How to upgrade the application

The application is updated automatically. If you have a current license for a previous version of Kaspersky Small Office Security, you do not need to activate the application: the Setup Wizard will automatically retrieve information about the license for the previous version of Kaspersky Small Office Security and apply it during installation of Kaspersky Small Office Security.

The application is automatically updated if you install a new version of the application over the previous one.

Installing Kaspersky Small Office Security 7 over Kaspersky Small Office Security 5 or 6

If you install Kaspersky Small Office Security 7 on a computer where Kaspersky Small Office Security 5 or 6 is already installed, the following types of data will be unavailable:

• Anti-Spam databases
• Files in Quarantine

The application is updated automatically. If you have a current license for a previous version of Kaspersky Small Office Security, you do not need to activate the application: the Setup Wizard will automatically retrieve information about the license for the previous version of Kaspersky Small Office Security and apply it during installation of Kaspersky Small Office Security.

While downloading the update, the application compares the previous and new versions of the End User License Agreement, Kaspersky Security Network Statement, and Statement regarding data processing for marketing purposes. If the agreements and/or statements differ, the application offers you to read and accept them again.

Certain limitations apply to the upgrade from the previous version.

If you had previously created a container in Kaspersky Small Office Security 4, on first access to the container, Kaspersky Small Office Security converts it to a data vault. Files in the data vault become available when the conversion is complete. It may take a long time to convert containers into data vaults.

The application can be upgraded if the following versions of Kaspersky Small Office Security are installed on your computer:

• Kaspersky Small Office Security 4
• Kaspersky Small Office Security 5
• Kaspersky Small Office Security 6

Limitations on upgrades from a previous version of the application

When updating Kaspersky Small Office Security 4, 5, 6 to a new version, the old license is not always applicable. This is due to licensing specifics in these application versions. Also, when updating Kaspersky Small Office Security 4 or 5 to a new version, the new version of Kaspersky Small Office Security will use the default application settings.

Upgrading from Kaspersky Small Office Security entails the following limitations and special considerations:

• After an upgrade from a previous version, Kaspersky Small Office Security starts automatically even if automatic startup of the application is disabled in the settings that have been saved. When the operating system restarts afterwards, Kaspersky Small Office Security does not start automatically if automatic startup of the application is disabled in the settings that have been saved.
• After upgrading from a previous version of Kaspersky Small Office Security for a file server, the new System Watcher component will be enabled by default.