System requirements and preparation

The following sections include information about how to prepare for your Winshuttle Workflow installation, including system requirements, development server, authentication, and accounts details.

System Requirements


Operating System	Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit/64-bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 (32-bit/64-bit) Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
Internet Explorer	7.0 or higher
MS SharePoint	SharePoint 2007 (All editions including WSS) SharePoint 2010 (All editions including Foundation) SharePoint 2013 ( Works only with the 64-bit edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, or the 64-bit edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1)
.NET Framework	.NET 3.5 SP1
Database	MS SQL Server 2005 (all editions, including Express) MS SQL Server 2008 (all editions, including Express) MS SQL Server 2012 (all editions, including Express)
Hardware
Processor	Quad Core
Memory	8GB
Storage	3GB free disk space
Network	56kbps connection between client and server

Winshuttle Workflow also has the following Microsoft Office InfoPath requirements:

.NET Programmability Support for Microsoft Office InfoPath.
.NET Framework 3.5 is required for all variants of Winshuttle Designer;
For Designer+ 2013, the PC should also have .NET 4.0, which is requirement of Microsoft InfoPath to support custom controls.
For more details, see the following FAQ topic: Where is the SAP web service control in InfoPath?
Winshuttle Workflow supports InfoPath 2007 32-bit and InfoPath 2010 32-bit
Note: 64-bit InfoPath is not supported at the time of this release.

If you plan on installing Winshuttle Server on a different server from Winshuttle Central/Workflow, Winshuttle recommends using Kerberos authentication.

Language Support

Currently, Winshuttle Workflow Server and Workflow Designer support Spanish, French, and German.

Using a Development Server

To minimize the risk of disruption and data loss, Winshuttle strongly recommend installing SharePoint and Winshuttle Workflow on a development (i.e. non-production) server first. Because the development server simulates a server in a real work environment (but operates in isolation), you can create, test, and refine your processes before moving them onto a production server. When you are ready to move to the production server, specify the URL of the production server within Winshuttle Workflow, and publish your workflows and/or forms to that server.

Authentication

Winshuttle Workflow requires authentication to access a database and impersonate a system user with sufficient privileges to access the SharePoint Object Model. This is in addition to normal user authentication during SharePoint login.

To give Winshuttle Workflow the authentication it requires, there are two options:

SharePoint Object Model Access, which requires Windows authentication.
SQL Server Access, which requires either Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication.

What accounts do I need?

To deploy Winshuttle Workflow, you must provide credentials for two different accounts and one email address.

The following table describes the accounts that are used to install and configure Winshuttle Workflow.

Account	Purpose	Requirements
Winshuttle Workflow administrator account	The Winshuttle Workflow administrator account is used to perform the following tasks: Run the Workflow installer Run the SVService.exe scheduled task Run the components of Workflow	Account must be a SharePoint Farm administrator. For security purposes, this account should be a separate account Part of the following local groups on each Web Front End: Administrators WSS_WPG WSS_ADMIN_WPG IIS_WPG (For IIS Manager 6) For SharePoint 2010, SQL database also requires addition to these groups: EXEC sp_grantlogin 'BUILTIN\Administrators' EXEC sp_addsrvroleremember 'BUILT\Administrators','sysadmin'
SQL Server service account	The SQL Server service account is used to install the Winshuttle sharevis database	dbcreator fixed server role on SQL server instance
Email address	The email address will be used as the "From" address for Workflow routing	Working email address