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SMS: Cannot Install the SMS Client on Windows XP Home Edition

Article ID: 310499

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q310499

SYMPTOMS

When you try to install the Systems Management Server (SMS) client on a Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition-based computer, you may receive a "Unsupported OS version or Platform" error message. Note that the error message is generated after you run SMSLS or SMSMAN. You may also see the following entry in the Wnmanual.log file:

Unsupported OS version or Platform; exiting


CAUSE

This by design behavior occurs because Windows XP Home Edition is not a supported operating system for use with SMS. Before SMS 2.0 Service Pack 4 (SP4), installations on Windows XP Home Edition-based computers were not blocked. However, SMS 2.0 SP4 no longer permits the installation of the SMS client on Windows XP Home Edition-based computers.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about support for Windows XP-based computers, please visit the following Microsoft Web site:


Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbenv kberrmsg kbprb kbqfe kbsetup kbsms200presp4fix KB310499