Required Postinstallation Tasks
Download and apply required patches for your software release after completing your initial installation.
- Downloading Release Update Patches
Download and install Release Updates (RU) and Release Update Revisions (RUR) patches for your Oracle software after you complete installation. - Windows Authentication No Longer Uses NTLM by Default
For Microsoft Windows installations withAUTHENTICATION_SERVICES=NTS
, in this Oracle Database release, theSQLNET.NO_NTLM
parameter setting in thesqlnet.ora
file defaults toTRUE
, which can cause ORA-12638 errors. - Configuring Oracle Net Services
You can configure Oracle Database Client to communicate with Oracle Net Services by adding the appropriate entries to the tnsnames.ora and listener.ora files.
Parent topic: Oracle Database Client Postinstallation Tasks