Who is this article for?

IT Administrators planning an upgrade to Please Review 8.

Local Admin permissions are required.

This article is part of a series of articles covering the upgrade process. Please visit Performing a Please Review 8 Upgrade to view the entire process.

The Please Review upgrade is performed by upgrading a variety of different components depending on how you interact with Please Review and what integrations you have chosen to implement.

Before you can begin the upgrade, it is important to review the roles, requirements and .NET version before commencing the upgrade.

1. Applying customisations

If you have applied any additional changes to your Please Review installation then these changes will need to be applied again. Please refer to your own change control documentation for steps on how to perform this.

For example: Any custom branding or advanced configuration changes will need to be re-created in the new version.

Tip! It may be useful to have a copy of the original Please Review installation package to refer to so that if you have any doubts you can compare the changes.

1.1. SCIM

If you are working with SCIM you will need to update the SCIM web.config file via the steps below:

1. Browse to TaraWeb\SCIM\
2. Backup the web.config file.
3. From the installation media browse to TaraWeb\SCIM\.
4. Copy Web.config.template to the TaraWeb\SCIM\ folder.
5. Update the Web.config.template file with the same values from web.config.
6. Rename Web.config.template to web.config.

When updating the values in step 5 it is important to update WebServiceURL, ImpersonationURL and maxReceivedMessageSize.

2. Upgrading Node.js

Please Review 8.0.0 and higher requires Node.js version v22.16.0 (or higher) to be installed.

To upgrade Node.js:

1. Uninstall any version of Node.js already installed.
2. Browse to the Please Review installation directory.
3. Open the redist directory.

Example
Browse to C:\Program Files\PleaseReview\Redist nodejs.

4. Run the node.js installer.
5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

3. Upgrading Microsoft .NET Framework

Before installing Please Review you will need to configure the Microsoft .NET Framework. For 8.0.0, install .net framework 4.8 or higher.

To install .NET on the application server:  

1. Download the Microsoft .NET framework. 
2. Run the setup file and follow the on-screen instructions.
3. Launch Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
4. Open ISAPI and CGI Restrictions.
5. Right click on any ASP.NET 4 entries and select “Allow”.

6. Run the setup file and follow the on-screen instructions.

Further reading

• Performing a Please Review 8 Upgrade
• Preparing for a Please Review 8 Upgrade
• Backing up an Existing Please Review 8 Installation