Dell Encryption System Requirements v10.
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Contents 1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................4 Contact Dell ProSupport................................................................................................................................................... 4 2 Requirements................................................................................................................................................
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2 Requirements All Clients These requirements apply to all clients. Requirements listed in other sections apply to specific clients. • IT best practices should be followed during deployment. This includes, but is not limited to, controlled test environments for initial tests, and staggered deployments to users. • The user account performing the installation/upgrade/uninstallation must be a local or domain administrator user, which can be temporarily assigned by a deployment tool such as Microsoft SMS.
Hardware Additional free disk space is required to encrypt the files on the endpoint. This size varies based on policies and capacity of the drive. Localization • Encryption and BitLocker Manager are multilingual user interface compliant and are localized in the following languages.
Prerequisite – Visual C++ 2015 Update 3 or later Redistributable Package (x86 and x64) Hardware • The following table details supported hardware. Optional Embedded Hardware – TPM 1.2 or 2.0 Operating Systems • The following table details supported operating systems. Windows Operating Systems (32- and 64-bit) – – – – – – – Windows 7 SP1: Enterprise, Professional, Ultimate Windows Embedded Standard 7 with Application Compatibility template Windows 8.1: Enterprise, Pro Windows Embedded 8.
Encryption on Server Operating Systems Encryption of server operating systems is intended for use on computers running in server mode, particularly file servers. • Encryption on server operating systems is compatible only with Encryption Enterprise and Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise. • Encryption on server operating systems provides: – Software encryption – Removable media encryption – Port controls NOTE: The server must support port controls.
– Hardware deduplication – Split RAIDs (multiple volumes across a single RAID) – SEDs (RAIDs and NON-RAID) – Auto-logon (Windows 7, 8/8.1) for kiosks – Microsoft Storage Server 2012 • Encryption on a server operating system does not support dual boot configurations since it is possible to encrypt system files of the other operating system, which would interfere with its operation. • In-place operating system re-installs are not supported.
Windows Operating Systems Supported to Access Encrypted Media (32- and 64-bit) • Windows 10: Education, Enterprise, Pro v1607-v1809 (Anniversary Update/Redstone 1 - October 2018 Update/Redstone 5) Supported Server Operating Systems • Windows Server 2012 R2 Mac Operating Systems Supported to Access Encrypted Media (64-bit kernels) • • • macOS Sierra 10.12.6 macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 - 10.13.6 macOS Mojave 10.14.0 - 10.14.
