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In this movie we will look at the install process for FileMaker Server. There is a separate movie on installing FileMaker Server Advanced, but for the most part, the installation process is the same for both versions. The installation process is also described in the Getting Started Admin Guides that you can find on the FileMaker Server Install CD and you can also download those from the FileMaker website. Before we get started, you can not install FileMaker Server on a machine that already has another copy of FileMaker Server installed on it. That is because FileMaker Server uses one hardwired port for its data traffic. So two copies of FileMaker Server would generate conflicts as both would try and grab that one port. If you're going to install FileMaker Server 10 on a machine that already has FileMaker Server 9 or any previous version on it, then you will need to uninstall that old version. Unfortunately, there's no backup utility to preserve your old settings and schedules so make sure that you document the current settings before uninstalling. And before you uninstall, make sure to run a backup schedule and to close the files first. If you have a trial version of FileMaker Server installed and it has not expired yet, then you can just update the license key and the trial will revert to a full FileMaker Server. If the trial has expired, you will need to uninstall it first. On Windows, all FileMaker products require access to the original install files when you update them. That means that if you install from the CD, you will need to put that CD in the drive whenever you want to update FileMaker Server. With that in mind you might want to copy the contents of the CD to the hard disk or to a network share if you need to install more than one FileMaker Server and install from there. This makes updating FileMaker Server even easier since you won't have to physically put the install CD in the CD drive to do the update. Note that on Windows you don't need to map the network share to a drive letter to do this. In fact, it's probably better if you don't, otherwise you need to map that share to the same drive letter in order to do an update. You can just locate the share in the network neighborhood and run the installer from there. On the Mac you can update FileMaker products without having to put the original CD in. If you want to use web publishing, make sure that the web server is actually running before you do the install. The FileMaker Server installation process will try and communicate with the web server so it really needs to be running. On Windows, the FileMaker Server installer will do a couple of checks before it actually begins installing the FileMaker Server itself so you might see this dialog when you install FileMaker Server on Windows. What it does, it checks to make sure that you have the correct version of the Java runtime environment, which is Version 6, the recommended version and it'll also check if you have Bonjour for Windows installed. If you don't have those, FileMaker Server will install them for you. Now let's get going with the real installation.