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System requirements for PDQ products

PDQ Deploy & Inventory system requirements

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.

For more information, see the full PDQ Deploy & Inventory system requirements on our help center.



PDQ Connect system requirements

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

For more information, see the full PDQ Connect system requirements on our help center.



PDQ Detect system requirements

Agent-based

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


Agentless (internal scanner)

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 

For more information, including network requirements, see the full PDQ Detect system requirements on our help center.



SmartDeploy system requirements

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

For more information, see the full SmartDeploy system requirements on our help center.



SimpleMDM system requirements

Target devices

Any devices running iOS 4.0 or macOS 10.7 or later

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