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Administration Guide to gain a thorough understanding of the product. It is critical to read the
Background Information and Important After Installation Issues sections for a successful
installation.
Quick Installation Steps
For a quick installation perform the following steps:
1. Run the setup.exe included in the download zip and proceed through the screens.
2. The SurfStatsLive Global Setup will run at the end of the setup and has 4 tabbed
sections:
Authentication tab - Select SurfStatsLive as the User Authentication Provider on
the Authentication tab. Then specify a username, password and confirm password
that you want to use to log into SurfStatsLive as a server administrator.
Web Server tab - Set up the SurfStatsLive Virtual Web Server on which
SurfStatsLive will be accessed. It is recommended to create a new Virtual Web
Server.
Identities tab - Set the user accounts that should be used by the SurfStatsLive
COM+ package. We suggest that you specify Administrator as the account for the
SurfStatsLive COM+ Package. The account for the SurfStatsLive Merging Service can
only be set AFTER installation. You need to change the account (default is
LocalSystem) for the service only if you specified log sources (on profiles), which are
on other computers. Click the SET button to set the account.
Information tab Enter your contact information
Click Done to exit the SurfStatsLive Global Setup and finish the setup.
3. Go to Start Programs SurfStatsLive and select SurfStatsLive. The default browser will
open with a page to access SurfStatsLive.
4. Log in using the username and password defined in (2) with Server Administrator as the
log in type.
5. Set up your site profiles and passwords for other users to login either from the Profiles or
Profile Groups tab.
Background Information
The SurfStatsLive Reporting Service is installed on a Windows 2000/2003 server computer
with Internet Information Services and Internet Explorer installed. You must have service pack
3 or later installed on Windows 2000 servers.