Who is this article for?

IT Personnel performing the installation of Please Review.

IT access is required.

Important: This article is part of a series of articles covering the Please Review installation process. Please visit Performing a Please Review 8.0.0 Installation to view the entire process.

This article outlines the steps to extract and install the Please Review application. After these steps have been performed you will need to continue through this series of instructions to install and configure the database.

This article is split into the following sections:

1. Create Service Account
2. Unpack Please Review
3. Install Node.js
4. Next Steps

1. Create Service Account

A service account is required to run the Please Review service. It is recommended to call this “Please ReviewService” however you can use any name you need.

Important Note: It is possible to use a domain user as the service account. If doing so then all installations must be performed while logged onto the server as that domain user.

The account must have administrator rights (i.e. be a member of the local administrators group).
If your site standard security policy has passwords expiring after a certain amount of time, we
recommend you configure this service account with a non-expiring password.

2. Unpack Please Review

1. Create the following directory on the server. This directory will act as the installation directory.
   

   C:\Program Files\PleaseReview

2. Locate the Please Review zip file.
3. Right click on the zip file and select Properties.
4. Confirm that "blocked" is unchecked.
5. Click OK.
6. Extract the zip file into the installation directory.

Note: After the files have been extracted you should have three directories:

1. TaraWeb
2. Runtime
3. Redist.

3.Install Node.js

Important Note: If you already have Node.js installed it is important to upgrade to the latest version.

1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the nodejs directory in the Redist folder.

For Example: C:\Program Files\PleaseReview\Redist nodejs

2. Double click the node-{version}-x64.msi file to run the installer
3. Accept all default options.
4. Continue with the on-screen instructions.

Next Steps

If you have everything in place you are ready to proceed. Please see Creating the Database on Microsoft SQL and Oracle for 8.0.0, for the next steps or Performing a Please Review 8.0.0 Installation to review the entire process.