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Windows setup with the GUI installer ​

The video below shows how to install and set up Syncplify Server! on Windows with the GUI installer, including the initial bare bones configuration and a test of some of its subsystems (the protocol handlers).

The two phases of the setup ​

  1. The installer. Download the GUI installer for Windows from syncplify.com/download, double click it, accept the User Account Control prompt and the license agreement. The installer copies the files, registers the Windows services and creates the Windows Firewall rules, then shows a summary with a URL.
  2. The setup wizard in the browser. Click that URL. The wizard asks whether this node is a standalone server or joins an existing cluster, gives the node an ID, creates the first SuperAdmin account (its username is always sa), offers two factor authentication for it, and ends with the address of the SuperAdmin UI.

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The browser shows a certificate warning at this point: the web service starts with a self signed certificate, and you reach it by IP address. Accept the warning for now; a certificate from a trusted authority can be installed later. Use any browser except Internet Explorer.

The manual has the same walkthrough with screenshots: Install on Windows.

GUI or CLI installer? ​

  • The GUI installer (shown in the video) provides the familiar Windows desktop experience: a graphical wizard that guides you through copying the files to the system and configuring the operating system settings the software needs.
  • The CLI installer is designed for command line installations, which are more suitable, or simply necessary, for unattended and automated installs, for SCCM, and for Windows Server Core editions without the Desktop Experience.

Did you know?

The Windows GUI and CLI installers are interchangeable. You can install version 8.0.0 with the GUI installer, update to 8.0.1 with the CLI installer, and update to 8.0.2 with the GUI installer again.

Running the installer of a newer version on an existing installation updates it. The rules, and the paths from older major versions, are in Updating and upgrading: general rules.