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Windows Phone Developer Tools not supported on Windows Server 2008 by Morten_Nielsen

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Opened: 5/3/2010 1:12:00 PM
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The Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP and CTP Refresh are not officially supported on operating systems other than Windows Vista or Windows 7. In between the CTP and the CTP Refresh, a block was added to setup to prevent installing on Windows Server 2008 to help enforce this support limitation.
However, our build machines are running Windows Server 2008R2, so we need some way of installing the bare minimum to our automated builds.
That means we need support for installing just enough to run msbuild (no need for emulator, VS Express, XNA etc.).
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Visual Studio Version

Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP

Operating System

Windows Server 2008

Suggestion

we need some way of installing the bare minimum to our automated builds.
That means we need support for installing just enough to run msbuild (no need for emulator, VS Express, XNA etc.). Down the road, the emulator might be handy for running automated unit tests as well.

There is a hack described here to enable this scenario: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx, but we need official support for building the software in an automated fashion on Windows Server

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Improved development process
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Posted by paul206 on 4/10/2012 at 5:21 PM
I'm just here adding another voice saying that this is absolutely a high priority scenario that needs to be supported. We have no choice but Windows Server 2008 for the Build Environment that is provisioned and managed by another department in our organization. Asking them to spin up a Windows 7 machine in the data center is a non-starter. The build targets and assemblies need to be available at the very least to support building on Server 2008 R2. I'm stunned this is not supported. Please, please.. make this a priority to fix and support as soon as possible!
Posted by Reisswolf on 1/29/2012 at 1:38 PM
As others have already noted, many developers need Windows Server 2008 R2 to run IIS 7 locally. Microsoft should work to correct the non-availability of the Windows Phone 7 SDK on the server OS immediately.

Hacks and workarounds should not be required. I can understand having to resort to hacks in Windows Server 2008 R2 if I want to develop for Android or iOS, but not for Windows Phone 7.
Posted by DAWALS on 1/27/2012 at 12:25 PM
This needs to be corrected! Why would MS make it so hard for developers to get into WP7 programming?
Posted by bart_dk on 1/27/2012 at 5:55 AM
Please fix this issue with high prior microsoft !
Thanks,
Posted by mytech on 12/14/2011 at 1:01 PM
Just installed Azure SDK and stuff (on my Dev machine WS2008R2) and went on to install WP7 and the Azure toolkit for it, and I can't!!!!! wtf...
BIG, no wait..., HUGE, naaa doesn't cut it, MONUMENTAL drawback :-( Crying my eyes out here *sobbing*
Plzzzzz add this support asap!
As others have pointed out here, WS2008R2 is used by maaaany developers due to several reasons, like for me for example running dev of SharePoint 2010 stuff.
So, please you guys, add this support :-)
Posted by Andreas Leitel on 12/5/2011 at 5:25 AM
Not supporting Windows Server 2008 is a "no go"!
Posted by VirtualRichard on 11/16/2011 at 2:37 PM
I was really eager to get on the bandwagon developing WP7 software now that the Nokia gig has come through but with no Windows Server 2008 R2 support, that's another developer lost to the cause. I'm not going to run hacks or additional OS's just for WP7. I think you guys have no idea how important 2008 R2 is to a lot of us devs as a *proper* development platform. It's not just WP7 - MS should be making sure that whatever we can do on Win7 with VS2010, we can do on 2008 R2!
Posted by aisraelsen on 10/10/2011 at 11:28 AM
Definitely need to support Windows Server 2008! I'm running Server so I can run SharePoint VMs, and having to use a second laptop to do Windows Phone development isn't going to help drive adoption.
Posted by Artem_Tymofyeyev on 10/4/2011 at 1:20 AM
Please, add Server 2008 support!
Posted by superlatch on 9/7/2011 at 8:37 AM
Please can we unblock the installer from preventing installation on Windows Server 2008. This is a common platform for developers.
Posted by krishna puttagunta on 7/29/2011 at 7:32 AM
We currently have common build server on windows 2008. This is very important for us to progress.
Posted by Aaron LaBeau on 7/27/2011 at 5:42 PM
This is really tough for the SharePoint developers that need Server 2008 R2 environment in order to develop on SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. I want one environment to develop anything I need to in Microsoft's world. In this sense Microsoft needs to copy Apple's concept of one install and you can develop any of there supported environments. This 200 different version of the product is really getting old... Visual Studio Pro should just prompt me and ask if I want to download the Phone tools, etc with a simple link in the app for downloading updates. Come on MS it's 2011, not 2002.
Posted by shoecake on 7/25/2011 at 9:07 AM
I also use Win 2008 R2 as my development OS as I need IIS7 and Hyper V.
Posted by LonghronShen on 7/11/2011 at 12:08 AM
We are also developping softwares on Windows Server 2008 R2, and we are also want to develop softwares for Windows Phone 7. Now Microsoft doesn't supply support for the Server platform, it's a big probelm. That means we can not unify our development environment. Hope this problem could be fixed. Thanks!
Posted by Benjamin Day on 7/4/2011 at 4:31 AM
If it's too difficult to make the tools work on Win2008, at least enable them to run in a Windows 7 virtual machine.
Posted by Benjamin Day on 7/4/2011 at 4:28 AM
I use Windows 2008 Server R2 x64 as my primary development laptop because I need Hyper-V as part of my work. I write WP7 apps in my off-time and it would be nice to have everything on a single machine since I have to travel a lot for work and I don't want to haul around 2 laptops.

Dual booting the OS on my laptop is a non-practical pain.
Posted by Alex Freixas on 6/16/2011 at 9:07 AM
This is a big issue for us, since all our developers and build machines are on W2008R2. Can someone comment if this has been addressed and/or if the workaround provided by Flores works? -Thanks.
Posted by Paul Congdon on 5/31/2011 at 10:53 PM
There are several of us devs that need to code on server R2, for what reason would you want to block installing this (and Zune for Wp7 update) on server 2008? To reduce test costs?
Posted by william.karn on 5/11/2011 at 3:20 PM
Why is there no Server 2008 R2 as a workstation love? First Zune and now this? Honestly test team get over yourselves and get this signed off ASAP.
Posted by deepakjg on 4/26/2011 at 6:00 PM
I'd also like to request that this issue be resolved ASAP.

Thanks.
Posted by reachvarun on 3/7/2011 at 4:06 AM
We're an ISV focused on enterprise ASP.Net development with almost 80 engineers standardized on V12N'ed Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.

Our WP7 adoption - we want x% time of all engineers dedicated to new WP7 products - is currently (Mar'11) stymied.
Posted by Matthew McDermott, MVP on 3/2/2011 at 5:21 AM
Developing and demonstrating Phone applications that integrate with SharePoint 2010 and CRM. Need to be able to install (even if just for demonstration purposes). Hard to "show off" the coolness of the phone when I would need to carry a second laptop... Development is much easier if I can simply install the environment on the development host.

Thanks!
Posted by Samad Khan on 2/15/2011 at 2:31 PM
Developing in BizTalk 2010 and SharePoint 2010 we are using Windows Server 2008 R2 PCs. Please add support for Windows Server 2008!
Posted by rcbapb2 on 2/14/2011 at 11:11 AM
I am developing as well on a windows server 2008 R2. Please add support for this!
Posted by Neil Enns on 2/9/2011 at 9:46 AM
Our production build environment runs on Windows Server 2008 and this issue means we can't install the phone developer tools to build our windows phone applications in our build system.
Posted by Jamie MacLennan - Predixion on 1/28/2011 at 12:41 PM
Tried the workaround - install reboots my system halfway through - restarting installation afterwards does the same. This needs to be supported on Server OS's
Posted by gtenzing on 1/25/2011 at 9:04 AM
This blog article should resolve your issue.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx

Cheers
Godwin
Posted by Jeff Bramwell on 12/10/2010 at 12:44 PM
Of our 25 (or so) developers, all are developing on Windows Server 2008 R2. It's interesting that this is the first Microsoft-based set of development tools that we've had to "hack" to get installed. I hope that this is temporary and Microsoft will support Windows Server 2008 (R2) in a future release (why wouldn't they?).
Posted by artemt_ on 11/24/2010 at 5:08 AM
I am from Microsoft Denmark and we have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on all our dev boxes. It is very sad that I need to hack installed to be able to install Windows Phone Developer Tools on my machine.
Posted by DrB2k2 on 11/23/2010 at 6:55 PM
I would like to see some way of getting TFS 2010 on Server 2008 R2 to play nice with phone projects. This is causing some headaches.
Posted by Thomas Wimprine on 11/17/2010 at 9:55 PM
Need virtualization so our "workstations" are 2008 R2 and we need this to install and work.
Posted by Sergey Sorokin on 11/15/2010 at 2:05 PM
W2K8 (R2) is the dev platform of choice for those who could not stand Vista but could not wait for Win7, and it will be around for a while as a dev platform. MS would make our lives _a_ _lot_ easier buy fully supporting VisualStudio on W2K8.
Posted by Eric Sniff on 11/9/2010 at 4:17 PM
We use TFS on Windows 2008 for our automated builds, plus QA uses Windows 2008R2 so they have access to HyperV...
Posted by olanmiIIs on 11/8/2010 at 7:02 PM
This just seems completely rediculous. Isn't Windows Server 2008 R2 one of your current Operating Systems? Don't you want more people to work on Windows Phone 7?
Posted by Dmitri Nesteruk on 11/7/2010 at 11:24 PM
Please fix this ASAP - we use Win2008R2 for development. Thanks!
Posted by johonline on 11/3/2010 at 4:17 PM
Same here, I use Windows Server 2008 R2 on my laptop to easily switch between project environments...
I can say it would be nice to have a greater support on Windows Server at least for the Developer Community.
Between Zone and the Developer Tools, I had to find workaround to use and work with my WP7.
Posted by Dudzy1 on 10/22/2010 at 6:38 AM
I also develop everything on a server 2008 R2 development server to match and work through security issues with 2008 production server - who doesn't ? - need windows phone 7 support asap - like the other posts here my bosses want to move forward asap on phone 7 apps - we don't want work arounds - they bite you down the road
Posted by Jaans on 10/10/2010 at 4:23 AM
This is still and issue and has been since May 2010!? Pretty ppor considering there's been plenty of opportunity during CTP's and RTM's to get it out there.

If you want you new "baby" (WP7) to succeed, then you need to take your developers seriously.
Posted by sspotts on 10/1/2010 at 11:46 AM
I use Windows Server R2 for development, including SharePoint 2010, and need Hyper-V because Microsoft won't support 64-bit VM's on Virtual PC, so can't use Windows 7. Microsoft has to stop thinking it knows what we need to do and start supporting what we DO.
Posted by Devalt1 on 9/29/2010 at 8:08 AM
Currently running Server 2008 R2. I tried the workaround and was able to complete the installation. Created a Phone 7 application but could not build. Tried to run the emulator and it crashed the machine. Had to uninstall. This is a high priority issue with my company as well. As a standard we run Server 2008 R2 for Hyper-V functionality, so we can't roll back to Windows 7 just for Phone 7 development. Hopefully this issue is resolved soon.
Posted by TheRealCoderX on 9/16/2010 at 12:15 PM
Many, many devs use the Server OS for their workstations. This MUST be a supported platform. Please fix ASAP!
Posted by Derek Chauran on 8/24/2010 at 2:55 PM
Using server 2008/2008 R2 as a development workstation is a pretty common scenario. This should be considered a core scenario and resolve ASAP. Locating the workaround for this is NOT easy, as search engines return info about the WP7 SDK mixed with a lot of Win7 info.
Posted by AndyJump on 8/5/2010 at 2:30 AM
We use Server 2008 R2 for our workstations and so this issue prevents us from working with the WP7 SDK Beta.
Posted by Dele_O on 7/16/2010 at 7:54 AM
Currently developing using Windows server 2008 R2 enterprise. And I'm starting to find that this is a high priority issue to get resolved among my colleagues. Thanks for the support.
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Posted by Flores on 6/11/2010 at 1:34 PM
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx
Posted by Christopher Kellner on 8/30/2011 at 1:22 AM
There is no need to install the WPDT on your BuildServer.
Check this out: http://justinangel.net/WindowsPhone7EmulatorAutomation#BlogPost=TFS2010WP7ContinuousIntegration
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