The docs are in Wiki format and you have a link on each doc to download as pdf (note that screenshots do not render properly when downloaded as pdf). In some cases it ends up being one huge document that you need to go through to find something. You can however download individual sections that you are interested in which I think is really useful. As some previous posters stated, I wish there was a master reference index for the docs.
With regards to the db install, I have installed successfully on Windows 2008 with SQL Server 2008 (64 bit) with the overwrite db option (During the beta, the db overwrite option did not work and you had to drop and create the database manually. It is fixed in the final release). Our SQL Enterprise servers are on a SQL farm so DBA's do not want to provide us with the system admin credentials. We restored the ARSystem database from our test server and used the overwrite function (wanted to make sure the overwrite function worked). If you want to create the database manually I remember seeing this mentioned in the documentation. If you are on SQL server let me know and I can email the steps to you. Hope this helps. Regards, Saby ________________________________ From: Drew Shuller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 12:04 PM Subject: ARS 8.0 Documentation ** Good morning ARS Listers. I take it that the ARS Server documentation format has changed from pdf files to html. Or are pdf files still available? I'm asking because the html documentation for installing the ARS Server is a bit light, and it's referencing the install spreadsheet, which doesn't seem to be matched up with the installer panels that I'm seeing. The information there is a bit light as well. We're getting hung up on the database panels. Is the installer creating the ARSystem user, called ARAdmin, or am I supposed to create that user beforehand? Furthermore, is there a way to specify that I may have created the ARSystem database beforehand? How would the installer know I've done that? We're also having problems where the installer doesn't seem to recognize anything but the default instance, and only then when the instance name is not included. Anything else, and the installer says that that database is not recognized. Drew Shuller Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
