The SSRPM Service installation

Because you can't use SSRPM without a running service, you'll first need to install the SSRPM Service with the SSRPM Admin Console. If you've installed the SSRPM Service before, you can skip the SSRPM Service Installation Wizard. In this case you may want to continue reading at the next chapter: The SSRPM User Client Software Installation.

The SSRPM Service Installation wizard installs and starts the SSRPM Service. To upgrade or remove the SSRPM Service later on, the SSRPM Service Installation Wizard can be used as well.

Within the SSRPM Service Installation Wizard, there are a few settings which you can specify, knowingly:

The target computer, which is the computer on which you want to install the SSRPM Service. This is most likely a server or the same machine on which you're running the SSRPM Admin Console, which is specified by default.
The installation directory, in which the SSRPM Service will be installed on the specified target computer. All SSRPM Service files including the SSRPM Database will be copied to this directory.
The SSRPM Communication Port (see: Appendix A: Windows Services); the communication port which the SSRPM Admin Console and the SSRPM Service will use to communicate.
The SSRPM Service Account (see: Appendix A: Windows Services), which is a user account with administrative privileges. This account is needed to be able to reset passwords within the domain of which the specified target computer is a member of. When this account doesn't exist already, it will be created automatically for you.
The SSRPM Service Account Group; The SSRPM Service Account is configured as a member of this group. Through this group the service account is granted access rights to actually reset the password of all target end-user accounts.
The SSRPM Administer Group; a user group which is allowed to administer the SSRPM with the SSRPM Admin Console. Only the users, who are a member of this user group, can use the SSRPM Admin Console to configure or manage the SSRPM Service. Other users cannot use the SSRPM Admin Console, and thus don't have access to configure or manage the SSRPM Service.
E-mail configuration, which the SSRPM Service uses for sending notification e-mails (for instance, when a user resets his or her password).

Note: When running the SSRPM Service Installation Wizard, you'll need to have administrative privileges on the specified target computer, so that the service can be installed and a service account can be created (if this account doesn't exist already). The target computer which you specify needs to have access to a domain controller (or functions as a domain controller itself) within the domain of which the target computer is a member of, so that the service is able to reset passwords of all users within this domain.

When the service installation has completed successfully, the SSRPM Service has been started and will be running on the target computer (within the security context of the SSRPM Service Account).