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Administration
This section instructs you how to administer NX PCB Exchange Connect and update NX PCB Exchange Connect services and web application.
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.
Update NX PCB Exchange Connect services
This procedure shows how to update the NX PCB Exchange Connect services on a Windows server.

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.
  - Update NX PCB Exchange Connect services
    This procedure shows how to update the NX PCB Exchange Connect services on a Windows server.
  - Update NX PCB Exchange Connect web application
    This procedure shows how to update the NX PCB Exchange Connect web application on a Windows server.
- 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.

Update NX PCB Exchange Connect services

This procedure shows how to update the NX PCB Exchange Connect services on a Windows server.

Ensure that you have administrator rights on a Windows server where the app is installed.
If you are updating NX PCB Exchange Connect services from a services package version earlier than 3.0.0, you need to install a newer version of .NET modules.

The NX PCB Exchange Connect services installation package services_<version>.zip contains the api_webDeploy folder containing the latest services application package that will be deployed.

From the Start menu, launch Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
In the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager window, in the Connections pane, expand the server node→Sites.
Under Sites, right-click PcbExchangeServices and choose Deploy > Import Application.
In the Import Application Package dialog box, on the Select the Package page, click Browse, select the EMCADWeb.Api.zip file, and click Next.
The EMCADWeb.Api.zip file is provided in the latest NX PCB Exchange Connect installation package in the api_webDeploy folder.
On the Select the Contents of the Package page, click Next.
On the Enter Application Package Information page, make the path parameter empty by removing any content and click Next.
Click OK to accept the displayed warning.
On the Overwrite Existing Files page, select Yes, delete all extra files and folder on the destination that are note in the application package. and click Next.
Click Finish.
In the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager window, in the Connections pane, under Sites, select the PcbExchangeServices website.
In the Actions pane, in the Browse Website section, click Browse to test the website.
The NX PCB Exchange Connect services home page displays in the browser.
In the browser, click the API health monitoring link to verify that everything is installed correctly.