QUESTION
What are the broad steps for upgrading from Jiwa version 6 to Jiwa version 7?
ANSWER
- Review the hardware and software requirements to ensure suitability by clicking on this link - Deployment Planning
- Backup database (with compression options tab of backup dialog - use compression)
- Change recovery model from Full to Simple
- Check database compatibility mode - set to highest
- Run any pre-upgrade scripts you have developed or been given
- If you have a custom upgrade scripts database, then copy that into the Jiwa Financials directory (after re-naming the standard one) \JiwaDatabaseScripts.mdb
- Run upgrade
- Download, review and edit the attached document for each client being upgraded. We can't emphasize enough to ensure adequate testing is done by the client before going live.