Windows 2008 and x64 Support

Directory Update, Directory Manager, and Directory Search are all based on the Microsoft .NET Framework.  We use features from the v2.0 Framework and in the future will also be using features from the v3.5 .NET Framework.  Applications written for the .NET Framework will run on both Windows x86 as well as Windows x64.  Both Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 support these framework versions.

Our most recent installers (Directory Update v1.7, Directory Manager v1.3, and Directory Search v1.3) will all run on either Windows x86 or Windows x64.  The software will install on either Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 (except on Server Core installations which do not support the .NET Framework).

If you are planning to install on Windows Server 2008, make sure that you include the IIS 6 compatibility tools when installing Internet Information Server.  You can easily do this from the command prompt (while logged as an administrator) by typing this:

ServerManagerCmd -I Web-Mgmt-Compat  Web-Metabase  Web-Legcy-Mgmt-Console

Directory Update, Directory Manager, and Directory Search will run against an Active Directory running on Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 domain controllers.