Installing Cloud Drive Mapper (CDM) on a standalone computer
Before you begin, please download the executable file for CDM from the Downloads page in Iris (the IAM Cloud portal). Alternatively, you can also download this file by clicking here. Once downloaded, you will notice that the following file is available in the C:\Users\UserName\Downloads folder: CloudDriveMapper.exe. You will also need your license key, which you can copy from the CDM Dashboard page in Iris.
During installation, we establish communication between our service running on the host and the CDM component users see in the system tray. We add an entry to the Windows Firewall and target it to our specific application and the remote address of its local subnet. In doing so, we ensure that this doesn’t add any additional exposure from the external network or interfere with existing firewall rules.
When you use a silent proxy or firewall to protect local communication between services on the same host, you’ll need to permit CDMCore.exe (from within the installation path) to communicate with CloudDriveMapper.exe in the same location.
CDM uses the gRPC protocol and will work on ports 50000-50100 by default. These are configurable start and end ports. The range in ports is because we have several interfaces, and each user session concurrently consumes a unique port within this range. Other software operating within this range is detected and ignored to prevent interference.
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Double-click the CloudDriveMapper.exe file. The User Account Control dialog box appears.
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Select Yes.
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Select Next. If the installer detects that the prerequisites needed to run CDM are missing, it will notify you.
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Select Next. If the prerequisites needed to run CDM are already installed on your computer, the installer will skip this step and prompt you to enter your CDM license key.
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Enter your license key. If you've copied your license key, use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + V to paste it. Alternatively, select
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Select Options to specify a destination folder of your choice for the installation, create a desktop shortcut, add a Start menu shortcut, and run CDM at startup. Please ensure that you do this prior to installing CDM.
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Select Install.
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Select Close after CDM has been installed successfully.
If you select the Launch Cloud Drive Mapper check box before exiting the installer, CDM is launched and automatically added to the notification area on the taskbar.
If you’ve enabled Single Sign-on (SSO) for your Microsoft 365 tenancy, CDM automatically signs in to your Microsoft 365 account and maps drives configured for you via Iris. If you’ve not enabled SSO for your Microsoft 365 tenancy, you must manually authenticate with your Microsoft 365 account. After that, subsequent CDM login attempts should be seamless, as your computer locally caches your authentication token.
