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Supported Operating Systems / System Requirements / Compatibility

Alan Bishop
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TEAM: Huntress EDR 
PRODUCT: Huntress, Windows systems and macOS
ENVIRONMENT: Windows, macOS
SUMMARY: Huntress supported Operating systems, requirements and compatibility 

The Huntress Managed Microsoft Defender Antivirus is not supported with ARM CPU's.

Huntress Feature

Windows Pro, Education, Enterprise, Home:
10 and 11

 Windows 8.1 Windows Server
2012-2012r2		 Windows Server
2016+		 Legacy Windows
Versions

*

 macOS

**
Footholds
Footholds		 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Managed Antivirus
Managed Antivirus		 Supported   MDE/MDB/ATP only Supported    
Ransomware Canaries
Ransomware Canaries		 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported  
External Recon
External Recon		 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Host Isolation
Desktop.svg		 Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported in dev
Process Insights
process insights		 Supported Supported Supported Supported    

 

* Legacy Windows Versions include Windows 7, Windows 8.0, Windows Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Small Business Server 2011 (Product support is limited to "best-effort" for operating systems no longer supported by Microsoft)

** macOS currently includes all macOS versions 11 Big Sur and up 

 

Resource Dependencies

Resource Utilization

  • Huntress Installer (HuntressInstaller.exe)
    • Requires Administrative permissions to run
    • Roughly 100 MB of disk space needed to install HuntressAgent and HuntressRio.
  • Huntress Agent (HuntressAgent.exe)
  • Huntress Rio EDR (HuntressRio.exe)
    • The typical Rio Agent consumes less than 1% CPU and 70MB of RAM. If you notice an issue with utilization on servers with high PPM (typically high load DC's and DB servers) you may need to increase the resources as Rio's usage can spike with high PPM machines. Please contact support@huntress.com if you have questions!
  • HuntressAgent.exe
    • Written in Golang
    • Does not have any dependencies
    • The Huntress Agent uses TLS 1.2/1.3 to communicate with the Huntress Dashboard.
  • HuntressUpdater.exe
    • Written in .NET (using the utility wyUpdate). The Huntress Installer will automatically install the applicable .NET 2.0 or .NET 4.0 version of the updater utility. The installer will also auto-select the correct 32-bit or 64-bit Agent for you based on the version of Windows. 
    • The HuntressUpdater uses
      • hUpdate (new updater) users TLS 1.2/1.3, if you are blocking TLS 1.1, you can request this Updater from support.
      • wyUpdate (old updater) which uses TLS 1.1 to fetch updates. If TLS 1.1 is blocked/disabled, the Huntress Agent will fail to update. This updater is being phased out.

 

Footholds

Mac

Huntress for macOS supports 11 Big Sur and above

 

Windows Compatibility

See table above for compatibility matrix.

 

Workstations

Our Agent currently supports 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) versions of Windows starting with Windows Vista / Server 2008.

The Huntress Agent supports Windows 11 ARM only if it is the full version of Windows. Devices such as the Surface Pro X that run Windows "S" or "RT" are not supported.

  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10
    • Home
    • Pro
    • Pro for Workstations
    • Pro Education
    • Education
    • Enterprise
  • Windows 11 
    • Home
    • Pro 
    • Pro for Workstations
    • Pro Education
    • Education
    • Enterprise

Servers

Huntress supports all versions of Windows Server starting with 2008, including, Hyper-V Server, Windows Server Essentials, Windows Server Standard, Windows Server Data Center, etc.

We also support the Core versions of all Server versions (please follow Single Command Installation). To utilize the Managed AV service, the "Windows Defender" Role needs to be installed (support for 2016+), please see Managed AV Support OSes for more information. 

The Huntress Agent works with all Windows Server Roles including, Hyper-V, MS SQL Server, RDS (including RDS with CALs), Exchange, etc. Please note that if you are running a virtual environment, you do need a licensed copy of Huntress for each machine that's running Windows. For example, the Huntress Agent running on a Hyper-V server does not have visibility into its VMs. 

  • Server 2008
  • Server 2008 R2
  • Small Business Server 2011 
  • Server 2012
  • Server 2012 R2
  • Server 2016+

 

 

Managed Antivirus

Workstation

      • Windows 10
        • Windows Pro Education
        • Windows Pro & Pro for Workstations
        • Windows Enterprise
        • Windows Education
        • Windows Home
      • Windows 11
        • Pro & Pro for Workstations
        • Education
        • Pro Education
        • Enterprise
        • Home

Server

Managed AV works with Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 but may show empty under "registered antivirus" (Since there is no Windows Security Center on Servers, we must manually classify AV products which can sometimes affect which AV shows up in our portal [no effect on operation!])

Only Server 2016+ is supported. All versions prior to 2016 (2012r2, 2012, 2008 r2, 2008...) are not support by Managed AV (except if you purchase MDE/MDB/ATP licenses from Microsoft). 
      • Windows Server 2016+ (with the 'Windows Defender' feature installed)
        • Essentials, Standard, Datacenter

See also: Managed Antivirus on Windows Server 2012 R2

 

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