Quick Setup Guide

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Version: 7.1

1 Kerio Connect VMware Virtual Appliance

Kerio Connect VMware Virtual Appliance includes the CentOS 5.4/Gnome operating system and
a 30-day trial version of Kerio Connect 7. The trial version of Kerio Connect is not limited in
functionality, it only expires after a certain period of time. After 30 days from the installation
the product stops working.

Kerio Connect VMware Virtual Appliance is compressed to a file of 800 MB; 3 GB free disk
space is needed for its usage.

Kerio Connect VMware Virtual Appliance can be run on:

• VMware ESX server — first, the image must beconverted by running a special script
which is included in the installation package (for the conversion guidance, see VMware
ESX Server Installation Instructions).
• VMware Server
• VMware Workstation
• VMware Player

Upon startup of VMware Virtual Appliance, username and password for CentOS is required.
Use the following login data:

• Name: root
• Password: kerio

2 Installation and basic configuration of Kerio Connect

First startup of VMware Virtual Appliance automatically runs a special script for installation
and basic configuration of Kerio Connect. Firts, the script connects to the Kerio Technologies
download server and checks for Kerio Connect updates. If the connection fails, network for
VMware is not set properly. This should not be a problem unless it is desirable to run Kerio
Connect in the Internet. VMware Virtual Appliance will simply not include the up-to-date
version of Kerio Connect.

If the update check is completed successfully or if installation of the current version is se-
lected, the installation gets started. First, the installation script opens the license agreement
(to go to the end of this page, hold Enter). Then, the installation process is started that can
take several minutes.

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Once the installation is completed successfully, the scripts continues by offering the basic
configuration wizard. Confirm the action. This opens the wizard where you can browse by the
Tab key and confirm settings by Enter:

1. On the first page, create an email domain and specify Internet name of the server. If you
keep the default settings, the server will not work in the Internet. However, it will be
possible to use this configuration locally.

2. In the next step of the wizard, create an administration account. Keep the Admin as name
and enter password. Memorize the name and password defined in this dialog well since
they will be later used for authentication to theKerio Connect’s administration console.

3. The next dialog of the wizard allows setting of location of the data store. In this directory,
all user accounts and server logs will be stored.

3 Running KerioConnect Administration

After successful installation of Kerio Connect, a Kerio Connect Administration icon is displayed
on the VMware Virtual Appliance desktop. This opens your web browser with the login dialog.
Enter username and password defined in the configuration wizard within the Kerio Connect’s
installation process.

4 Kerio WebMail startup

After successful installation of Kerio Connect, a Kerio WebMail icon is displayed on the VMware
Virtual Appliance desktop. Clicking on the icon opens the Kerio WebMail’s login page. Enter
username and password (if no user has been created yet, enter username and password of the
user created in the configuration wizard within the Kerio Connect’s installation process).