Install Meridian Enterprise Server

The Meridian Enterprise Server application server includes business and data access components that are used by other Accruent applications. These components should be installed on a Windows server running Internet Information Services (IIS) on which you want to host Meridian Enterprise Server.

Note:

If Meridian 2020 R2 is was previously uninstalled and an earlier verision installed, the Microsoft Visual C runtime must installed manually.

The components are installed using the Meridian Enterprise setup program. Meridian Enterprise Server is an integral part of:

Meridian Explorer
Publisher
User and group management when the preceding are used together with Meridian Enterprise
Meridian Enterprise Data Library

Meridian Enterprise Server is typically installed on one computer. However, for maximum scalability it can be installed on multiple computers and configured as a cluster as described in Configure a Meridian Enterprise Server Cluster.

Notes About Installation

Review the following important information about installing Meridian Enterprise Server.

Meridian Enterprise Server 2014 or later can be upgraded in-place with the installation package. Existing installations prior to Meridian Enterprise Server 2014 cannot be upgraded. You must uninstall the existing version before installing a newer version. Delete any remaining files in C:\Program Files\BC-Meridian\Enterprise Server and in C:\ProgramData\BlueCieloECM. If you have manually modified any configuration files, make a backup copy before uninstalling the old version and restore the file after installing the new version.
If ASP.NET is installed on the computer before IIS is enabled, you must enable ASP.NET by running the command aspnet_regiis -i.
If the Meridian Enterprise client components were installed on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer before Meridian Enterprise Server is installed, some of the Meridian Enterprise client libraries are overwritten during the Meridian Enterprise Server installation. If Meridian Enterprise Server is subsequently uninstalled, those libraries will be unregistered and cause errors if Meridian Enterprise Server is reinstalled, such as with an upgrade. In such cases, run the Meridian Enterprise setup program before reinstalling Meridian Enterprise Server and select the Repair option to re-register the libraries and prevent the errors.
You must install the setup package as an administrator of the computer and temporarily disable Windows User Account Control (UAC).
If the inetpub folder is created in a different drive (other than the default C:\ drive) during the Meridian Enterprise Server installation, you will see a warning indicating that the web server is not installed on the Windows server and the PowerWeb component will not be installed.

To prevent this issue:
- Before the Meridian installation, change the PathWWWRoot value for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\InetStp registry key to the path to the wwwroot on the chosen drive.
  
  During the installation, the setup path will show the correct destination folder in the Start Copying Files dialog. All PowerWeb files will go to the chosen drive during the installation.
If you install Publisher on a client machine, you must manually create a Windows application event log with the name BC Application Events.

Learn more about creating Windows Event Logs on Microsoft's website.

Procedures

To install the components:

Follow the instructions in Choose An Installation File to run BC-Meridian Server (x64).exe.
On the Select Features page, review the selections in each branch using the descriptions in the following table.

Select only those components for which you have purchased and installed licenses and complete the installation.

Complete the setup wizard normally.

Meridian Enterprise Server setup component branches
Branch	Description
Publisher/System links	Publisher system links available in this release.
Publisher/Rendering modules	Publisher rendering modules available in this release. If the AutoVue rendering module is installed for rendering 3D models, also select the Oracle AutoVue 3D Professional Advanced component in the Client/Viewer branch. Licenses that begin with M--AV3 must also be installed on the Accruent license server.
Publisher/Publishing tools	Publisher services for the Windows file system, Accruent Project Portal, and Microsoft SharePoint.

If the AutoVue rendering module was installed, the AutoVue Document Converter dialog will display the installation results.

Click OK.
If a rendering module will be used on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer that starts a native application (for example, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Office, and so on), install and configure the native application.
If AutoCAD drawings will be rendered with the AutoVue rendering module that use custom font (.shx) files, place copies of the font files in the following location after installation:
```
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Cyco Shared\AutoVue\Fonts
```
If Meridian Enterprise Server is installed correctly, you can open Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console as described in Open Accruent Meridian Administration Console.