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ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition 2010 System Requirements
- 12/8/2009
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ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition 2010 System Requirements
JCS Computer Resource Corporation
ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition 2010
(Includes ACT! by Sage Premium and ACT! by Sage Premium for Web)
ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition is designed to work with more than 10 users in a shared database environment. Recommended server system requirements are scaled accordingly. Customer registration and activation are required to use ACT! by Sage. Your system must meet these minimum requirements to be eligible for technical support.
ACT! by Sage Premium 2010 Minimum System Requirements
- 1.9 GB available hard disk space
- DVD drive
- SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution monitor, recommended resolution is 1024 x768
Processer speed for Windows XP
- 600 MHz Pentium III processor (or equivalent)
- 512 MB system memory (1 GB recommended)
Processer speed for Windows Vista
- 1.8 GHz Pentium IV processor (or equivalent)
- 1 GB system memory
Compatible software:
- Microsoft Outlook XP, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Outlook XP and 2003)
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 SP225
- Lotus Notes 6.5, 7.0.2, and 8.0
- Eudora 5.2
- Internet Mail SMTP/POP3
- Microsoft Office 2002, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Office XP and 2003 and SP2 Recommended for Office 2007)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 On 64-bit versions of Windows, Internet Explorer (32-bit) is recommended
- Adobe Reader 6.0, 7.0
- QuickBooks Pro, Premier 2007 and 2008 (requires additional Accounting Link product)
- VMware Workstation 5.x, and 6.x; VMware Fusion, VMware
Server 1.x, 2.x
- Citrix using Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0 or 4.5
- Parallels Desktop for Macintosh 4.0, and Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows
- Sun Virtual Box 2.x
ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition 2010 Scalability
Based on performance tests’ using simulated user loads, product performance was within 20% or 2 seconds (whichever was longer) of single-user product performance in the following scenario:
SQL Server Standard Database with 50 users averaging 1000 contacts per user
3.2 GHz Pentium processor with 3 GB memory
Individual customer performance may vary based on actual database size, hardware variations, network traffic, and product usage.
Devices that Sync with ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition 2010 Minimum System
Requirements
ACT! Link for Palm OS - Palm OS 3.5-5.4
- 33 MHz device processor
- 8 MB system memory; 500 KB free plus 1 KB for each contact
- Palm HotSync Manager
Version 3.5-4.1.0 (included with Palm Desktop 4.1.4e) 4.1.0 recommended for XP
Version 7.0.2 (included with Palm Desktop 6.2) recommended for Windows Vista.
ACT! Link for Pocket PC
- Pocket PC 2000, 2002 and Phone Edition (Windows CE 3.0)
- Windows Mobile 2003 (Windows CE 4.0 and 4.20.0)
- Windows Mobile 2005, 5.0 and 6.0
- 133 MHz device processor
- 16 MB system memory; 500 KB free plus 1 KB for each contact
- Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5-4.5 (4.5 recommended for Windows XP)
- Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1
ACT! by Sage Corporate Edition 2010 Operating System Compatibility
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
Windows XP Professional limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10.
- Home (limits concurrent connections to 5)
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Vista limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10.
- Home Basic - limit concurrent connections to 5
- Home Premium - limit concurrent connections to 5
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Core Server Installation of Windows Server 2008 is not supported.
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
Database Server Options:
SQL Server 2005
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Express 32-bit database:
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Home
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard SP3 32-bit database:
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Home
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32 and 64-bit)
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
-Small Business Server
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 64-bit database:
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server and SP3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Vista SP1 (64-bit only)
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server and SP3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (64-bit only)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server and SP3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
SQL Server 2008
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 32-bit Express database:
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server and SP3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Vista SP1 (64-bit only)
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server and SP3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (64-bit only)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server and SP3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows XP SP1 and 2
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
Windows Vista SP1
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 64-bit Express database:
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
-Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Vista SP1
- Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 32-bit Standard database:
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
- Small Business Sever R2 Standard
- Small Business Server R2 Premium
- Standard
- Data Center
- 64-bit Standard
- 64-bit Data Center
- 64-bit Enterprise
- Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 SP1
- Standard (with and without Hyper-V)
- Web
- Data Center
- Data Center without Hyper-V
- Enterprise
- Enterprise without Hyper-V
- X64 Standard
- X64 Standard without Hyper-V
- X64 Data Center
- X64 Data Center without Hyper-V
- X64 Enterprise
- X64 Enterprise without Hyper-V
- Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
The following platforms are supported for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 64-bit Standard database:
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
- Standard
- Data Center
- Enterprise
- Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Server 2008 (64 –bit only)
- Standard
- Standard without Hyper –V
- Data Center
- Data Center without Hyper-V
- Enterprise
- Enterprise without Hyper-V
- Windows Installer Service 4.5 .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Internet Sync Service Requirements
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Professional
- IIS 5.1
- ASP.NET
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
- IIS 6.0 64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation.
- ASP.NET 64-bit Windows Server 2003 must have ASP.NET configured to 32-bit mode.
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
- IIS 7.0 64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation.
- ASP.NET
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- IIS 7.0 64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation
- ASP.NET
ACT! Link for Palm OS
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Home
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit only)
Palm, Inc. does not support 64-bit or Windows Server versions of Windows
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
ACT! Link for Pocket PC Requirements
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 is recommended for Windows XP platforms.
- Home
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 is required for Windows Vista platforms.
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit
and 64-bit)
ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2010 Minimum System Requirements
- Network Interface Card
- 1 GB available hard disk space
- DVD drive
- SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution monitor. Recommended is 1024x768
- Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 or 8.0
Processer speed for Windows XP - 600 MHz Pentium III processor (or equivalent)
- 512 MB system memory (1 GB recommended)
Processer speed for Windows Vista- 1.8 GHz Pentium IV processor (or equivalent)
- 1 GB system memory
Compatible software:
- Internet Explorer 6.0
- Internet Explorer 7.0
On 64-bit versions of Windows, Internet Explorer (32-bit) is recommended
- Macintosh Safari 3.0
- Microsoft Outlook XP, 2003 and 2007
SP3 recommended for both Outlook 2002 and 2003
- Microsoft Word XP, 2003, and 2007 (SP3 recommended for Office
XP and 2003 and SP2 recommended for Office 2007)
ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2010 Scalability
Based on performance tests’ using simulated user loads, product performance was within 20% or 2 seconds (whichever was longer) of single-user product performance in the following scenario:
SQL Server Standard Database with 50 users averaging 1000 contacts per user
3.2 GHz Pentium processor with 3 GB memory
Individual customer performance may vary based on actual database size, hardware variations, network traffic, and product usage.
ACT! by Sage Premium for Web 2010 Operating System Compatibility
Web Server
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Professional
Windows XP Professional limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10
- IIS 5.1
- ASP.NET
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
- IIS 6.0
64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation
- ASP.NET
64-bit Windows Server 2003 must have ASP.NET configured to 32-bit mode
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Vista limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
- IIS 7.0
64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation
- ASP.NET
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Core Server Installation of Windows Server 2008 is not supported.
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- IIS 7.0
64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation.
- ASP.NET
Database Server Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express SP3
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Home
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
Database Server Requirements: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 (64-bit)
Windows XP SP2
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit only)
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server 2005 and Service Pack 3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Vista SP1 (64-bit only)
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server 2005 and Service Pack 3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (64-bit only)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Requires manual installation of SQL Server 2005 and Service Pack 3
- Requires manual set up of the ACT! database instance
Network Sync Service Requirements
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
Windows XP Professional limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10
- Home (Home Edition limits concurrent connections to 5)
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Vista limits the number of concurrent network connections to 10
- Home Basic - limit concurrent connections to 5
- Home Premium - limit concurrent connections to 5
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
Internet Sync Service Requirements
Windows XP SP2 (32-bit only)
- Professional
- IIS 5.1
- ASP.NET
Windows Vista SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- Small Business Server
- IIS 6.0 64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation
- ASP.NET 64-bit Windows Server 2003 must have ASP.NET configured to 32-bit mode
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
- IIS 7.0 - 64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation
- ASP.NET
Windows Server 2008 SP1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
- IIS 7.0 - 64-bit Windows must have IIS configured for 32-bit emulation
- ASP.NET
Web Browser Internet Explorer 6.0
Internet Explorer 7.0
- On 64-bit versions of Windows, Internet Explorer (32-bit) is recommended
Windows XP SP2
32-bit Windows XP is supported
- Home
- Professional
- Media Center 2004
- Media Center 2005
Windows Server 2003 SP260
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
Windows Vista
32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista versions are supported
- Home Basic
- Home Premium
- Business
- Enterprise
- Ultimate
Windows Server 2008
32-bit and 64-bit Windows Server 2008 versions are supported.
- Web Edition
- Standard Edition
- Enterprise Edition
Macintosh Safari 3.0
Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
Outlook Integration
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
- Microsoft Outlook XP, 2003 and 2007
SP3 recommended for both Outlook 2002 and 2003.
JCS Computer Resource Corporation
726 W. Algonquin road
Arlington Heights, IL
800 475-1047