Supported environments – Faronics Insight User Manual

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Supported Environments

Faronics Insight User Guide

Supported Environments

Faronics Insight supports any combination of computers running the following operating systems:

Windows XP-32, Windows Vista-32/64,
Windows 7-32/64, Windows 8.1 -32/64,Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 Terminal Server,
Windows MultiPoint Server (2010, 2011,2012), NComputing devices, Mac OS 10.5 or greater, and
iPads, iPods and iPhones (iOS4, iOS5, iOS6, iOS7 and iOS8), Android 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, and 4.0,
Chromebook (Chrome 33 and greater).

Note: The Insight classroom setup cannot have only iOS or Android devices. The Insight Teacher
must be installed on a regular computer (Laptop, Desktop, or Netbook).

Please note that the Faronics Insight Teacher console for the Mac will only run on Intel-based Mac
hardware running OSX 10.6 or greater.

Support for NComputing devices is dependant on the device model and version of the vSpace
software installed.

Faronics Insight is supported on Linux students running Ubuntu-32/64 version 11 and 12 with the
default desktop. Web limiting is only supported with the Firefox browser. Please see the section

Installing Faronics Insight on Linux on page 44

for a list of supported features. Full parity with

existing Student software is planned for future releases.

Listed below are the minimum requirements necessary to run Faronics Insight on both teacher
and student computers.

Processor

PCs:166 MHz Intel® Pentium® processor or faster

Macs: Intel-based Mac

RAM

- 128 MB for Windows XP

- 256 MB for Windows Vista

- 1 GB for Windows 7

- 1 GB for Windows 8.1

- 512 MB for Mac OS X

- 512 MB for Ubuntu 11 or 12

Protocol stack

All computers running Faronics Insight must be configured with TCP/IP running static or
dynamic IP addresses. 802.11 wireless is supported, however enterprise class access points are
recommended.

Please note the features not supported in a thin client environment:
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Mute sound

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Send “Ctrl-Alt-Del”

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USB limiting

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View Key Stroke History

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Print limiting

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Power on, Reboot, Shutdown, Logoff