Before You Install and Deploy ProjectWise WSG

Make sure the latest Windows updates have been installed.

Be an administrator of the computer.

Install or configure the prerequisites for ProjectWise WSG :

In Server Manager, make sure the Web Server (IIS) role is installed along with the following role services:
- Web Server
  - Performance
    - Dynamic Content Compression
In Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, configure the following Authentication settings for the website you plan to deploy ProjectWise WSG to:
1. In the Connections pane, under your server > Sites, select your website.
2. On the Home page (middle), under IIS, double-click the Authentication feature.
3. Set Anonymous Authentication to Enabled.
In Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager, secure the website you plan to deploy ProjectWise WSG to:
1. In the Connections pane, under your server > Sites, right-click your website and select Edit Bindings.
2. In the Site Bindings dialog, click Add.
3. In the Add Site Bindings dialog, change Type to https, select an SSL certificate from the list, and click OK.
4. Click Close to close the Add Site Binding dialog.
5. Add port 443 (the default port for a secure website) to the Windows Firewall exception list on this computer.
Tip: Contact your IT department if you need help obtaining an official SSL certificate. To create a self-signed certificate, see the following Microsoft topic: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753127(v=ws.10).aspx

Download and install ProjectWise WSG .

https://softwaredownloads.bentley.com/en/ProductDetails/2693

Download and install ProjectWise Explorer .

Bentley Software Downloads - ProjectWise Explorer

Use the ProjectWise Network Configuration Settings dialog (delivered with ProjectWise Explorer ) to configure the ProjectWise network in order to provide ProjectWise WSG with a list of datasources that your administrators can select from when creating work area connections (in ProjectWise 365 and ProjectWise Web ) and datasource connections (in ProjectWise Web View ).

Open the ProjectWise Network Configuration Settings dialog in administrator mode:
- Open the ProjectWise Network Configuration Settings dialog in user mode and then click the Run as administrator button at the bottom of the dialog.
  or
- In File Explorer, go to the C:\Program Files\Bentley\ProjectWise\bin folder and right-click the pwcfg811.cpl file and select Run as administrator.
Important: When the dialog is running in user mode, the network settings you configure (and therefore the datasources you want to expose to your users) will not be available to ProjectWise WSG .
On the General tab, turn on Prevent UDP for DNS and Listing (make sure there is a check mark in the check box).
On the Datasource Listing tab:
- In the Name field, enter a descriptive name for the ProjectWise server you are connecting to. For example, Main Production Server
- In the Hostname field, enter the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the computer on which the ProjectWise server you want to connect to is installed.
- If the ProjectWise server's listener port is set to the default (5800), then you can leave the Port field empty. If the ProjectWise server's listener port is set to something other than 5800, then you must enter the server's listener port in the Port field.
- Click Add.
- At the bottom of the tab, turn on Prevent UDP (make sure there is a check mark in the check box).
On the DNS Services tab, repeat the same steps you just performed on the Datasource Listing tab.
Click Save, then Close.

You are done configuring the ProjectWise network on this computer. Open ProjectWise Explorer and verify that you can see and log into the datasources you expect to see, based on how you configured the ProjectWise network.