Installing Ad Manager

If you are installing Ad Manager for the first time, you may follow this set of steps.

First, you will need to have a Microsoft SQL Server environment available. As of March 2014, Ad Manager is certified up to all versions of SQL to 2008. You may use SQL Express if you wish.

Download the newest version of the Ad Manager Client installer (AdMgr.msi) by contacting a Dot2Dot representative.

Place this Ad Manager installer in a share folder on the server.

Install the new version of Ad Manager on each local machine by following the prompts.

Once you have finished installing Ad Manager on each machine, you can use one of these machines to create your Ad Manager database in SQL.

Double click the Ad Manager icon. You may be asked to supply your serial number and license files. If this is the case, please select the dongle (serial number) and license files provided as appropriate. Once you have a valid serial number and dongle on this machine, you will be asked to log in.

Enter the appropriate user information. If you set SQL up to accept Windows authentication and added the user you are logged in as, you may simply check the "Use Windows Authentication" check box. If you are using SQL authentication, enter the username and password for a user you have set up in SQL. Please ensure you have created the login account to have SQL administrator privileges so you can create the database.

Enter the Server name selected and enter a database name. The Database name you enter will be what you want the system to create as your new database in SQL. Ad Manager will notify you that you are creating a new database and will ask you some additional questions to help set up the database.

Once the database is set up, Ad Manager will notify you. At this point, you will be able to access Ad Manager from any machine.

If you have any questions or difficulties, please contact a Dot2Dot support representative.