User Guide

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Appendix A: Best Practices
The following best practices are suggestions to enhance application usage.
Migrating to a Newer Version of Data Center Planner
If you uninstall the application, you will lose your plans, projects and database. Before migrating to a newer
version, you should backup the database and floor plans.
Backing up the Database
The recommended procedure for backing up your database is to include an automated daily incremental backup
and a weekly full backup to ensure a recovery point is obtainable, if the database becomes corrupted.
Minimizing Loading Risks
While Avocent makes every effort to provide accurate and complete information, it is the customer's
responsibility for the safe placement of devices and power usage in the data center.
Browsing All Groups in Active Director
The application supports using special characters when naming groups of users. Use Active Directory naming
conventions, such as alphabetical characters (Aa-Zz), numeric characters (0-9), the minus sign (-) and the period
(.). Do not include spaces, ampersands, more than/less than brackets, slashes, colons or semi-colons (&,<>, /, :, ;).
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