Prior to the installation of the DualShield all-in-one or backend server, prepare the following items:

1. A Windows or Linux server machine (virtual or real machine) with 8GM RAM, 4-core CPU and 10GB free disk space 
2. A FQDN for your DualShield MFA server consoles, e.g. mfa.acme.com
3. A SSL certificate for your DualShield MFA server consoles in a PFX file (a wildcard certificate is OK, e.g. *.acme.com)
4. An AD service account (domain user) to be used for the connection between your MFA server and AD server
5. An AD group for MFA – only users in the MFA group will be MFA enabled
6. (Optional) If you need to implement one of the following functions or features, then you need to configure your corporate firewall and open HTTP port 8074 and 8076, forward traffic to your DualShield MFA server
   1. Push Authentication
   2. Self-Services such as downloading MobileID tokens, activating DeviceID tokens, etc. 
   3. SAML integration with external cloud services such as Office 465, SalesForce, Zoom, etc.
7. Download the DualShield server software from https://support.deepnetsecurity.com, and save it on your DualShield MFA server machine

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