Installing Itunes 10 on Windows server 2003

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Installing Itunes 10 on Windows server 2003

September 6, 2010 by rikardalard

Well, Apple does not support installing Itunes on a W3k server, but it can be done anyway (I’m using it with my Iphone 3Gs). This is how I done (I got info on how from http://sites.google.com/site/yukichigai/iphonex64):

1. I’ve downloaded the latest .exe installer from apple.com
2. I’ve extracted the .exe using winrar to C:\Temp\iTunesSetup.
3. From here I first ran iTunes.msi, which installed without a hassle (I guess you have to install Quicktime first, I but already had it installed).
4. I then tried to run AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi (but I got an error message that “requires that your computer is running Windows XP SP2 or newer”).
5. I’ve downloaded Orca (from http://sites.google.com/site/yukichigai/Orca.msi?attredirects=0) and opened AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi in it. Here I changed LaunchCondition to: “(VersionNT=501 And ServicePackLevel>=2) Or VersionNT>=500″, saved the file and re-run AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi. This time it installed without any error messages.
6. Then I’ve started Itunes and everything worked ok!

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Posted in Iphone, Microsoft, Windows | 7 Comments

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on September 20, 2010 at 2:52 am | Reply signal

Thank you very much.

I aleady give up to install it on my windows 2003.

But your solution make my current OS to alive.

Thank you again….^^
on January 2, 2011 at 9:49 pm | Reply 2010 in review « Rikard Alard's Blog

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on January 27, 2011 at 4:23 pm | Reply Steve

Worked great. Tried “Save as…” from Ocra first so as not to overwrite the original file but that didn’t work. So I made a copy of AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi and then saved over it with Ocra and it worked.

Thanks.
on July 21, 2011 at 2:13 am | Reply Kon Lie Wong

Yeah it work on my Ipad 2… thanks a lot Rikardalard
i’m doing likes this ways:
1. Download itune 10 from apple site
2. Download Orca from http://sites.google.com/site/yukichigai/Orca.msi?attredirects=0
3. Extract iTunesSetup.exe into c:\temp\itunesetup\
4. Install ORCA
5. Using ORCA open file c:\temp\itunesetup\AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi
6. change LaunchCondition to: “(VersionNT=501 And ServicePackLevel>=2) Or VersionNT>=500″ and save it to the same file
7. Install itunes
now i can enjoy all app sync including my fav music, photo etcs on my ipad 2
Thanks Again
on October 13, 2011 at 3:46 pm | Reply Michael

You legend, I’ve got it working.

However just for information I encountered further problems after this (maybe to do with the latest iTunes at the point of writing this as 10.5).

iTunes would not install the Bonjour service correctly stating bonjour\mdnsNSP.dll failed to register. To work around this, I ran iTunes.msi NO_BONJOUR=1 in CMD. Of course you cannot use some features i.e. AirPlay but this did not matter for me.

I then had an error of missing d3d9.dll for some strange reason, but a simple update of DirectX solved this.

Just thought I’d share in case anyone else has the same issue.
- on October 13, 2011 at 9:06 pm | Reply rikardalard
  
  Hi!
  
  Thanks for the info, I haven’t installed any later versions on my server, but I’ll probably will do so soon…
on November 15, 2011 at 10:49 pm | Reply caseyo4

Great work! Worked like a charm!