Server Requirements
If you need to upgrade or replace the server when you originally implemented MinistryPlatform, your new server must:
- Meet the requirements for software, hardware, and external server access.
- Be certified by the MinistryPlatform team through our partner Higher Ground Technologies.
- Be moved by the MinistryPlatform team.
Software
- Windows Server: 2019 or 2022.
- Microsoft SQL Server: MSSQL 2016 Standard or better; Enterprise for the greatest access to mobile reporting. (We recommend MSSQL 2022.)
- Web Server:
- Running IIS with an SHA-2 (or better) SSL certificate installed.
- ASP.NET installed.
- ScreenConnect installed on servers (install package provided by ACST).
- Fully patched with current Windows Updates.
- SSRS Standard (or better).
- Please leave the configuration step to us — automatic configuration takes much longer to process.
- If IIS and SQL are on separate servers, you may install SSRS on either server.
- If SSRS is on the IIS server, it is easier to configure access through SSL, but it costs more to license.
- If SSRS is on the SQL server, it is cheaper to license, but harder to configure access through SSL.
Hardware
- The church on site,
- A third party at the church's main location, or
- A third party in a data center.
- 4+GB RAM
- Dual Core (or Quad Core) processor
- 100 GB C: drive
- 200 GB data drive
External Server Access
The MinistryPlatform team requires ongoing access to servers using our ScreenConnect client (install package provided by ACST).
- Please provide a network or local server account with 24/7 access. This is for the exclusive and ongoing use of our personnel who implement and support your church.
- The account needs Local Administrator privileges on both the web and database servers.
- The account must have SysAdmin privileges in SQL Server.