Upgrading - SME 6.3 - 7.0

Instructions for upgrading SME 6.3 to SME 7.0

The Upgrade executable is available from the following download link. Download it and save it to your SME5 program folder.

http://high5software.com/downloads/sme7/SME_SQLinkUpdater.exe

• Log onto the server or computer hosting the SME database.
• Log all users out of SME 6.3.
• Close SQLink.
  • Do Start> Run> fsmgmt.msc to check open files - all SME files must be closed.
  • You can skip the stop service steps if you can reboot your server.
  • Do Start> Programs> Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008> Configuration Tools> SQL Configuration Manger
  • Stop the MSSQL service and the SQL Server FullTextSearch Services.
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  • Your MS SQL Server instance name may be different.
  • Copy your database folder to a back up location.
  • Restart the ‘SQL Server’ and the ‘SQL Server FullTextSearch’ services.
• Download the ‘SME_SQLinkUpdater.exe’ From the following link.
• http://high5software.com/downloads/sme7/SME_SQLinkUpdater.exe
• Launch the SME_SQLinkUpdater.exe by double clicking or right clicking and selecting ‘Open’.
• Accept the license agreement and click Next

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• Browse to the location of your SME/High5Software folder and click ‘Next’.

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• You should see the following message. If you ‘Do Not’ see this message click the ‘Back’ button and check your path. It ‘Must’ be the same as your SME/High5Software path.

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• Answer ‘Yes’ to the message.
• Uncheck ‘Demo Database’ on the following screen.
• Click ‘Next’.

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• If you are running current Windows operating systems you may see this message:

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• Answer ‘Yes’.
• Click the check boxes to create the desktop and Quick Launch icons.

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• Click ‘Next’.
• Review the following installation information. Make sure that the install path is to your SME 5 program folder.

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• Click ‘Install’ if everything is correct.

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• The update will install.
• You will see the following indicating that the installer has completed.

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• Click ‘Finish’.
• SME will launch and will open with the following message

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• Click ‘Yes’.
• You will be prompted to back up SME. This is not necessary if you performed the backup procedure of stopping the MS SQL Services, and copying your data files to a backup location, as outlined at the beginning of this document.

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• Click ‘No’ if you copied your data as a backup.
• SME will begin to update.

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• When the database re-index completes click ‘Done’.

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• The SME will update the tables.

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• You will be notified that updates are to be preformed to your data.

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• Answer ‘Ok’ to the prompt.
• SME will perform the updates. This can take a considerable length of time with large data files.
• Update will be completed when SME reopens.
• Users can return to SME 7.0.