Monday, November 06, 2006

Microsoft VHD Edition Day...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition VHD

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 VHD - 32-bit version

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 VHD

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition VHD

"The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd.

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Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk

"The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers.

Using the power of virtual machines, you can now quickly evaluate Microsoft and partner solutions through a series of pre-configured Virtual Hard Disks (VHD). You can download the VHDs and evaluate them for free in your own environment without the need for dedicated servers or complex installations. Start now by selecting a lab from the VHD catalog below.

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Very nice and makes good sense. Since Virtual PC is free, this is the near perfect way to let people play with different products.

For example, I'd like to check out Exchange 2007, but didn't want to deal with the whole install thing... This makes it a slam dunk.

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