Installing TFS 2012 on win 2003 server

Question

Our company just bought this TFS2012 . Our server is windows 2003 R2 Enterprise edition. When i tried to install it on the server I am getting following error:

One or more system check failed:

Error : TF400154 : Installation on this version of Windows is not supported.

Any work around for this to install on my windows 2003 server.Please let me know

Thanks

Answer 1

The only workaround is to upgrade the server.

TFS2012 server requirements are at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd578592(v=vs.110).aspx

Basically, it requires IIS 7 (or later). Which you can't install on a 2003 server. It comes with 2008. Even then, it has to be the 64 bit version of windows.

If you are upgrading I'd recommend a minimum of 2008 R2; that only comes in a 64 bit flavor.