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This section instructs you how to administer NX PCB Exchange Connect and update NX PCB Exchange Connect services and web application.
Configure Teamcenter server to integrate with the app
When the NX PCB Exchange Connect services are configured to use the Teamcenter Security Services (TCSS) for authentication, a few configuration steps must be performed on the Teamcenter server to complete the integration.

What's New
This section communicates updates to the NX PCB Exchange Connect web application.
Welcome
Understand the web application user interface and learn how to navigate the features and functionalities.
Help
This section instructs you how to contact customer support for the app and this help, and provides some troubleshooting tips.
Assembly
The assembly functionality lets you explore, visualize, and measure the PCB entities, such as stack-up zones and layers, nets, restriction areas, components, and drilled holes, in the loaded PCB design.
Compare
The comparison functionality lets you compare two revisions of a PCB design to understand changes in PCB entities graphically and explore their attributes in interactive tables.
Collaboration
The collaboration history functionality lets you review changes, updates, and collaborations that occurred during the PCB design process.
Installation
This section instructs you how to install NX PCB Exchange Connect services and web application, including this help collection.
Administration
This section instructs you how to administer NX PCB Exchange Connect and update NX PCB Exchange Connect services and web application.
- Populate the app database
  This procedure shows how to add PCB design files to the app database to access them from the NX PCB Exchange Connect web application.
- Modify app environment variables
  This procedure shows how to modify the system environment variables used by NX PCB Exchange Connect.
- Find the app log files
  This procedure shows how to find the NX PCB Exchange Connect log files.
- How to find the app version numbers
  NX PCB Exchange Connect has multiple components—services and the web app—that have different version numbers. Sometimes you need to know these versions for update instructions.
- Deploy a shared table display
  Deploy a shared table display to provide a standardized view of PCB design data for your organization.
- User license management
  In NX PCB Exchange Connect, named user license management is done through an administrative command-line interface (CLI) executable, which lets you view current license assignments, and assign or remove a user license.
- Updating NX PCB Exchange Connect
  This guide includes steps to update both the NX PCB Exchange Connect services and web application to a newer version.
- Configure Teamcenter server to integrate with the app
  When the NX PCB Exchange Connect services are configured to use the Teamcenter Security Services (TCSS) for authentication, a few configuration steps must be performed on the Teamcenter server to complete the integration.
Settings
The settings options let you edit the application preferences and customize its various aspects, such as the display.

Configure Teamcenter server to integrate with the app

When the NX PCB Exchange Connect services are configured to use the Teamcenter Security Services (TCSS) for authentication, a few configuration steps must be performed on the Teamcenter server to complete the integration.

Configure the NX PCB Exchange Connect services to use the Teamcenter Security Services for authentication.
A working Teamcenter and Active Workspace setup where the Security Services have been installed and configured with an ID provider and single sign-on (SSO) has been enabled. For more information on how to set up TCSS, consult the Siemens documentation about TCSS on Siemens Support Center.

NX PCB Exchange Connect must be registered as a new app in the Teamcenter SSO module in order to allow the TCSS to process the login and redirect to NX PCB Exchange Connect once the user is authenticated.

In the Teamcenter Web Application Manager (insweb.bat), register NX PCB Exchange Connect as a new app by matching the app ID defined in the PcbApi_AuthenticationSettings__TeamcenterSecurityServicesSettings__AppId environment variable.

The Application Root URL should be set to the NX PCB Exchange Connect services home page URL and other values should match the Active Workspace configuration.
Deploy the new configuration and restart the SSO web app.
In tc_profilevars.bat, update the TC_SSO_APP_ID variable to add the new app ID you defined in step 1.
You can append values by adding a comma, for example:
```
set TC_SSO_APP_ID=Teamcenter,ActiveWorkspace,PCBxConnect
```
Restart the TC service.

NX PCB Exchange Connect should now redirect to the TC Security Services to obtain the user identity.