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Contents

Introduction
Installation Instructions
Before Installation
Software Requirements
Installation Steps
Completing Installation
Upgrade Instructions
Supplied Components
What's New
Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1
Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.0
Supported 3rd party components
Known Problems and Limitations
Contact Information

1. Introduction

Thank you for downloading this release of Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows. This file contains information that supplements the Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows documentation such as requirements, information on new features, corrected bugs, known problems etc. This file was updated with the latest information available at release time.
2. Installation Instructions

We strongly recommend that you refer to the product installation instructions and the product user manual prior to upgrading/installing and operating Parallels Plesk Panel. Refer to the Parallels, Inc. web site at http://www.parallels.com for more information.

Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows documentation: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/docs/

Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows Knowledge Base:http://kb.parallels.com/en/products/pleskwindows/
2.1. Before Installation

Before starting the installation process we strongly recommend that you create a full system backup of the entire server.

Internet Information Services (IIS) should be preinstalled with World Wide Web (WWW) Service support.
2.2. Software Requirements

Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows requires one of the following OS installed on your computer:

Windows 2003 Server SP1/SP2/R2 Web Edition
Windows 2003 Server SP1/SP2/R2 Standard Edition
Windows 2003 Server SP1/SP2/R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows 2003 Server SP1/SP2/R2 Datacenter Edition
Windows 2008 Server Web Edition
Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition
Windows 2008 Server Enterprise Edition
Windows 2008 Server Datacenter Edition

A static IP address should be configured in OS prior to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows installation.

Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows can be installed only on NTFS partition.

In order for your server to support ASP.NET 1.1, FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions, Miva, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service, Server Side Includes (SSI) and Active Server Pages (ASP), you need to install these components manually.

In order for your server to support domain performance configuring, you need to enable QoS Packet Scheduler service.

If you plan to use MS SQL Server support in Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows, the MS SQL Server should be installed and configured to use standard or mixed security mode. If MS SQL Server is not installed, you can select Microsoft SQL Server to be installed with Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows and configured with administrator name 'sa' and random password.

IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend that you install Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows on a clean server; specifically, only above-mentioned operating system components should be installed.
2.3. Installation Steps

Log in as "Administrator" or another user with Administrator's privileges.
Change your working directory to the directory where the Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows distribution resides.
Run the SetupPlesk.exe or plesk_9.0.1_buildYYMMDD.HH.exe (where YYMMDD.HH is the actual build date).
Follow the on-screen instructions.
In some cases when the installation is finished, reboot confirmation will be requested.
After the reboot Parallels Plesk Panel will be started automatically.

2.4. Completing Installation

In order to finish the initial configuration of Parallels Plesk Panel, you need to login to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows on your host at https://domain.name:8443/ or https://IP-address:8443/

The default username is "admin" and the default password is "setup". The password is case sensitive. For security reasons the password has to be changed upon initial login.
3. Upgrade Instructions

IMPORTANT: Make sure you upgrade all installed components when upgrading to Parallels Plesk Panel 9. This is required to avoid conflicts caused by outdated components.

IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading Parallels Plesk Panel on a intensively used hardware node, it is strongly recommended to use the following PVC parameters for the upgrade:

vprvmem (virtual memory) - 700
numproc (number of processes) - 100

After the upgrade is finished, these parameters should be set to their old values.

If you have Plesk version earlier than 8.1.x installed on your machine, you need to upgrade it to Plesk 7.6.1 first, migrating all data, upgrade it to Plesk 8.1, and then run the Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 installer. Refer to Plesk 8.1 Release Notes for additional information if you want to upgrade your Sitebuilder delivered with Plesk 7.6.1.

If your machine has Plesk 8.1.x, 8.2.x, 8.3.x, 8.4.x or 8.6.x installed, you will be prompted to upgrade existing Plesk installation to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 after running the installer.

Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows includes Sitebuilder 4.5 in the distribution package, but your Sitebuilder 2.x or 3.x installation will not be upgraded automatically. If you want to upgrade your Sitebuilder installation, add the following key to the command line of EXE installer when installing Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1: WSB_UPGRADE=force

If you have used SiteBuilder 2.0.5 with earlier versions of Plesk, you can migrate web sites created in SiteBuilder 2.0.5 to SiteBuilder 4.5 after you upgrade your Plesk to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1.

To successfully migrate web sites created in SiteBuilder 2.0.5 to SiteBuilder 4.5:

Install SiteBuilder 4.5:
Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs, select Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows in the list of available programs and click Change.
Make sure that Modify option is selected, click Next >, select SiteBuilder 4.5 for Windows component in Parallels Plesk Panel Core group for installation and click Next >.
Run sitebuilder.exe utility located in the folder where Parallels Plesk Panel is installed with the following parameters:
To migrate all available web sites, run "sitebuilder.exe --migrate2to3"
To migrate all web sites from a domain of your choice, run "sitebuilder.exe --migrate2to3 -domain_name , where is the name of the required domain. The websites will be imported to SiteBuilder 4.5.

4. Supplied Components

Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1 for Windows distribution package ships the following components:

DrWeb 4.44.0.10170
Kaspersky AV 5.0.0.49
Acronis True Image Enterprise Server version 9.1 (build 3939)
Microsoft SQL Server 9.00.3042
MySQL 5.0.45
MySQL ODBC connector 3.51.25
BIND DNS Server 9.4.2
JDK 1.5
Apache 2.0.59
Apache Tomcat 5.5.4
MailEnable Standard 1.986
Plesk Agent 1.5.2.1
Perl v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
PHP 4.4.7
PHP 5.2.6
Python 2.5.0.0
FastCGI 6.1.36.1
SiteBuilder for Windows 4.2.108
SpamAssassin 3.2.3
ASP.NET Enterprise Manager 0.1.3
myLittleAdmin 2000 2.7.r126, 2005 3.2
phpMyAdmin 2.11.6
AWStats 6.6 (build 1.887)
Atmail Webmail Light 1.0
Webalizer V2.01-10-RB02 (Windows NT 5.2) English
stunnel 4.07
Horde IMP H3 (4.1.6)

5. What's New
5.1. Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.1

[+] Selective Backup of Domain Data - When backing up domains, users can choose what domain data and configuration they want to back up.

[-] Inability to restore backup of client accounts with capital letters in username bug is fixed.

[-] Inability to calculate disk space usage on a domain when backup files are present in the repository bug is fixed.

[-] Backup files converted from Plesk 8.x not being restored bug is fixed.

[-] Users being able to change hosting type when they have no permission to manage physical hosting bug is fixed.

[-] Backup Manager unable to create backup when non-latin characters are present in the 'Comments' field bug is fixed.

[-] Inability to create domain via CLI with "No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page" error bug is fixed.

[-] Backup Manager utility pleskrestore not working correctly with -verbose and -debug options bug is fixed.

[-] Backup files converted by pre9-backup-convert.exe utility being reported as not valid backup files bug is fixed.

[-] Help Desk notifications not being sent upon ticket status changes bug is fixed.

[-] Non-English locale not being updated correctly upon the upgrade of Parallels Plesk Panel bug is fixed.

[-] Incorrect help for pleskrestore utility shown by --help bug is fixed.

[-] pleskrestore utility crashing with fatal error when incorrect mapping file is used bug is fixed.

[-] Wrong number of domains hosted on a single IP being shown on IP addresses management page bug is fixed.

[-] Backup tasks scheduled in Plesk 8.x not being removed after the upgrade to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 bug is fixed.

[-] pre9-backup-convert.exe utility failing if backup file contains "admin_news_dismissed" parameter bug is fixed.

[-] Backup Manager incorrectly reporting warnings as errors when used via CLI bug is fixed.

Improved resources management - Mailbox size overuse on one of the mail accounts on a domain no longer leads to domain suspension.

Improved integration with Windows Server 2008 - Parallels Plesk Panel has improved integration with Windows Server 2008. In particular, Parallels Plesk Panel now does not modify users' Web.config file, storing all required data in a separate file instead.

Bugfixes and improvements - A total of 46 issues reported by the customers were fixed, multiple other bugfixes and improvements were made.

5.2. Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0.0

[+] Resellers - Parallels Plesk Panel user hierarchy is enriched with Reseller accounts in Parallels Plesk Panel 9. Resellers sign up their own Clients and resell Web hosting services to them, distributing available resources within the limits acquired by a reseller from the Parallels Plesk Panel Administrator. Resellers can also create and manage their own domains. GUI integration with Parallels Plesk Billing completes the shared hosting solution based on Parallels Plesk products.

[+] Overselling and Overuse - The ability to conveniently manage the overselling and overusage of provided resources directly via Parallels Plesk Panel tremendously improves the flexibility of business model implementation and opens up new possibilities for those who provide shared hosting services.

[+] APS Catalog - Now you can browse web applications packaged in APS Format and published at www.apsstandard.com/app/ directly from Parallels Plesk Panel administration screen, with ability to add them to the server Application Vault online without the hassles of manual uploading. These applications can be made freely available to all customers or their distribution can be restricted for provision on a per-user basis, allowing you to conveniently sell the applications according to the hosting plans you provide.

[+] Redesigned User Interface - Parallels Plesk Panel 9 boasts completely redone user interface designed to help users navigate in Parallels Plesk Panel and perform their tasks quicker and easier. Most popular and important actions are available right away on the user Home Page, while less popular but still important things can be accessed through the drop-down menus located on Home Pages. Navigating through Parallels Plesk Panel is faster than ever now due to ability to select Resellers, Clients, domains and mail accounts via pathbar.

[+] New Default Vista Skin - Parallels Plesk Panel 9 is presented in brand-new clear and nice Vista visual theme that combines the best elements of most popular Parallels Plesk Panel interface skins and provides less strain on the eyes.

[+] Alternative Webmail - Users can now enjoy additional choice of Atmail as their webmail tool. Parallels Plesk Panel 9 ships with free Atmail Webmail Light 1.0 and supports more powerful commercial Atmail Webmail 5.5. The selection of webmail can be done on a per-domain basis, guaranteeing that every customer can use their webmail client of choice.

[+] New Backup Tool - Completely revised Parallels Plesk Panel Backup/Restore functionality provides users with much more powerful and flexible backup solution than ever before. Selective data backup and restoration through Parallels Plesk Panel is now a comfortable, painless and fully controllable process. On-the-fly restoration conflicts resolution offers a variety of ways to resolve restoration conflicts prior to actual update of the system, thus guaranteeing success and complete control over the restoration process.

[+] Parallels Plesk Billing Bundle - Parallels Plesk Panel 9 for Windows seamlessly integrates with Parallels Plesk Billing solution (available for Parallels Plesk Panel 9 for Unix/Linux), eliminating the need of purchasing a third-party billing software and relieving administrators from the pain of integrating such software with Parallels Plesk Panel. Smooth navigation between provisioning and billing portions of Parallels Plesk Billing solution makes hosting provision much more efficient both for hosting service providers and their customers.

[+] Improved Hosting Setup UI - User interface for setting up hosting was redone to make the procedure quicker and more intuitive. Hosting now can be created and configured very fast and literally on one page due to radically improved usability of redesigned hosting setup UI.

[+] API RPC Protocol 1.6.0.0 - Updated API RPC protocol further improves the ability to intergrate your software solutions with Parallels Plesk Panel and completely supports all important features introduced in Parallels Plesk Panel 9.

[+] MSSQL 2008 support - Parallels Plesk Panel 9 for Windows works with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

[+] Merak 9.3.2 support - Parallels Plesk Panel 9 for Windows supports Merak 9.3.2 Mail Server.

ASP.NET Management Improvements - Configuration and management of ASP.NET were improved.

Mail Server Behavior Improvements - The behavior of mail bounce/discard functionality was improved for all supported mail servers.

Firewall GUI Improvements - Firewall GUI in Parallels Plesk Panel was improved.

Database Backup Improvements - Database backup and restoration capabilities were enhanced.

File Manager Usage Improvements - Handling of file and folder access permissions through File Manager was improved.

Statistics Calculation Improvements - Handling of various time zones during statistics calculation was improved.

Parallels Plesk Panel Upgrade Improvements - Upgrading of Parallels Plesk Panel with installed web applications was improved.

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[+] new feature

[-] bug fixed or removed

bug fixed and improvement made

6. Supported third-party components

Mail servers

MailEnable Standard 1.986
MailEnable Professional 3.52
MailEnable Enterprise 3.52
Merak 9.3.2
SmarterMail 5.1
MDaemon 9.6.5
hMailServer 4.4.1
CommuniGate Pro 5.2.6

Antiviruses:

DrWeb 4.44.0.10170
Kaspersky AV 5.0.0.49
ClamWin 0.93
Merak Antivirus

DNS servers:

Microsoft DNS 5.2
BIND DNS Server 9.4.2
SimpleDNS Plus 5.1

FTP servers:

Microsoft FTP 6.0
Microsoft FTP 7.0
Gene6 FTP Server 3.10
Serv-U FTP Server 6.4

Web Statistics:

Webalizer V2.01-10-RB02
AWStats 6.6
SmarterStats 3.3
Urchin 5.7

Web Scripting:

ASP 6.0.3790.0
ASP.NET 1.1.4322
ASP.NET 2.0.50727 (.Net Framework 2.0/3.0/3.5)
Miva Empresa 5.0.6
Perl 5.8.8
PHP 4.4.7
PHP 5.2.6
Python 2.5.0.0
SSI 6.0.3790.0
Apache Tomcat 5.5.4
ColdFusion 5.0
ColdFusion MX 6.1
ColdFusion MX 7.0
ColdFusion 8.0 x86
Microsoft FrontPage 5.0.2.5012

Web Administration Tools:

phpMyAdmin 2.11.6
ASP.NET Enterprise Manager 0.1.3
myLittleAdmin 2000 2.7.r126, 2005 3.2

Database servers:

Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
MySQL 5.0.45

Web Mail Solutions:

Horde IMP H3 (4.1.6)
Atmail Webmail 5.5
MailEnable Web Client
IceWarp Web Mail
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