### Prepare the Side-by-side Upgrade Package

The Side-by-Side (SBS) Upgrade Package contains upgrade tools and a folder structure to help you organize and prepare both systems for upgrade migration upgrade migration.

In subsequent steps you will copy configuration files from the old system to SBS Upgrade Package folders, use the tools to facilitate the upgrade, and then copy the entire SBS Upgrade Package to the new system.

To prepare the SBS Upgrade Package:

Locate the SBS Upgrade Package and copy it to the `C:\` drive of the old system.

Distributed System Note: If the old IONESPMPME system is a distributed system, copy the SBS Upgrade Package on the Application and the Database Server in the following manner:

On the Application Server:

On the Database Server:

At this point, the following folders are empty:

- `\config`
- `\Dashboard_Images`
- `\Database_Archives`
- `\Database_Backups`
- `\EWS`

`\Report_Subscription` contains the following files:

- `ExportSubscriptions.exe`
- `ImportSubscriptions.exe`
- `IONSubscriptionsHelper.dll`

`\SQL_Script_Files` contains the following files:

- `Fix_PME_Users.sql`
- `Fix_PME_Users_ArchiveDB.sql`
- `SSDT_cmd_Line.bat`
- `update_server_name_in_archive_databases.sql`
- `update_server_name_in_live_databases.sql`