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Visual Studio Team System Operating System Requirements

This is a continuation of my post Using Blogs to Drive Product Direction and is an experiment in getting customer feedback on product decisions through blogs.  I’d like you to keep two things in mind.  1) Anything I post here is likely to change before we ship.  2) Please provide some context for your feedback, the reason why you, your clients, and/or your company feel a change is important.

In this post, we will deal with Visual Studio Team System Operating System Requirements.  I am assuming you are already familiar with Visual Studio Team System, if not start here.

Client Side

Visual Studio Team System Clients will run on the following operating systems and require the following service packs:

Windows 2000 (SP4 or greater)

Windows XP Home (SP2 or greater)

Windows XP Professional (SP2 or greater)

Windows Server 2003 (RTM or greater)

Windows Server 2003 64-bit  (SP1 or greater) (WOW mode only)

Windows XP 64 bit (Second Release, no code name yet) (WOW mode only)

VSTS clients will not be support on Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, or Windows ME.

Server Side

The Team Foundation Server may only be installed on a Windows 2003 operating system.  The following table outlines our POR for operating system support.  Note: Dates on future releases of Win2k3 are outside my project’s immediate control, more information can be found here.

Versions\Flavors

WebEdition

Standard

Enterprise

Datacenter

64-bit Std

64-bit Ent

64-bit DC

Current RTM

no

yes

Yes

yes

n/a

yes

yes

SP1 (March 2005)

no

yes

Yes

yes

n/a

n/a

n/a

64-bit (1st half 2005)

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Yes

yes

yes

R2 (end of 2005)

no

yes

Yes

yes

Yes

yes

yes

 

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Published Friday, January 07, 2005 3:57 PM by brianwh
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Comments

 

Denny said:

Looks nice so far...

any info on getting the server to run on
a) one server not two
b) on a less-than-new server?

I currently use a PIII 550 with 768 Megs ram for my internal work.
it runs 2003 Ent. and SQL 2000 and a bunch of other small stuff great.
do I *NEED* to get a new server to cope with the demands of TS Server??
January 7, 2005 6:57 PM
 

Mike said:

requirements - service packs?
Windows 2003 SP1?
- lots won't be running this SP for a while
Windows XP SP2?
- tons are still not using it and won't until major issues are resolved
January 9, 2005 2:38 PM
 

Yavuz Bogazci's Blog said:

January 10, 2005 10:18 AM
 

RIO - Randektív Informatikai Oldal said:

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January 10, 2005 10:22 AM
 

Brian White said:

More on deployment topologies and hardware requirements to come...
January 10, 2005 11:04 AM
 

Brian A White said:

Thanks for the catch by the way, we will support Win2k3 on RTM as well as SP1. XP will be SP2 only.
January 10, 2005 1:55 PM
 

Marcel de Vries said:

Are you going to support deployment in a virtual environment like Virtual server. We at Info support heavy rely on deployment of our servers in a virtual environment so that would be important. This requirement comes out of two different things. One: we provide a lot of training at our training center. Running team system on a virtual environment is crucial for working with the product in a course. (All MOC material is delivered running VPC or Virtual server these days and all classrooms are set up for VPC use) Second: I see many customers of our product line working with virtual environments. Most of the time this is a political thing, but it looks like managers are easy to convince to set up a virtual server then by buying a new box. A lot of customers are buying some big boxes that run all development servers in a virtual environment.(Large insurance companies and banks)
January 10, 2005 1:59 PM
 

Peter Lillevold said:

Team System seems to run fine in a Virtual Server system. Ive recently put up a two-machine scenario myself running the Data Tier in one virtual machine and the Application/Client tier on another virtual machine.
January 12, 2005 1:44 AM
 

VJ said:

Can I install Data tier and Application tier on same server?

Do I need Domain controler or can I install in workgroup type environment?
January 12, 2005 10:55 AM
 

The Coffeehouse said:

Brian White is experimenting with real time customer polling through his blog.

June 5, 2008 8:09 AM
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