MYOB AE 2019.1—Prerequisites

1. Check that your computer meets the system requirements.

2. If you'll be lodging tax returns via PLS using Cloud software authentication (CloudAuth), or if you’re intending to use any MYOB online products, ensure that you have MYOB Logins configured for your practice. See Logging in to MYOB AE/AO for more detail about MYOB Logins.

   

   This is not relevant if you’re one of the minority of practices that are still using AE Tax without the benefits of the fully integrated AE Suite including Homepages. Contact your MYOB Client Manager to find out how to take advantage of all the benefits of upgrading to the current MYOB AE platform.

3. Make sure that you know the login name and password for your server, SQL server and each workstation.

   

   You must login as a system administrator to the servers, the SQL server instance used by MYOB AE and all workstations. Don't use the default administrator login created by Windows.

4. Exit all MYOB software and all Windows programs on your server:

   1. make sure all staff members have exited all MYOB applications on their workstations, including closing any icons in their system tray.

   2. tell your staff members that MYOB applications will not be available for use during the installation process.

5. Ensure your regional settings and format language are set to Australia. See Regional Settings for more information on how to change your regional settings and format language.

6. Ensure that you have internet access.

7. To make sure that your database is upgraded correctly you MUST reboot the server machine that you intend to use to perform the MYOB AE installation on before you start the actual installation.

8. Allow sufficient time for installation. It may take more than an hour to complete.

9. Disable any anti-virus / malware software and user account control on your server.

10. Check your disk space and back up your data:

    1. The combined installer requires a minimum 4GB of free disk space on the local disk of your server. Make sure to enable them again once you’ve finished installing MYOB AE.

       

       As the combined installer takes some database backups, ensure that you also allow extra disk space for the back up of your database(s).

    2. Back up all your existing MYOB AE databases, for example, AE database, Tax database and/or Corporate Compliance database.

       

       The combined installer locally backs up only your AE and Tax databases prior to the actual installation of MYOB AE. We recommend that you do your own database backups prior to installing this release.

    3. We may replace any MYOB Master Reports at any time.
       We recommend that if you’ve customised our masters to export a backup copy of the report layouts using the Report Export Utility which is available from Reports > Report > Export & Import before upgrading MYOB AE.

• No additional information or prerequisites are required to install MYOB AE Client Accounting, apart from those listed in General requirements.

• If you've installed Workpapers templates that were released in 2014, the following error may display when you update your templates for this release:
  Master Template Importer file failed with errors. Check the Log file... 
  The error indicates that templates, already exist and will not be overwritten. Simply click OK to ignore the error message and proceed with the installation.

Take note of the following information prior to installing Corporate Compliance for the first time or using the combined installer for the first time:

• The location of the electronic lodgment files.
  This is the location of the files sent to and received from ASIC when electronically lodging.

This location must be available to all users who electronically lodge ASIC forms within Corporate Compliance.

• The location of your backup files.

The location of the Corporate Compliance database backups must be on the SQL server where Corporate Compliance is installed.

We recommend that you set up a network share on the Corporate Compliance server that is available to all Corporate Compliance users.

Take note of the following information prior to installing Document Manager for the first time or using the combined installer for the first time:

Required servers

You’ll need to identify the servers in your practice. The servers may be on one machine or located separately.

Servers:

• The Practice ManagerApplicationServer is where Practice Manager is installed. Document Manager installs new software components in the DEPLOY directory on that server.

• The File StoreServer is where Document Manager stores documents such as Microsoft Word and Excel, email and PDF documents. This secure directory may only be accessed by the administrator and must have ample storage.

• If your File Store server is on the same machine as the application server the configuration process commences automatically. If not, you will need to log onto the File Store server, browse to the shared directory on the application server and run the DM_Config.exe file.The SQL Server is where the Practice Manager database is located.

  

  We recommend that the SQL Server is on the same machine as the File Store server.

Location of Document Manager

By default, Document Manager is installed in the MYOB AE Deploy directory, for example, C:\Program Files\MYOB\Central\Deploy or C:\MYOBAE\AESQL\Central\Deploy

Details of your document file store

Identify which MYOB AE database will be associated with the File Store.

By default, the Document Manager File Store Service is installed in C:\Program Files\MYOB\Knowledge Management\DMFSService\

The File Store location is a local folder, not a network folder, e.g., C:\MYOB\Data\DMFS_VPMSER or DMFS_AEDB1.

The default Port Number used for the DMFS Service is 4001.

Details of your indexing service

By default, the Document Manager Indexing Service is installed in C:\Program Files\MYOB\Knowledge Management\DMIndexingService\

The default Port Number used for the Indexing Service is 4002.

Other things to consider

If you’re performing a network installation, ensure that the selected location is accessible from each workstation on your network.

The Document Manager installation will set default values for the interrelated components it uses. We recommend you use the defaults as far as possible but recognises the need for these values to be customised. If you have a system administrator they'll be able to advise you on changes that need to be made.

The following table is provided to assist you to record changes to default values, as these values will be required during future software upgrades.

No additional information or prerequisites are required to install MYOB AE Practice Manager, apart from those listed in General requirements.

• You’ll need Adobe Reader if you wish to print a PDF version of a return for the Tax Office.

• If your practice utilises VizPost, ensure that you close the Background Update process manually before starting the installation.
  There is no need to do anything with SRDAL as the combined installer will take care of turning it off and restarting.

• The last three years of MYOB AE Tax are upgraded using the combined installer.