Before installing the Axiom system, the following should be installed/available on the server.

.Net framework

The Axiom web sites, and services are building using the Microsoft .Net framework and .Net 2.0 and .Net 4.0 frameworks must both be installed on the server.

Helper applications

The following applications are required to support features such as thumbnailing of PDF files and video files.

Ghostscript

Ghostscript is  required for thumbnailing pdf files and can be downloaded from:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Choose the x86 or x64 versions depending on whether the server is a 32bit or 64 bit server. The latest version should always be used as this will have the best support for PDF file versions.

ffmpeg

ffmpeg is required for thumbnailing video files and can be downloaded from:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Database

Axiom uses an Microsoft SQL server database to store its data and SQL Server must be installed and a database created before an Axiom installation can be started.

The preferred edition is SQL Server Standard (or Enterprise) edition, as these provide additional scalability and management tools for maintenance and backups which need to be done manually on the free SQL Server Express edition. SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2 are all supported. SQL Server Express can be downloaded from:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/

A database should be created for each instance of Axiom being installed. The database name can be anything, but by convention these are normally named "axiom" if you will only be installing a single site, or "axiom<Name>" when multiple sites or test sites are being installed (e.g. axiomSite1 or axiomUAT etc)

A SQL Server user account should be created for each Axiom database. Both SQL Server users accounts and integrated user accounts are supported. The user account should be granted dbo access to the relevant Axiom database.