Requirements

General

The following requirements have to be fulfilled before installing Mail & Deploy Server:

• An environment capable of executing 64-bit applications (Windows Operating system). We support Windows Operating systems that are supported by Microsoft.
• A windows account with local administrator rights to perform the installation.
• .NET Framework 4.8 needs to be installed.
• At least 2 GB of hard disk space.
• A windows account to be used as the Service Account which will run the server and needs to fulfill all requiements.
• If you want to use Mail & Deploy with QlikView Documents, a local desktop client which is licensed for the Service Account needs to be installed and the respective QlikView Documents need to be accessible through the file system or through a QVP URL when connecting to a QlikView Server instance (see QlikView Datasources for more information). Also, the Service Account needs to have the required file system permissions to access those files. We support QlikView versions that are supported by Qlik.
• If you want to use Mail & Deploy with Qlik Sense Apps, the respective Qlik Sense Server must be reachable from the computer on which Mail & Deploy Server shall be installed and the Service Account requires at least an Analyzer license for that instance of Qlik Sense (see Qlik Sense Datasources for more information). It should be a dedicated license.
  We support Qlik Sense versions that are supported by Qlik, but the following Patches are not supported:
  August 2023 Patch 2
  May 2023 Patch 6
  February 2023 Patch 10
  November 2022 Patch 12
  August 2022 Patch 14
  May 2022 Patch 16
  February 2022 Patch 15
  November 2021 Patch 17
  A most recent patch should be installed that solves the issue QB-22217.
• If you want to use Mail & Deploy with Qlik Sense SaaS Apps, you will need an API key that has access to the Apps (see Qlik Sense SaaS Datasources for more information).
• If you want to send e-mails using Mail & Deploy you need the configuration details of an SMTP server (host, port, authentication details) or a Microsoft 365 Outlook server (tenant ID, client ID and client secret).

Other hardware requirements such as CPU cores and RAM are strongly dependent on the complexity of the data models you want to access, the amount of reports you want to create etc. Therefore general advice cannot be given. As a guide, refer to the Mail & Deploy server configurations in Saas https://www.mail-and-deploy.com/editions/.

Mail & Deploy Server can be installed in the same server as Qlik Sense Enterprise or Qlik View Server.

The following requirements have to be fullfilled before installing Mail & Deploy Designer:

• Windows Operating system. We support Windows Operating systems that are supported by Microsoft.
• .NET Framework 4.8 needs to be installed.
• At least 500 MB of hard disk space.
• Connectivity to Mail & Deploy Server.
  Mail & Deploy On premise: The computers need to have a connection to the computer that runs Mail & Deploy Server and the firewall must not block the port used for the communication. The default ports are 14999 and 14998. These can be configured/changed in the Mail & Deploy's Management Console.
  Mail & Deploy On SaaS: The computers need to have a connection to the computer that runs Mail & Deploy Server using port 443.
• Microsoft Office (optional). If you want to design reports based on Microsoft Office formats then the respective Microsoft Office desktop application needs to be installed on the computer and properly licensed. We support Microsoft Office that is supported by Microsoft.

The following requirements have to be fullfiled in order to access Mail & Deploy Management Console and Mail & Deploy Hub:

• Connectivity to Mail & Deploy Server.
  Mail & Deploy On premise: The computers need to have a connection to the computer that runs Mail & Deploy Server and the firewall must not block the port used for the communication. The default ports are 14999 and 14998. These can be configured/changed in the Mail & Deploy's Management Console.
  Mail & Deploy On SaaS: The computers need to have a connection to the computer that runs Mail & Deploy Server using port 443.
• When connecting to a Mail & Deploy web user interface endpoint, the following browsers are supported: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

The following requirements have to be fullfiled in order to use Mail & Deploy Extensions for Qlik Sense:

• Connectivity to Mail & Deploy Server.
  Mail & Deploy On premise: The computers need to have a connection to the computer that runs Mail & Deploy Server and the firewall must not block the port used for the communication. The default ports are 14999 and 14998. These can be configured/changed in the Mail & Deploy's Management Console.
  Mail & Deploy On SaaS: The computers need to have a connection to the computer that runs Mail & Deploy Server using port 443 and a Content Security Policy should be added in Qlik Sense Saas Console (see Using the M&D extension for Qlik Sense in Qlik SaaS for more information)
• When connecting to a Mail & Deploy web user interface endpoint, the following browsers are supported: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge.