Installing the applications and SQL on your terminal server

To install your Sage Corporation Tax programs in order that all workstation users will be able to access them, you will need to install as an administrator via remote access to the terminal server from a workstation.

1. Run the download of Sage Corporation Tax on your computer. As you are installing Sage Corporation Tax to be used over a network, you will need to do this on the server machine where Microsoft SQL is either already installed, or where you want your Corporation Tax databases to be kept.
2. Your computer will be checked to see if any prerequisite software is required before Sage Corporation Tax can be installed.
3. Read and accept the terms of the licence agreement., then click Next.
4. Your Microsoft SQL Server status is reported. If you have Microsoft SQL Server already installed, the installation will detect this. A message will tell you the name of the SQL server that it will use to host the Sage Corporation Tax database.
   
   If SQL is not installed, the pre-install checks will detect this and find SQL servers to host data will report a warning in the results section. You can install Microsoft SQL Server Express later in the installation.
   
   When the checks have finished click Next.
5. If this is a new installation, no Sage Corporation Tax database will be found. Choose to install a new version of Sage Corporation Tax, and choose what local drive you want to install the Sage Corporation Tax program files to. Click Next.
6. If SQL is already installed, the installation will detect the available SQL instances. Select the SQL instance you'd like to use from the drop-down list.
7. If an existing SQL Server cannot be found, or you want to install a new instance of SQL Server Express, choose the second option. From the drop-down box, select the drive on which you want to install SQL Server Express. If you are installing on a server, the drive you select must be accessible by all workstations that will have Corporation Tax installed. Click Next.
8. Review the settings for the installation, then click Install.

If your computer needs to be rebooted to complete the installation a page appears telling you that the computer needs to be restarted. Once you have rebooted, run the installation again.

NOTE: If you use either the Windows firewall or a third party firewall you may need to add some exceptions to allow the workstations to connect.

To install your Sage Corporation Tax software in an order that all workstation users can to access them, you need to install as an administrator via remote access to the terminal server from a workstation. This makes sure the files are installed to the correct location.

To install the Sage Corporation Tax program files to a different server than the server where Microsoft SQL and your Sage Corporation Tax database are installed, you need to access the relevant server remotely via a workstation, using administrator log in details. This will make sure that the program files are installed to the C:\Program Files folder, allowing access to the programs for all terminal workstation users.

If you do not install these program files remotely via a workstation, they will be installed to the User Profile, and terminal workstation users will not have access to them.

1. You can install Sage Corporation Tax by browsing to the setup file from your terminal server machine. You should have the path to the setup file location. It will be similar to \\\SuiteWorkstationInstaller
2. Run the ClientSetup.exe file, then progress through the installation wizard.