Installation instructions

36  Installing GFI MailSecurity GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP
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Upgrading from GFI MailSecurity 8 to GFI MailSecurity 10
Due to fundamental architectural changes between GFI MailSecurity
10 and GFI MailSecurity 8, it is not possible to install GFI MailSecurity
10 on top of an existing installation of GFI MailSecurity 8.
This section therefore shows you how to:
 Replace your current GFI MailSecurity 8 installation with GFI
MailSecurity 10.
 Convert and import the GFI MailSecurity 8 configuration settings to
GFI MailSecurity 10‟s new configuration database format.
NOTE: If GFI MailSecurity 8 was installed in SMTP mode and GFI
MailSecurity 10 is installed in Active Directory mode, you will not be
able to convert and import the settings due to user-based rules. This
also applies if GFI MailSecurity 8 was installed in Active Directory
mode and GFI MailSecurity 10 is installed in SMTP mode.
To upgrade from GFI MailSecurity 8 to GFI MailSecurity 10, follow
these steps:
1. Uninstall GFI MailSecurity 8.
2. When the GFI MailSecurity 8 uninstallation completes, certain files
are left behind under the root folder where GFI MailSecurity 8 was
installed. One of these files is the avapicfg.rdb file located in the Data
sub-folder.
NOTE: Do not delete this file since it contains the GFI MailSecurity 8
configuration settings. You will need this file to migrate the settings
from GFI MailSecurity 8 to GFI MailSecurity 10.
3. Install GFI MailSecurity 10 as shown in the „Install GFI MailSecurity‟
section of this chapter.
NOTE: To install GFI MailSecurity 10, you need to have the following
installed on the machine:
 Microsoft .Net framework 1.1 / 2.0
 MSMQ – Microsoft Messaging Queuing Service.
 Internet Information Services (IIS) – SMTP service and World
Wide Web service.
NOTE: Do not install GFI MailSecurity 10 to the same path where GFI
MailSecurity 8 was installed, to prevent files such as avapicfg.rdb from
being overwritten.
4. After the installation of GFI MailSecurity 10 is complete, you need to
stop all GFI-related services along with the IIS Admin service, from the
Services control applet. Then you can run the GFI MailSecurity 8
settings migration tool.
NOTE: You must stop the following services before going on to the
next step:
 GFI Content Security Attendant Service