Common SIMS .net Upgrade Issues

Digital Signature Failures If the SOLUS download fails reporting ‘Digital Signature Failures’ please try the following. 1. In Internet Explorer go to Tools / Internet Options. Click on the Connections tab, click LAN Settings and check the proxy is set to proxy.swgfl.org.uk 2. Click Advanced and add ;*.scomis.org to the exceptions list. 3. Click OK,…

Upgrade using SOLUS

1. Log all Users out of SIMS and FMS. It is important that SIMS .net and FMS are kept synchronised, so all users must be logged out of all SIMS modules including FMS while the upgrade is being installed. Any third party software that accesses the SIMS / FMS database must be disconnected while the…

Backup SIMS and FMS

Ensure that you have a recent full backup of your system in place and that all users are out of SIMS. 1. Go to Start / Control Panel / Scheduled Tasks. 2.Right click on SQL Backup Task (could also be called “executebackups“) and select Run. 3.To check the backup has been successful go to: C:\Program…