WDS System Requirements

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The minimum system requirements to run Windows Desktop Search are:

32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Any x64-based version of Windows® XP
Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Any x64-based version of Windows Server™ 2003
Windows Terminal Services must be running on Windows® XP. (This is the default configuration for Windows, but some security scenarios lock down this service.)
Microsoft Outlook® XP and Outlook® Express 6.0 are the earliest versions of mail clients supported for indexing and searching mail with WDS.

Note

Outlook® XP must be in Corporate or Workgroup mode. Outlook® 2003 and 2007 is recommended to be in cached mode.

Note

Outlook® Express items cannot be indexed on x64-based OSes.

Microsoft Office XP or later versions for full preview of Microsoft Office documents in Desktop Search results.
A Pentium 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or better (A Pentium 1 gigahertz (GHz) processor is recommended).
A Minimum of 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM (512 MB of RAM is recommended).

In addition, we recommend that computers have at least the following:

Note

Your index size depends on the amount of content you are indexing. Typically, the index will account for 10-12 % of the data it is indexing.

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