Hardware

A dual-core processor (any speed)
1 GB RAM
32 GB of available disk space

Operating System

Windows Server® 2003, Web Edition with SP2 or later (x86)
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition with SP2 or later (x86)
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition with SP2 or later (x86)
Windows Server 2003 R2, Web Edition with SP2 or later (x86)
Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition with SP2 or later (x86)
Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise Edition with SP2 or later (x86)
Windows Server 2008, Web Edition (x86/x64)
Windows Server 2008, Standard Edition (x86/x64)
Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Edition (x86/x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2, Web Edition (x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition (x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition (x64)

Important Notes: Prism Patch Manager must be installed on an English operating system using any English locale (en-US, en-UK, en-CA, and so on) in its default configuration. Prism Patch Manager CANNOT be installed on a domain controller.

Web server

Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 or later.

.NET Framework

Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5

Note: If not present, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 is installed with Prism Patch Manager.

Web browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or greater
Mozilla®Firefox® 3.0 or greater.

DB Server

SQL Server 2005, Express Edition with SP3 (x86)
SQL Server 2005, Standard Edition with SP3 (x86)
SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Edition with SP3 (x86)
SQL Server 2008, Express Edition (x86)
SQL Server 2008, Standard Edition (x86/x64)
SQL Server 2008, Enterprise Edition (x86/x64)

Supported database servers can be installed in the following locations relative to the Prism Patch Manager server:

• Locally in named instances installed by Prism Patch Manager.
• Locally in named or default instances that are preexisting.
• Remotely in named or default instances that are preexisting.

Note: If an instance of SQL Server is not present on your target server, SQL Server 2008, Express Edition with SP1 is installed with Prism Patch Manager (if you are not using a remote instance of SQL Server)

Microsoft Windows 2000

All
(excluding Datacenter editions)

x86

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

All
(excluding Datacenter editions)

x86
X86_64

Microsoft Windows XP

Professional
(excluding Home, Media Center and Tablet PC editions)

x86
X86_64

Microsoft Windows Vista

All (excluding Home and Starter editions)

x86
X86_64

Microsoft Windows 7

Professional
Enterprise
Ultimate

X86
X86_64

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

All (excluding Core and Datacenter editions)

x86
x86_64

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Web
Standard
Enterprise

X86
X86_64