Version: 2.0.0.
Meeting Place Server
Installation Guide
Contents
Preface……………………………………………………………..….……. 3
Meeting Place Server Installation Guide........................................................ 3
System Requirements…………………………………………………4
IIS Installation………………………………………………………5
Install .NET Framework……………………….…...………..………9
SQL Server 2005 Installation..……………………….......….…….11
SQL Server Configuration.…………………………………….……22
VMukti Server Setup………………………………………….…….33
Flash Media Server 3.0.1 Installation……………………..….…… 39
Browse the URL……………………………………………….……48
Preface
Welcome to Meeting Place, a Unified Social Collaborative conferencing engine
which allows users to access through personalized web-interface. VMukti
Meeting Place is mainly consists of core features such as Video conferencing,
Audio conferencing, IP Telephony, Desktop sharing, Chat, Whiteboard,
Presentation, Scheduler & More.
VMukti Meeting Place enables the users to efficiently communicate with each
other. A system blends all of the functionality required to collaborate using
intuitive and user-friendly graphical interface Server Installation Guide.
Meeting Place Server Installation Guide
This guide provides detail description with images of Meeting Place Server
installation process. This guide includes all steps of Meeting Place sever
installation with all steps of all prerequisites installation. So if a user has some
prerequisites installed already, skip those steps and look for required prerequisites
and Meeting Place server installation process’s own steps.
Meeting Place Server installation has three prerequisites
• System Requirements
• IIS 6.0 or higher version
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, Microsoft
• SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition
• FMS 3.0.1 (Optional if you are not using the FMS audio & Video)
So if any of these prerequisites is not present on your system, Meeting Place
server installation would ask you to install that particular prerequisite during its
installation. If none of these prerequisites installed, Meeting Place Server
installation would ask you to install all prerequisites one by one. You don’t have
to worry about locating the prerequisites, Meeting Place Server installer
automatically redirect to resource locations of prerequisites or guides for
finding/installing prerequisites during the installation. If your pc has some
prerequisites installed already then the installer skips automatically to those and
asks for other which is not present on the system.
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1. System Requirements
1.1. Supported Architectures
x86
1.2. Supported Operating Systems for clients
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
(*With critical windows updates installed)
1.3. Supported Operating Systems for servers
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
(*With critical windows updates installed)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
(*With critical windows updates installed)
1.4. Supported Internet Browsers
Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer 7
Mozilla Firefox 2
Mozilla Firefox 3
1.5. Client Hardware
Minimum: 400 MHz CPU, 96 MB RAM, 800x600 256-color display
Recommended: 1.0 GHz or higher CPU, 256 MB or more RAM, 1024x768 high-
color 32-bit display
Up to 500 MB of hard disk space may be required
1.6. Server Hardware
Server: 2.8 GHz, 1GB RAM
1.7. Network Requirements
Server: Live IP – No Firewall (specified ports required to be open), 1mbps + b/w
Client: 56kbps – 256kbps bandwidth
1.8. Other Software Requirement
1.8.1. Server:
1.8.1.1. .NET 3.5 SP1
1.8.1.2. IIS 6
1.8.1.3. SQL Server 2005/ SQL Express 2005
1.8.2. Client:
1.8.2.1. .NET 3.5 SP1
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The following steps are given to install Meeting Place Server
STEP 1 Download Meeting Place Server setup from one of the following links:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162339&package_id=183133&release_id
=594442
If you do not have IIS 6.0 or higher version installed on your system then kindly install
IIS first otherwise (in case you already have) move to step 8 to proceed.
IIS installation steps (STEP 2 to 7):-
STEP 2 Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs
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STEP 3 Click on “Add/Remove Windows Components” placed in left side of “Add or
Remove Programs” window
STEP 4 Select “Application Server” then click next to proceed.
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STEP 5 Insert disc of Microsoft Windows Operating System of your PC in CD driver,
press “OK” to proceed.
STEP 6 IIS installation progress
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STEP 7 Click finish to complete the IIS installation.
STEP 8 Now extract the downloaded zip file. And start Meeting Place Server installation
by double clicking on setup.exe file.
STEP 9 This installation would ask you to install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, if your
system does not have .NET framework installed.
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STEP 10 Accept the terms and condition. Following three images demonstrate
downloading and installation progress of .NET Framework. The download time
depends on your Internet speed and your computer configuration.
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STEP 11 After successful installation of .NET Framework start installing Meeting Place
server setup again by double clicking on setup .exe. Now if your pc does not have
SQL Server 2005 installed, the installation would ask you to install SQL Server 2005.
SQL Server 2005 installation steps (STEP 12 to STEP 31):-
STEP 12 Click on “Download” for downloading SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with
Advanced Services SP2.
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STEP 13 Save the setup file SQLEXPR32.EXE of sql server 2005.
Download progress of sql server setup file
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STEP 14 Install SQL server by double clicking on downloaded SQLEXPR32.EXE.
Select Run to install the SQL server 2005.
STEP 15 SQL server installation is in progress
STEP 16 Accept terms and conditions and click next to proceed
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STEP 17 Click “Install” to proceed next
STEP 18 SQL server installation progress screens:
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STEP 19 Click next to proceed further
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STEP 20 Installation progress screen
STEP 21 Provide your computer name and your company name
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STEP 22 Click on the client components and include all options and press next.
STEP 23 Select “Mixed Mode”
STEP 24 Provide passwords in specified fields. This password will be used for login
Authentication when you try to login to your system’s SQL server, that is you
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will have to provide this password as SQL Server authentication while login
into Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Click “Next” to proceed.
STEP 25 Click next to proceed
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STEP 26 Leave these options as it is and click next to move for next step
STEP 27 Click “Install” to proceed
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STEP 28 Following screen shows installation progress
STEP 29 Click “Finish” to finish the SQL server 2005 installation
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STEP 30 Configure SQL Server 2005 for making it useful to Meeting Place
SQL Configuration steps (STEP 33 to 43):-
STEP 31 Go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2005 > Configuration
Tools > SQL Server Surface Area Configuration
STEP 32 The following window would open, Click to “Server Surface Area
Configuration for Services and Connections”.
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STEP 33 The following window would open.
STEP 34 Click on “Database Engine” > “Remote Connections” and select “Using both
TCP/IP and named pipes”.
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STEP 35 Go to “SQL Server Browser” > Services
STEP 36 Click on “Stop” to stop the browser service.
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STEP 37 Now start the browser service by clicking “Start” button.
STEP 38 Now go to “Database Engine”, click on “Services”.
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STEP 39 Click on “Stop” to stop the database service.
STEP 40 Click “Start” to start the database service.
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STEP 41 Now click on “Apply” to apply the new configurations then click “OK” to
finish the configuration settings.
STEP 42 After finishing the new configuration settings, you will be prompted following
window. Close the following window.
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STEP 43 The following 2 steps is required for confirming successful installation and
Configuration of SQL Server 2005, go to Start > All Programs > Microsoft
SQL Server 2005 > SQL Server Management Studio Express.
STEP 44 You will get the following window, this window shows that the SQL Server
management studio is trying to connect to a SQL server.
• For Server type field:
o Select “Database Engine”
• For Server name field:
o Write the SQL server IP (SQL server IP is IP of the PC where the SQL
server is installed/running which you trying to connect like
192.168.191.2) + “\” + SQLEXPRESS (for example
“192.168.191.2\SQLEXPRESS”).
o The Server name may be only IP address of the SQL server (Like
“192.168.191.2” in case of enterprise version of SQL Server 2005),
but this user guide directed to install Express version of Microsoft
SQL Server 2005.
• For Authentication field:
o Select SQL Server Authentication
• For Login field:
o Write “sa” as per SQL server installation steps followed previously.
• For Password field:
o Write the password you entered in the Mixed Mode step while
installing the SQL Server (Step 19).
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Now click to “connect” button to connect to the database engine, if
database is connected successfully that means you have successfully
installed and configured the database and you have correct credentials
for accessing it.
STEP 45 Start Meeting Place sever installation again by double clicking on Meeting
Place Server Setup.exe file. Click next to proceed.
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STEP 46 Provide correct SQL Server’s credentials.
For first/top field (SQL Instance Name):
• Enter Server name, which is used while connecting to SQL server through
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and login into that; enter that
Server name in first/top field, as for example
“192.168.191.2\SQLExpress”, 192.168.191.2 is the IP address of the SQL
Server.
• The Instance name may be only IP address of the SQL server (Like
“192.168.191.2” in case of enterprise version of SQL Server 2005), but this
user guide directed to install Express version of Microsoft SQL Server
2005.
• IP address of SQL server is the IP of the system where SQL server is
installed/running.
For second field (SQL Authentication User Name):
• Enter the user name “sa”, which is used while connecting to SQL server
trough Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and login into that; use
that User Name in middle field.
For last/bottom field (SQL Authentication Password):
• This is the corresponding password to the user name discussed in above
section (Step 19).
Click “Next” to proceed.
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STEP 47 In the following screen,
For SMTP server Name field:
• Enter “smtp.gmail.com”
For SMTP Port Number field:
• Enter “587”
For SMTP UserName field:
• Enter “[email protected]”
For SMTP password field:
• Enter “vmukti”
Then click “Next” to proceed.
Give the default Username & Password.
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Note: There are two default users. One is having the Username & Password: vmukti
Second one is which you give in the mentioned previous screenshot during the
installation.
STEP 48 Domain Details
This screen is useful for network administrators; kindly keep these fields
blank if you are not a network administrator.
First field is multipurpose text box, in which you can enter domain name or IP
address.
• If you enter domain name. For e.g. www.yourdomainname.com then all
existing files and folders would delete from the location where
www.youdomianname.com is pointing.
o And Your VMukti browsing URL would be
http://yourdomainname.com
o User can also provide Directory name if they want to install on
specified directory, for e.g. if you VMukti as Directory name then
your browsing URL would become
http://yourdomainname.com/vmutkimeetingplace
o If VMukti Directory exists in particular domain then pointing
location of directory would changed, and if directory does not exists
then new virtual Directory named VMukti would create
automatically.
WARNING: All existing data and hosted websites would remove, if you
provide only domain name and domain should available.
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If a user wants to use the application as a bootstrap though the firewall is on, at that time
check the DMZ.
Enable the Use audio/video in single module if user wants to use the flash audio & video
module. Otherwise the only video module will be there after the installation.
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STEP 49 Click on next button to start the installation.
STEP 50 Installation progress.
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STEP 51 Click “Close” to finish the VMukti Server installation.
STEP 52 After successful installation of VMukti Meeting Place server setup download &
install FMS 3.0.1.
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Click On Next to Start the Setup.
Reminder: This is only necessary if you have selected the FMS Audio & video during the
server installation. (Step 47)
Accept the Agreement & Click on Next.
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Click on Next.
Click on Next.
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Click on Next.
Give the Username & password and click on next.
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Click on Next.
Now click on Install for the installation.
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Now a VMukti server is ready for use as a collaborative conferencing engine with URL:
http://<ServerIP>/vmuktimeetingplace, where ServerIP is the IP address of the system
where VMukti server is installed.
Before using it, please read carefully the usage scenarios.
VMukti usage scenario:
Scenario-1: If VMukti Bootstrap service is started then Server can’t function as a
Client
- Do not browse VMukti URL on server PC
- If server pc is on a live IP, then clients can access the VMukti server from anywhere
across the globe. And if server pc belongs to a LAN, then clients can access the
VMukti server under the same LAN only.
- Browse VMukti from other PCs (client’s PCs) with URL:
http://<ServerIP>/vmuktimeetingplace, where ServerIP is IP of the server where
VMukti server is installed and now start participating in collaborative conference.
You can follow user guide for getting detail information about how to use VMukti
widgets (modules).
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Scenario-2: If you want to browse the VMukti URL on VMukti Server (i.e. to
function as a client)
- Stop the "VMukti Bootstrap" service (Start > Administrative Tools > Services >
VMukti Bootstrap).
- You must browse VMukti URL on server PC, if do not browse then other clients
won’t be able to browse the http://<ServerIP>/vmuktimeetingplace and can’t
communicate with each other.
- If server pc is on a live IP, then clients can access the VMukti server from anywhere
across the globe. And if server pc belongs to a LAN, then clients can access the
VMukti server under the same LAN only.
- Browse VMukti from other PCs (client’s PCs) with URL:
http://<ServerIP>/vmuktimetingplace, where ServerIP is IP of the server where
VMukti server is installed. Start participating in collaborative conference.
You can follow the user guide for getting detail information about how to use VMukti
widgets (modules).
Logged in with username & Password. The application download screen is shown below.
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