E-Z Audit Supported Systems


Only Windows operating systems are audited. 

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Install the "ezsetup2012.msi" (full download) to:

Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)

Windows XP SP3 (32- or 64-bit)

Windows Vista is also supported, but even Microsoft cringes at the mention of that OS, so if you are using Vista, our sympathies.

Do not install the full program installer to a server.  It is not required and in fact won't run that way.  Only the audit modules go on the server and they don't run at the server to do their audits - zero impact.

Why not install the whole package to the server?

Because when running the Admin console on the server, opening big audit folders can require more resource use than you probably want being used on that server. 

On your desktop, it's low impact.  On a server that may be running SQL Server and possibly Exchange or SharePoint, you really don't want to run conventional applications as much as can be avoided.  That's just good practice in general.

We always allowed it and warned people, then they'd go ahead and put in on a server and complain anyway.  So now it's blocked from running on a server.

E-Z Audit can perform software and hardware audits on the following OS's

  • Windows 8 Consumer Preview (this is still not an official release so our audits of it, while working so far, must be considered "beta" until the final release of Windows 8)

  • Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit)

  • Windows Vista (32- or 64-bit)

  • Windows XP SP2 or higher (32- or 64-bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 (except Server Core configuration)

  • Windows Server 2003 (32- or 64-bit)

  • Windows 2000 SP4 (see notes about legacy systems)

  • Windows 9x and NT 4 (see notes about legacy systems)

E-Z Audit can run the audits from the following server OS's

Note that you do not need to install anything on your server.  You simply copy the relevant files to a folder on your server.

Windows Server 2003 with all current Service Packs

Windows Server 2008 (other than "Core" installations)

Netware 5 and higher, although we provide no support for their logon scripts or any other Novell related use.  Please check their documentation.  It's actually really good compared to most server products.

Microsoft has relegated many systems to "Legacy Status" and they no longer support them.  As such, we do not support them beyond the following conditions for machines being audited.

See these Microsoft pages for their policies:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/help/end-support
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect

What we do with legacy systems:

  • E-Z Audit may be able to audit the legacy systems provided that you have the last available Service Packs for each and all updates through the last ones issued by Microsoft

  • The version of Internet Explorer must be at least IE6

  • WMI has been installed to these legacy systems

  • We may decrement some audit features for legacy Windows systems to ensure best performance on current, supported Windows systems
     

Note that:

  • NO testing on these systems is being done now or in future for any changes to E-Z Audit

  • NO changes to the program will be made to accommodate these systems

  • Use on these systems is "as-is", meaning it could (and probably will) work, but any problems will not be addressed as they are legacy systems unsupported by Microsoft themselves.