SSP Pre-Installation Technical Questions

Do you run a virtual infrastructure?
Do you intend to install the web application on a standalone virtual instance?
Do you intend to install the database on a standalone virtual instance?
Does your institution have a shared database server that SSP could utilize? as the footprint of SSP is relatively small.
Does your institution plan to allow public (internet) access to SSP?
To facilitate the setup, we prefer to have VPN access. Can your institution provide VPN access?
If the SSP databases are being installed on a shared database platform, we will ask that your DBA to create the initial databases, then create a database account specifically for administration of the SSP databases and a second account for the SSP application. Can your DBA assist us with this?
1. The administrative database account will be created by the DBA and username and password provided. This account will have db_owner permissions on all SSP databases. This account will be used during installation and future upgrades.
2. The SSP application database account will be created by the DBA and username and password provided. This account will have only data_reader and data_writer permissions on all SSP databases. This account will be used by the SSP application for connectivity to the backend data store.
3. Can you provide the appropriate connection strings to utilize these databases?
Does your institution have a preferred URL for SSP? like; https://ssp.college.edu ?
Does your institution have a wildcard SSL certificate or an SSL certificate for the domain name/url specified above?
Do you intend to connect SSP to an LDAP or other security directory service? Which one? Can you have the connection strings and user account information available for the install process?
SSP sends system generated emails for error reporting, and other infrastructure related messages. Can you create or specify email accounts to receive these messages?
SSP sends emails in the normal operation of the system to end users such as students and employees; you will need to identify the mail relay server the application should use. Do you have an email relay server? Does it have a white list or other security setup that will need configured to allow the application to send email?