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Before performing upgrading or migrating a previous Control Manager installation to Trend Micro Apex Central, create a backup of the following server files:
Information
Location
Database
Use SQL Server Management Studio to back up the database.
  • For migration from a previous version of Control Manager, the database name is db_ControlManager.
  • For Apex Central, the database name is db_ApexCentral.
Authentication information
\Program Files (x86)\Trend Micro\CmKeyBackup\*.*
(Ensures that managed products reporting to the Trend Micro Apex Central server will report to the same server if Trend Micro Apex Central is restored)
ActiveUpdate files
\Program Files (x86)\Trend Micro\Control Manager\webui\download\Activeupdate
Control Manager registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TrendMicro\TVCS
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TrendMicro\CommonCGI
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\TMCM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TMCM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\TrendMicro_NTP
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS
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