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Installation and Upgrade Information Upgrading to Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP3

Release Notes for Release 9.1 Service Pack 3 (9.1.30151.0) Page 24

Upgrading to Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP3

Upgrade Guides

Blackboard provides separate Upgrade Guides for each of the following products:

• Blackboard Learn Release 9.0

• Blackboard Academic Suite 8.0

• CE 4

• CE 8

• Vista 8

Each Upgrade Guide is available in the appropriate product’s Upgrade Kit available on the

Blackboard Upgrade Center or Behind the Blackboard.

Provide New License

Contact Blackboard Client Operations to request a new license key file (bb-license.xml) for

Blackboard Learn Release 9.1. Make sure to do so well in advance of the upgrade. It is important

to obtain a new license file to ensure the upgrade includes new features and functions.

Save the new license file in the same directory as the updater. Be sure not to confuse the new

license with the old license file.

During the upgrade, when the installation prompt presents the following options: Update, Provide

new License file, Uninstall Blackboard Learn, and Uninstall appserver, select Provide new

License file.

Warnings

Running the Updater on an existing system will reset many back-end and user interface

customizations. Examples and warnings describing specific known issues are included here.

Examples of affected back-end settings include:

• JAVA_HOME system environment variable

• SSL and custom authentication settings

• Settings in the bb-config.properties, authentication.properties, and

wrapper.conf files