Preparing Archer for Installation

Plan and prepare your system for installing Archer. This requires the expertise of IT and database administrators.

The following table describes the roles and their administration tasks.

Responsible Role

Administration Task

IT administrators

Install and configure these software packages:

Microsoft Windows Server Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Microsoft .NET Framework Microsoft SQL Server ScaleOut StateServer (Client and Server) Redis (See the Redis documentation for supported Linux versions.) See Archer Qualified and Supported Environments on the Archer Community, for the supported and qualified software and environments, browsers and tools. 

IT administrators

Configure network shares.

IT administrators

Run the IIS Application Pool and services as a domain-based services account to access the Network Share.

Database administrators

Manage the following:

  • Databases with database owner roles.
  • Authentication methods for database connectivity.