Windows

The simplest way to update the HES server.

  1. Stop the server from IIS

  2. Download the zip file from https://update.hideez.com/hes/windows_x64_latest.zip

  3. Extract binary files from the zip archive to your HES folder

  4. Start the server from IIS

Recommended updating the HES server with backup

1. Backup the HES binaries and the configuration file

  • Copy existed folder C:\Hideez\HES to C:\Hideez\HES_old

2. Backup SQL Database

For MySQL database:

  • YOUR_DB_NAME – The database name may be different for you, depending on how you have named it on install.

  • You will need to enter the MySQL root password.

> cd "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin"
>  .\mysqldump -u root -p YOUR_DB_NAME > "C:\Hideez\HES.old\YOUR_DB_NAME.sql"

For Microsoft SQL Server database:

  • Go to the SQL Server Management Studio

  • Right-click on the database name Select Tasks > Backup Select "Full" as the backup type Select "Disk" as the destination Click on "Add..." to add a backup file and type C:\Hideez\HES_old\YOUR_DB_NAME.bak and click "OK" Click "OK" again to create the backup

3. Download and install the latest HES

Download the zip file from https://update.hideez.com/hes/windows_x64_latest.zip, then unzip its content to the folder C:\Hideez\HES.

4. Restoring the configuration file

Copy C:\Hideez\HES_old\appsettings.Production.json to C:\Hideez\HES\appsettings.Production.json in the File Explorer

5. Starting the HES

Start the site using the IIS console

If something goes wrong, you can restore the HES server and Database server using the following steps:

  1. Stop the site using the IIS console, then rename the old folder to HES,

  2. Then restore the database:

For MySQL database:

> cd "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin"
> Get-Content  "C:\Hideez\HES_old\YOUR_DB_NAME.sql" | .\mysql.exe  -u root -p YOUR_DB_NAME

For Microsoft SQL Server database:

  • In the SQL Server Management Studio:

  • In the left navigation bar, right-click on Databases and then click Restore Database.

  • In the Source section, select Device and click the button with three dots and type C:\Hideez\HES_old\YOUR_DB_NAME.bak

  • In the pop-up window that opens, click Add and browse for your backup file. Click OK.

  • In the left navigation menu, click Options.

  • In the pane on the right, select Overwrite the existing database (WITH REPLACE) and Close existing connections to destination database.

  • Click OK.

  1. Then start the site using the IIS console.

Update using a script

In the latest versions, there is another way to update the server – using the PowerShell script update.ps1, which is located in the directory with the server (C:/Hideez/HES/update.ps1). This script has the following command line parameters:

-service - Name of IIS site. Default HES

-url - URL to download the update file. The default, URL will be taken from https://update.hideez.com/hes/build.json

But you can override these parameters. For example, to update HES offline, from the file "windows_x64_latest.zip", located in the C:/Updates directory, you can run the script in PowerShell, as follows:

update.ps1 -url file://C:/Updates/windows_x64_latest.zip

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