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Install Sync.Today

Prerequisites

SQL Server installation and configuration

Sync.Today 2015 uses Microsoft SQL Server to store its databases. Microsoft SQL Server installation goes beyond the scope of this document. Please check Installation for SQL if needed. Although we do not recommend it, you can install SQL Server on the same computer as Sync.Today 2015. For better performance, install and run SQL Server on a separate dedicated computer. For better performance and improved availability, install and run SQL Server on separate multiple dedicated computers in a clustered configuration.

Chocolatey installation

Sync.Today 2015 is installed through Chocolatey. Chocolatey install guide is very comprehensive and you can choose the installation method that would work for you the best.

Installing Sync.Today 2015

Sync.Today 2015 is available as a Chocolatey package. To install it, open the elevated command prompt and type choco install synctoday -source http://sync-today-nuget.azurewebsites.net/nuget. Chocolatey packages are installed to %ProgramData%\chocolatey\lib by default. If the installation was successful, you will find %ProgramData%\chocolatey\lib\synctoday subfolder and shim sync.today.temp.workflowapp.exe will be created in %ProgramData%\chocolatey\bin.

Upgrading Sync.Today 2015

If you are upgrading from an older release, open the elevated command prompt and type cup synctoday -source https://sync-today-nuget.azurewebsites.net/nuget.

Post-installation configuration

Sync.Today database

Sync.Today 2015 uses Microsoft SQL Server database to store the configuration, information about the users, service accounts or synchronized entities. After a fresh Sync.Today installation the new database needs to be created. To create Sync.Today 2015 database use supplied sync.today.createdb.exe console application that will create both the database and the database structure. Please note if the database is about to be created, default SQL Server folder will be used to store the database (MDF and LDF) files. The syntax is sync.today.createdb <<connection string>> e.g. sync.today.createdb "Server=(localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB; Database=SyncToday2015; Trusted_Connection=True;" To help you construct the connection string check SqlClient Connection Strings or SQL Server 2012 Connection Strings.

Master.config XML Configuration file

Although the Sync.Today 2015 configuration is stored in the database, there is a XML configuration file master.config too to navigate the Sync.Today 2015 applications to the database and also to configure assembly redirects and logging. When an Sync.Today 2015 application is started it first copies the master.config to its directory and uses it as the application configuration file.

Master.config location

The default master.config location is in the sync.today folder under %ProgramFiles%. If for some reasons %ProgramFiles% is not usable, you can specify the location of folder parent to the sync.today folder in ConfigDir registry string value under HKCU\Software\Sync.Today key. So if you have C:\ in HKCU\Software\Sync.Today\ConfigDir, the final path to master.config will be C:\sync.today\master.config.

Master.config content

Master.config is an application configuration file. See an example of Master.config.

Database connection string

Sync.Today 2015 uses the database connection string named sync-today-mssql from connectionStrings section. You can use the same you used to run sync.today.createdb or you can modify the security settings (user name and password) if needed.

Logging

Log4net is the logging framework Sync.Today 2015 is using. Several named loggers are used so specific logs are created for administrators, developers or to document the synchronization process:

  • root logger - events related to the synchronization process e.g. connecting to the database, connecting to different services, data download-transformation-upload
  • DevLog logger - more specific developer related log information
  • IgnoreLog logger - when entity changes are ignored the information goes here
  • WinnerLog logger - how the synchronization winner entity looks like
  • _data_before and _data_after loggers - to store the content of adapter-specific data tables before and after the synchronization

When Sync.Today is installed go on with the Configuration.