The Conquest Management Console is a 64 bit App for IT, to quickly and easily manage Conquest 3, Conquest 4 and the Conquest API. If you already have it, you won’t need to get it again, because you can keep it up to date with its Update function.
Here’s how to get it:
Step 1. Make sure that the prerequisites have been met, as described in the Web Server Prerequisites section
Step 2. Acquire or upgrade your Sign In Credentials in the form of a Conquest Support email address e.g. department@organisation.state.gov.au and password. Pre-existing credentials in the Conquest Support system are not accepted by the Management Console until they are upgraded. Contact the Conquest Support team to provide or upgrade your credentials, to Customer IT Administrator
Step 3. From your web browser, go to the Conquest web site, Downloads page and select the Conquest Management Console
Step 4. Click the Download link
Step 5. When asked, execute the Conquest.ManagementConsole.App, responding “Yes” to User Account Control:
Step 6. When asked for the path to install to, change it or accept it then click ‘Install’:
Step 7. Start the Management Console
Step 8. Enter your Conquest Services credentials:
Keeping Up To Date
From time to time, you will be advised of an update to the Management Console.
Step 1. Click the Update Notification message to the left of the Configuration Menu, to perform the update:
Step 2. Enter your Conquest Services credentials
Management Console Settings
The “Cog” widget on the top right of the Management Console provides options for:
•Sign Out - This is a good practice, rather than just closing the App
•Console Settings - Opens a Configuration Form, in which the ‘Release’ checkbox is usually all you’ll need:
If your web browser settings include a specific Proxy Server, tick the ‘Use the System Proxy’ checkbox
•Backups - Opens the Backups by Product Form, which lists web sites that have been Removed.
From the list, a Backup can be selected and Deleted, or Opened in a Windows file browser, to provide the subfolders that were in the App_Data folder of the Removed web site, for your inspection:
•Support - Opens the ‘Support’ Form to access the log files:
•About - Opens the About Form:
Management Console Products
After you log in, the Management Console is ready to provide you with the Products and Extension Modules that you have licences for:
There are three categories of Product:
•Application
•Conquest Api v1
•Conquest Api v2
•Conquest III
•Conquest Management Console
•Extensions
•Compiled C# Module of organisation specific functionality
•Other - primarily for Database Scripts
•Database Scripts Picklist
•Create Database script - latest version is default but all versions are available
•If you are on database version 3.4 and you need to bring your database up to version 3.6, select and Download the 3.5 script and 3.6 then process them sequentially in Sql Server Management Studio
•Extensions Module - Source Code
Things to be aware of:
•Conquest III versions before 3.0330 are not managed with the Management Console even though they are visible in it. If you want to upgrade to a later version from 3.0330 onwards, use the Windows Programs and Features tool to uninstall the old version then install the new version with the Management Console
•Only web sites that are sourced from Conquest Software are visible in the Management Console list