diff --git a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh
index 171dcbded2bfa33d5f5ca38d876e57522eb552e5..e8254f49eb991e4302db659b89db761321431d9d 100644
--- a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh
+++ b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/install_expSync.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,17 @@ execute svn export $DM_SVN_URL/support/src/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz
 JAVA_VERSION=7u51
 tar zxf jdk-${JAVA_VERSION}*.tar.gz
 
+cd ../resources
+read -p "Enter Data Acquisition Service Host: " DAQ_SERVICE_HOST
+read -p "Enter Experiment Data Root Directory: " DAQ_DATA_DIR
+
+echo "Generating config file"
+cmd="cat config.properties.template \
+    | sed 's?DAQ_CONNECTION?https://$DAQ_SERVICE_HOST:33336/dm?g' \
+    | sed 's?DATA_DIR?$DAQ_DATA_DIR?g' \
+    > config.properties"
+eval $cmd || exit 1
+
 cd ..
 mkdir bin
 execute lib/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/javac -classpath lib/*:resources/* -d bin/ src/gov/anl/dm/esafsync/*.java src/gov/anl/dm/esafsync/serviceconn/*.java
diff --git a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/resources/config.properties b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/resources/config.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 00bbd9c677d37c49a142173c459849f5482495cd..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/resources/config.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-dm.storageServ.connection = https://xstor-devel.xray.aps.anl.gov:22236/dm
-dm.daqServ.connection = https://perch.aps.anl.gov:33336/dm
-dm.daq.datadir = /data/
-#dm.truststore = /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/java/cacerts
-
diff --git a/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/resources/config.property.template b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/resources/config.property.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d68bc5edd1b16f569f8d809b0c9cb5779a3dcc2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/ExperimentSynchronizer/resources/config.property.template
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+dm.storageServ.connection = https://xstor-devel.xray.aps.anl.gov:22236/dm
+dm.daqServ.connection = DAQ_CONNECTION
+dm.daq.datadir = DATA_DIR
+
+