Friday, October 19, 2012

Installing Windows Phone SDK 7.1 on Windows Server 2008R2

When you try to install Windows Phone SDK 7.1 on a Windows Server 2008/2008R2 operating system, you will be smashed with this error which says “Windows 7 or Windows Vista is required”.
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"Windows 7 or Windows Vista is required"
If you are thinking about trying this installation again in Windows 7 or Windows Vista machine, you don’t have to. There is a simple workaround for this.
  1. Download the web installer. I am saving the installer in a folder named “Windows Mobile” in my D: drive.
  2. Extract the installer by running this command vm_web2.exe /x
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    extracting the installer
  3. You will be asked to select a extract folder. Give a extraction folder and extract.
  4. Open the extracted folder and open the “baseline.dat” file in a text editor.
  5. Find the section named “[gencomp7788]”.
  6. Change following values.
    • InstallOnLHS value from “1” to “0”
    • InstallOnWin7Server value from “1” to “0”
  7. Save and close “baseline.dat”.
  8. Run setup.exe /web from the extracted folder. By specifying "web" parameter we are forcing setup to download the packages it needs to install.
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    running the setup
That’s all. Now you are done.
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Starting the installation
Hope this helps.

Happy Coding.

Regards,
Jaliya

2 comments:

  1. Gracias por tu aporte, tengo Windows Server 2008 R2 y estaba pensando en utilizar una máquina virtual para usar el SDK

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  2. Hi, nice post it helps a lot to me, to work with sharepoint lists in windows phone development

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