Platform and System Requirements

.NET

All components using .NET target .NET 10.0 runtime. Depending on the component, it may require either the .NET Desktop or ASP.NET Core runtime.

Each File Dynamics package installer will install any necessary .NET system runtime. In cases where Internet access is not available, you must install the required .NET runtime as indicated below.

Package .NET Edition

  • Engine

  • .NET 10.0 Desktop Runtime (latest release)

  • File System Agent

  • Phoenix Agent

  • AD Event Monitor

  • Admin Client

  • Data Owner Desktop Client

  • .NET 10.0 Desktop Runtime (latest release)

  • Data Owner Web

  • Self-contained instance of .NET 10.0 ASP.NET Core Runtime

Supported Platforms

Component Server Notes

  • Engine

  • AD Event Monitor

  • Data Owner Web

  • Windows Server 2025

  • Windows Server 2022

  • File System Agent

  • Phoenix Agent

  • Windows Server 2025

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Windows Server 2019

Other servers such as Windows Server 2012 R2 or later and supported NAS devices that host Windows shares are supported via agent proxy access.

  • Admin Client

  • Windows 11

  • Windows Server 2025

  • Windows Server 2022

Supported Databases

SQL Server

This release of File Dynamics requires an instance of Microsoft SQL Server. The following editions of SQL Server are supported with this release.

Supported SQL Server Versions

  • SQL Server 2025

  • SQL Server 2022

 

Supported SQL Server Editions

  • SQL Server Enterprise

  • SQL Server Standard

  • SQL Server Express

 

NOTE: Due to size restrictions with SQL Server Express, consider using SQL Server Standard or Enterprise for larger deployments.
See the following for more information:

CouchDB

File Dynamics 26.2 follows the CouchDB lifecycle which only supports the latest two major versions.

  • CouchDB 3.5.x

  • CouchDB 3.4.x

NOTE: Supported versions of CouchDB can be found at https://couchdb.apache.org/#download.