Elements SPA Installation

Contents

Deploying the Aligned Elements Web-solution

Note! To upgrade a server, see section 4 Upgrading a Server

1 Setting up the Server.

1.1 Install/Activate the IIS.

1.2 Enable ASP.NET 4.5/4.6. 7

1.3 Optional: IIS Always running part 1.

1.4 Installing Web Platform Installer and Web deploy.

1.5 Install URL Rewrite Module.

1.6 Install IIS Crypto to disable Weak Ciphers and Protocols.

1.7 Setting HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

2 Deploying the Aligned Elements Web Solution.

2.1 Install the Aligned Elements Web Server Package.

2.2 Optional: Open Ports in the Network on Azure hosted Virtual Machines.

2.3 Optional: Get a SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt

2.4 Binding your SSL certificate to the Aligned Elements web site.

2.5 Creating the „Temp“ and „Files“ directories.

2.6 Move ElementsSPA.xml to bin.

2.7 Add the Aligned Elements License File.

2.8 Set the necessary security permissions for the installation directory.

2.9 Optional: IIS Always running part 2.

2.10 Install necessary Unicode Font

3 Configure Application Options in web.config.

3.1 Set the Server and connection string.

3.2 Always Require SSL.

3.3 Referring to the Project Templates.

3.4 Email Configuration.

3.5 Word Add-in Configuration.

3.5.1 Distribute an Add-in using the Office 365 admin center.

3.5.2 Distribute the add-in using sideloading.

3.6 Optional: Integration of the Aligned Elements Automation Tool

3.6.1 Importing Dashboards with Rename using the Automation Script

3.7 Optional: Enabling Active Directory Integration.

4 Upgrading a Server.

5 Troubleshooting during installation and update.

5.1 The application cannot connect to the license server.

5.2 Missing version of stdole.dll

5.3 The urls in email notifications are incorrect/missing port information.

5.4 Missing Font

5.5 Missing Dependencies for Txic.dll

5.6 Mismatch of server name between Windows-client and Web.

5.7 Load a project works but when clicking on a design Item, you are re-directed to the login.

5.8 The server is not starting after upgrading to v2.5 SP 4.