Content Porter prerequisites

This topic describes the software that the Content Porter client software requires and supports.

Install Content Porter client on a machine that contains the following software components:

Operating system
The Content Porter client requires one of the following versions of Microsoft Windows:
  • Microsoft Windows 10 (x86)
  • Microsoft Windows 10 (x64)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x86)
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 (x64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (x64)

No versions of Microsoft Windows are deprecated.

Virtual machines: Microsoft .NET Framework
The Content Porter client requires the following version of the Microsoft .NET Framework:
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8

No version of the Microsoft .NET Framework is deprecated.

SDL Tridion Sites

The client does not require SDL Tridion Sites in order to run, but in order to perform an export or import, it must interact with a Content Manager instance of SDL Tridion Sites 9.1.

You can use the browser-based ClickOnce installer to install the client wizard from a SDL Tridion Sites 9.1 Content Manager Explorer user interface.

In addition, this version of Content Porter, while interacting with SDL Tridion Sites 9.1 Content Manager, can export packages targeting older versions of the core product, and import packages exported from older versions of the core product.