How to Create an Amazon Windows 2019 Server for Contensive
- Log on to your AWS account
- Go to EC2
- Create a new instance
- Windows 2019
- If you are using Amazon RDS as your database, a T2-micro is ok. If you will install Sql Express, you will need a T2-small for the database
- Name the instance
- Allocate and Elastic IP and assign it to the instance
- Connect - retrieving the Administrator password from the AWS connect account
- Turn off I.E. enhanced Security
- Download Chrome
- Install IIS, Start > Control Panel > programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on
- Install Web Platform Installed by downloading
- Use Web Platform installer to install Web Deploy 3.6 or newer, with Web Deployment Tool 2.1 or newer
- Download and install Sql Express 2017
- Install SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio)
- Open SSMS and create an account to administer the database, security > Login > New Login > TestAdmin/test, disable security rules, Roles > Set SystAdmin
- Set Sql to accept connections with Sql Authentication > Top Node > Properties > Security > checkbox
- Restart the server.