To upgrade Garoon, the following preparation steps are required:

If you use Power Up Kit Series Group Mail for Garoon, you must consult our official partners or your vendor.
You can find our partners by searching Cybozu Partner Network in our product site.

Before you upgrade Garoon, you must back up the data for your current instance. For details on how to back up, refer to Backup and Restoration in the "Administrator Help" for the version you are currently using.

You must know the database administrator password that was set when the current Garoon instance was installed.

If you upgrade Garoon in Windows environment, perform the following to change IIS settings.

• Add MIME types
• Enable directory browsing
• Edit handler mappings:
  Change this setting if you use the different versions of IIS before and after the upgrade.

For details on how to configure the settings, refer to Changing IIS Settings.

For Linux, ensure that the libraries required for running Garoon are installed. For libraries used by Garoon, refer to Necessary Libraries on Linux (Garoon 5.x.x or later).

When using the Full Text Search Server, stop Solr and Worker on the server machine where the Full text search server is deployed.
It is recommended that you stop the Full Text Search Server after stopping Garoon.

1. From Administrative Tools on Windows, open "Services".
2. Select the following services, and click "Stop Service".

• Cybozu_SearchServer_Worker
• Cybozu_SearchServer_Solr

Run the following commands sequentially.

[root@garoon admin]# /etc/init.d/cbss_solr stop
[root@garoon admin]# /etc/init.d/cbss_worker stop

For details on how to stop the services, refer to the Full Text Search Server Guide.