Prerequisites

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Applies to: Forefront Server Security Management Console

These are the prerequisites necessary to install the FSSMC. Some must be available before you attempt to install FSSMC. Others will be installed for you if not present.

User Prerequisites

The following must be present before FSSMC can be installed:

  • Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. For security reasons, it must be installed and updated manually by an administrator.
  • ASP.NET version 2.0.
  • SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, or SQL Server 2000.

Automatically Installed Prerequisites

The following will be installed automatically if not present:

  • .NET Runtime version 2.0.

  • Microsoft Message Queue and Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) Triggers.

  • MSXML 6.0.

    Note

    The FSSMC uses bi-directional DCOM to communicate information between the FSSMC and the Agents located on remote computers. In environments where internal firewalls are present, the firewall configuration must be configured to allow the DCOM protocol.

Before You Begin

If you are going to do an Enterprise Installation (which stores the FSSMC databases on an existing SQL Server), before starting the installation you must:

  • Create a new instance of the SQL server and specify the login and the privileges of the login user. The installer will create two databases:

    • SybariEnterpriseManager

    • SybariEnterpriseManagerReports

      Note

      If you are upgrading from a previous version of the Management Console, you must do an Enterprise Installation and specify the old database names (SybariEnterpriseManager and SybariEnterpriseManagerReports).

  • Know the name of the server running SQL Server to be accessed.

  • Know the domain in which SQL Server and the Forefront Server Security Management Console are located (if you will be using Windows integrated security to connect to a remote server running SQL Server).

  • Know a user name and password (for SQL or Windows authentication).

    Note

    If you use Windows authentication, the account used to access the SQL Server must have “Log on as Interactive” privileges on the installing machine.

    Important

    The specified user must have local administrator rights and be granted access to both the SybariEnterpriseManager and SybariEnterpriseManagerReports databases and have db_owner permission.

Redundancy

To ensure yourself of fault tolerance for your FSSMC server, you can configure a Primary server and one or more Backup servers that will automatically replicate data and function when the Primary server is offline.

Note

This Quick Start Guide covers Standalone installations only; for instructions about Primary and Backup installations, see the “Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console User Guide”.