Prior to the installation of the DualShield MFA 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. An FQDN for your DualShield MFA server consoles, e.g. mfa.acme.com

   
   

3. An SSL certificate for your DualShield MFA server consoles in a PFX file (a wildcard certificate is acceptable, 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. (Optional) An MS-SQL service account

   
   

6. (Optional) An AD user group for MFA 

7. (Optional) Configure corporate firewall

   
   

8. Download the DualShield server software, and save it on your DualShield MFA server machine