Open Microscopy Environment

Kyle Douglass has very kindly shared with us his notes about installing OMERO on Windows. We thought they may be useful to a wider audience.

We'll update our documentation if any clear recommendations for improvement come out of his experience.

Regards,

Helen

Thanks for posting this. Kyle's guide was very helpful setting up my own Windows installation on Windows 2012 R2 x64.

In particular Kyle's IIS setup clarification regarding disabling 32-bit applications instructions are in conflict with the instructions on the openmicroscopy.org site. My experience was Kyle is correct and 32-bit application support must be disabled to make the web server work.

Like Kyle I was tripped up with installing Python 2.7 first, then having to go back and install Python 2.6.

The final issue I had in setup on Windows was Omero not starting when storing images on a mapped drive to an NFS. The diagnostics reported they had RW access to the mapped drive. I finished setup on a local drive to get Omero running and will bring the issue up in another thread if I can't find a solution.

Hi James

We're currently looking into which Python versions we support (this is partly determined by third party libraries such as Ice), so 2.7 is a possibility in the future.

On Windows OMERO defaults to running under a local service account which will not have access to Network drives mapped under the account used to start the server. You can change the system account used by OMERO: http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... tools.html

However, we've had some problems with networked filesystems in the past, see the warnings on http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... ote-shares

Simon