Sridevi, I used the export script that came bundled with JS Pro 3.0 to back up my JS database. Also did a mysqldump just in case. Once the database was backed up, I followed the steps in the 3.5 install guild to use the 'buildomatic' scripts. The scripts have you drop the 3.0 database, create a new database based on the 3.5 architecture, setup defualt users, and import my 3.0 data. That part went smoothly. I can log in as the default users (superuser, jasperadmin) all seems fine. My problem is when I modify acegi to authenitcate against an external db. Other than that, the upgrade went very smoothly. HTH, Jeremy