System requirements

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IPM supports installation either directly on a BizTalk machine or on a standalone server without previous a BizTalk installation. It does however require some basic Windows component as well as some BizTalk administration components.

System requirements

• Windows 2003 or Windows 2008
• IIS 6 or IIS 7
• .NET Framework 3.5 (v. 1.0 - 1.5) or .NET Framework 4.0 (v. 2.0)
• ASP .NET 4 (v. 2.0)
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (v. 1.0 - 1.5), download here or ASP.NET MVC 3 (v. 2.0), download here

When installing on a stand aloneserver you need to install the following BizTalk components. These are part of the BizTalk Administration installation on the BizTalk installation CD. The following components are required. These are of course already installed when installing IPM directly on a working BizTalk server.

• Sql Server Integration Services
• BizTalk Administration Tools (screenshot)

Required accounts

IPM needs to be run by a user account that is a member of the following Windows groups.

• BizTalk Administrators
  This is needed to get the necessary rights to the BizTalk databases.
• IIS_WPG
  Members of this group is allowed to create new IIS working processes. This is needed to be able to run the application pool in IIS.
• Administrators
  Local administrator rights on the machine IPM is installed on is needed to be able to read and write configuration files in IPM's application data folder.