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After the installation, you can register the components on the management server or remove them
from it, through the management server's interface.
Specifying users allowed to connect remotely
When installing an agent or the management server (or both), you need to specify the list of users
whom you want to allow to manage the machine remotely by using Acronis Backup Management
Console.
By default, the list contains all members of the Administrators group on the machine; note that this
includes the domain administrators (if the machine is in an Active Directory domain).
The setup program creates the Acronis Remote Users group and adds the listed users to it. By adding
or removing group members, you will add or remove users who are allowed to connect to the
machine remotely.
2.1.2.3 Web-based installation
The procedure for Web-based installation is identical to that for interactive installation (p. 20).
Web-based installation is available only for Acronis Backup Advanced.
During a Web-based installation, only the components that you are currently installing are
downloaded from the Acronis website. You should keep this in mind if you are planning to install
components from this machine remotely (p. 45) at a later time. To ensure that all components that
can be installed remotely are present on the machine, consider using local installation instead.
When performing Web-based installation on a large number of machines, you may want to avoid
multiple downloads of the same component over the Internet. To do this:
1. In your local network, create a shared folder and make it available to all machines where you
want to install Acronis Backup.
2. On the first of these machines, do the following:
a. Run the setup program for Web-based installation.
b. When selecting the machine roles, select the I want to manually select the Acronis
components… check box.
c. When selecting where to install the components, select the Save the downloaded
installation files check box, and then specify the shared folder that you created.
d. Proceed with the installation.
The necessary installation packages will be downloaded to the shared folder.
3. Repeat step 2 on the remaining machines. The setup program will reuse the installation files that
are already in the folder, instead of downloading them again. Any other necessary files will be
downloaded to the folder.
2.1.2.4 Unattended installation
Components of Acronis Backup, such as Acronis Backup Agent for Windows, can be installed in the
unattended mode, as opposed to the interactive mode.
This section describes unattended installation and update by using Windows Installer (the msiexec
program). In an Active Directory domain, another way of performing unattended installation or
update of a supported component is through Group Policy—see "Installing the agent through Group
Policy (p. 29)".
