Use the P6 Professional Installation Wizard to upgrade P6 Professional. For an upgrade, the P6 Professional Installation Wizard does the following:
- Replaces any previous versions of P6 Professional (release 15, 16, or version 7, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, or 8.4) with P6 Professional Version 20.
- Upgrades the SQLite database, if needed.
- Upgrades the Oracle XE database or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to the current schema, if needed.
- Optionally migrates an Oracle XE database or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to a SQLite database. SQLite is the default database type for a P6 Professional standalone database.
Notes:
- If the currently installed version of P6 Professional is 32-bit, uninstall the existing version before upgrading to version 18.8 or later.
- Versions earlier than P6 Professional 7.0 are no longer supported and cannot be upgraded.
- P6 Professional and Job Services will be updated.
- If you are migrating an Oracle XE database or a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to a SQLite database, you must first upgrade Oracle XE database or a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 database to the current schema.
- The default location of the migrated database is the Documents folder; P6Standalone.db is the default filename.
- Setup automatically configures the alias PMDB in the migrated SQLite database file.
- Starting with version 8.1, Summary-Only projects are not supported in P6 Professional. During the P6 Professional database upgrade, existing Summary-Only projects are converted to standard projects, but will lose all summary data. You can import the summary project from Microsoft Project into the converted blank project, and then summarize the data. See the P6 Professional Help.