ePolicy Orchestrator 5.0 Installation Guide - McAfee

Upgrading ePolicy Orchestrator software
Upgrade your ePolicy Orchestrator server 4
Status displays the file extraction status and Migration Completed appears when the process is done. The
extraction process could take several minutes on an enterprise McAfee ePO server.
If you interrupt the migration file extraction process, simply restart the upgrade 5.0 ePolicy
Orchestrator server and start the migration process over again to extract the file.
4 Run the upgrade described in Upgrading McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software.
All your existing 4.X McAfee ePO server configuration files have been copied to your version 5.0 or
later McAfee ePO server. You are now ready to run the ePolicy Orchestrator software upgrade.
If for any reason your ePolicy Orchestrator upgrade fails and you have migrated and then run the
upgrade to version 5.0 ePolicy Orchestrator, revert to the backup database on your version 4.X server.
Upgrade your ePolicy Orchestrator server
You can use Setup.exe to upgrade your ePolicy Orchestrator 4.X server to version 5.0.
Before you begin
Update the system that hosts your ePolicy Orchestrator server with the latest Microsoft
security updates, then turn off Windows updates during the installation process.
See Things to know before upgrading for minimum ePolicy Orchestrator upgrade versions.
We recommend that you monitor the upgrade process. You might be required to restart your system.
The default location of ePolicy Orchestrator software is: C:\Program Files (x86)\McAfee\ePolicy
Orchestrator
Task
1 Log on to the system using an account with local administrator permissions.
2 On the upgrade 64‐bit McAfee ePO 5.0 server, download the ePolicy Orchestrator 5.0 software from
the McAfee website.
The software is in the downloaded ePolicy Orchestrator installation file.
3 Extract the files to a temporary location and find and double‐click Setup.exe.
If any prerequisite software is missing from the installation target computer, a list of those items
appears. Click Next. The installation process for each software item listed begins automatically.
4 In the Welcome window of the installation wizard, click Next.
A warning message might appear listing products from your previous version of ePolicy
Orchestrator that are no longer supported with the 5.0 version of the software. These products are
not migrated to the ePolicy Orchestrator 5.0 repository.
5 In the Global Administrator Information dialog box, type the user name and password of the global
administrator for the current server, then click Next.
6 From the Ready to install the Program dialog box, decide if you want to Send anonymous usage
information to McAfee, then click Install to begin installing the software.
Deselect the checkbox if you don't want McAfee to collect anonymous diagnostic and usage data.
7 In the InstallShield Wizard Completed dialog box, click Finish to complete the installation.
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