The Windows Security Agent supports endpoints that use x86 processor architecture and x64 processor architecture.

Note:

The Windows Security Agent does not support the Itanium™ 2 Architecture (IA-64).

Table 1. Processor

Processor

Operating System

Clock Speed

  • Intel™ Pentium™ 4 x86 or compatible processor

  • x64 processor supporting AMD64 and Intel EM64T technologies

Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Server 2008, SBS 2008, or EBS 2008

1GHz

Windows Vista and Windows 7

800MHz

Server 2008 R2, Home Server 2011, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, Server 2012/2012 R2, Server 2012/2012 R2 Essentials, and Server 2016

1.4 GHz
Table 2. Available Memory

Operating System

Memory Exclusively for the Security Agent

Windows SBS 2011 Standard/Essentials

  • 8GB

  • 10GB recommended

Windows SBS/EBS 2008

  • 4GB

  • 8GB recommended

Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2008

  • 1GB

  • 2GB recommended

Windows Server 2008 R2, Home Server 2011, 2012/2012 R2, 2012/2012 R2 Essentials, 2016

  • 2GB

  • 8GB recommended

Windows Vista

  • 512MB

  • 1GB recommended
Table 3. Available Disk Space

Scan Method

Disk Space

Smart Scan

450MB total for Security Agents

  • 300MB for the Security Agent program files

  • 150MB for Security Agent operations

800MB total for Update Agents

  • 300MB for the Update Agent program files

  • 500MB for Update Agent operations

Conventional Scan

700MB total for Security Agents

  • 400MB for the Security Agent program files

  • 300MB for Security Agent operations

1050MB total for Update Agents

  • 400MB for the Update Agent program files

  • 650MB for Update Agent operations
Table 4. Operating System

Series or Family

Edition

Service Pack or Release

Windows Vista

  • Ultimate

  • Enterprise

  • Business

  • Home

  • Premium

  • Home Basic

SP2

Windows 7

  • Ultimate

  • Enterprise

  • Professional

  • Home

  • Premium

  • Home Basic

SP1

Windows 8

  • Basic

  • Professional

  • Enterprise

N/A

Windows 8.1

  • Basic

  • Professional

  • Enterprise

Update 1

Windows 10

  • Home

  • Professional

  • Enterprise (including the Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB))

April 2018 Update (and earlier)

Windows Server 2008

  • Foundation

  • Standard

  • Enterprise

  • Datacenter

SP2

Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Foundation

  • Standard

  • Enterprise

  • Datacenter

SP1

Windows SBS 2008

  • Standard

  • Premium

SP2

Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008

  • Standard

  • Premium

SP2

Windows Storage Server 2008

  • Workgroup

  • Standard

  • Enterprise

SP2

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2

  • Workgroup

  • Standard

  • Enterprise

SP1

Windows SBS 2011

  • Standard

SP1

  • Essentials

SP1 (included out-of-the-box)

Windows Home Server 2011

N/A

SP1

Windows Server 2012

  • Standard

  • Datacenter

  • Essentials

N/A

Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Standard

  • Datacenter

  • Essentials

Update

Windows Storage Server 2012

  • Workgroup

  • Standard

N/A

Windows Storage Server 2012 R2

  • Workgroup

  • Standard

Update

Windows Server 2016

  • Standard

  • Essentials

N/A

Windows Storage Server 2016

  • Workgroup

  • Standard

N/A
Table 5. Web Browser (for downloading the Security Agent Installer)

Browser

Version

Microsoft™ Internet Explorer™

8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0 (32 and 64 bit)

Microsoft Edge™

Recent versions

Mozilla™ Firefox™

60.1.0 (ESR), 59.0.3, 60.0.2, 61.0

Google Chrome™

Recent versions
Table 6. Display

Requirement

Minimum Specifications

Display

256-color display or higher with resolutions of 800x600 or higher
Table 7. Virtualization

Application

Version

Citrix Presentation Server™

4.0, 4.5, 5.0 (XenApp)

XenServer

6.0, 6.1, 6.2

XenClient

2.0, 2.1

VMware™ ESX™

3.x, 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0

VMware Server

1.0.3, 2.0.1

VMware Workstation

6.0, 6.5, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0

Microsoft Hyper-V™ Server

  • 2008 R2

  • 2012

  • 2012 R2

  • 2012 R2 Hyper-V™

Windows Server

2012

Remote Desktop

N/A
Parent topic: System Requirements