Installing Meridian Enterprise Server


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Installing Meridian Enterprise Server

The Meridian Enterprise Server application server includes business and data access components that are used by other BlueCielo applications. These components should be installed on a Windows server running Internet Information Services (IIS) on which you want to host Meridian Enterprise Server.

The components are installed using the Meridian Enterprise Server setup program. Meridian Enterprise Server is an integral part of:

BlueCielo Meridian Explorer
BlueCielo Publisher
User and group management when the preceding are used together with Meridian Enterprise
Meridian Enterprise Data Library

Meridian Enterprise Server is typically installed on one computer. However, for maximum scalability it can be installed on multiple computers and configured as a cluster as described in Configuring a Meridian Enterprise Server cluster.

Before you begin

An existing installation of Meridian Enterprise Server cannot be upgraded. You must uninstall the existing version before installing a newer version. If you have manually modified any configuration files, make a backup copy before uninstalling the old version and restore the file after installing the new version.
If ASP.NET is installed on the computer before IIS is enabled, you must enable ASP.NET by running the command aspnet_regiis -i.
If Meridian Enterprise 2013 SP1 has not yet been installed in the environment but it will be used as a publishing source system:

Install Meridian Enterprise 2013 SP1 first. When selecting the components to install, do not select the BlueCielo Publisher extension components for either the server or client computers, including Meridian Enterprise Server nodes. No special steps are necessary for Meridian Enterprise 2013 SP2 or higher. For prior Meridian Enterprise versions, see Upgrading from previous versions of BlueCielo Publisher or Meridian Explorer.
After installing Meridian Enterprise Server, install the Publisher 2013 extension files as described in Installing the BlueCielo Publisher extensions.

The Meridian Enterprise client components must be installed on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer before Meridian Enterprise Server is installed. Some of the Meridian Enterprise client libraries are overwritten during the Meridian Enterprise Server installation. If Meridian Enterprise Server is subsequently uninstalled, those libraries will be unregistered and cause errors if Meridian Enterprise Server is reinstalled, such as with an upgrade. In such cases, run the Meridian Enterprise setup program before reinstalling Meridian Enterprise Server and select the Repair option to re-register the libraries and prevent the errors.
You must install the setup package as an administrator of the computer and temporarily disable Windows User Account Control (UAC).

To install the components:

Open BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Server.msi. The InstallShield Wizard for Meridian Enterprise Server dialog box appears.

Click Next. The Destination Folder page appears.
Accept the default folder or click Change to select a different folder.
Click Next. The Custom Setup page appears. The most common components are selected for installation by default.

Review the selections in each branch using the descriptions in the following table. Click the or icon and select an installation option from the shortcut menu that appears. Select only those components for which you have purchased and installed licenses.

Meridian Enterprise Server setup component branches
Branch	Description
BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Server	Meridian Enterprise Server core components
BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise website	Meridian Enterprise Server Configurator, Meridian Explorer client, and BlueCielo Publisher queue websites
Publisher	BlueCielo Publisher core components
Publisher/System links	BlueCielo Publisher system links available in this release.
Publisher/Rendering modules	BlueCielo Publisher rendering modules available in this release.
Publisher/Post-rendering tools	BlueCielo Publisher watermarking, merging, and electronic signature components.
Publisher/Publishing tools	BlueCielo Publisher services for the Windows file system, Meridian Project Portal, and Microsoft SharePoint.

Click Next. The Logon Information page appears.
Enter credentials for one account under which the Meridian Enterprise Server services will run and the IIS application pool (BCEnterprise) under which the websites will run. To browse for an account, click Browse. For information about the security requirements for this account, see Understanding the security requirements.
Click Next. The Ready to Install the Program page appears.
Click Install. The Installing Meridian Enterprise Server page appears and shows the installation status until the installation has completed and the InstallShield Wizard Completed page appears.
Click Finish to close the wizard.
If the AutoVue rendering module was installed, the AutoVue Document Converter dialog will display the installation results. Click OK to close the dialog.
If a rendering module will be used on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer that starts a native application (for example, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Office, and so on), install and configure the native application.
If AutoCAD drawings will be rendered with the AutoVue rendering module that use custom font (.shx) files, place copies of the font files in the following location after installation:
```
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cyco Shared\AutoVue\Fonts
```
If Meridian Enterprise Server is installed correctly, you can open Meridian Enterprise Server Configurator as described in Opening Meridian Enterprise Server Configurator.