Software Requirements
BirdDog Software can be deployed on a dedicated or virtual server that meets the following requirements:
Minimum hardware required:
- Windows 2012 R2 Server - a good rule of thumb to follow for Windows versions: if Microsoft is no longer supporting it, we probably aren't either.
- Minimum: 8 GB of RAM, recommended: 16 GB of RAM
- Minimum .Net Framework 4.7.2
- 300-500 MB of available hard disk space per installed instance of BirdDog
BirdDog software can be installed on x64 (64-bit) versions of the following:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows Server 2019
- Microsoft Windows Server 2022
- Microsoft Windows Server 2025
ImageMagick must be installed on your web server.
Database Server Requirements
Hardware requirements:
- Minimum: 8 GB of RAM, recommended: 16 GB of RAM
- 200 MB of available hard disk space. Depending on the number of transactions, additional hard disk space may be required to store large number of transactions.
- Document Management, additional hard disk space depending on the number of documents. 5GB of documents will require 5GB of additional storage. Consider this: Using an estimate of 2,500 pages per file drawer and four file drawers per file cabinet, one can estimate that scanning two four-drawer file cabinets full of documents (ten thousand single-sided pages) will require 1 GB.
The BirdDog database can be hosted by:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2012, any edition still supported by Microsoft
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014, any edition still supported by Microsoft
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016, any edition still supported by Microsoft
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017, any edition still supported by Microsoft
- Microsoft SQL Server 2019, any edition still supported by Microsoft
- Microsoft SQL Server 2022, any edition still supported by Microsoft
Certain versions, such as SQL Express, are supported but can be severely hampered by database size limits.
Full-Text Search needs to be installed on your SQL Server for our software to function correctly. And as with the Windows note above, a good rule of thumb to follow for MS SQL Server versions: if Microsoft is no longer supporting it, we probably aren't either.