Internet Explorer 8.0**, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Apple Safari 4, or Google Chrome
Screen resolution 1280x1024 or higher
Adobe Flash Player 10***
Microsoft Silverlight 3****
1.8 GHz processor or faster
1 GB RAM
* These requirements are for the latest version of the FotoWeb user interface. The installer also includes the template sets from version 6.0 and 2.7, which are compatible with older browser versions. These templates are not maintained by FotoWare, and do not expose all of FotoWeb’s functionality.
** Certain functions, most notably the CMS Export module, require Internet Explorer 9 or other similarly modern browsers.
*** Only required for users with access to the Zoom, Flash Video, Flash Animation, and Page Browsing funtionality.
**** Only required for users with access to the Windows Media Video Player or the administration and reporting user interfaces.
Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 or 8.1, Apple Mac OS 10.6 - 10.9
.NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile (Included with product)
Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime (Included with product)
Minimum 1 GB RAM, 2 GB recommended
Special requirement for Windows XP 64-bit version: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
This will have to be downloaded and installed manually before commencing FotoWeb Desktop installation.
* FotoWeb Desktop is required as a local installation for the following functionality: Check Out/In, Open in native application, Image Edit, Soft Crop, Upload, and Place in Microsoft Office.
FotoWeb Desktop is compatible with Microsoft Word and Powerpoint 2007 and 2010. It does not work with Office for Macintosh.
Important: To make the FotoWeb Desktop plugins work correctly with Microsoft Office 2007, you will need to update the Office installation with the "2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2" and all subsequently released patches. Failure to do so will result in problems when initializing the plugins for Microsoft Office. With Microsoft Office 2010 you should not need to apply additional patches to make the plugins work.
The FotoWeb Desktop Extension for Adobe Creative Suite is compatible with CS5 and CS6. Installing them in Adobe Extensions Manager on the client system requires local administrator privileges.
Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012*
Internet Information Services 6.0 or 7.0, or Apache web server (included in installer)
QuickTime 7.6.4 (Full installation)1
Adobe Flash Player 101
Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 or 20081
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.51
Microsoft Silverlight 31
Minimum 2 2.5 GHz Processors
Minimum 2 Gb RAM
Minimum 10 Gb free disk space
Local Administrator privileges for service account
When installing on Windows Server 2008, the Local Security Policy may need to be modified. Look here for details.
* Application is 32-bit, but is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the operating system.
1 Will be downloaded automatically by the installer if it is not already present on the system.
SQL Server note: SQL Express 2005 is limited to 4GB database size. SQL Express 2008 is limited to 10 GB. A clean install will download SQL Server 2008 Express, upgrades will use SQL Express 2005 if it is already installed. If you foresee larger databases on your system, you should consider using a full version of Microsoft SQL Server instead.
FotoWeb Server Infrastructure Requirements
Access to SMTP Email Server
Access to Index Manager 7.0 with SMB access to files
Supported Directory Services
Windows Server 2003 Active Directory
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory
Optional add-ons
Enabling the Maps feature requires a valid license from Microsoft or Google to use and access Bing Maps or Google Maps for Business respectively. Read more about enabling maps here.
All FotoWare 7.0 applications report to the FotoWare Log Server which is installed alongside the server application. The communications between the server application and the log server uses UDP port 7000. Since the communications takes place internally on the server, you do not need to open UPD port 7000 in your firewall. However, you should be aware the Microsoft's DNS server can be configured to use arbitrary ports for communications, which could potentially distort communications with the Log Server if it should come to use UDP port 7000. Hence, you should make sure to block the use of port 7000 in the DNS server and make that port exclusive for FotoWare applications.