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The Alfresco Enterprise Edition Download lets you try out a fully featured version of Alfresco Enterprise Network within your infrastructure for 30 days. You can trial both the Alfresco ECM and the Alfresco WCM.

The Alfresco Enterprise Edition Download page shows the options you can choose for Windows:

• Alfresco ECM provides the core Enterprise Content Management download
• Alfresco WCM provides the Enterprise Content Management packaged with Web Content Management

If you want to see the full list of downloads, select Other Packages and Platforms.

[edit] Download Alfresco Enterprise Edition

To download the Alfresco Enterprise Edition:

1. Click the Alfresco ECM option to download the Windows installer. The Enterprise Trial Registration page displays.
2. On the Enterprise Trial Registration page, enter your Alfresco Content Community email address and password. The registration procedure requires you to have an Alfresco Content Community account. Note: if you do not have a Content Community login, click the sign up for free link.
3. The Download Details shows the name of the file that you will download. For example, AlfrescoEnterprise-2.2.0-setup.exe.
4. Ensure that the Terms and Conditions check box is selected.
5. Click Download.
6. Save the download file.

[edit] Install Alfresco Enterprise Edition

Note: Alfresco is preconfigured with the HSQL database by default and is for testing and evaluation only. It should not be used in production. For a production environment, change your database from HSQL to a supported database such as MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL.

To install the Alfresco Enterprise Edition (standard installation):

1. In Explorer, double-click the file AlfrescoEnterprise-2.2.0-Setup.exe.
   The install wizard for Alfresco Enterprise Network starts. A message asks if you want to install Alfresco Enterprise Network on your computer.
2. In the message box, click Yes.
3. In the Welcome window, click Next.
4. Choose a directory in which to install Alfresco (or accept the default ), and click Next.
5. The Extra Components screen shows two options:

• Download and install JDK component
• Download and install OpenOffice.org component
  The check boxes tell you if you have these required components already installed on your system. If you have JDK version 1.5 and OpenOffice installed on your system, the two check boxes will be unselected, so click Next. If one or both JDK version 5 and OpenOffice are not installed, and the relevant check box is selected, click Next. The setup program will download and install the applications for you. If JDK 1.5 is installed but the check box is still selected, you may need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

7. Confirm that the installation directory is correct, and click Next.
   If you requested the setup program to download JDK and/or OpenOffice, they are downloaded and installed. When this is complete, Alfresco is installed.
8. If you are already registered with the Alfresco Community, click Next.
9. For a standard installation, you do not need to run the configuration wizard. Unselect the check box for running the configuration wizard.
10. Click Finish.

[edit] Running Alfresco

Once you have installed Alfresco, test the installation by starting the Alfresco server and then running the web client.

[edit] Starting the Alfresco server

To start the Alfresco server, browse to C:\alfresco and double-click alf.start.bat.

A DOS window opens, displaying a message indicating the server has started:

INFO: Server startup in nnnnn ms

Note: You can also start the server by clicking the Start menu, and selecting All Programs > Alfresco Enterprise > Start Alfresco Server.

[edit] Starting the Alfresco web client

Once you have started the Alfresco server, you can start Alfresco using a browser.

To start the web client:

1. Browse to http://localhost:8080/alfresco.
2. Log in using admin as the default user name and password.

[edit] Stop the Alfresco server

To stop the Alfresco server, browse to C:\alfresco, and double-click alf.stop.bat.

The DOS window that opened during startup closes, and Alfresco stops.

Note: You can also stop the server by clicking the Start menu, and selecting All Programs > Alfresco Enterprise > Stop Alfresco Server.

[edit] Custom installation

The standard installation procedure allows you to get up and running with Alfresco, without the need to change any settings or configurations. If you wish to change the default settings, you run the Alfresco configuration wizard. This wizard allows you to use a different database type (for example, MySQL), and to change the location for the content store, the Lucene indexes, and OpenOffice.

[edit] Running the configuration wizard

When you have installed Alfresco, you can run the configuration wizard as follows:

1. Run the configure.exe file in the root of the Alfresco installation folder.
2. To specify the database, in the Welcome window of the configuration wizard, click Next.
3. In the Choose Database Type window, select a different database, and click Next.
   To use MySQL (or another database), you must first install the database, and then set up the database. See Setting up the MySQL database for Alfresco.
4. Choose a directory to store the Alfresco Content Store or accept the default, and click Next.
5. Choose a directory to store the Lucene Indexes or accept the default, and click Next.
6. Select the directory where OpenOffice is installed, and click Next. For more information on setting up OpenOffice see Setting up OpenOffice for Alfresco
7. In the Configuration Complete window, click Finish.

The wizard closes and your configuration is saved. You can modify the configuration at any time by repeating the procedure from step 1.