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Setting Up Remote Data Service

To properly install Remote Data Service, you should read the information in the following sections:

Before You Run Setup

Before you install Remote Data Service, make sure that your client and server computers meet the minimum hardware and software requirements.

For the latest information on supported platforms and hardware and software requirements, see the Readme.txt file.

Hardware Requirements

To install Remote Data Service, you must meet certain hardware requirements, which include:

Software Requirements

Before you install Remote Data Service on a server computer, your server computer must meet the following software requirements:

To access Remote Data Service applications from client computers, client computers must meet the following software requirements:

Note Remote Data Service hasn't been tested with the Netscape browser technology.

To build client Web pages, you can use typical HTML authoring tools, such as Notepad or the more fully featured Microsoft ActiveX™ Control Pad.

To program server-side business objects, you can use any ActiveX/COM -compatible development tool, such as Microsoft Visual Basic® 5.0 or Microsoft Visual C++®.

Installing Remote Data Service

For Remote Data Service to work correctly, you should ensure that the Remote Data Service server and client components are installed correctly on server and client computers, respectively.

Installing Remote Data Service Server Components on Your Web Servers

Remote Data Service 1.5 is installed automatically, along with the rest of the Microsoft Data Access Components, when you install Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 using either the "Typical" or "Minimum" installation options.

You may want to install Remote Data Service by itself on a version 3.0 Internet Information Service, as an upgrade to Advanced Data Connector version 1.x. To do so, follow these steps. This setup procedure assumes that your computer meets all of the software requirements.

Important Before you install Remote Data Service 1.5, you should uninstall previous versions of Remote Data Service (formerly called Advanced Data Connector) on your computer. You can do this by using the Add/Remove Programs applet in Control Panel.

To install Remote Data Service server components

  1. From your Web server computer, connect to the Remote Data Service World Wide Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/adc/.

  2. Click the Download button, and scroll down to Download Files and Sites.

  3. Click the appropriate Server and Help Files (msadc15.exe for the Windows NT 4.0 paltform, msadc15a.exe for the Alpha platform, or msadc1595.exe for the Windows 95 platform) to install the software, documentation, and core samples. This web site also gives you the option of installing RDS version 1.1, which maintains backward compatibility with Internet Explorer version 3.0.

  4. Follow the Setup instructions on the screen.

The Setup program installs the program files to the <device>:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSADC directory. (This location is adjacent to other complementary Microsoft technologies such as ActiveX Data Objects and OLE DB.) The following subdirectories are created under the \MSADC directory with the setup program.
SubdirectoryDescription
..\MSADC\Docs Contains the documentation.
..\MSADC\SamplesContains the sample files.

The server installation program also creates a Microsoft Internet Information Server virtual root on your Web server computer. The root is designated //<servername>/msadc and you can run files from there on a client browser. If for some reason this root is deleted or is otherwise non-existent, either reinstall or manually re-create this root.

Once you have run the setup program on your Web server computer, you can validate your installation.

Installing Remote Data Service Client Components on Your Client Computers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 already includes the necessary Remote Data Service client components. Therefore, you don't need to include a .cab file on your Web page because client computers will already have the Remote Data Service client component DLLs. See the Microsoft Data Access Components README for a complete list of component files.

To manually download client-side files for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, see the Remote Data Service web page at http://www.microsoft.com/adc/.

Validating Setup

You can use the ADCTest.asp sample application to validate your Remote Data Service installation.

To validate setup with ADCTest

  1. Start Internet Explorer, and enter the following address:

    http://servername/MSADC/Samples/adctest.asp

    where servername is the name of your Web server.

    This should display the Remote Data Service Query Page. You'll notice that the server, connection, and query information is already provided for you.

  2. Click the Run! button to execute the query.

    If the grid displays a result set, your installation is correct.

If you run into any problems, review the setup instructions and see "Troubleshooting Remote Data Service" and "Other Remote Data Service Configuration Information."

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