I'm migrating my small biz office to SBS 2008 with 3 new Win 7 Professional 
workstations. When I try to connect to the domain with the workstation, I get 
an error that my computer does not meet requirements, specifically "does not 
meet maximum operating system requirements for running client setup".

This is Windows 7 Pro, which should be fine, right? I verified the network 
connection by connecting my XP Pro laptop, which ran the connect wizard just 
fine. Why am I getting this message on a machine that has Win 7 Pro?

Thanks,
Geordie

GeordieB wrote:
> I'm migrating my small biz office to SBS 2008 with 3 new Win 7
> Professional workstations. When I try to connect to the domain with
> the workstation, I get an error that my computer does not meet
> requirements, specifically "does not meet maximum operating system
> requirements for running client setup".
>
> This is Windows 7 Pro, which should be fine, right? I verified the
> network connection by connecting my XP Pro laptop, which ran the
> connect wizard just fine. Why am I getting this message on a machine
> that has Win 7 Pro?
>
> Thanks,
> Geordie

Chris posted this earlier in both this and the SBS2008 NG;

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You need to install update rollup 3 for SBS 2008. You should be offered it 
from Microsoft Update.

969121  Description of Windows Small Business Server 2008 Update Rollup 3 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;969121

-- 
Chris Puckett

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


-- 
/kj 

How are you connecting the workstations? - using 'connectcomputer' 
method?

Have you applied the Vista patches to the workstations and server?

http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/windows7.aspx

(see the wee links on the right of the page - Update rollup and 
compatability update).

-- 
Duncan.

In article <C8D46B24-0702-41E4-9050-3951551145C9@microsoft.com>, 
GeordieB@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> 
> I'm migrating my small biz office to SBS 2008 with 3 new Win 7 Professional 
> workstations. When I try to connect to the domain with the workstation, I get 
> an error that my computer does not meet requirements, specifically "does not 
> meet maximum operating system requirements for running client setup".
> 
> This is Windows 7 Pro, which should be fine, right? I verified the network 
> connection by connecting my XP Pro laptop, which ran the connect wizard just 
> fine. Why am I getting this message on a machine that has Win 7 Pro?
> 
> Thanks,
> Geordie

Thanks for your reply. I've run Microsoft Update and installed all offered 
updates, but have not seen any "Rollup 3" update offered. I'm still having 
the problem with connecting my Win 7 Pro workstation. Can I manually download 
the rollup and install it that way? This is a brand new Dell server with SBS 
2008 Standard pre-installed.

Thanks again,
Geordie

"kj [SBS MVP]" wrote:

> GeordieB wrote:
> > I'm migrating my small biz office to SBS 2008 with 3 new Win 7
> > Professional workstations. When I try to connect to the domain with
> > the workstation, I get an error that my computer does not meet
> > requirements, specifically "does not meet maximum operating system
> > requirements for running client setup".
> >
> > This is Windows 7 Pro, which should be fine, right? I verified the
> > network connection by connecting my XP Pro laptop, which ran the
> > connect wizard just fine. Why am I getting this message on a machine
> > that has Win 7 Pro?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Geordie
> 
> Chris posted this earlier in both this and the SBS2008 NG;
> 
> ----------------
> 
> You need to install update rollup 3 for SBS 2008. You should be offered it 
> from Microsoft Update.
> 
> 969121  Description of Windows Small Business Server 2008 Update Rollup 3 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;969121
> 
> -- 
> Chris Puckett
> 
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> 
> 
> -- 
> /kj 
> 
> 
> .
> 

Hello Geordie,

Thanks for your post and others' suggestions.

AFAIK, there is no download package of SBS 2008 Rollup 3 on the Microsoft Download Center website. I would like you restart the server and click Start, Run and type:  
"wuauclt.exe /detectnow" and then see if the Rollup 3 is detected and SBS 2008 server would download and install it.

Moreover, if we still cannot install Rollup 3, please try the steps listed in the below SBS blog to try to work round this issue:

Using Windows 7 BETA With SBS 2008 
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/02/06/using-windows-7-beta-with-sbs-2008.aspx?wwparam=1250693338

Hope this helps.



Best regards,
Robbin Meng(MSFT)
Microsoft Online Newsgroup Support

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