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1 Installation User Guide SMART ACCESS 2.0 Date: 05 March 2013 Version: 2.0

2 Table of Contents 1. OVERVIEW INSTALLATION PROCEDURE IIS INSTALLATION: REPORTSERVER 2008 SP1 INSTALLATION: SQL SERVER 2012 EXPRESS INSTALLATION: CREATE AN EMPTY DATABASE FOR SMARTACCESS IN SQL: WEB SERVER AND APPLICATION FILES: CREATE A WEBSITE FOR SMARTACCESS IN IIS: RUN THE WEBSITE AND START TO INSTALL THE WEB SERVER:...20 VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 2

3 1. OVERVIEW Welcome to the SmartAccess Web Server 2.0 Installation Guide. This document contains the information necessary to install and configure all related components that are needed for the Web Server. SmartAccess is a trade mark name of Vecos Europe B.V; it is a complete locker management system. The Web Server is a part of the SmartAccess application; it is used for installation and management of the system. Because the Web Server is designed for Asp.NET 2.0 using C# 2010 and SQL Server Database, therefore, the following components must be installed in order to run the website: Internet Information Services (IIS).NET Framework 2.0 (and the updates) ReportServer 2008 SP1 The database is capable with either SQL Server 2005, 2008 and In this user manual, we guide you to install SQL Server 2012 SP1 Express Edition with the Management tools on a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit server. Microsoft SQL 2012 Express can be downloaded from: Installation Support: Software updates at: Lockers@vecos.com Phone: (+31) Minimum System Requirements: Windows 7 Professional Intel Core i3 or Core2Duo at 2Ghz 2GB RAM 10GB Hard disk free space Recommended System Requirements: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Std R2 64 bits XEON CPU at 2+ Ghz 4GB RAM RAID 1,5,10 with 10GB Hard disk free space VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 3

4 2. INSTALLATION PROCEDURE For a successful installation of SmartAccess, we suggest that you follow this installation manual carefully and complete everything step by step: Step 1: IIS Installation Step 2: ReportServer 2008 Installation Step 3: SQL Server 2012 Express Installation Step 4: Create a database with SQL Server 2012 Management Studio Step 5: Get a Copyright SmartAccess application from Vecos Step 6: Create a website within IIS Step 7: Run the web site and start to install SmartAccess VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 4

2.1. IIS Installation: If you are running Windows 2008 R2 Server, you can install Microsoft's web server (IIS 7) from the Server Manager by adding the Role and configure it to run on your system by

If you get the Before you Begin, then press next. 4. Select the Web Server (IIS) and press Next 5. At the Introduction to Web Server (IIS), press next 6.

5 2.1. IIS Installation: If you are running Windows 2008 R2 Server, you can install Microsoft's web server (IIS 7) from the Server Manager by adding the Role and configure it to run on your system by following the instructions below: 1. Start the Server Manager, located under Administrative Tools 2. Go to the Roles and there press the Add Roles button. 3. If you get the Before you Begin, then press next. 4. Select the Web Server (IIS) and press Next 5. At the Introduction to Web Server (IIS), press next 6. Select all role services as in the screenshot below (others don t select). When the Add role services required for ASP.NET appears, press Add Required Role Services. Press next and then Install when all needed settings are made. Cause of these settings, also the needed feature.net is installed. 7. Once IIS is installed on your machine you can view your home page in a web browser by typing ' (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name of your computer) into the address bar of your web browser. If you have not placed your web site into the default directory you should now be looking at the IIS Welcome screen and you now know the installation was successful. 8. Your default web directory to place your web site in, is 'C:\Inetpub\wwwroot', but if you do not want to over-write the IIS documentation found in this directory you can set up your own virtual directory through the 'Internet Information Services' console. 9. The 'Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager' console can be found in the 'Administrative Tools'. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 5

6 2.2. Reportserver 2008 SP1 Installation: The ReportServer is needed to create the reports for the users. It is provided on the installation CD, but can also be downloaded from the Microsoft website: The installation is simple. - Start the installation file and at the Welcome screen press Next. - Accept the License Terms and press Install - Press Finish to close the installation. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 6

2.3. SQL Server 2012 Express Installation: All software, which is needed for installing this Web Server, is located on the installation CD provided by VE

7 2.3. SQL Server 2012 Express Installation: All software, which is needed for installing this Web Server, is located on the installation CD provided by VECOS Europe B.V. With this Installation User Manual, we guide you where you can download them. In this user manual, we guide you to install SQL Server 2012 SP1 Express Edition with the Management toolkit. Double-click the SQL installation file to start the product installation. The contents of the file are extracted and the installation begins. The provided setup file is for 32 and 64 bit servers. After you start the installation, the setup program will unpack the installation files and shows the first screen. Select the New installation to start the installation. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 7

Sometimes the message appears that some files are updated and the system needs to restart or update something, if

8 Next the typical License Terms are shown, accept the agreement and press Next. The installation will continue with the installation. Sometimes the message appears that some files are updated and the system needs to restart or update something, if so, except and press next, after a restart, just start the setup again. Next the Feature selection is shown, select only the 2 features as below and press Next. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 8

In the Instance screen, give the new instance a name like SQLExpress and press Next.

9 Now the setup will check all installation rules, if no problems are found, that screen is skipped and the Instance Configuration is shown. In the Instance screen, give the new instance a name like SQLExpress and press Next. At the next screen (Server Configuration), press Next again. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 9

When all settings are done, press Next again.

10 At the Database Engine Configuration screen, select the Mixed Mode and enter a password. If you want, you can change the database location in the Data Directories tab. When all settings are done, press Next again. The Error reporting screen will be shown, just press Next again. The actual setup will now start. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 10

Enable all 3 protocols (Shared Memory, TCP/IP and Named Pipes) under: - SQL Native Client 11.

11 After completion use Microsoft Update to update.net and the SQL server to the latest service packs. When all is up to date again, we need to activate the correct protocols for SQL Server, therefor you need to start the SQL Server Configuration Manager. Enable all 3 protocols (Shared Memory, TCP/IP and Named Pipes) under: - SQL Native Client 11.0: Client Protocols - SQL Server Network Configuration: Protocol for SQLExpress Then under SQL Server Services: Restart the SQL Server (right mouse click and select restart). You can then close this application. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 11

2.4. Create an empty database for SmartAccess in SQL: Once you have installed the SQL Server, the SQL Server Management Studio can be accessed from Start > All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2012 >

When executed, it will first ask for your credentials: By default, if you are running SQL Server Management and select the server name, it is an instance of your local SQL data server, so you can use

12 2.4. Create an empty database for SmartAccess in SQL: Once you have installed the SQL Server, the SQL Server Management Studio can be accessed from Start > All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2012 > SQL Server Management Studio. When executed, it will first ask for your credentials: By default, if you are running SQL Server Management and select the server name, it is an instance of your local SQL data server, so you can use Authentication method Windows Authentication ; but if you access another SQL server outside of your local machine, you have to select SQL Server Authentication and fill in the right user name and password. We are running SQL Server Management studio to manage the local SQL Server, so we can click the button Connect to access this SQL server. After you re authenticated, you ll be shown the interface like below: Now, you have all the rights to manage this SQL Server. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 12

You need to fill in the database name and leave the rest by default values, use the name SmartAccess :

13 To create a new database, you have to follow these steps: Right click on the Databases of the tree view under the SQL Data Server and select New Database. You need to fill in the database name and leave the rest by default values, use the name SmartAccess : Click on button OK and a new database has been created with the name: SmartAccess like the figure below: VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 13

Now we need to create an SQL User that has access to the SmartAccess database. That user needs to be the owner of that database because the website creates all tables in the database.

14 Now we need to create an SQL User that has access to the SmartAccess database. That user needs to be the owner of that database because the website creates all tables in the database. To create the user, go to Security and right click on Logins and select New Login. Let s use the login name SmartAccess, enter a password (in this example Welkom1 and set all settings as below: Don t forget to set the default language to Dutch! VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 14

On User Mappings, Give the SmartAccess user Owner rights to the SmartAccess database, by selecting the SmartAccess database, fill in dbo as default schema and select db_owner: Then press OK and close

15 On User Mappings, Give the SmartAccess user Owner rights to the SmartAccess database, by selecting the SmartAccess database, fill in dbo as default schema and select db_owner: Then press OK and close the SQL Management Studio. That s all for the database part, that is needed for the installation. You need to write down the login information somewhere, which is later needed in the installation form. For this example the information is: SQL Data Server name: VM-W2008R2-DEMO\SQLEXPRESS SQL Database name: SmartAccess Username: SmartAccess Password: Welkom1 Keep in mind that this information must be secured and not shared to anyone. Because if someone knows it, they can access on your SQL server and your database could be deleted! VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 15

2.5. Web Server and Application files: At this point, the IIS and SQL are installed. We now have to install the SmartAccess website and communication services.

16 2.5. Web Server and Application files: At this point, the IIS and SQL are installed. We now have to install the SmartAccess website and communication services. Download the latest version of the Website and Communication services from: After downloading the webserver and communication services, you can unzip them. In this example, we install everything in: Installation/Downloads : C:\SmartAccess\CD\... WebSite : C:\SmartAccess\SmartAccessWeb Services : C:\SmartAccess\SmartAccessComm Copy all files for the website to C:\SmartAccess\SmartAccessWeb. We then need to give the IIS user extra rights otherwise the IIS User can t write the configuration to the configuration file. Start Windows Explorer and go to C:\SmartAccess\SmartAccessWeb. In that folder select with a right mouse click the file Configuration.xml and select Properties. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 16

Then also select the Allow Write box and press OK and again OK.

$C:\SmartAccess\SmartAccessComm for Everyone.$

17 Go to the Security tab and press Edit. Then press Add and add the user IIS_IUSRS by typing the name and press OK. Then also select the Allow Write box and press OK and again OK. To install the Communication and import services, run the setup.exe from the downloaded communication services and install them in C:\SmartAccess\SmartAccessComm for Everyone. The press Next and Next to start the setup and Close when finished VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 17

2.6. Create a website for SmartAccess in IIS: Now we need to create a website and run it on

Because most installations have a dedicated SmartAccess server, often the Default website is

(http://localhost/smartaccess). Start the IIS Manager from Start->Administrative Tools menu.

18 2.6. Create a website for SmartAccess in IIS: Now we need to create a website and run it on your localhost. Because most installations have a dedicated SmartAccess server, often the Default website is used for SmartAccess, but you can also create a new SmartAccess website as application ( Start the IIS Manager from Start->Administrative Tools menu. Select the Default Web site and right click on it to select Add Application, Give the name SmartAccess, select the correct path and press OK. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 18

At this point, everything is ready to run the Web Server; you can try it by opening the browser and fill in: http://localhost/smartaccess and press Enter on the

19 The used Application pool is DefaultAppPool. On 64 bit servers, we need to enable the 32bit mode in de application pool. This can be done by editing the advanced properties of the application pool: There the Enable 32-bit Applications needs to be set to True. At this point, everything is ready to run the Web Server; you can try it by opening the browser and fill in: and press Enter on the keyboard: If your browser is shown like the figure above, that means you have successfully installed the website. Now click on the link INSTALL and complete the next and final step. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 19

20 2.7. Run the website and start to install the Web Server: As we already mentioned in step 2.6, after clicking on the link INSTALL you will be automatically redirected to this page: VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 20

21 Now, we can fill in the license form by using the information we got from step 2.4. At the end of that step, you got this information: SQL Data Server name: SQL Database name: Username: Password: VM-W2008R2-DEMO\SQLEXPRESS SmartAccess SmartAccess Welkom1 Combined with the license information you got from Vecos Europe B.V. by ordering SmartAccess, you have all the information you need to fill in this form. Make sure you fill in all fields correctly; otherwise the license won t be accepted. VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 21

22 Then click on the button Auto-create tables and the database will be filled with all the tables and default values. If you don t have full ownership (rights) over your database, you can click on Generate script, in that case the script is created and you can copy that script to de SQL Manager and there create the tables and default value s with that script. If the text was filled like above, it means your web server has been installed successfully and the installation is finished. Try it by clicking on the link READY! GO and you will be redirected to login page again but this time the text Database Connection Error is gone: Congratulations, you have completed the SmartAccess installation successfully. Initially, there is one super admin user who has all the rights with user name admin and password admin. After logon successfully, you will be able to change the password o 0 o VECOS Europe B.V Web Server Installation Manual 22

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