This document describes details of the changes in release 411, related to the WMS web server, and the action to take when updating.

General

In product update 411, following changed for the E-WMS ASP web server:

1. Installation and presence of Exact Globe Next (EGN) on the web server is no longer required.
    
   Exact Globe Next components were used in earlier releases for following purposes:
    
   
   1. terming: showing the texts on the scanner in your own language, as in Exact Globe Next.
      > E-WMS now includes the required terming targets in the ASP installation ZIP file, these are placed in the LNG folder of the WMS ASP installation folder.
       
      
   2. license check: validating and applying the EGN and E-WMS license
      > E-WMS no longer uses EGN components for license validation
        
      
   3. version check: validate whether the WMS ASP installation has the correct software version, by compare the file versions of two DLL files (one from the EGN installation, one from E-WMS ASP).
      > The software version check is now done through the database. This means after an update of Exact Globe Next, the database first has to be opened in Globe and a WMS Control Center has to be started. Any E-WMS Control Center will update the version in the database after EGN has been updated. See below for more details.
       
2. The WMS ASP process now uses .Net Framework 4.5
    
3. The WMS ASP process can now run as 64bit IIS process (32bit is also still possible)
     
   
4. The WMS ASP process now uses the 'integrated pipeline mode' instead of the 'classic pipeline mode'
    
   
5. The installation of "Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013" is required.
    
6. The SQL user defined in the file Connections.config, used by E-WMS ASP to communicate with the database, needs to have all rights on the databases.
   The SQL user has to be member of the SQL server role 'sysadmin' or else 'db_owner' of the specific database.
   

Steps to take when updating to 411 or higher

When updating from release 410 or earlier, to release 411 or higher, you need to perform following actions (once only) on the E-WMS web server.

1. Install  "Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013" (vcredist_x64.exe).
   When not installed, an error will show when logging in on a scanner.
   
   Next, change the IIS configuration options:
     
   
2. Start IIS management through Start/Run/INETMGR or through the server management console
    
3. Expand the tree list to Sites/Default Web Site
    
   
4. Click on the 'wms' website (or your website name), and in the far right panel on 'Basic settings'
    
   
5. Check the name of the Application pool configured for the WMS web site, in this case 'wms':
   
   
   Close this screen.
    
   
6. Now click on 'Application pools' in the management tree (just below the server name), then right-click on the WMS application pool and choose 'Basic settings':
   
   
   Change '.NET Framework version' to version v4.0.xxxx.
   If you do not see this version, then Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 first has to be installed on the server.
    
   
7. In the same screen, change 'Managed pipeline mode' to 'Integrated'.
    
   
8. Close the basic settings screen and right-click again on the WMS application pool, now choose Advanced settings.
   Change the setting 'Enable 32-Bit Applications' to False and press OK.
   
   
   
    
   
9. SQL-server: Start the Microsoft SQL-Server Management Studio, connect to the SQL-server (if not already connected), and expand the Security/Logins tree.
    
   Right-click on the SQL-user you configured in the ASP file connections.config and select Properties.
   
   You can grant the required access right by making the user member of the Sysadmin role, or by making member of the db_owner (database owner) group for the specific database:
   
   
   
   
   
   Please note that you can encrypt the password for this SQL user, in file connections.config.
   
   
    
   

The steps above only need to performed once, after updating to release 411 or higher.

The next chapter, 'Software version check', describes what needs to be performed after every Exact Globe Next update from now on.

Software version check: first start WMS control center after updating

When starting a WMS session (logging in on a scanner), E-WMS needs to verify whether the 'business logic' of the currently installed WMS ASP version is the same as the business logic in the WMS software used within Exact Globe Next.

In earlier releases, the file versions of two DLL files on the web server (one present in the EGN BIN folder, and one in the ASP BIN folder) were compared for that purpose. When the file versions do not match, it usually means that EGN was updated but WMS ASP not yet, and you would see the error message 'Your WMS ASP version is outdated. Please update your E-WMS ASP IIS files to match your Exact Globe Next version'.

Because the presence of EGN on the web server is no longer required and the DLL file in the EGN BIN folder can no longer be used for comparison, the EGN database is now used to verify the WMS business logic version.

This means that after opening a database in an updated EGN version, you first have to start a WMS Control Center, to update the WMS business logic version in the database (this is done automatically and silently). Only after you have started a control center, you will be able to start WMS scanner sessions without the version error.

Points of attention

Since EGN is no longer required on the web server for E-WMS ASP purposes, it could be prudent to uninstall it - to prevent mistakes, or prevent confusion about the presence of an outdated EGN installation. Alternately, you can keep EGN installed and updated for other purposes.
 
In earlier releases you could update EGN on the web server, after which the updated WMS ASP files where available in a ZIP file in a subfolder. This ZIP file needs to be copied from now on from another PC, where EGN was updated.

Related documents

• Product Update 411: Changed system requirements for E-WMS web server
• Product Update 411: Changed version check method in E-WMS
• E-WMS start page