On 09/21/2017 08:16 PM, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
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>
>
>
> I was about to commit this after a good bit of testing when I
> noticed this:
>
> + Building with <productname>Visual Studio 2017</productname> is
> supported
> + down to <productname>Windows 7 SP1</> and <productname>Windows
> Server 2012 R2</>.
>
> I was able to build on Windows Server 2008 without a problem, so I'm
> curious why we are saying it's not supported.
>
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> From the visual studio system requirements [1], in the section of
> supported
> operating systems, it is mentioned as windows 7 SP1 and windows server
> 2012 R2 and didn't mentioned anything about 2008, because of this reason,
> I mentioned as that it supported till the above operating systems. As
> I don't
> have windows server 2008 system availability, so I didn't verify the same.
>
> The visual studio 2017 product itself is not mentioned as that it supports
> windows server 2008, can we go ahead and mention it in our documentation?
>
> [1] -
> https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/productinfo/vs2017-system-requirements-vs
>
>
That page also says:
Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools 2017
Also installs on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
So I'm inclined to adjust the documentation accordingly.
cheers
andrew
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