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System Requirements Software: Hardware:
Pre-Deployment Information Before we continue with the installation of the system, please familiarize yourself with the following Help Topics included with the Visual Studio Dot Net application if you are not familiar with these topics already:
You should have your development server selected already, and you should have all of the software from the System Requirements already installed, tested, and working on your machine before you continue. There is a certain recommended order that you should install the required components in on your development server, you should always install the operating system first (Of course) then the network components, web components and IIS, then the Dot Net Framework and the Framework SDK, SQL Server, then Visual Studio. After you install the Visual Studio Dot Net Application, You must do the following to make sure the server that is going to run the web services layer and the ASP Dot Net Presentation Layers are functioning properly:
If the above does not work or generates some kind of error, then Visual Studio is not installed properly. Please check and make sure it was installed properly and make sure all of the necessary web components and the Net SDK were also installed properly. You may have to reinstall Visual Studio and confirm that your computer will be used as a server. You may also want to install and run the samples that come with the Microsoft Dot Net SDK in the samples directory. Select the starthere.html file and follow the installation instructions for the samples. Please review and ensure that you have completed the above steps before contacting technical support since this is one of the first things that technical support will ask and verify. If you need help installing the components listed above, (Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server, Visual Studio 2005, Dot Net Framework 2.0, Dot Net Framework SDK, IIS 5.0 or Greater, SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2005 Express), please consult the documentation that comes with the component or contact your IS department for assistance. The installation instructions assume that you are installing the software on a development machine. You MUST install the software first on the development machine, since the system will require some parameters to be changed and need to be recompiled before you can deploy it on your network. These following installation instructions assume that we are doing the implementation onto a test machine to the default locations. Once all of the correct software is installed, you can begin the Integral Accounting Enterprise Installation.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING: Notes about the Layers: The VB Dot Net Presentation layer and the ASP Dot Net Presentation layers can both communicate to the same business logic layer at the same time without any modifications. The application will support simultaneous VB Dot Net and Internet based ASP Dot Net clients. Compilation Issues: When Visual Studio 2005 is used for compiling and debugging, after 3-4 compiles you may notice the system slows down. You may need to re-boot the machine. This only occurs if you use the Visual Studio 2005 environment for debugging as well as for compiling.
Copying the Integral Accounting Enterprise System to your hard drive: Copy the Integral Accounting Enterprise System from the CD or from the the zipped distribution file into the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ directory onto your hard drive. This will require approximately 300mb of hard disk total space and may increase as more functionality is added to the system. Please make sure you back up your system before installing any more application into the root directory of your internet server. The Directory Structure for Integral Accounting Enterprise is as follows:
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