I have our Win2k3 based Exchange member server that I am planning on setting
up a virtual server on for some testing, etc.  Historically, Exchange (and a
few other backend apps) just don't like a dual homed systems, so even though
it has a couple of built-in NICs, I only have one ...

why after to have restart the server, disappear to me the virtual machines
from the directory?
damiano

I'm currently busy creating and testing a disaster recovery plan.
We have a forest with trusts to 5 other forests. The DR Plan I'm
writing only covers our main forest, which contains a top-level
domain, and about 10 child-domains.

Hi News,
later on to a consolidation of our infrastructure I would have the necessity
of virtualization a Web server. The only problem is that the server has two
disk in mirroring and therefore during the process of conversion from

Can vhd files created under Virtual PC 2007 be used by Virtual Server R2 (and
vice versa?) withtout any "conversions"?
Barkingdog

Haven't had a change to look at SCVMM but.....
Functionality wise, how does the MOM "Virtual Server" addin package compare
to the SCVMM (beta) release? (For example, if we install the MOM package is
there any reason to install SCVMM?)

Has anybody experience to move a physical server into a virtual session?
Regards,
Thomas

Next week I'm getting my first "MS Vista" box to play with. Is VS offically
suported on that HOST or or not? (I found supported mentioned for Win 2k03
servers and XP but not for Vista).
TIA,

I'm running 3 VMs, and only one of the is visible on my screen...
I'm doing a NET SEND Administrator "message" from one of them... and I
receive 3 popups, all of them on the visible VM, and nothing on the other
ones...

Anyone have any idea how to reset my trial timer?  I don't see a non-beta
version available yet (I can't redownload the beta either, not listed on the
downloads page).  I have 6 days until my VS times out, and I will be in deep
doo doo if it does because I don't have a dedicated ...

I have three (nearly) identical machines (Dell Power Edge 850) each running
Win2K3 SE with SP2. The only difference between these machines is BIOS Rev.
The machine that works uses an older BIOS rev (A02) than the ones that fail
(A03).

I have been evaluating the VMWare options for virtual machines and decided I
should also give a look at what MS has to offer.
First question:  how do you convert/migrate an existing MS server to the VM
environment?

SYMPTOMS
Error: You do not have permission to access the event viewer
CONDITIONS
Clean install of Windows XP Pro with SP2

I must say that I really like the Differencing Hard Drive option. it makes
spinning up new images quite easy and fast (using a sysprep-ed image as the
parent drive)
Is there a performace hit when using a Differencing drive versus, say, a

Is it possible to emulate ISCSI storage with VS 2005 R2?
I'm trying to build a cluster with Windows Server 2008, but there's no more
support for shared SCSI...
Thanks!