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Introduction

This guide will walk you through setting up a fully functional EventSentry installation using Microsoft's free SQL Server 2005 Express Edition database. It can be downloaded for free from Microsoft's web site at: http://download.microsoft.com. The steps for setting up the full version of SQL 2005 are very similar, so you can use this guide for that as well.

Before we start with the EventSentry installation we will need to prepare the server to ensure that the components required by EventSentry are installed and setup correctly. Since the majority of EventSentry customers are currently using 32-bit Windows Server 2003 we are going to be using this in our example. The main requirements are of course the SQL server itself and Internet Information Server (akak IIS) to display the web reporting.