Introduction This is optional because you can also download the installer to your computer. • A USB or parallel port, to be used with hardkey licensing of the software. This is optional because softkey licensing is also available. • Serial COM ports and adapters, to be used for direct communication with PLCs and other devices. This is optional because many newer device protocols use TCP/IP communication instead of serial communication. • Microsoft IIS installed and turned on, to make your projects accessible to mobile devices. For more information, see the description of Mobile Access Runtime below. This is optional because you may choose not to install the Mobile Access Runtime feature.
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 installed, to enable workgroup collaboration and source control. For more information, see the description of Collaboration below. This is optional because you may choose not to install the Collaboration feature. Note: • You must have Administrator privileges on the computer in order to install software. • Only Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 are under what Microsoft calls "mainstream support", which means they are actively maintained and additional service packs may be released for them in the future.
The rest of the listed operating systems are under what Microsoft calls "extended support", which means they are no longer actively maintained. • InduSoft Web Studio can be installed on Windows XP 64-bit, but we do not support it. • Even though you can install the full InduSoft Web Studio software on a Windows XP Embedded or Windows Embedded Standard 7 computer, if you do not plan to do project development on that computer and will use it only as a project runtime server and/or client, you should consider installing EmbeddedView instead.
EmbeddedView does not support as many project tags as the full software, but it requires fewer system resources and it can be installed and managed remotely. Page 16