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Application server upgrade

During an upgrade, run the 
AtHoc
 installer (MSI) on the application server. The MSI uses a Windows authentication connection to SQL Server. Your server or domain login must have a login in SQL Server, and that login must be a sysadmin. See the note below if Windows authentication is not possible and you must use SQL Server authentication.
If a trusted connection cannot be used, you can specify a specific account for the 
AtHoc
 Installer to use during the upgrade by appending the following parameters to the msiexec command line in the .bat file:
  • IS_SQLSERVER_AUTHENTICATION=1
  • IS_SQLSERVER_USERNAME=sa_account_name
  • IS_SQLSERVER_PASSWORD=sa_account_password
If you update the application and database servers on separate servers, you must run the 
AtHoc
 Installer (MSI) once on each application server. After all application servers have been upgraded, run the installer again on one of the application servers.
 You must upgrade all application servers before you upgrade the database server.
  1. Open an elevated command prompt, navigate to the folder with the .bat file, type the .bat file name, and press 
    Enter
     to run it. The .bat file name follows the naming convention "BlackBerry_AtHoc_7.9.x.x_build.bat."
    The .bat file distributed with the MSI generates a log file of the installer actions. The log file, ATHOC_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_AM|PM.log, is created in the root of C:.
  2. To open an elevated command prompt, locate cmd.exe in the program search, right-click on cmd.exe, and choose 
    Run as Administrator
    . If the 
    User Account Control
     window appears, click 
    Yes
     to run the Windows Command Prompt as Administrator.)"
  3. In the 
    Welcome
     screen, click 
    Next
    .
  4. Accept the Software License Agreement. Click 
    Next
    .
  5. Agree to the upgrade prompt.
  6. Select the 
    Application Server
     check box. Click 
    Next
    .
  7. If any prerequisites are missing, the installer will display a message that lists them. Click 
    OK
     on the message to stop the upgrade. Install the prerequisites and run the MSI again.
    For detailed information about the prerequisites, see Requirements: Application server installation.
  8. Click 
    Install
    .