# Installing WebSphere MQ

Welcome to WebSphere® MQ.

The following links provide information that you might need when you install WebSphere MQ:

- Migrating Windows Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections
  This section deals with migrating Windows® Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections from WebSphere MQ Version 5.3 to WebSphere MQ Version 7.0.
- Launchpad
  To install WebSphere MQ successfully you must make sure you have fully satisfied all the prerequisites, both for installed software, and the user accounts and authorizations you will use. From the launchpad, you can start the WebSphere MQ Installation Wizard.
- Installation Choices
  Make your configuration choices and then install WebSphere MQ, using the standard Microsoft® Installer (MSI). When the installer finishes, it starts the Prepare WebSphere MQ Wizard.
- Prepare WebSphere MQ Wizard
  Configure WebSphere MQ with a user account which has the correct authorization. Before finishing, you are prompted to run either or both of the remaining two wizards (Default Configuration and Migrate Queue Managers), according to your installation. Finally the wizard prompts you to select any or all of the WebSphere MQ programs you need to launch first (WebSphere MQ Explorer and the Release notes).
- Remote Administration Wizard
  Migrate any queue managers from a previous installation.
- Default Configuration wizard
  Create or migrate a special cluster configuration.
- Uninstalling or modifying WebSphere MQ for Windows
  To uninstall, or to modify your current installation, use the WebSphere MQ installer.