Will the final version of Geneva support Windows XP?

Thanks!

Hi,
Thanks for your interest in Geneva. As of now, we have not yet finalized whether to include XP support in Geneva RTM release. We will let the community and our customers know as soon as a final decision in this regard is made. How would you rate the need for XP support (low/medium/high) based on your (or your customers') deployment?

Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for your interest in Geneva. As of now, we have not yet finalized whether to include XP support in Geneva RTM release. We will let the community and our customers know as soon as a final decision in this regard is made. How would you rate the need for XP support (low/medium/high) based on your (or your customers') deployment?

Thanks.

Iwould rate windows xp support HIGH.

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Learning the trade

I tend to agree.

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Yossi Dahan Connected Systems MVP

I don't understand why Microsoft Geneva isn't already supported. The libraries are based in the .NET Framework. I've been running my STS on Windows Server 2003 and it works just fine. All I had to do was GAC the Microsoft.IdentityModel.

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Thomas

I agree about XP support need being high. If the goal is for this to become a standard, then interoperability should be high on your to-do list.

I have to agree, I write applications for several large corporations and to not support Windows XP means I cannot use Geneva for anything except web-based applications where I can keep everything on a Windows Server. To exclude Windows XP is to exclude using it for applications that run on hundreds of thousands of desktops in corporations across the world.

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jlavin

In my case, I'm writing a winform app that talks to a WCF service. If I develop on Vista +Geneva Beta and the WCF server runs Windows Server 2008, would clients still need to run on Vista?

In an early Feedback post, I recommended how you can do this (Feedback).
What I describe here is a hack ... not recommended or supported by MS ... use at your own risk; this information is not warranted to be free of defects or useful for any particular purpose; don't try this at home; offer not valid where taxed or prohibited by law.

You'll first have to install the Orca MSI editor tool (How to use the Orca database editor to edit Windows Installer files) It's delivered as an MSI install file as part of the Windows SDK Components for Windows Installer Developers. (See Windows Installer Development Tools - Orca.exe).


Backup the file MicrosoftGenevaFrameworkSDK.x86.msi to MicrosoftGenevaFrameworkSDK.Original.x86.msi. No - make that two backups ... the second one to a diferent hard drive. Start the Orca MSI editor and open the file MicrosoftGenevaFrameworkSDK.x86.msi. Select theLaunchCondition table (in the left pane). Click the Condition "VersionNT >= 502" and change it to "VersionNT >= 501". Save your modifications.

Use the modified MSI file and it will install without complaint on Windows XP. Everything as far as development and operation should run as expected ... except that a bunch of the samples depend on specific features (e.g. the version of IIS) that won't run on XP without bunches of tweaking. But like all really valuable experience, that tweaking is "left as an exercise for the student."

Whether you author on Win2k8, Win2k3, Vista or XP makes no difference. Simply target .NET Framework 3.5 with your project and ensure that your installation process validates that both .NET 3.5+ and the Geneva Framework are installed on the target system. (Look at the other LaunchCondition rows for hints on how to add this to your own MSI installer.)

Dave Romig MCSE, MCT
The Computer Solution Company

I also have to say that XP support is VERY important for adoption. No need for the samples to run on IIS 5.x (nor is the Windows Token Service needed [Kerb4U2Proxy isn't supported anyways] - but we need to be able to use Geneva in e.g. WinForms apps running on XP.

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Dominick Baier - http://www.leastprivilege.com

Hmm. I guess this answers my question: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Geneva/thread/ee1ec886-d92e-412c-b795-150c08b09bf5

I would also say that XP support is very high on a feature list -- not so much for a server, but for clients. Especially for winforms (& other) clients.

I would also say that interoperabilty with other clients (Java,...) is desired -- in a way that they can consume SOAP-based services where they authenticate trough STS.

Regards,
Miha.

What tweaking would be needed to run web-based samples on XP?

My rate for XP-support is HIGH. We have to upgrade over 20 OS to Vista if we jump on the Geneva-train.

Is there any decisions made yet when final release will be and if there will be Support for XP on the client side?

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pem