System Requirements for Altium Concord Pro
Parent page: Installation, Licensing & Management
Ensure that your computer/server meets the system requirements detailed below, prior to installing Altium Concord Pro.
Operating System Support
Altium Concord Pro should be installed on a PC running one of the following officially supported Operating Systems:
- Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (64-bit)
- Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (64-bit)
Recommended System Requirements
The following are the recommended system requirements to install and run Altium Concord Pro. Note that these recommendations are for 5 concurrent users.
- OS: Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (64-bit)
- RAM: 16GB+
- Processor: Intel® Xeon® processor or equivalent (4 or more cores)
- Disk space: 200GB (SSD)
Minimum System Requirements
The following are the minimum system requirements to install and run Altium Concord Pro. Note that these recommendations are for 5 concurrent users.
- OS: Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (64-bit)
- RAM: 8GB+
- Processor: Intel Core i3/i5 processor or equivalent (2 or more cores)
- Disk space: 200GB
Altium Designer Requirements
Web Browser Requirements
To ensure a smooth experience with the Web Viewer - within Concord Pro's browser interface - ensure you have:
- The latest version of a supported browser installed. Supported browsers (and their minimum supported version) are listed below:
- That WebGL (or WebGL 2.0) is enabled for it.
- That the video drivers for your computer are up to date (including drivers for dedicated graphics cards).
Installation & Other Software
Due to the observed unpredictable behavior of antivirus software, it is recommended to disable such software during the installation of Altium Concord Pro.
If the computer is also running Microsoft Exchange Server, you might receive an HTTP Error 503 error when you first attempt to log in. The installation of the Exchange Server can change the Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration in a way that conflicts with Altium Concord Pro. To resolve this, the following changes must be made to the applicationHost.config
file:
<handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script">
...
<add name="kerbauth" image="C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\kerbauth.dll" preCondition="bitness64" />
<add name="WSMan" image="C:\Windows\system32\wsmsvc.dll" preCondition="bitness64" />
<add name="exppw" image="C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\ClientAccess\Owa\auth\exppw.dll" preCondition="bitness64" />
<add name="cafe_exppw" image="C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\FrontEnd\HttpProxy\bin\exppw.dll" preCondition="bitness64" />
...
</handlers>
Additional Software Installed or Configured
- Internet Information Services (IIS). Installation of Altium Concord Pro will install the version of IIS native to your operating system:
- IIS 10.0 - Windows Server 2019 Standard Edition (64-bit), Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (64-bit) and Windows 10 (64-bit)
- IIS 8.5 - Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
- Firebird 3.0 database engine. Ensure that IPv4 network addressing is enabled – to check for active IPv4 addresses, run
ipconfig /all
in a command prompt. - .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET Core 3.1.2