System requirements

The following is a list of operating system requirements for the User Management Tool for Policy-Based Administration.

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7

.NET requirements

  • .NET Framework 4.5
  • For best performance, install .NET Framework on a domain-joined machine or VM.

IMPORTANT: Users on the following machines must manually enable .NET 3.5 to run the ShareFileProxyConfig.exe file.

  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows 8 or later

Information on manually enabling .NET 3.5 can be found at this Microsoft article.

ShareFile requirements

Your account must have:

  • Policy Based Administration enabled.
  • Available employee licensees in ShareFile for each user who is added.

A ShareFile administrator user with the following permissions:

  • Create and Manage Policies
  • Create Employees
  • Create Shared Distribution Groups
  • Edit Shared Distribution Groups

Active Directory requirements

An administrator or service account with full read permissions to the domain to run the User Management Tool.

User accounts to be mirrored in AD must have the following attributes:

CN LDAP-Display-Name
Email Addresses mail
ms-DS-Phonetic-First-Name msDS-PhoneticFirstName
ms-DS-Phonetic-Last-Name msDS-PhoneticLastName
Object-Guid objectGUID
System requirements