System Center Essentials System Requirements

System Center Essentials Server Requirements

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or R2, Standard or Enterprise edition (with IIS 6.0 and BITS 2.0)
  
  

Hardware

• 12 GB of free disk space (20 GB to store updates locally)
  
  
• CPU is x86 or x64-based, at least 2.0 GHz
  
  
• 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended)
  
  

Other Prerequisites

• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.80.1022.0 or later
  
  
• .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0
  
  

Managed Computer Requirements

Client Computers

• Windows 2000 Professional SP4
  
  
• Windows XP SP2 (x86 or x64-based)
  
  
• Windows Vista (x86 or x64-based)
  
  
• Virtual clients with above operating systems
  
  

Server Computers

• Windows 2000 Server SP4
  
  
• Windows Server 2003 SP1 or R2 (x86 or x64-based)
  
  
• Virtual servers with above operating systems