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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 6
System and Hardware Considerations 9
Antivirus Exclusions 10
Directories and folders 10
Database Considerations 11
Using the MySQL Instance from the Installer 11
Installing / Updating Connect using an existing MySQL instance 12
Installing Connect using an existing Microsoft SQL Server instance 13
Updating With No Local MySQL Product 14
When modifying Connect 14
Important 16
Environment considerations 16
Terminal Server/Service Support 16
Virtual Machine Support 17
Remote Desktop Support 17
32-bit or 64-bit Operating Systems? 18
Antivirus Considerations 18
Windows Search Indexing Service 18
Commandline switches and .ini entries 18
Language and Encoding Considerations 19
Network Considerations 20
Firewall/Port considerations 20
Performance Considerations 22
Performance analysis details 22
Engine configuration 22
Template optimization 23
Network and internet connections 23
Hardware configuration 23
System requirements 24
Operating system (64-bit only) 24
Virtual Environments 24
Minimum hardware requirements 25
Recommended hardware requirements 25
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