.Net Services no go on 2003

Question

I understand that the SDK does not now install on 2003 server but can someone tell me :

a) does the client redist install on 03 and
b) where the heck is the client redist?

Thanks

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Peter G Jones, New Zealand

Answer 1

Hi Peter,

The SDK is only supported on Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 RC. Also, we have collapsed the SDK and the Redist install into a single installer. If you install the SDK, but leave out the samples and the docs, you get the Redist behavior. The download page also has details about how to script an 'unattended' install.

Thanks
Mujtaba

Answer 2

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the feedback.

The redist and SDK are now in one installer. You can choose which of the three components parts of the SDK to install (Assemblies - aka Redist), Samples and Documents.

Regarding OS's we are currently only supporting Vista, Win7 and W2k8. We are definitely interested in hearing feedback on having support for other OS's with our client side SDK. Were you considering W2K3 for Production or Development purposes?


Philip Richardson [MSFT]

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Answer 3

I tried to install only the Redist on Windows XP using the following command, but it fails to install (message in Eventlog is that the SDK is only supported on 2008, Vista,...)

msiexec /I NetServicesSDK.msi INSTALL_SAMPLES=0 INSTALL_DOCUMENTS=0 /qn

For the MAY 2009 CTP, I was able to install the client redist. on this same machine.

My aim is to access WCF services running on Windows XP and XP Embedded (!) through the service bus, so support for these OSes would be greatly appreciated!

Geert.

Answer 4

Hi

"We" found the RelayConfigurationInstaller.exe which does a nice job of updating the machine.config on the target.  Then it's just a matter of GAC'ing the ServiceBus dll. This seems to work fine on '03 - but I'm having other problems now trying to use tcp  binding (probably my next post :)).  

Nearly all of our customers have 2003 servers for one system or another - few of these will upgrade to 2008 unless they really have to .  Probably half of our customers have 2008 for new systems and we certainly reccomend that for all the new systems we deploy.

So, yes, 2003 support would make life a lot simpler for us, but with VM's being what they are these days, it's not a huge problem to insist on 2008.  I couldnt care less about Vista and dont care much more about Windows 7 as we dont do a lot of desktop systems that would require the service bus - we would most likely only use it server to server.

Cheers

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Peter G Jones, New Zealand

Answer 5

Hi,

I can confirm that I got this working on both Win2003 and XP by:

- uninstalling the previous .NET Services Redistributable (May 2007 CTP)
- including the microsoft.servicebus.dll in my application folder (I did not want to GAC it)
- running RelayConfgurationInstaller /i (note: it must be a lower case i...)

(I still need to try this on XP Embedded).

Geert.

Answer 6

Hi Peter & Geert,

We refreshed the SDK today. The new one works on XP and 2K3 too. Give it a try and let us know if you face any problems.

Thanks

Mujtaba

Answer 7

Hi Mujtaba,

Thanks for the quick reply and fix.
I have not been able to try the new SDK as I currently don't have a machine at hand where I did not perform the manual install (using RelayConfigurationInstaller).

Geert.