Before You Upgrade

This section outlines things to consider before you embark on one of the following upgrade paths:

• Upgrading from versions earlier than 2017.
• Tip on resetting log data settings. (All upgrade paths)
• Upgrading large MOVEit Transfer deployments.
• Upgrading to a release with Secure Folder Sharing.

  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.

Upgrading from versions earlier than 2017

Instructions for upgrading from versions earlier than 2017 are outlined in the MOVEit Transfer 2017 Plus Installation Guide.

Reset tamper check for logs

If you have logs that include data from before and after a software upgrade, tamper check verification shows false positive tamper errors when verifying the logs

To prevent this situation, do the following when upgrading MOVEit DMZ software to MOVEit Transfer 2017.

1. Before you upgrade, manually start the MOVEit DMZ Log Tamper Check program from the Start menu.
2. Immediately after you upgrade:
   • Sign on as System Administrator. Click SETTINGS.
   • In the System section, Tamper Detection row, click Reset All Orgs.
3. Click Reset Tamper Detection Data.

Upgrading large deployments

Certain large MOVEit Transfer deployments will install significantly faster than before. Please see MOVEit Transfer 2017 Plus Installation Guide for details on this and new disk space requirements that enable the quicker upgrade.

Upgrading to a release with Secure Folder Sharing (a post upgrade task is necessary)

If you upgrade your MOVEit Transfer installation with a version that enables Secure Folder Sharing, this feature set will be initially set to off. After the upgrade, as sysadmin user, you can apply the Secure Folder Sharing feature set selectively in Org Profile Settings. As sysadmin, you can apply these settings on an org-by-org basis.

Enable org UI Security settings to allow Secure Folder Sharing feature set (needed for upgrade installations)