What's the absolutely quickest way to set up a new adam environment? The way that is described in the installation manual is the one that gives you the must control over your setup, but it takes a bit too long to do if you simply want to set up a new dev environment on your laptop.

Here comes the Adam.Core.DatabaseManager SetupLocalDemo command to the rescue! It creates and activates the database for you, installs the StudioSelector, Config Studio and Asset Studio. All you need to do after running this command, is to install your license manually.

There are a few limitations built into this tool to ensure that you only need to do a minimum amount of configuration.

For example, it will always create a directory under C:\ with the name of the registration. This directory will contain the databases, documents and studios. Everything will be installed locally.

Simply run Adam.Core.DatabaseManager SetupLocalDemo -? to see a description of all the arguments possible. You'll recognize many of the arguments as the ones that the "normal" installation commands use.

The simplest way to run this command is to use the -ask argument like this Adam.Core.DatabaseManager SetupLocalDemo -ask. When it asks for sql accounts, specify the necessary accounts or press enter to use Windows Authentication.