IHS Kingdom SMT 2016.1 General • Always back up each project before opening it in a new release. • Kingdom 2016 .1 requires the use of a SQL Server Express, SQL Server, or Oracle database. • Kingdom 2016 .1 utilizes the latest Microsoft technology and requires Microsoft .NET Framework versions 3.5 and 4.5.2, which are automatically installed during the Kingdom installation if not already installed. pgrading from 2015 or earlier to 2016 The following items are unique to a Kingdom 2016 project upgrade: • Kingdom 2016 cannot automatically upgrade projects from version 8.6 or earlier. You must first upgrade any 8.6 or earlier versions of Kingdom projects to a minimum of version 8.7 before you can upgrade them to Kingdom 2016. • Kingdom 2016 is only backwards compatible with Kingdom 2015 Hot Fix 4. Once you upgrade to Kingdom 2016, any existing projects you try to open with Kingdom 2016 must be upgraded and once upgraded projects are no longer usable by any previous version of Kingdom except K ingdom 2015 Hot Fix 4. • After you upgrade a project to Kingdom 2016, you need to re- import any raster log image and calibration files. If you calibrated any raster files in Kingdom, you must first export them using Kingdom 2015 Hot Fix 4 , and then import them into Kingdom 2016. • If you previously imported production data into your project using Direct Connect, you need to delete and re- import your production data to prevent data duplication errors