Installation and Upgrade

This category contains information for installing and configuring solutions, updating installations (for maintenance releases, adding languages, and adding optional products), and upgrading from release to release.

The most recent installation and upgrade content is available as PDFs from the Reference Documents page of ptc.com: https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/doc/refdoc.jsp.

Did You Know?

• For information about installing, updating, or upgrading a instance, or for information about moving up from to , see Updating, Upgrading, and Moving Up.

• If you upgrade your Microsoft SQL Server database for from version 2005 or 2008 to version 2012 or 2014 or 2016, you must change SQL Server database collation. For more information, see .

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