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Active Roles 7.6 - Release Notes

Hardware requirements

Table 14: Hardware requirements
Requirement Details

CPU

NOTE: The number of cores required depends on the size of the environment and the total number of managed objects.

For Administration Service, Web Interface, and Synchronization Service, any of the following:

  • Intel 64 (EM64T)

  • AMD64
  • Minimum 2 cores
  • CPU speed: 2.0 GHz or faster.

NOTE: For Synchronization Service, One Identity recommends using a multi-core CPU for the best performance.

For Console and Management Tools, any of the following:

  • Intel x86

  • Intel 64 (EM64T)

  • AMD64

  • CPU speed: 1.0 GHz or faster.

RAM

NOTE: The amount of RAM required depends on the size of the environment and the total number of managed objects.

Administration Service:

A minimum of 4 GB of RAM.

Web Interface, Synchronization Service:

A minimum of 2 GB of RAM.

Console, Management Tools:

A minimum of 1 GB of RAM.

Hard disk space

Administration Service, Web Interface, Console, Management Tools:

A minimum of 100 MB of free disk space.

Synchronization Service:

A minimum of 250 MB of free disk space.

NOTE: If SQL Server and Synchronization Service are installed on the same computer, the amount required depends on the size of the Synchronization Service database.

Operating system

NOTE: Active Roles is not supported on Windows Server Core mode setup.

You can install any of the Active Roles components on a computer running:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Active Roles supports the Standard or Datacenter edition of these operating systems.

In addition, you can install the Active Roles Console and Management Tools on a computer running:

  • Microsoft Windows 10, Professional or Enterprise edition, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64).

  • Microsoft Windows 8.1, Professional or Enterprise edition, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64).

Administration Service requirements

Administration Service requirements

This section lists the system requirements of Active Roles Administration Service.

All Active Roles components require:

Table 15: Administration Service requirements
Requirement

Details

SQL Server

You can host the Active Roles database on the following SQL server versions:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019, any edition.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017, any edition.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016, any edition.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014, any edition, 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64), with or without any Service Pack.

  • Azure SQL hosted databases.

To connect Active Roles to a Microsoft SQL Server deployment, the following driver is required:

  • Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server (MSOLEDBSQL).

Windows Management Framework

Windows Management Framework 5.1 (available for download) is required on all supported operating systems.

Operating system on domain controllers

Active Roles retains all features and functions when managing Active Directory on domain controllers running any of these operating systems, any edition, with or without any Service Pack:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

NOTE: Active Roles deprecates managed domains with the domain functional level lower than Windows Server 2008 R2. One Identity recommends that you raise the functional level of the domains managed by Active Roles to Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher.

Exchange Server

Active Roles is capable of managing Exchange recipients on:

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

NOTE: Microsoft Exchange 2013 CU11 is not supported. For more information, see Knowledge Base Article 202695.

Web Interface requirements

Web Interface requirements

This section lists the system requirements of the Active Roles Web Interface.

All Active Roles components require:

Table 16: Web Interface requirements
Requirement

Details

Internet Services

Active Roles Web Interface requires the Web Server (IIS) server role with the following role services:

  • Web Server/Common HTTP Features/

  • Default Document

  • HTTP Errors

  • Static Content

  • HTTP Redirection

  • Web Server/Security/

  • Request Filtering

  • Basic Authentication

  • Windows Authentication

  • Web Server/Application Development/

  • .NET Extensibility

  • ASP

  • ASP.NET

  • ISAPI Extensions

  • ISAPI Filters

  • Management Tools/IIS 6 Management Compatibility/

  • IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility

Configure Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide Read/Write delegation for the following features:

  • Handler Mappings

  • Modules

  • Use Feature Delegation in Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to confirm that these features have their delegation set to Read/Write.

Web browser

You can access Active Roles Web Interface using:

  • Mozilla Firefox 36 (or newer) on Windows.

  • Google Chrome 61 (or newer) on Windows.

  • Microsoft Edge 79 (or newer), based on Chromium on Windows 10.

You can use a later version of Firefox and Google Chrome to access Active Roles Web Interface. However, the Active Roles Web Interface was tested only with the browser versions listed above.

Minimum screen resolution

Active Roles Web Interface is optimized for screen resolutions of 1280x800 or higher.

The minimum supported screen resolution is 1024x768.

Console requirements

Console requirements

This section lists the system requirements of Active Roles Console (also known as MMC Interface).

All Active Roles components require:

Table 17: Console (MMC Interface) requirements
Requirement

Details

Web browser

Active Roles Console requires Microsoft Edge 79 (or newer), based on Chromium.

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