System requirements

Helicon Ape is designed as managed IIS 7+ module to install on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.

Also it can be installed as managed ASP.NET module on Windows 2003 offering limited functionality. You may want to use '*' map trick on IIS6 systems to map ASP.NET engine to all requests and improve Helicon Ape operation. Without this trick Helicon Ape functions will be limited only to ASP.NET requests handling.

Fully supported operating systems:

  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server 2012

Partially supported systems:

  • Windows Server 2003

Please check compatibility chart for complete list of supported functions on different systems.

IIS is required to perform complete installation of Helicon Ape.
Both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows are supported within a single installation package.

Management tools only installation can be performed on the following systems:

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Server 2012

.NET 2.0 is required for Helicon Ape to operate.

Windows Installer 2.0 is required to run installation program. You can download last version of Windows Installer from the Microsoft website.