System requirements for PDQ products

Servers and consoles 

• Minimum OS: Windows 10 / Server 2016 or later
• Minimum memory: 4 GB RAM; 8 GB recommended
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later
• Installing on a domain controller or Microsoft Exchange Server is not recommended

Not supported: 
• Windows 10 releases no longer supported by Microsoft
• Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
• Windows Vista, XP, and Home editions
• Windows Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 or earlier, Server 2012, and Server 2012 R2 

Target machines 

• Minimum OS: Windows 10 / Server 2016 or later
• Minimum memory: 1 GB RAM; 2 GB recommended
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later (can be remotely installed via PDQ Inventory)
• PowerShell 3+ recommended for PDQ Deploy

Not supported:
• Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1
• Windows Vista, XP, and Home editions
• Server 2012 R2 or earlier

Configuration 

Windows Firewall:

• Allow inbound file and printer sharing exception

This rule allows the IPC$ and ADMIN$ shares to be available. Administrative access to these shares is required.

• Allow ICMP exceptions (allow inbound echo request)

This rule allows a target computer to respond to ping requests.

Operating system 

• Workstations: 64-bit Windows 10 or later
• Servers: Windows Server 2016 or later

Processor

• Minimum: 64-bit Intel Pentium 1.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 1.0 GHz
• Recommended: Any modern 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, 3.0 GHz or higher

Memory

• Minimum: 512 MB RAM
• Recommended: 4 GB RAM or higher

Storage

• Minimum: 8 GB available storage
• Recommended: 8 GB or higher available storage

Windows

• Minimum OS: Windows 7 SP1 / Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Disk space required: 500 MB
• Windows Management Instrumentation service must be enabled and running 

macOS

• Minimum OS: macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later
• Disk space required: 200 MB 

Linux

• Minimum OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or newer, Debian 11 or newer, SUSE SLES 12 SP5 / openSUSE Leap 42 or newer
• Disk Space Required: 200 MB

Cloud-based VM

Azure or AWS

On-prem VM

• VMware Fusion/Workstation Player/Workstation Pro 14+ (VMDK and OVA)
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• QEMU 

Hardware

• 2 CPU cores
• 8 GB RAM
• 80 GB storage 

Technician computer 

• Windows 10 / Server 2016 or later

One virtualization product

• Citrix XenServer
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Oracle VM VirtualBox
• VMware ESXi
• VMware Workstation Player
• VMware Workstation Pro

Target computer

• 1 GHz or higher processor (x86 or x64)
• 2 GB RAM
• Windows 10 or later
• Windows Server 2016 or later

Target devices

Any devices running iOS 4.0 or macOS 10.7 or later