Applies to ActiveIQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.6+ Microsoft Windows Issue Upgrade of AIQUM on Windows cannot proceed with error thrown after entering MySQL root password: Unable to read from the config...Applies to ActiveIQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.6+ Microsoft Windows Issue Upgrade of AIQUM on Windows cannot proceed with error thrown after entering MySQL root password: Unable to read from the configuration file. Setup will exit now. Refer to log for more information" You can open MySQL via the command line on CMD with the root user and same password The password contains special characters such as & / \