txConnect Suite Update Process

Education Service Center Region XI 3001 North Freeway Fort Worth, Texas 76106 Region XI 6/3/2018 ______txConnect Suite Update Process The txConnect Suite consists of the txGradebook web application, for teacher gradebooks and attendance, and the txConnect web application for parent access to students’ grades and attendance. We will assume for clarity in this document that your txConnect Suite is installed to the C: drive. Before applying the update, be sure all users are advised that the txConnect Suite will go down temporarily during the update process.

Back up configuration files Before applying the update, there are 4 (or 1 if using just txGradebook) configuration files that will need to be backed up as a safety precaution.

 web.config (txGradebook) C:\txConnect\GradebookWeb\

 web.config (txConnect) C:\txConnect\txConnectWeb\

 TCC.ParentPortal.TransformationService.Service.exe.config (txConnect) C:\txConnect\TransformationService\

 TCC.ParentPortal.AlertService.AlertService.exe.config (txConnect) C:\txConnect\AlertService\

Copy these files to a location where you can find them before running the update.

Note: If you are not currently using the txConnect Parent Portal, you will only need to copy the web.config file located in the “C:\txConnect\GradebookWeb” folder.

Run the Update Process To update the txConnect Suite you will need to have downloaded the latest txConnect Suite update package which will be named with it’s particular version number.

Double-click this file to extract the setup files to a location of your choice. In this document, we will extract the files to the default location of C:\1.5.0.0 . Browse to the extracted folder and double-click “setup.exe” to begin the update process.

This will bring up the following window asking you if you want to perform an upgrade. Click “Yes”.

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At the Welcome screen click “Next” to begin the update process.

______txConnect Suite Update Process 3 Region XI 6/3/2018 ______When the update is finished just click the “Finish” button. At this point, you may or may not be prompted to restart your server, depending on the particular update applied.

Next, restart all IIS services by going to the command prompt and running the command “iisreset”.

Once the services have restarted verify connectivity by going to each web application and logging in successfully. This concludes the update process.

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