Upgrading the Lightning Conductor Web Part

To upgrade to the latest version of the Lightning Conductor Web Part, use the following steps:

!Which ever method you choose to deploy the farm solution you must be a SharePoint farm administrator. More information on how to make a user a SharePoint farm administrator, see the LightningTools blog post: When is a SharePoint Farm Administrator not a SharePoint Farm Administrator.

1. Download the latest version from your customer portal.
2. Unzip the downloaded Lightning Conductor Web Part zip file to your computer.
3. Copy LightningConductor2013WebPart.wsp to a folder on your SharePoint 2013 server, for example c:\tools, if you did not unzip the download file to the SharePoint server.
4. Upgrade the Web Part, using either Windows PowerShell® commands or the STSADM tool as described below.

!Always test Windows PowerShell and STSADM commands in a test scenario, before using in live scenarios. Do not copy and paste commands from this page, as hidden characters may be included which will cause the commands to fail in your environment.

Using Windows PowerShell commands

To upgrade the Lighting Conductor Web Part using Windows PowerShell commands, use the following steps.

1. Open the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.
2. Type on one line, the Windows PowerShell command similar to:
   Update-SPSolution –Identity "LightningConductor2013WebPart.wsp" -LiteralPath "c:\tools\LightningConductor2013WebPart.wsp" –GacDeployment
   replacing c:\tools with the location where you stored the wsp file.
   

Using the STSADM tool:

To use STSADM commands to upgrade your Lightning Conductor Web Part, use commands similar to:

1. On the SharePoint server, open a command prompt and type:
   STSADM.exe –o upgradesolution –f c:\tools\LightningConductor2013WebPart.wsp –name LightningConductor2013WebPart.wsp –allowgacdeployment -immediate
   replacing c:\tools with the location where you stored the wsp file.
2. Then type:
   STSADM.exe –o execadmsvcjobs.
   

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