Client Requirements for Accessing SharePoint 2001 Document Libraries

Some organizations have SharePoint 2001 document libraries that clients need to access. If these users are also accessing SharePoint 2003 sites, the recommended hardware specifications in the previous section should be considered.

The following are Microsoft's minimum hardware requirements for a computer running the client components for backward-compatible document libraries, and are the bare minimum required for functionality:

• Intel Pentium IIIcompatible 200MHz processor, with 64MB RAM.

• 50MB hard disk space on Microsoft Windows 98 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0; 30MB disk space on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The disk can be formatted as NTFS, FAT, or FAT32.

• Microsoft Windows 98; Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 with the latest service pack; Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server, with the latest service pack; Microsoft Windows XP Professional, plus the latest service pack; or any version of Microsoft Windows Server 2003, with the latest service pack.

  Note that computers used by coordinators for backward-compatible document libraries must be running Windows 2000 Professional, Server, or Advanced Server; Windows XP Professional; or Windows Server 2003.

Computers running the client components for backward-compatible document libraries must have one of the following web browsers installed:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 2 and update Q324929. Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting support is required. This is included in the default installation of Internet Explorer 5.

• Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 2 and update Q324929. Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting support is required.

• Internet Explorer 6.0 with update Q324929. Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting support is required.

• Netscape Navigator 6.02 or later.