How do I upgrade from Exclaimer Mail Disclaimers to Exclaimer Signature Manager Exchange Edition?

Upgrading to Signature Manager Exchange Edition is achieved by performing an in-place upgrade using these steps:

1. Downloading the Signature Manager Exchange Edition from the website.
2. Installing Signature Manager Exchange Edition.

Note: The configuration is preserved during the upgrade procedure. You won’t need to recreate any templates or enter any configuration settings into the new version.

Important:

When upgrading from Mail Disclaimers 1.0 to Signature Manager Exchange Edition 2.0.0 the product will go into trial mode. You will need to obtain a new license for Signature Manager Exchange Edition 2.0.0 from the Exclaimer Sales team.

Downloading

Click here to download the Signature Manager Exchange Edition installation file.

Installing

Run the ‘Signature Manager Exchange Edition’ installation file ‘Setup.exe’ on each Microsoft Exchange Server that has the Hub Transport role (Exchange 2007/2010) or Mailbox role (Exchange 2013) installed. An MSI is available from Exclaimer support by contacting support@exclaimer.com.

Note: During the installation the Microsoft Exchange Transport service will be restarted. Once the installation is complete, no further configuration is required and the product is operational.

The configuration files are located in the following folder and will not be removed as part of the uninstall process:

Note: The installation process will not lose any of the configuration or settings. However as a precaution, you may wish to export your configuration. During the uninstallation the Microsoft Exchange Transport service will be restarted.

Export Steps

• Open the Exclaimer Console.
• Select the ‘Exclaimer’ node.
• Open the ‘Action’ menu.
• Select ‘Export Configuration...’
• Select a location and file name for the export and press Save.

Upgrading from Mail Disclaimers 1.0 to Signature Manager Exchange Edition 2.0.0 can be achieved via the ‘setup.exe’ which will perform an in-place upgrade.

New Features

• In-place upgrades. No need to uninstall the previous version.
• Copy and import template data from other Exclaimer products.
• Convert Plain Text messages to HTML before applying signature.
• Ability to remove any previously attached vCards.
• Ability to trigger policy conditions and populate template data using either the SENDER or FROM parts of a message.
• Ability to stop processing policies if a policy exception is encountered.
• New “Conditional Field” component.
• New “List of fields” component.
• New “Social media strip” component.
• New “QR Code” component.
• New “Personal Block” component.
• New “Address Block” component.
• New “Other User’s AD field” component.
• Nested {fields} can inherit the properties of their parent.
• General performance and scalability improvements.

Changes

• Status View has been removed and all operational events are now logged in the ‘Exclaimer’ Windows event log under ‘Application and Services Logs’.
• Email notifications removed. Notifications are now recorded in the Windows event log.
• Image button in the template editor now uses {Custom Image} field.
• Hyperlink button in the template editor now uses {Custom Hyperlink} field.

Fixed issues

• When using the LDAP Query editor in Conditions/Exceptions on the Advanced tab the entire LDAP query was not exposed.
• Dynamic Distribution Group cached information was not refreshed on expiry.
• Bullet points displayed incorrectly in certain scenarios.
• Using “Content from File” with an RTF document could occasionally cause repeated content to appear.
• First 3 characters of a Japanese message in RTF were malformed when using Japanese Windows XP and Japanese Office 2003.
• Messages without a 'From' address, but with a 'X-Sender' header would not be processed.
• Messages with Sender: or From: field missing, empty or containing only <> would not be processed.
• Encrypted messages that triggered a policy with an embedded image would not be processed.
• Table components always had their merge cells option disabled.
• Configuration backup failed in certain scenarios.
• Importing and Exporting configuration files did not clear them from the temp folder.
• The folder selected for image and file location when importing multiple templates was not being retained.