Virtual Server 2005

Orion82698Orion82698 Member Posts: 483
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Who's using Virtual Server 2005 for their labs?

I'm just wondering, instead of using multiple machines and wasting time for the installs, is this just as effective for setting up GPO's, managing shares, using DFS and RIS installations?

What about the client side for testing permissions/home-Profiles/and GPO's?
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  • geekiegeekie Member Posts: 391
    Using Differencing Disks and sysprep it takes me about 5 - 10 mins to set up a new VM in Virtual Server.
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  • Gabe7055Gabe7055 Member Posts: 158
    I use it for my test lab and I haven't had any problems. with a high end processor and 2 gigs of ram I have my AD, my EX2007, and my Sharepoint boxes running on it and it really is great for just testing.

    Heck I know some companies that actually use virtual servers for real life production servers.
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  • Orion82698Orion82698 Member Posts: 483
    Nice!!

    Is there a Workstation version that free as well?
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  • NPA24NPA24 Member Posts: 588 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I prefer VMWare over Virtual Server. It has more features.
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  • WebmasterWebmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 Admin
    orion82698 wrote:
    Nice!!

    Is there a Workstation version that free as well?
    icon_arrow.gifwww.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
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  • Orion82698Orion82698 Member Posts: 483
    NPA24 wrote:
    I prefer VMWare over Virtual Server. It has more features.


    A guy in my office was just telling me the exact same thing. I'm looking into that as well.
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  • tibultibul Member Posts: 240
    dont you have to pay for VMWARE? or is it free like the virtual server one?
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  • Orion82698Orion82698 Member Posts: 483
    Webmaster wrote:
    orion82698 wrote:
    Nice!!

    Is there a Workstation version that free as well?
    icon_arrow.gifwww.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
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    Duh icon_lol.gif I feel like a moron.

    Thanks man!
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  • sprkymrksprkymrk Member Posts: 4,884 ■■■□□□□□□□
    orion82698 wrote:
    NPA24 wrote:
    I prefer VMWare over Virtual Server. It has more features.


    A guy in my office was just telling me the exact same thing. I'm looking into that as well.

    I don't care for virtual servers in general, although I see their usefulness. I agree with VMWare being better than MS Virtual Server.
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  • WebmasterWebmaster Admin Posts: 10,292 Admin
    orion82698 wrote:
    Duh icon_lol.gif I feel like a moron.

    Thanks man!
    You're welcome, for the link ;)

    I also agree VMware wins, but the simplicity of Virtual PC makes it ideal for students/beginners. Besides preparing for exams, it's ideal for running betas.
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  • karson wongkarson wong Member Posts: 41 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I'm preparing to 290 test. Can you guy tell me how to setup a Virtual PC to practice in fully detail?

    Thank you very much!

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  • mrjawbonesmrjawbones Member Posts: 48 ■■□□□□□□□□
    tibul wrote:
    dont you have to pay for VMWARE? or is it free like the virtual server one?


    VMWare has a free server and they also have pre-built appliances that you can download. Very sweet.
    http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html

    We use ESX servers running on RedHat in our corporate environment and I think we currently have about 26 virtual servers running in our production environment.
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