Pre Installation Setup

SQL server

1. In Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, connect to your SQL server:
   
2. Right-click on your server and select Properties.
3. Under Security, make sure that SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode is selected:
   

IIS settings

How to find the IIS settings depends on the system where you are running IIS.

1. Go to your IIS settings. If you are running IIS locally on your Windows machine, you find these under Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off.
2. Check that the following features have been enabled:

• Under Application Development:
  • ASP .NET
  • NET Extensibility
  • ASP
  • ISAPI Extensions
  • ISAPI Filters
• Common HTTP Features (Installed) node (all are required):
  • Static Content (Installed)
  • Default Document (Installed)
  • Directory Browsing (Installed
  • HTTP Errors (Installed) (Installed)
  • HTTP Redirection
• Under the Performance (Installed) node:
  • Static Content Compression (Installed)
  • Dynamic Content Compression (Installed)
• Under the Security (Installed) node:
  • URL Authorization (Installed)