Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Running the installation program

Now that your SSL certificate is in place and you have your software authorizations and installers from Esri, it is finally time to install ArcGIS Server. The installation of ArcGIS Server is a straightforward process; as such, we will walk through the process at a high level, while highlighting some of the more important sections:

1. Double-click on the setup executable to launch it. The first step is to choose a location for setup installation files. This typically defaults to a path such as C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\ArcGIS 10.5. It is good practice to change this to a temp directory such as C:\temp\ags. Why, you ask? During this step of the installation, several very large .cab files (compressed files ...