Authoring Console Requirements

Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1

Authoring Console Supported Configurations

This section lists the supported hardware and software configurations for installing and running the Operations Manager 2007 R2 authoring console.

The following are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for running the authoring console.

Minimum Hardware Requirements	Recommended Hardware Requirements
1.0 GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, and 5GB of available hard disk space	2.8 GHz or faster CPU, 2 GB of RAM or higher, and 20 GB of available hard disk space

The authoring console requires the following software in order to run:

To add or edit product knowledge using the authoring console, the computer must meet the following software requirements:

Microsoft Office Word 2003 with the .NET Programmability feature, or Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Office Word 2010 Professional edition (Standard edition is not supported)

Note

Only the 32-bit version of Word 2010 is supported. The knowledge template will not work with the 64-bit version of Word 2010.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System

Note

You can download Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74969.

The authoring console supports the following operations systems: