

Once you have the installation file downloaded run the installer and click Install Installationįirst you will need to download Plex Media Server from here. If you are a free Plex user you can just skip any steps that don’t apply to you. A lot of the features in this guide make use of the Plex Pass which is a paid subscription. We will configure the running of Plex as a Windows service later on.

By default Plex runs in the profile of a logged in user. This guide will run through the entire process of setting up a working Plex Media Server in Windows.

In later posts I will discuss how to monitor with Tautulli and how to setup Sonar to dynamically add content. For this post I will go over all the necessary steps to setup a Plex server.
