
Understand why upgrades matter in ServiceNow through a two-instance example, showing how update sets and a new field requester location move changes between instances and enable global deployment.
Explore essential ServiceNow upgrade resources, including docs, developer, and community sites, plus upgrade checklist and release notes for Vancouver, pre- and post-upgrade tasks, and planning.
Learn how to obtain a personal developer instance (PDI) from the ServiceNow developer portal, choosing start building or request instance, and access it via embedded login links.
Master the basics of the ServiceNow UI navigation: banner, center content, and left navigation, with pins, profile and preferences, impersonation, global search, update sets, and modules.
Outline the upgrade preparation for ServiceNow, detailing the upgrade planning checklist, seven phases, dev instance prep, cloning concepts with data preservers and exclude tables, and essential upgrade documents.
Master the seven-phase upgrade plan for ServiceNow, from release notes through dev, test, and prod upgrades, including 51 checklist tasks, validation, and user acceptance testing.
Navigate the upgrade planning checklist and master the Vancouver release notes, including features and changes by product, release note summaries, and pre and post upgrade tasks.
Phase two covers planning the upgrade and preparing the dev instance, defining which instances are in scope, and sequencing upgrades from dev to test to prod.
Master cloning by copying full data from prod to dev, wiping the target instance. Discover how excludes tables and data preservers control what gets copied or preserved during a clone.
Document the upgrade with a project plan, release notes analysis, test cases, and a defect tracker to manage defects, update sets, runbook steps, and a 51-item upgrade checklist.
Upgrade the dev instance via the high portal, then validate with skip log analysis, run the test plan, and capture any defects in update sets.
Uncover how skipped logs arise during a ServiceNow upgrade when local updates to out-of-the-box items collide with the target version, illustrated by update sets, dictionary labels, and form layout changes.
Coordinate phase six readiness and phase seven production upgrade by securing sign-offs, approvals, and change advisory board communication, then monitor, apply update sets, validate, and inform stakeholders.
Prepare a developer ServiceNow instance for the Vancouver upgrade by modifying two business rules and one script include to enable skip logs and reveal versions before upgrading.
Upgrade a personal developer instance (PDI) via the developer portal, selecting Vancouver patch two, and monitor progress with upgrade center and script-block previews across four phases.
Proactively manage skipped blocks by reviewing upgrade history, checking out-of-the-box items touched but not upgraded, and resolving conflicts to reduce future upgrade skips.
Learn to upgrade ServiceNow efficiently by avoiding changes to out-of-the-box items to prevent script lock, create new rules or script includes, and follow a dev-to-prod upgrade plan.
This is an Intermediate level training course for ServiceNow. With a duration of about 2 hours, split into 4 sections, the course covers the topics related to Upgrades
For the instructions in this training course, the latest Vancouver Version is used and the whole training will be in the latest Next Experience UI
We cover the key topics related to Upgrades -
Why do we need to upgrade?
Release cycles in ServiceNow
Different versions so far released
How do you raise an Upgrade request
Steps to follow while upgrading - Upgrade Planning Checklist
Know how to go through the release notes
What is a clone and how to raise a Clone request
What are Data Preservers and Excludes table list
What are Skipped Logs and how to action them
Steps to minimize the skipped logs
This course is a short, crisp, and full-of-content course regarding the upgrade. Feel free to post your question in the Q&A section and I will respond as early as possible.
Finally, I would like to inform you that this course will be in continuous improvement. So, if you have any suggestions to add more content related to ServiceNow upgrades. I will be happy to add them.
I recommend that the student has basic knowledge of Administration, especially navigating through the system and also the basics about why we use ServiceNow.