Installing Windows Imaging Service (optional)

The Windows Imaging Service helps standardize the size of all uploaded customer images ensuring that all profile images that display under the customer name in the Unified Search results page appear in the same size and are the most current customer image entered in the Personify database.

This step only applies if your organization decides to keep the customer images enabled on the Unified Search ASPX page. Imaging is enabled by default in the ASPX page.

The Personify application uses the same Windows Imaging Service for the Personify Mobile application. If your organization has already installed the service for Mobile, you do not need to install it again. Please proceed to Step 5.

To install the Windows Service:

1.    Navigate to the “Mobile\WebService” folder in your release package and double-click the PersonifyImageServiceSetup to begin the installation.

2.    Click Next until you reach the “Select Installation Folder” screen.

3.    Browse and select the file path in which you want to install the Windows Service.

4.    Click Next until you finish the installation.

5.    Navigate to your . . . /innetpub/wwwroot/PersonifyUnifiedSearch website folder you created in Applying the Unified Search Page.

6.    Create a new folder for your customer images.
For example, .../innetpub/wwwroot/PersonifyUnifiedSearch/CustomerImages.

7.    Open the PersonifyImageService.exe.xml file and update the following:

·            Seat Information

·            App Service URL

·            CustomerImagePath - enter the path for the folder created in the previous step.
For exampe, .../innetpub/wwwroot/PersonifyUnifiedSearch/CustomerImages.

8.    The following values also appear in the PersonifyImageService.exe.xml. You can modify them, as desired:

These are the recommended values for the image sizes. The Profile Height and width can go to 200  X 200 max. The image size should be < 100 K for the best performance.

9.    Save and close the config.xml file.

10.  Click on Start to start the service.
If the service fails to start, check the application event log and/or your email for an error report.