Grooper on Azure Marketplace

Want to get started using Grooper without setting up a bunch of infrastructure on your own? Check out Grooper on the Azure Marketplace!

• Create a Grooper VM with everything already installed and ready to go.
• Users can choose a 60 day free trial or bring their own license key.
• The Grooper VM comes with several example Grooper Projects and Batches to explore.

Getting Started: Create a Grooper VM from Azure Marketplace

This tutorial assumes you already have an Azure account and capabilities to create resources, such as virtual machines.

1. Go to the Microsoft Azure portal (portal.azure.com)
2. Search for "Marketplace".
3. Search the Marketplace for "Grooper".
4. Select "Grooper".
5. Using the "Subscription" dropdown, select the Azure subscription you wish to use to create the VM.
6. Using the "Plan" dropdown choose one of the following:
   • 60-Day Free Trial: Choose this if you do not have a Grooper license key and simply wish to evaluate the product for a trial period.
   • BYOL: Choose this if you want to "bring your own license". If you already have a Grooper license key, you can enter it into the root of the Grooper Repository (We'll show you how in subsequent steps).
7. Press the "Create" button to start configuring the VM.
8. Select or create a new resource group for the VM.
9. Configure the "Instance details" as needed.
   • You must enter a name for the VM in the "Virtual machine name" field.
   • The "Image" field will be preselected based on the plan selected in step 6. Do not adjust this. Doing so will install a different VM without Grooper pre-installed.
   • The "Size" field will determine the VM's processing power and memory. We recommend at least the default "Standard_B8ms" which has 8vcpus and 32 GB memory. Prices for these VMs are set by Azure.
10. Under "Administrator account" set logon credentials for the VM's admin.
11. Press "Next: Disks" to continue.
12. Configure disk settings as needed and select "Next: Networking" to continue.
13. Configure networking settings as needed and select "Next: Management" to continue.
14. Configure management settings as needed and select "Next: Monitoring" to continue.
15. Configure monitoring settings as needed and select "Next: Advanced" to continue.
16. Configure advanced settings as needed and select "Next: Tags" to continue.
17. Add resource tags if desired and select "Next: Review + create" to continue.
18. Review the VM's configuration and press "Create" to create it.
19. It will take some time for Azure to deploy the VM. Azure will inform you of its progress as it is created.
20. When the deployment is complete, you can select the "Go to resource" button to navigate to the VM.
21. From the VM's "Overview" panel, you can start, stop and restart the VM.
22. Go to the "Connect" panel to connect to the VM via RDP.
23. Press the "Download RDP file" button to download an RDP file.
24. Open the downloaded RDP file to connect to the VM.
25. Enter the admin credentials to login.
26. Once logged in, you can imeidiately open the Grooper app.
27. Open Microsoft Edge.
28. Go to <code>https://localhost/Grooper to open Grooper.

What comes on the Grooper VM?

Everything needed to give Grooper a test run already comes installed and configured. This includes:

• Grooper
• Grooper Web Client
• SQL Express (needed to host the Grooper Repository's database)
• Internet Information Services (needed to host the Grooper web app)
• A Grooper Repository
• Demo Grooper Projects and Batches