Deployment Manager server

The Deployment Manager server requires:

• Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate edition, or Windows 8 Pro or Ultimate.

  Workstation editions of Windows

  Windows 7 Home Editions and the standard edition of Windows 8 are not supported.

  Deployment Manager is not supported on Windows Workstation editions for production use, however it is supported for evaluation and proof-of-concept purposes.

  Windows Server 2003

  Deployment Manager server is not supported on Windows Server 2003, but target machines are.

• .NET Framework 4.0 (download the installer from Microsoft)

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 or later
  This is automatically installed on 2008 R2, but for 2008 pre-R2 you need to install it (x86 download, x64 download).

Target machines

To install the Deployment Manager Agent software on a machine, you require:

• Windows Server 2003 or later

  Windows Server 2003 servers require Windows Management Framework.

  Workstation editions of Windows

  Windows 7 Home Editions and the standard edition of Windows 8 are not supported.

  Deployment Manager is not supported on Windows Workstation editions for production use, however it is supported for evaluation and proof-of-concept purposes.

• .NET Framework 4.0 (download the framework installer from Microsoft)

• Windows PowerShell 2.0 or later
  This is automatically installed on 2008 R2, but for 2008 pre-R2 you need to install it (x86 download, x64 download).

To deploy websites to the machine:

• IIS 6 or IIS 7

SQL Servers

SQL Servers added to environments require:

• SQL Server versions:
  • SQL Server 2005
  • SQL Server 2008
  • SQL Server 2008 R2
  • SQL Server 2012
  • SQL Azure
  • SQL Server on Amazon RDS
• TCP access enabled
• Named Pipes enabled.