Ramblings of a Dynamics GP Consultant
Earlier in this series of posts, I took a look at installing the Web Client Runtime and adding the IIS server role. In this post I’ll take a look at installing a self-signed certificate (self-signed is really only a valid option for a demo or test system; on a live system you should really use a real certificate.
To create a self-signed one, open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and click on Server Certificates;
In this series of posts, I’m taking a look at installing the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 Web Client as a single machine deployment. To be able to install the Web Client, we need to have ISS installed. The server I am installing this on is a Windows Server 2012 so this is done via the Server Manager.
To add the ISS Role, click on Add Roles and Features;
To function the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 web client requires a web server running IIS with a web site bound to an SSL certificate.
The operating system of the web server must be one of the following:
Once you have installed one of the above, I chose Windows Server 2008 R2 for this install, the Web Server (IIS) role needs to be installed via Server Manager.
Open Server Manager and click the Add Roles link;
When I signed up with my current web host the deal was limited to six domains and unlimited websites; a restriction I figured I could live within as a lot of what I intended to do would be in sub-domains and the unlimited websites allowed me to have each sub-domain in an individual website.
However, since I signed up they have, without giving any form of notification, changed the deal so it is now unlimited domains and only six websites. I’m currently in a position that I have five domains and twelve websites without the ability to create another website; the control panel shows me as having 12 of 6 websites. The only positive is that they have not, as yet, required me to trim down the number of websites I have.
I therefore spent a little time yesterday looking for a resolution to this problem. Continue reading
