.5to3.3to36.35.41.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" folderMake sure to run these scripts against the Admin Portal DB ( however you named it) and not 'MasterDB'. 
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Access Portal Upgrade

1. Stop the IIS service by typing the following command in an elevated CMD:

iisreset /stop


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2. Replace all the files and folders except for the 'configuration'  folder with new files from the extracted ZIP, to the Admin 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.

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3. Start the IIS service by typing the following command in an elevated CMD:

iisreset /start


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