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Upgrading older versions of Chancery SMS

System administrators can install Chancery SMS version 7.7 on a system running any of the following versions of Chancery SMS:

= Chancery SMS 7.6, 7.6.1, 7.6.2
= Chancery SMS 7.5.0, 7.5.1, 7.5.2
= Chancery SMS 7.4, 7.4.1
= Chancery SMS 7.3 to 7.3.1
= Chancery SMS 7.2
= Chancery SMS 7.1 to 7.1.2
= Chancery SMS 7.0
= Chancery SMS 6.7 to 6.7.3
= Chancery SMS 6.6 to 6.6.8
= Chancery SMS 6.5 to 6.5.5
= Chancery SMS 6.4
= Chancery SMS 6.3
= Chancery SMS 6.2, 6.2.1
= Chancery SMS 6.1
= Chancery SMS 6.0, 6.0.1
= Chancery SMS 4.3 to 5.0

If the district is using an older version of Chancery SMS or a version of Open District, contact Technical Support for help with the upgrade.

Do not install Chancery SMS version 7.7 if:

= You are running Microsoft® SQL Server 2000.
= You are running Open District on an Oracle® server. Chancery SMS is not compatible with an Oracle database.
= You are using the Open District CA CSIS Database Installation. Chancery SMS is not compatible with an Open District SA CSIS database.

For other requirements and compatibilities, refer to System requirements [>>].

Roles and upgrading

If you are upgrading from Open District 2.4 or an older version of Chancery SMS (prior to Chancery SMS 4.0), make sure you do not have any existing roles that match the names of the following base roles. If these roles exist, you might encounter exception errors when upgrading.

Chancery SMS comes with the following pre-defined base roles:

= Administrator
= School Administrator
= Teacher
= School Secretary
= Guest (system base role required for upgrades)
= District Health Professional
= School Health Professional

Caution: From version 4.0 onwards,Chancery SMS needs exclusive use of the Guest role when upgrading. During the upgrade, user accounts that cannot be assigned an appropriate role are assigned the Guest role. If you have created a role named "Guest" during the upgrade, the upgrade will fail. After the upgrade, check for any users with a Guest role and assign the proper role to them, then delete the Guest role. Do not leave users assigned to the Guest role.

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