Deployment Checklist

This section contains the pre-installation checklist, installation notes or observations, and post-installation tasks. Review these steps to plan and deploy Netwrix Data Classification:

Prepare evaluation server and test data

Step/Section	Description	Reference
1	Over the network from the Netwrix evaluation server using your test account.	Supported Data Sources
2	Make sure your evaluation server is suitable for running all the Netwrix Data Classification components including a standalone SQL Server instance for.	Hardware Requirements
3	Make sure your evaluation account meets security requirements.	Accounts and Required Permissions
4	Deploy prerequisite Windows features and additional software.	Software Requirements
Deploy Netwrix Data Classification
5	Prepare IT infrastructure.	Configure IT Infrastructure
6	Install Netwrix Data Classification.	Install Netwrix Data Classification
Configure Netwrix Data Classification
7	Provide a name for new instance	Initial Product Configuration
8	Select processing (indexing) mode.	Select Processing Mode
9	Configure global processing settings.	Processing Settings
9	Add built-in taxonomies.	Add a Taxonomy
10	Review your configuration.	Review Your Configuration
11	Configure NDC SQL database.	Configure NDC SQL database
12	Add a source.	Add a Content Source
Review classification results
13	Start by reviewing the Document Tagging report and browsing classification results.	Review Reports and Browse Classified Documents