Dynamic File Services provides a Management component and a Service component to be installed. The Service component installs the main Service engine and utilities. The Management component installs the management tools.
You can install the Service and Management components of Dynamic File Services on your Windows servers in a Workgroup environment or an Active Directory environment.
Dynamic File Services supports 64-bit architectures for the following Microsoft Windows Server operating systems with the latest service packs and patches applied:
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or later
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
You can install the Management component of Dynamic File Services on a Windows workstation. This allows you to remotely manage pairs and policies on DynamicFS servers in the same domain.
DynamicFS supports 64-bit architectures for the following Windows client operating systems with the latest service packs and patches applied:
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Installation of the Service component is not supported on Windows workstations in a production environment. For testing purposes, you can install the Service component on the supported workstations. Some Service capabilities, such as those related to creating and managing pairs with remote shares, are unlikely to work when the Service is hosted on a workstation.
For information about configuration requirements for the Service on Windows XP, see Disabling Simple File Sharing on Windows XP
in the Dynamic File Service: Readme.