Upgrading from version 6 to version 7

Owned by Brian Rinebarger
Apr 13, 2023
1 min read

There are several items to keep in mind for those upgrading from v6:

  • If you need to stage your upgrade into smaller steps the first step will be to upgrade your Print Server agents first. v7 Session Agents cannot communicate over non-TLS connections to the older Print Server agent. If you are using v6 Proxy agents they should be upgraded to the v7 Connector next. After that you may upgrade your DB and Session Agents to v7 as you can.

  • To upgrade your DB you will need to run once (and only once) the new ScrewDriversDatabase installer. This will handle updating the DB schema to support the new features. Note: This will also introduce the new authorization data into the database. The new ScrewDrivers Administration settings application by default can only be run by Domain Admins and Local Admins from the machine where the ScrewDriversDatabase installer was run as well as the user who ran the installer. Any additional users will need to be added from within the Administration application.

  • ScrewDrivers and Scanning clients are both forward and backward compatible between v6 and v7 servers however this is with current settings only. The backing registry locations for settings have been moved and a v6 client that downloads a v7 plugin via auto client update cannot place settings where the v7 plugin expects them and vice versa. To get full functionality you will need to upgrade clients to v7.