Running Sage CRM on Windows Server Essentials

After installation, complete the following steps to run Sage CRM on Windows Server Essentials.

1. Click Control Panel | User Accounts and disable User Account Control.
2. Launch Sage CRM.
3. If a service unavailable error occurs, set the bitness64 precondition in %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\host.config.

   Change:

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   <add name="PasswordExpiryModule"image="C:\Windows\system32\RpcProxy\RpcProxy.dll" />

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   <add name="PasswordExpiryModule"image="C:\Windows\system32\RpcProxy\RpcProxy.dll" preCondition="bitness64"/>

4. Reset IIS.
5. Launch Sage CRM. If an internal server error occurs, run the following command to turn off HTTP compression.
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   %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /-[name='xpress']

6. Reset IIS.
7. Launch Sage CRM.