Products
On-demand File Transfer Service
Sendable
MOVEit DMZ Hosted Services
FTP Software
WS_FTP Professional
WS_FTP Home
Fetch for Mac
Secure File Transfer Servers
WS_FTP Server
WS_FTP Server Web Transfer Module
WS_FTP Server Ad Hoc Transfer Module
Managed File Transfer Servers
MOVEit DMZ
MOVEIt DMZ Ad Hoc Transfer Module
MOVEIt Central
MFT with AFS
MessageWay Server
Integrator
Transport
Dashboard
MessageWay Translator
MessageWay Project Services
Solutions
By Industry
Financial Services
Healthcare
Retail
Government
By Delivery Options
On premises software
Hosted offering
Cloud-based SaaS
By Need
Send a file now
Transfer files to a server
Manage and secure file transfers
Centralized MFT with governance and control
Company
Why Ipswitch
Management Team
News
Blog
Careers
Privacy
Contact Us
Resources
Case Studies
2 Minute Overviews
eBooks
Blog
Videos
Webcasts
Compliance Matrices
Whitepapers
Support
MyIpswitch
Customer Service Center
Redownload a lost product
Renew My Support
Knowledge Base
Product Support
Contact Support
Partners
Overview
Find a Partner
Become a Partner
Partner Login
Store
go
New Version 7.5
released!
Free Trial
Buy Now
Contact Sales
Free Trial
Watch & Learn
Contact Sales
Buy Now
Product Information
Overview
What's New
Features
System Requirements
Screenshots
Modules
Web Transfer Module
Ad Hoc Transfer Module
Client Server Solution
Learn More
Watch & Learn
Compare Editions
Next Steps
Try a Demo
Pricing
Resources
Knowledge Base
Whitepapers
Datasheet
Testimonials
Webinars
Home
>
Products
>
WS_FTP Server
>
System Requirements
System Requirements
Installation Requirements
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2008 Standard (32-bit and 64-bit English editions); Windows Server 2003 Standard (32-bit and 64-bit English and 32-bit German editions); Windows XP Professional (32-bit English edition)
Supported Virtualization Environments: VMware ESX 3.0.2 Update 1 (32-bit Guest “Server” OS’s only); Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0 (32-bit Guest "Server" OS's only; Windows 2008 64-bit only)
Supported Browsers (For the Web admin console, Web Transfer Module & Ad Hoc Transfer Module): Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 (Windows only); Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and 3.5 (Windows, Mac and RedHat Linux); Chrome 1.0.154 and 2.0 (Windows only); Safari 3.0 and 4.0 (Mac only)
Supported Outlook (For the Ad Hoc Transfer Module Outlook plug-in): Outlook 2003 (32-bit only) and Outlook 2007 (32-bit only). Outlook plug-in is compatible with a variety of mail servers, such as Exchange (Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 only) or IMail
Microsoft Runtime Environment and Libraries: NET 2.0 for WS_FTP Server; ASP.NET (via IIS) and .NET 3.0 for Web Transfer Modules, WS_FTP Server Corporate
Supported Database for all Products and Modules: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express/Standard (local or remote); Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express/Standard (local or remote); PostgreSQL 8.3.7 (local only)
Minimum Hardware Requirements
1 GB RAM and 250 MB of available drive space
1 GHz Pentium or faster OR minimum OS requirement