Installing Shopping

Shopping has the following components:

  • Shopping Central Server: Refer to Installing Shopping Central.

    • Shopping Web: The Portal that Shoppers use. Some administration is performed here. It provides reports, APIs, and it is used by Shopping Receivers.

    • Shopping Central service: Performs various processes at intervals, such as scheduling deployments, retrieving data from Active Directory and Configuration Manager, and sending emails.

    • Shopping database: Used for data storage.

    • Shopping Console GUI: To administer and use Shopping. It is installed on the Central Server by default. It can be installed on remote computers.

  • Shopping Receiver service: Installed on each Configuration Manager site. It creates collections and deployments. Refer to Installing the Shopping Receiver.

  • 1E Client with Shopping Client module enabled: The Shopping module retrieves information about the user's computer when Shoppers browse the Shopping Portal. Refer to Installing the Shopping Client.

To enable the Shopping OS deployment feature, you must install a Shopping Receiver on the Configuration Manager site that is either the standalone primary site or the CAS if you use multiple primary sites.