Upgrading Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail (deprecated) on Content Manager Server

Run the Content Manager installer to upgrade Audience Manager and the deprecated Outbound E-mail feature on Content Manager Server. The installer automatically updates your OutboundEmail.xml configuration file when you upgrade to 9.1.

Procedure

  1. Make a back-up of your OutboundEmail.xml configuration file located by default in the config subdirectory of your Content Manager root location.
  2. Upgrade Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail as part of the procedure for Upgrading Content Manager server.
  3. Run the Template Builder to upgrade your modular templates.
  4. Optional: If you use the GetLinkBinary() method to create a link to a Multimedia Component (image), upgrade your Outbound E-mail Dreamweaver Templates and rename the method GetLinkBinaryURL().

Results

Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail are upgraded, including your OutboundEmail.xml configuration file.

What to do next

For information about changes made to your OutboundEmail.xml during upgrade, see the Release Notes. The Release Notes describe the Changes to configuration made in SDL Web 8.5 or SDL Tridion Sites 9.

During upgrade, the password in the database settings section is encrypted automatically. For more information on Encrypting sensitive strings for Audience Manager, see the installation documentation.