Before Installing FYI Server

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Before Installing FYI Server

Installation of the Concordance FYI Server is fairly simple. You can typically install and publish your Concordance databases in less than 30 minutes.

Installing FYI Server consists of four components:

FYI Server

FYI Administration Console Server

FYI Admin Console

Sample Database

Warning

Make sure that you regularly back up your server data. Do not install the FYI Server unless the server data has been backed up.

Before installing FYI Server, be sure to review the Preparing for FYI topic for preliminary planning, including best practices for planning and server setup, and review the FYI Server Installation Checklist in this topic.

Note

If you are installing the latest version of FYI Server and have FYI Server 5.02 or earlier installed, you must uninstall the older version before proceeding with the installation to ensure that the application files  are accessible to FYI Server. For more information about uninstalling FYI Server, see Uninstalling FYI Server.

The default install directory for the application data files is C:\ProgramData\CloudNine\FYI Server 5.

If you want to upgrade an earlier version of FYI Server, review the Updating considerations topic for preliminary planning, and see the Upgrading FYI Server topic for upgrade information and instructions.

Important

To control the server from remote locations, you can install the FYI Admin Console on your workstation or laptop after the FYI Server installation is complete. For more information about remote administration, see Setting up remote administration.

After installing the FYI Server, you can modify administration settings and register and publish Concordance databases in the FYI Admin Console. You can then distribute the .fiy file to users who need remote access to Concordance and the specified URL to FYI Reviewer users.

For more information about FYI Reviewer and Concordance .FYI, see the About supporting FYI Reviewer and Concordance topic and other topics in the Supporting FYI Reviewer and Concordance module.

Note

When authenticating users against an Active Directory server in a domain other than where FYI Sever is located, make sure that the FYI Server is running on Windows Server 2016.  See, Setting authentication types.

 

FYI Server Installation Checklist

We recommend that you install and setup the FYI Server, then distribute licenses in the order noted in the following table.

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Enable TFS 1.2 as default protocol

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Install FYI Server and components

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Set the first administrator account

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Configure default settings

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Open a Cowco.fyi shortcut on the desktop to test installation, (if FYI Server opens, then it is installed and the ports are open)

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Stop services and change to Microsoft Windows FYI account

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Add additional administrators and email addresses

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Enable all email notifications

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Add SMTP email server address

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Adjust Administration Console settings

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Add FYI Reviewer license keys or request additional accounts

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Set up remote administration

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Add users to Concordance databases and apply security settings

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Register databases and import users from Concordance databases where security has been applied

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Enable accounts on the Management tab in the FYI Admin Console

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Specify the database administrator credentials on the Management tab > Databases side tab > Administration side tab

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Register and publish Concordance databases in FYI

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Finally, install and test FYI Reviewer

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Distribute the URL to FYI Reviewer users or the .fyi file to Concordance users

 

FYI Server Default Settings

When installing FYI Server, you can choose the following setup types:

Typical – installs the FYI Server, FYI Administration Console Server, FYI Admin Console, and sample database. Uses default settings as outlined in the following table.

Custom – allows you to configure some of these settings during installation.

Compact – uses the default settings, but does not install the sample database.

 

The Typical setup type uses default settings when you install the FYI Server and the FYI Admin Console on the designated server in your network. Most of these settings can be modified later in the FYI Admin Console  on the Settings tab.

Installation Setting

Default Value

Destination Directory

C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudNine\FYI Server 5

Components Installed

FYI, Administration Client, Sample Database

Working Path Directory

C:\ProgramData\CloudNine\FYI Server 5\Working Path

Snapshot Directory

C:\ProgramData\CloudNine\FYI Server 5\Snapshots

Program Folder

CloudNine

FYI Server Port

443 or the next available port

Administration Console Server Port

10001 or the next available port

FYI Server Timeout

480 minutes before closing idle client connections

Administration Console Server Timeout

480 minutes before closing idle client connections

Indexing Cache

35% of physical memory

Dictionary Cache

32 MB

Admin User Name and Password

User-defined

 

Enable TLS for FYI Server

If TLS 1.2 is not enabled by default, the following steps will allow you to enable the settings in the registry set.

Warning

If using Windows 2008, make sure you have installed the latest Windows update.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4019276/update-to-add-support-for-tls-1-1-and-tls-1-2-in-windows

1.On the Start screen type regedit.exe.  Right-click on regedit.exe and click Run as administrator.

2.In the Registry Editor window, go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\Schannel\Protocols.

3.In the navigation tree, right-click on Protocols, and in the pop-up menu, click New > Key and name the key as TLS 1.2.

4.In the navigation tree, right-click on the new TLS 1.2 key that was created in the above step, and in the pop-up menu, click New > Key and name the key as Client.

5.In the navigation tree, right-click again on the TLS 1.2 and in the pop-up menu, click New > Key and name the key as Server.

6.In the navigation tree, under TLS 1.2, right-click on Client, and in the pop-up menu, click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and name the value DisabledByDefault.

7.In the navigation tree, under TLS 1.2, select Client and then, in the right pane, double-click the DisabledByDefault DWORD value. In the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value window, in the Value Data box change the value to 0 and then, click OK.

8.In the navigation tree, under TLS 1.2, right-click on Server, and in the pop-up menu, click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value and name the value Enabled.

9.In the navigation tree, under TLS 1.2, select Server and then, in the right pane, double-click the Enabled DWORD value. In the Edit DWORD (32-bit) Value window, in the Value Data box leave the value at 1 and then, click OK.

10.Restart Windows to apply these changes permanently.