Installing the SI 2015 Server

Remarks

Review the supported environments for SI 2015.

Check out our hardware/software requirements.

Check out the SI 2015 Release Notes.

Info/Rules

The SI 2015 Server houses your licensing/user information, Catalog, Projects, and any other shared data like Custom Reports, Queries, etc.

The SI 2015 Server will be installed on one machine on your network (or on the cloud).

The SI 2015 Server must be installed on Windows, there is no Mac version of SI 2015. If using a Mac, you will need to install on Windows in either in Bootcamp, Parallels, or VMWare.

The SI 2015 Client can be installed on the same machine as your SI 2015 Server.

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Steps

Insert your CD or double-click the installer you downloaded from D-Tools. The D-Tools SI 2015 Installer will open.

Click the [Install SI Server] button. If any pre-requisite software is required, you will be prompted to install them, do this. Your SI 2015 Server machine must have an internet connection for this as the pre-reqs will be downloaded from D-Tools.

Once the pre-reqs are installed, the D-Tools SI 2015 Server Setup wizard will open, click [Next >]:

Scroll down and read the SLA, click the "I accept..." box and click [Install]:

A progress bar will display:

When finished installing, click [Run the SI 2015 Server Configuration Wizard]:

Server Configuration

You must also configure your SI 2015 Server. You have two options when configuring your SI 2015 Server: Express and Custom. We recommend using the Express option which is detailed below, for details on the Custom configuration click here.

Express Configuration

The Express configuration option will automatically install SQL Server 2012 Express and create the default instance DToolsSIX.

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