Upgrading Email Signature Manager

If you have a previous version of Email Signature Manager installed on your system, the following instructions should be followed to upgrade it.

If you are using version 5.x or later, the installers for Email Signature Manager, the Deployment Service and the Transport Agent will automatically upgrade your existing installation. After installation, you should complete the steps in the Common Upgrade Tasks set out below.

Note If you are using the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent, the previous v5.x installers for 2007/10 and 2013 have been unified into a single installer that supports all Exchange Server versions. This new installer will upgrade all previous v5.x versions.

If you are using version 4.x or earlier, you should upgrade following these steps:

1.	Start your current version and determine the database you are using.

è When using the Email Signature Manager database, settings.mdb, the database should be located in a shared folder (e.g. \\SERVER\SIGNMGR$\\settings.mdb). If the database you are using is located on the local computer and shared from the installation folder, it is strongly recommended that it is moved to a separate shared folder. It is recommended to make a backup of your existing settings.mdb database before the upgrade is performed.

è When using Microsoft SQL Server for the database, it is recommended to make a backup of the database before the upgrade is performed.

2.	Uninstall the current version using the Windows Control Panel. When prompted, you can elect to keep or remove the current database and settings. If you keep the current database and settings, this does not interfere with installing version 5.x or later.

3.	Install the new version of Email Signature Manager and then complete the steps in the Common Upgrade Tasks set out below.

Note The default installation location for version 4.x and earlier was C:\Program Files\Symprex\Mail Signature Manager. In version 5.x it is C:\Program Files\Symprex\Email Signature Manager.

Once installation of the new version is complete, start the Email Signature Manager application. If you have upgraded from version 4.x or earlier, you will need to select your previous settings database; refer to the Settings Database dialog. When the settings database is opened for the first time, it will be automatically upgraded to the new version.

Finally, the deployment command line tool, sign.exe, needs to be updated depending on how deployment is implemented in your organization.

•	If you are using a logon script, the tools located in the shared folder can simply be overwritten with the new version; refer to the section on creating the shared folder for more details.

•	If you are deploying using the MSI package via group policy, it will be necessary to update the existing policy to uninstall the original version and to install the new version; refer to the section on deployment via group policy for further details.

Note Version 5.x accepts the same command line arguments as previous versions, except the verbose argument has been replaced with the showwindow argument; refer to the section on command line arguments. Hence, there is no generally need to change any scripts to use new parameters.