Another Gotcha - No Windows XP Support for Consoles

Many organizations still use Windows XP. Windows XP is not supported for the console. It must be vista or higher.

Operations Console

• Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package
  
• Hotfix 976898
  
• Recommended processor speed: 2.8 GHz or faster.
  
• Minimum memory: not less than 2 GB.
  
• Drive space: %SYSTEMDRIVE% must have at least 512 MB free space
  
• File system: %SYSTEMDRIVE% must be formatted with the NTFS file system
  
• Server Operating System: must be Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2
  
• Processor Architecture: must be AMD64 for servers and AMD64 or i386 for a client computer
  
• Windows Installer version: not less than version 3.1
  
• Windows PowerShell version: Windows PowerShell version 2.0
  
• Both .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4 are required. For more information, see the following.
  
  
  • .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 redistributable package
    
  • .NET Framework 4 redistributable package