Minimum System Requirements of Microsoft Project Professional 2010

Microsoft Project Professional 2010

To see if your PC is ready for Microsoft Project Professional 2010, Your computer system must have the following minimum requirements for installing :

• processor : 700-megahertz (MHz) or higher
• Hard disk : 2 gigabyte (GB) available disk space
• Operating system : Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3 (32-bit), Windows Vista with SP1
• Memory : 512 megabytes (MB) RAM

Other requirements :

• SharePoint Server 2010 (installed with Project Server 2010) is required for publishing projects and Windows Workflow Foundation. Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 is required for the Resource Substitution Wizard.
• Use of graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with drivers dated 11/1/2004 or later.
• Microsoft Project Server 2010 is required for Enterprise Project, portfolio, and resource management capabilities. Microsoft Project Web App and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 or later are required for importing tasks to the Outlook calendar or tasks list.
• Before installing Project 2010 to use Visual Reports with Office 2010, you must install Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services 10.0 OLE DB Provider (available as a free download from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110393).
• To enable the feature that allows synchronizing Project 2010 with a SharePoint task list, you must install either Microsoft Access 2010 or Microsoft Visio 2010.
• Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (64-bit) or later running Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is required for certain advanced collaboration functionality. Office Outlook 2003 SP2 or later is required to use the Import Outlook Tasks feature. Visual Reports require Office Excel 2003 SP2 or later and Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 or later.
• Internet Explorer 7 or later. Internet functionality requires Internet access (fees might apply).

Please consider in Processor, RAM, VGA and harddisk. those the main thing to decide whatever Microsoft Project Professional 2010 can be installed properly in computer system or not. If one of those minimum requirements can't be achieved by your hardware, please don't even try to install Microsoft Project Professional 2010.. Leave comment if you have something to ask!!