Installing components on the Publisher computer

The Publisher server is where the BlueCielo Application Manager and related components should be installed. The BlueCielo Application Manager includes business and data access components and is used to configure some BlueCielo applications. These components should be installed on a Windows server running Internet Information Services (IIS) on which you want to host Publisher.

The components are installed using the Publisher setup program. The Publisher engine and the BlueCielo Application Manager are integral parts of:

• BlueCielo Publisher
• BlueCielo Meridian Explorer
• Meridian Enterprise Data Library

Before you begin

• An existing installation of Publisher cannot be upgraded. You must uninstall the existing version before installing a newer version. If you have 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 you are installing Explorer to replace the Meridian Enterprise Data Library, you must first uninstall the Data Library server components with the Publisher setup program before you install Publisher. The Publisher server components will replace the Data Library server components and the Data Library repository will remain available.
• On 64-bit computers only, you must install the setup package as an administrator of the computer and temporarily disable Windows User Account Control (UAC).

To install the components:

1. Open BlueCielo Publisher.msi. The InstallShield Wizard for BlueCielo Publisher dialog box appears.
2. Click Next. The Destination Folder page appears.
3. Accept the default folder or click Change to select a different folder.
4. 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.

5. Click Next. The Ready to Install the Program page appears.
6. Click Install. The Installing BlueCielo Publisher page appears and shows the installation status until the installation has completed and the InstallShield Wizard Completed page appears.
7. Click Finish to close the wizard.
8. If the AutoVue rendering module was installed, the AutoVue Document Converter dialog will display the installation results. Click OK to close the dialog.
9. If a rendering module will be used that starts a native application (for example, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Office, and so on), install and configure the native application on the Publisher computer.

10. 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

11. Confirm whether the server and client computers require the optimization of application load times as described in Disabling assembly signature verification.