It is recommended that you print these instructions for reference.
Installation of LEDGER ENGINES has the following requirements and steps.
1) The Microsoft .NET Framework must be present on the target computer.
2) MSDE, Sql Server Express 2005 or Microsoft SQL Server must be present on the target computer.
3) The LEDGER ENGINES database must be installed on to the Sql Server Express 2005 Instance or SQL Server.
4) The LEDGER ENGINES Application is then installed on the target computer.
5) The XML Configuration file must be edited to reflect your server settings on the target computer.
Details of the requirements.
1) The Microsoft .NET Framework is a requisite to run any software developed through the .NET Environment. You can check your system for this requirement by going to Start> Control Panel> Add Remove Programs and scrolling down the list of installed programs to see if Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is present. If it is not you can also install it from the link below. Sql Server Express 2005 requires the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 version. Click the link below now to complete step 1.
2) LEDGER ENGINES is an enterprise accounting application and as such requires the use of a Database Management System. MSDE is a database management system that manages the LEDGER ENGINE database that will be used by the application to store all data created by the system. If you do not have Microsoft SQL Server or SQL Server 2005 Express or MSDE or do not know, then click on the download and install link to download the SQL Server Express 2005. Then follow the instructions on the link under section 3.4.4 to complete the installation. Refer to the section that explains Mixed Mode installation. If you already have SQL Server 2005 or MSDE or SQL Server Express 2005 installed and running then skip to step 3.
Sql Server Express 2005 Installation instructions
Note that upon installing Sql Server 2005 Express you will be prompted to choose either Windows Authentication or Mixed mode. If you choose mixed mode you will need to specify a password and your default user ID will be sa.
Download and Install Sql Server 2005 Express
3) The LEDGER ENGINES database needs to be installed on to either MSDE, SQL Server 2005 Express or SQL Server 2005. You can click on the following link to download and install the LEDGER ENGINES database. During installation you will need to know the name of your Server to complete the installation, and you will have to name the database file that will be created. For Sql Server Express 2005 the Server Name will likely be YOURCOMPUTERNAME\SQLEXPRESS. You can right click on the My computer option from the start menu then select properties, the computer name tab, and view what's under the Full computer name area, to get your computer name. For the name of your database to be installed, we recommend that you name the database file created Ledger1.
Download and Install LEDGER ENGINES database4) The LEDGER ENGINES Application can now be downloaded and installed. Click on the following link to download the LEDGER ENGINES application.
Download and install LEDGER ENGINES application
5) Finally, the application needs to know how to access the database that has been installed. This information is passed to the application through the use of an XML Configuration file that is located in the folder that the application was installed on to. If you did not change the default installation directory, this would normally be found and edited in the following manner. Right click on the start button on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. Click on the explore option and navigate to the following directory location. C:\Program Files\LedgerEngines. Within that folder is a file called LedgerEngines.exe.config. Open this file using note pad, word pad, or other text editor. Edit the text value after "Server =", and change it to the name of your Server you obtained in step 3. Again, You can obtain the name of the server by double clicking on the Microsoft SQL Server Icon located in the bottom right hand corner of your screen in the system tray which will be present after Sql Server 2005 Express installation. If you did not use Ledger1 as the name of the database then edit the text value after "database =" and change it to the name of the database you created in step 3. You are now ready to run the LEDGER ENGINES software. The starting USER Name is ADMIN, and the password is 123.