# System Settings

## 🛠️ What are the system settings ?

The system settings allows you to configure your ngSurvey **on-premise** installation to meet your needs.

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System settings are global and will affect all the ngSurvey users of your installation.
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 You may configure following settings.

* [General settings](/installation-setup/system-settings/general.md) to setup default surveys or to disable the automatic login page redirection on your installation.
* [Mail server](/installation-setup/system-settings/mailing-server.md) that will be used to send out emails.
* [Bounce account](/installation-setup/system-settings/bounce-account.md) that will handle all invalid emails from [email invitations](/form-management/campaigns/campaign/email-distribution.md).
* Google related service like [Captcha](/installation-setup/system-settings/google/captcha.md) or [Google Service Accounts](/installation-setup/system-settings/google/service-account.md).
* [Accounts](/installation-setup/system-settings/mobile-messenging/twilio.md) to handle mobile SMS messages.
* [IPStack](/installation-setup/system-settings/third-party-apis/ipstack.md) to handle [IP geolocation](/form-management/form-designer/geolocation/ip-address-location.md).
* [Active Directory](/installation-setup/system-settings/active-directory-settings.md) to setup an Active Directory server for authentication.
* [Microsoft](/installation-setup/system-settings/third-party-apis/microsoft.md) related services like Cognitive or Text analytics services to handle your [automatic translations](/form-management/form-designer/multi-language-forms/auto-translation.md) and [sentiment analysis](/form-management/reports/text-reports/sentiment-analysis.md).
* [AI Provider](/ai-suite.md) to couple the power of AI to ngSurvey.


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