## Documentation

- About
- Read First
  - What is IdentityServer
  - Installation Scenarios
- Migrations
- Bootstrapping
- Configuration & Integration
  - AdminUI Settings
  - Configuring AdminUI
  - Configuring AdminUI (NuGet)
  - Integrating with Identity Server
  - Integrating with Identity Server Custom Schema
  - Integrating with Quickstarts
  - Enabling Logging
- Installation
  - IIS
  - Azure
    - Install in Azure
    - Create Azure Web App
  - Docker
  - NuGet
- Custom Database Connections
- Custom Identity Store
  - Overview
  - Partial Implementation
  - Full Implementation
  - Tenancy With Entity Framework
  - NoSql Implementation (MongoDB)
- Custom CSP
- Users
  - Searching for Users
  - Adding Users
  - Editing Users
  - Deleting Users
  - Merge Users
  - Set User Password
  - Session Management
  - User Reports
  - Bulk User Import
- Roles
  - Creating Roles
  - Managing Roles
  - Managing Users in a Role
  - Managing Role Claims
- Claim Types
- Clients
  - Searching for Clients
  - Adding Clients
  - Adding a SAML Client
  - Adding a WS-Fed Client
  - Editing Clients
  - Deleting Clients
  - Clone Client
- Import and Export
  - Exporting Clients
  - Importing Clients
  - Importing Client Configuration with Secrets
  - Importing SAML Clients with Certificates
  - Import and Export Via the API
- Dynamic Authentication Providers
  - What is Dynamic Authentication
  - Enabling or disabling Dynamic Authentication
  - Add a Dynamic Provider
    - First Steps
    - Adding OIDC Provider
    - Adding SAML Provider
  - Edit a Dynamic Provider
    - Accessing edit view
    - Editing a OIDC Provider
    - Editing a SAML Provider
  - Deleting a Provider
  - Searching for Provider
- Resources
  - Searching for Resources
  - Creating Resources
  - Editing resources
- Webhooks
  - Webhooks
  - Endpoint Configuration
- MCP
  - Overview
  - Default Server Prompt Instructions
- User Settings Endpoints
- Access Policy
- Keys
- Auditing
- FAQs
- Troubleshooting
  - Unable to start AdminUI
  - Unable to contact IdentityServer
  - Unable to contact API
  - Unable to log in

### Bootstrapping

- -Bootstrapping AdminUI
- -Disabling Bootstrapping
- -Running Manually

## Bootstrapping AdminUI

For AdminUI to work out of the box, it has some behaviour turned on by default that inserts the required data into the IdentityServer, Identity, and AdminUI database tables on the app start if missing. If the user table is empty, this also inserts a default user into the database on the first start-up.

### Disabling Bootstrapping

You can disable this functionality in the app's configuration setting `DisableBootstrap` to true. Help for configuring AdminUI can be found here.

The bootstrapping in AdminUI is not concurrency safe, so if you were to have multiple instances of AdminUI running, you would need to disable bootstrapping to avoid running into errors when trying to start AdminUI for the first time.

### Running Manually

If you disable Bootstrapping, we have added the ability to run it manually using the AdminUI binaries via the command line, which can also be done for migrations.

You can do this by navigating to your AdminUI install directory and locating the IdentityExpress.Manager.UI.IdentityServer.dll; you can run the dll using

    dotnet IdentityExpress.Manager.UI.IdentityServer.dll -bootstrap

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