Installing the app

The Lithnet LAPS web app is an ASP.NET application that runs on IIS on Window Server 2008R2 and above.

Installation requires the following steps

1. Deploy LAPS across your fleet. Getting LAPS up and running is out of scope of this guide. Make sure LAPS is working and you can read the LAPS passwords using the Microsoft-provided tools.
2. Create a service account to run the LAPS web app as, and configure it with permissions to read your LAPS passwords, and optionally set LAPS expiry dates
3. (Optional, but strongly recommended) Obtain an SSL certificate for your web site
4. Install IIS on your LAPS server
5. Create a folder to host the web site (Usually under C:\inetpub) and unzip the latest build from the releases page into this folder
6. Create a new IIS application pool running in Integrated mode on .NET Framework 4
7. Modify the advanced settings of the application pool, and set the identity to run as the service account you created in step 2
8. Add a new IIS site, and specify the path you unzipped the content to. Select the application pool you created in step 6, and configure your bindings
9. Choose your authentication type by reading the authentication options page and configure IIS appropriately.
10. Configure your email, logging and permissions according to the configuration settings page
11. Run %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe unlock config -section:system.webServer/handlers from an admin command prompt on the server