Virtual Machine

We will use a virtual machine (VM) environment to explain the installation of FireStart:

On this VM ("VM-PFS"), the FireStart Server and Process Portal will be installed (for the installation of the Process Portal, the Internet Information Service (IIS) is required).

The server must be a member of an Active Directory domain. FireStart requires .NET Framework 4.8 (see System Requirements).
The installation has to be conducted as a server administrator. For daily operations, FireStart needs to run with local admin rights.

For the installation, the following Active Directory users and groups are expected:

Name	Type	Function(s)
DEVadmin	user	local administrator conducting the installation on both VMs
PFSservice	user	local administrator on VM-PFS (recommended) user for the FireStart service, owns a mailbox for the task deployment via email. DB-Owner of the FireStart database member of the FSadmins group
PSAservice	user	local administrator on VM-SP (recommended) user for the Sync Adapter service SharePoint site collection admin for additional SharePoint permission, see this article.
FSadmins	group	global security group for users administrating FireStart
FSadmin	user	member of FSadmin

Using Windows Authentication

If you want to use Windows Authentication in FireStart, you need to ensure that Windows Authentication is installed for IIS. You can either install the feature via the ServerManager or the ConfigWizard.