Reflects the current release of Nintex for SharePoint 2016. For your version, please access assistance through the Help button in the product.
This topic provides instructions for completing upgrade prerequisites. Before upgrading to Nintex for SharePoint 2016, confirm your SharePoint state, note existing Nintex Live ID (if used), and prepare your SharePoint 2016 environment.
To confirm your SharePoint state, ensure the following
SharePoint 2016 is installed and configured.
SharePoint 2013 content databases are not yet attached.
The web application that will host the SharePoint 2013 content has been created.
To note the existing Nintex Live ID
On the Central Administration Home page, select Nintex Live Management.
Click Connection settings.
Copy the existing value of the ID to a file for later use.
Later in the upgrade process, this ID will be restored in the SharePoint 2016 environment. See Restore the external connection end point ID.
Click OK.
To prepare your SharePoint 2016 environment for the upgrade process
Disable the workflow timer job (Workflow).
On the Central Administration Home page, click Monitoring.
Under Timer Jobs, click Review job definitions.
On the Job Definitions page, click Workflow.
On the Edit Timer Job page, click Disable.
Stop all services that host or interoperate with the SharePoint workflow engine.