Updating MYOB Advanced by Using the Configuration Wizard

Updates for MYOB Advanced provide functional enhancements and new functionality. You need to use an installation package to update your MYOB Advanced instances.

In this topic, you will read about the ways to update MYOB Advanced and the schedule for locking out the system during the time of update.

Updating MYOB Advanced

You can update your instance of MYOB Advanced to a new product version or build in one of the following ways:

  • By using the MYOB Advanced web interface
  • By using the MYOB Advanced Configuration Wizard

The easiest way of updating MYOB Advanced is by using the web interface.

If a server with MYOB Advanced is connected to the Internet, the system can download installation packages directly from the MYOB Advanced update server during installation. If the server is not connected to the Internet, you can download the update package from another computer, upload the package to MYOB Advanced, and install it by using the web interface. For more information, see Updating MYOB Advanced by Using the Web Interface.

Alternatively, you can update MYOB Advanced by using the Configuration Wizard if you cannot update it by using the web interface (for example, for security reasons). For details, see Updating MYOB Advanced by Using the Configuration Wizard.

You can forbid the users of your MYOB Advanced instance to update the system by using the web interface. This might be useful, for example, when you want to avoid an unwanted update of a large database on Amazon Web Services. To prevent users from updating the system through the web interface, you set the RestrictUpdates parameter value to True in the appSettings section of the web.config file. With this setting, a message conveying this restriction appears on the Apply Updates (SM203510) form, all update actions on this form are blocked, and you can update MYOB Advanced by using the Configuration Wizard only.

Note: The system deletes all custom files from the MYOB Advanced site folders during an update. You can keep custom files in the Bin folder by doing one of the following:
  • Including all custom files in a customization package and publishing this customization package on the site
  • Adding the file names to the file with the .preserve extension in the same folder

Scheduling the Lockout of the System

We recommend that you switch on maintenance mode when you are updating the system. In this mode, users cannot access the system and process documents; therefore, it is safe to apply updates. To switch on maintenance mode, you schedule the system lockout by using the Apply Updates form, specifying when the system will be unavailable. When the lockout is in effect, non-administrative users will see a message on the Sign-In page indicating that the site is under maintenance. After finishing the update, you must manually switch off maintenance mode (that is, unlock the system) on the Apply Updates form.
Attention: When the lockout is in effect, the following happens in the system:
  • Only users that have the Administrator role can sign in to the system.
  • The system stops all processes that were run by a schedule.

For details, see To Schedule the System Lockout and To Unlock an MYOB Advanced Instance.