Upgrading your MOVEit installation

Important! Always perform a full backup of your system before upgrade.

• MOVEit Transfer 2018 supports direct upgrade installations from MOVEit 2017 or MOVEit DMZ 8.3 or later.
• MOVEit Automation 2018 supports direct upgrade installations from MOVEit 2017 or MOVEit Central 9.0.
• Upgrades generally require you to update the underlying database. This can be time consuming if you have a large log table or if the drive is heavily fragmented.
• Currently signed-on accounts might need to sign on again after an upgrade because their sessions might need to be rebuilt. MOVEit Automation will automatically rebuild the session after the account signs on again.
• The MOVEit Transfer 2018 upgrade process does not prompt you to run SecAux (security wizard) after the upgrade. Recommended: Run SecAux manually after the upgrade process. This version of MOVEit has hardening options in SecAux. The default SecAux location is C:\Program Files (x86)\MOVEit\MOVEitTransfer\SecAuxNet.exe.
• For Microsoft SQL Server databases, entering the ‘sa’ password is no longer required during the upgrade. Instead, the upgrade process uses the normal database user account. This user account must have db_owner permissions to the appropriate database. (The database user account that was originally created by the MOVEit installer has these permissions.)
• If you upgrade MOVEit DMZ to MOVEit 2018, you must also update MOVEit Mobile clients to MOVEit Mobile Version 1.3 or later.

  Warning! MOVEit Transfer database schema customizations are not supported. If you change the name or add schema, indexes, or tables, the MOVEit Installer will not expect these manual changes and attempt to revert them. Backup any customizations before you run the MOVEit Transfer installer.