Upgrading

You can upgrade either the SQL Server Adapter or the Adapter Development Kit (ADK).

Upgrading the adapter, as opposed to reinstalling it, allows you to keep your configuration settings. Additionally, you do not have to uninstall the current adapter and install the newer version.

Note: If your existing adapter version is earlier than 5.0, you must uninstall the older version of the adapter before you can install the 5.0 adapter. You cannot migrate from an earlier version to 5.0 because the encryption used in the 5.0 release is not compatible with previous ADK versions. Any previously encrypted values cannot be read by the 5.0 adapter.

The ADK is the base component of the adapter. While all adapters have the same ADK, the remaining adapter functionality is specific to the managed resource. You can perform an adapter upgrade to migrate your current adapter installation to a newer version, for example version 5.0 to version 5.x.

If only a code fix has been made to the ADK, instead of upgrading the entire adapter, you can upgrade just the ADK to the newer version. See Upgrading the ADK.