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GFI MailEssentials 3 Installation | 25
NOTE
Hardware requirements depend on a range of factors including email volume, and
number of Anti Virus engines enabled in GFI MailEssentials. The requirements specified
above are required for GFI MailEssentials only.
3.1.5 Software requirements
Supported Operating Systems
Windows
®
Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise (x86 or x64)(including R2) or later (including
Microsoft
®
Windows Server 2012 - Standard and DataCenter editions).
Supported Mail Servers
GFI MailEssentials can be installed on the following mail servers without any further configuration.
Microsoft
®
Exchange Server 2013
NOTE
Information Store Protection (VSAPI) is not supported on Microsoft
®
Exchange Server
2013 because VSAPIwas removed from Microsoft
®
Exchange Server 2013 by Microsoft.
Microsoft
®
Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft
®
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 or higher
Microsoft
®
Exchange Server 2003
For more information, refer to Installing on the Microsoft® Exchange server (page 28).
GFI MailEssentials can also be installed in an environment with any SMTPcompliant mail server. In this
case, GFI MailEssentials should be installed on the gateway/perimeter server so that spam is filtered
before reaching the mail server.
For more information, refer to Installing on an email gateway or relay/perimeter server (page 28).
Supported Internet browsers
GFI MailEssentials can be used with the following Internet browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or later
Google Chrome version 22.0.1229.94 (October 10, 2012) or later.
Mozilla Firefox version 16.0.2 (October 26, 2012) or later.
Other required components
Internet Information Services (IIS
®
) World Wide Web service
Internet Information Services (IIS
®
) SMTP service - Except when installing on Microsoft
®
Exchange 2007 /2010 server
Microsoft.NET
®
Framework 4
ASP.NET
®
4.0