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System Requirements

Client Apps (IMail Collaboration and IM Client Installer)

Required Hardware

Minimum Requirement

Operating System

 

Windows 2003 SP1 (32-bit)

  • 550 MHz
  • 1 GB RAM

Windows 2003 SP1 (64-bit)

  • 1.4 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM

Windows 2008 (32-bit)

  • 1 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM

Windows 2008 (64-bit)

  • 1.4 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM

Windows 2008 R2

  • 1.4 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM

Windows Home Server 2011 Standard

  • 1.4 GHz
  • 2 GB RAM

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard

  • Quad core 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) or faster
  • 8 GB RAM

Windows MuliPoint Server 2011

  • Quad core 2 GHz 64-bit (x64) or faster
  • 8 GB RAM

Recommended Minimum by Users

Number of Users

Light Use

Moderate Use

Heavy Use

1 - 25

  • 2 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 2.4 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 2.4 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM

25 - 100

  • 2 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 2.4 GHz
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM

100 - 250

  • 2 GHz
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 2.4 GHz
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM

250 - 500

  • 2.4 GHz
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM

500 - 1000

  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM

1000 - 2500

  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM
  • Quad-Core
  • 4 GB RAM

2500+

  • 2 GHz Dual-Core
  • 2 GB RAM
  • Quad-Core
  • 4 GB RAM
  • Quad-Core+
  • 4 GB RAM+

System Guidelines for Mobile Synchronization Usage

These are general guidelines and are an approximation based on in-house performance testing. There is no guarantee that the recommendations stated below will exactly match each particular clients needs. These estimates are based on moderate mobile synchronization usage. Initial mobile synchronization and complete resynchronization of data tend to have very high cpu usage, depending on the amount of data being synchronized.

System performance will seriously be degraded should a large number of initial synchronizations happen simultaneously.

It may be necessary to run the IMailSync application pool with multiple processes should there be a large number of mobile users.

Warning: IMailSync, IAdmin, and IClient should never be run in the same application pool. Also, both IClient and IAdmin do not support multiple processes.

Mobile User Count

Mobile System Recommendation

10 Users

2 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM

25 Users

2.4 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM

100 Users

2 GHz Dual Core processor with 2 GB of RAM

250 Users

2.2 GHz Dual Core processor and/or up to 2.8 GHz Xeon Dual Core processor with 2 GB or RAM

500 Users

High end Dual Core or low end Quad Core with 3 GB of RAM

1000 or more users

Quad Core with 3 GB Memory or more

Required Software

Required software

For best results

Where to get it if you don't have it

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server SP1

Microsoft Windows 2008 Server

Microsoft Windows 2011 Server

 

NOTE: Microsoft 2000 Server is no longer supported.

Apply latest service packs

Use NTFS file system (NOT FAT)

 

WARNING: Do not deploy IMail on a Windows 2000 Domain Controller in an Active Directory environment.

For service packs: www.windowsupdate.com

Advice on NTFS vs FAT:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_october01.mspx

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

via Windows Update

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7

Microsoft .NET Framework 4

via Windows Update

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992&displaylang=en

Windows Script 5.6 (part of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7)

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

Version 6.0 or higher

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/iis/default.mspx

Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC) 2.8 SP1 or later

 

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/data/aa937730.aspx