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Table Of Contents
- Installing ABBYY FlexiCapture 10
- Standalone Installation
- Distributed Installation
- System Requirements
- General information
- Preparing the Application Server for installation on Windows 2012
- Preparing the Application Server for installation on Windows Server 2008 R2
- Preparing the Application Server for installation on Windows 2003
- Installing the servers
- External components required for the correct operation of the system
- System components in IIS and their configuration
- This section describes the IIS configuration which is necessary for the operation of FlexiCapture. This configuration is configured automatically during installation and required no manual configuration. However, in case of errors this section can help you to check the settings specified in IIS.
- Application pools
- Authentication settings for FlexiCapture 10 Web Applications
- Handler Mappings
- ISAPI and CGI Restrictions
- Checking the operation of IIS
- Switching system components to 64-bit mode
- Database server
- Interaction of the system components
- Installing the stations
- Using Active Directory
- Using SMS
- Installing Remote Stations
- Updating your earlier ABBYY FlexiCapture 10 releases to Release 6
- Upgrading from ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0
- Upgrading from ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional
- Upgrading from ABBYY FormReader 6.5
- Managing Your Licenses
- Setting Up FlexiCapture 10 Distributed Installation
- Logging
- Working with Clusters
- Technical Support
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Supported virtual machines
The following virtual machines are supported:
• VMware Server 2.0 (this platform is no longer supported by the manufacturer)
• VMware Workstation 6.5 - 9.0
• VMware ESXi 4.1.0 (server component of VMware vSphere)
• Hyper-V 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2 (Hyper-V version corresponds to the version of the Operating system. Under Windows Server
2008, Hyper-V 6.0 is used)
Note: Hyper-V virtual machines do not work with USB devices. VMware ESXi virtual machines work with Wibu drivers only,
iKey drivers are not supported.
General information
For distributed installation, it is recommended that a server operating system should be used. Windows XP, Windows Vista and
Windows 7 are not server operating systems. They support only a limited number of connections and are not well suitable for
server use.
The distributed installation of FlexiCapture 10 includes three servers:
• Application Server
• Licensing Server
• Processing Server
The Application Server coordinates the work of the stations ensures the correct operation of ABBYY FlexiCapture 10.
The following three steps are required to install the distributed version of ABBYY FlexiCapture 10:
1. Prepare the Application Server.
2. Install the servers.
3. Install the workstations.
Preparing the Application Server for installation on Windows 2012
This instruction can also be used when installing the Application Server on Windows 8.
The following components must be installed on your computer before you can install the Application Server:
• Net Framework 4.0
• IIS (Internet Information Services)
• This component can be installed by selecting Install External Components in the Autorun menu.
The .Net Framework 4.5 component is installed by default on Windows 2012 and Windows 8 and not needed to be installed. You
can find information about the installed versions of Net.Framework in the registry. For more information, please refer to the
Microsoft web-site
.
Installation of the IIS is performed using server administration console. Press the Add roles and features button and select the
Web Server (IIS) value in the roles list to install IIS. You may need to have Windows installation disk to perform this action.
The following components of the IIS must be installed:
.Net Framework 4.5 Features
ASP.NET 4.5
Web Server (IIS)
Web Server
Common HTTP Features
Static Content
Default Document
HTTP Errors
HTTP Redirection
Application Development
.Net Extensibility 4.5
ASP.NET 4.5
ISAPI Extensions
ISAPI Filters
Security
Basic Authentication
Windows Authentication
Request Filtering