Before the Course

You need to bring your own laptop to this course.

IMPORTANT: Make sure that your laptop meets the following requirements/ specifications:

VMWare requirements for course

• Windows server , 2008R2 or newer
• SQL Server 2012 or newer
• 8GB of RAM (8 GB on physical machine – at least 4GB assigned to VM)
• 10GB free disk space.

IMPORTANT: The following pre-requisites need to be met:

1. Windows Server 2008 R2 or later
   1. .NET 4.5 needs to be installed
2. Internet Information Server (IIS) 7 or higher
   1. IIS Windows login service needs to be started
   2. ASP.NET v4.0.30319 needs to be set to allowed on top level of default site under the “ISAPI and CGI Restrictions”
3. Microsoft SQL Server 2012
   1. Installed with Collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
   2. SQL Server Agent needs to be started
   3. SQL Server Analysis Services needs to be installed and started
4. A 64 bit system is strongly recommended and the amount of free RAM available for the SQL server is the most important component to get acceptable performance. How much that is needed depends on the size of the databases.
5. Microsoft Excel 2010 or later.
   1. 32 or 64 bit version. Both works fine.
   2. Microsoft Excel must be license activated (trial license is too limited).
6. Local Administrator access to the server