System requirements for WS_FTP Server

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WS_FTP Server requires:

• An Intel Pentium® 4, 1 GHz or higher (or an equivalent processor)
• 512 MB RAM minimum
• 250 MB of drive space
• NTFS formatted drive
• TCP/IP enabled network interface card (NIC)
• Microsoft Windows 2008 (32 and 64 bit), Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 or later, Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 or later

  If you will install the WS_FTP Server Web Transfer Module, you will need to also install Microsoft .NET 3.0. To install .NET 3.0, you need to have Windows® Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later, or Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 or later, or Windows Server 2008.

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
• Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.80 or later
• Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 or later
• Microsoft Windows Script Host 5.6 or later
• Broadband connection to the Internet (recommended)
• During installation, you can select to use Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) as your web server (instead of WS_FTP's Web Server). If you choose this option, you need to have Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or later installed on your computer.
• During installation, you can select to use Microsoft SQL Server as your database for configuration data. if you choose this option, you must use one of the following versions: Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, or Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express.

Note: WS_FTP Server is a native 32-bit application that runs on all the stated 32-bit Windows Server Operating Systems. It can also be run on a Windows 2008 Server 64-bit environment using an emulator packaged with Windows 2008 called WOW64. The emulator and its associated application and dll files are located under \Windows\SysWOW64.

Ipswitch Notification Server requires:

All requirements for WS_FTP Server (above), plus:

• Broadband or dial-up connection to the Internet (required for email notifications outside of the local area network)
• Modem and phone line (required for pager and SMS notifications)

WS_FTP Server Manager requires:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later, Netscape Navigator (or other Web browser that is CSS2 and HTML 4.01 compliant)
• Enabled Javascript support in the Web browser
• Enabled Cookie support in the Web browser

Installing WS_FTP Server on Windows 2008 Server

The WS_FTP Server installer automatically activates certain components in your Windows 2008 installation. This is necessary because after installation, Windows 2008 does not turn on non-core operating system components. However, before installing WS_FTP Server, you should be sure that these changes conform to your organization's security policies.

When you install WS_FTP Server, the install activates the following 2008 Server roles:

• ISAPI Extensions
• Windows Authentication
• ASP

Note: If you are installing the WS_FTP Server Web Transfer Module on Windows 2008, there are additional components activated. See "System requirements for WS_FTP Server Web Transfer Module" below.