Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Service Manual page 8

Preface
Conventions
In this documentation, the designations of elements of the user interface are specified in the
language of this documentation. If you have installed a multi-language package for the
operating system, some of the designations will be displayed in the base language of the
operating system after a language switch and will, therefore, differ from the designations used
in the documentation.
Changes compared with previous versions
Below, you will find an overview of the most important changes compared with previous
versions:
● As of PCS 7 V8.0 including Update 1
● As of PCS 7 V8.0:
● PCS 7 V7.1 or higher:
See also
Licensing with the Automation License Manager (Page 12)
How to Prepare the Software Update with Central Archiving (Page 21)
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– Use of PCS7 Library V6.1 SP1 Update 17. This library allows the software update of
projects from PCS 7 V6.1 SP4 to PCS 7 V8.0 Update 1 without an automation system
STOP, although the project must first be updated to PCS 7 V7.1 SP3.
– Use of the Advanced Process Library (APL) V8.0 as standard library for configuration.
– PCS 7 setup automatically installs the necessary hotfixes and SQL server.
– Use of OS clients as maintenance clients (default configuration for an OS client in terms
of the maintenance server)
– Information on Microsoft Windows settings and security settings can be found in the
SIMATIC Process Control System PCS 7; Security Information Note
whitepaper
This can be downloaded via the Internet from the Customer Support
www.siemens.automation.com/service) web pages under the following entry number
26462131 (http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/26462131).
– Information on virus scanners can be found in the whitepaper
System PCS 7; Security Information Note; Setting Virus Scanners
This can be downloaded from the Customer Support
www.siemens.automation.com/service) Web pages under the following entry number
26366540 (http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/26366540).
– The architecture for SIMATIC PDM has been modified.
For more information on this, refer to section "How to configure the SIMATIC PDM
Server (Page 39)".
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