How to Install UiPath on Azure from a Mac. A simple guide for people on how to do this and hopefully fast track through the challenges I had. Good luck and feedback is always useful, cheers.

1. How to installand UiPath on
Azure from a Mac Book Pro
“Quick”
Futureyou.ai, chris@futureyou.ai OR chris@yakerty.co.nz
This isn’t quick but this presentation is not like the verbose version
which includes all the blind alleys I went down to get UiPAth installed.

2. Caveat
• I am a total beginner to Azure and UiPath so there will be 1000 things
you experienced folks will find annoying.
• Consider this a learning guide for myself.
• We all know there isn’t native support for Mac with UiPath. This is
the reason I am working through using Azure and a Microsoft Server
vm.
• Feedback to chris@futureyou.ai or chris@yakerty.co.nz

3. UiPath Community Edition
• It doesn’t work on Azure for a bunch of
reasons the main one being the
machine ID that Azure gives the
Windows Server VM you use. See
email from Microsoft Support.
• Go ahead and register for the Trial
Enterprise Edition. My understanding
is the trial never runs out if you are
running 2 or less robots? <can some
one validate>?

4. Setting up Azure from Scratch
on a Mac Book Pro for UiPath
installation

5. Logging onto Azure

6. Prompted to set up some storage. Not sure when
this prompt happens or if it happens to everyone.

7. You need a way to access the Windows Server VM
from your Mac and I found this application really
easy to use and free. A heads-up that everytime
your vm is turned off (I have set mine to shutdown
at 10pm every night to keep costs down, the IP
address will reset so you need to reset your
Remote desktop IP address

8. Back to Azure: Selecting a Windows Server
vm from Azure Dashboard

9. Setup the vm config

12. You need RDP for the Windows remote server
access

16. You see notifications showing you that the vm
is deploying

18. Deployed!!

19. There she is.

20. Some logs

21. Open Remote Desktop for the first time on
Mac Book Pro.

22. Set-up the config. The IP address is very
important get it from your Azure Dashboard for
your vm

23. The VM connection is added to MS remote
Desktop

24. When you start the remote server connection
you get this screen

25. Next screen

26. Server Manager pops up

27. Just checking what the local server has got
configured

29. I started to do some random configuring as I
was not sure what UiPath would need.

32. Not sure what the pre-reqs are…

35. You will find out later that my
random approach to configuring
the server was not successful
but I did manage to fix it. You
need IIS v7.5 and above and you
need a certificate. All shown
later

36. At this stage the Windows
Server is up and running so I
thought I would need to pull my
files from my Mac and put them
on the vm the next few slides
shows you haw to do this.

39. https://technoga.wor
dpress.com/2014/03/
07/transfer-files-
from-your-mac-to-
your-windows-azure-
vm/

42. Network drive on windows on the left and a copy
of my MAC Desktop on the right – it worked

43. Find UiPath install files

44. Copy from MAC desktop to Azure Windows Server

45. I found the speed of reading my Mac’s hard-disk
from Azure to be really slow.
It would be easier to just paste the download link
in Internet Explorer in the VM and download to
the siftware there.
So that is what I did.
I then started the Enterprise Edition installation

46. Install Orchestra First –”fail: need IIS 7.5 and
above
• Lots of options to
take when installing
IIS, I took them all as
I was not sure what
UIPATH needs
Refer link to install IIS 7.5
https://www.c-
sharpcorner.com/article/step-by-
step-setup-iis-on-azure-windows-
virtual-machine/

47. How to Install IIS on Azure Windows Server VM

48. “inetmgr” console shows the version of IIS
now installed. V10 > V7.5

49. You get prompted to add the Rewrite Module
which you need to grab from the Microsoft site
IIS URL Rewrite Module looks like a separate modules from
the standard install so I will grab it from the Microsoft
Support site.

50. https://www.microsoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=47
337
https://support.avg.com/SupportArticleVi
ew?l=en&urlname=Your-current-security-
settings-do-not-allow-this-file-to-be-
downloaded-in-Internet-Explorer

51. DON’T install this “URL rewriter” like I did first time.
It’s the wrong one
Wrong IIS version I
this install, this is for
v7 I am on IIS v10.
Need to do another
search.
https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
RECYCLE YOUR VM
AND THE UIPATH
ORCHESTOR
INSTALL WILL
WORK!

52. Orchestrator Installation fails, again –
you need to setup the certificates..
https://www.google.com/search?q=
ndows+server+2016+how+to+add+c
tificate+in+local+machine%5Cperso
+store&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKE
Dz7z5k7_hAhWUaCsKHZvZB-
MQBQgpKAA&biw=1302&bih=696
”mmc”
https://orchestra
tor.uipath.com/v
2016.2/docs/orc
hestrator-server-
installation
Select
Computer
account

53. Certificate config is done. We have a cert that will
allow us to continue the UiPath install.

54. When you install Orchestrator you
will be prompted for the machine
name that is in the subject of the
certificate we created.
What is an Application Pool…
https://medium.com/@ShamreshKhan/get
ting-my-head-around-application-pool-
identities-and-trust-eccbaed426cc
By the way…you now need an
SQL server!....I did not know
that!

55. Luckily adding SQL in Azure is super simple

56. When we now follow the install process again it
works – phew. I am not a complete numpty.
Yey!!

57. Install UiPath Studio & Robot – easy. Just remember you
need to have your trial code license number. It should be
on your trial acceptance email.

58. Now we can actually do
something with the software.
That’s it. Not the most enjoyable presentation for you I am sure. Quite
pleased I went from zero to hero installing UiPath and Azure. Next step
is to get something meaningful working. Many thanks, Chris.