Specify to what platform suites, if any, the active component (the component selected in the Setup Design or Components view) is specific.

The Platform Suite(s) property provides an additional layer of filtering beyond the Operating System(s) property. Set the Platform Suite(s) property only if necessary, and be sure to select only those platform suites that are required for the proper functioning of your application. For example, if a component should be installed on both the Home and Professional editions of Windows XP, you do not need to set this property; setting the Operating System(s) property to include Windows XP encompasses both editions.

You can use this property to determine which components are installed by your setup. In your script, you can allow or prevent installation of components that are specific to particular suites using the ComponentFilterOS function. (In an event-based script, ComponentFilterOS is called by the default OnFilterComponents handler function code to filter components that are specific to suites other than the target system's suite.)

Note the following:

- Due to Windows limitations, suites can be detected only on Windows NT 4 SP 6 and later, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.
- The suites listed here are those that can be specified in the Windows API's OSVERSIONINFOEX data structure (as documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/sysinfo_1o1e.asp).