I'd be interested in hearing other experience with continued management of XP too. I told my folks that in order to continue managing XP I would need to stand up a parallel separate SCCM 2012 infrastructure along with the staff resources required to manage and maintain it. Then they can make a business decision on whether they want to continue to be able to manage XP systems or not based on the cost to do so. It would be helpful to have an informal list of what is broken and what still works with SMS CB and XP.
There is this post on user voice asking for a minimum of functionality for XP to be kept in SCCM 1511, and the response is that there is nothing in particular that is broken or disabled in XP - it is just all available with a caveat of "your mileage may vary" https://configurationmanager.uservoice.com/forums/300492-ideas/suggestions/11171355-i-want-xp-server2003-lite-support-in-configmgr-151 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RJ Subscriber Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 1:19 PM To: SCCM List Subject: [mssms] SCCM 2012 1511 and XP Error Running Software Center We still have some old XP SP3 systems due to manufacturing processes and have been using SCCM 2012 without issue until we upgraded to 1511. The clients were upgraded through the automatic upgrade process. The Software Center won't launch from the notification area, get "Access Denied" error. It won't run from Start Programs either, getting error "Unable to open this Internet Shortcut. The protocol "softwarecenter" does not have a registered program." Tried full re-install of the client but no joy. I can manually run scclient.exe and get the Software Center to come up, so I have a workaround. I know XP is no longer supported but that's not the reality for manufacturing machines. Thanks, Russell ________________________________ Notice: This UI Health Care e-mail (including attachments) is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, then delete it. Thank you. ________________________________
