Upgrading Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail on Content Manager Server

Upgrading Audience Manager and Outbound E-mail on Content Manager Server involves running the Content Manager installer. The installer automatically updates your OutboundEmail.xml configuration file when you upgrade to 2013 SP1.

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. Optional: Upgrade your Outbound E-mail Dreamweaver Templates: if you use the GetLinkBinary() method to create a link to a Multimedia Component (image), 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 Tridion 2009 SP1, SDL Tridion 2011 SP1, SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 HR1, SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 HR2 or SDL Tridion 2013.

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.