Greetings all and Happy New Year! I am new to your forum and have just been reading the threads at this point so I may have missed something here but have you considered using VMware Lab Manager? VMware Lab Manager is optimized for use across the software development spectrum and provides functionality like reduced lab cap-ex and lower op-ex (as with most/all VMware virtualization), acceleration of the development cycle, improved software quality, and flexible, secure outsourcing for multiple remote developer desktops. We are not using it, but I went to a mini-seminar on Lab Manager earlier this year and it would really improve our software development process - particularly in the area of fixing difficult to reproduce bugs. As always (it seems), the ROI on IT enablers like this can be difficult to get management to grasp so we press on and do the best we can without it for now. If you have allocated budget for your development lab, this tool could be of great value in modernizing your software development efforts and in creating an efficient development process.
Cheers, Jeff On Dec 31, 2007 8:52 AM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alternatives? Give your developers a virtualised development environment > to use? They could either run VMs on their local workstations, or connect to > VMs running on a central set of servers (or some combination thereof). > > > > That would allow you to completely isolate your production environment > from test/dev/UAT environments, yet allow you to have exact replicas of > production in each of your other environments. > > > > Cheers > > Ken > > > > *From:* Steve Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Tuesday, 1 January 2008 12:37 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Terminal Server and Developer images > > > > > > That pretty much says it. My management wants to create a server with > developer software on it, and have developers from across the country remote > in and all use the terminal server to develop systems. > > > > Has anyone tried this with developer software? Microsoft has, in the past, > indicated that multiple users on their development software is not a good > idea and they did not support it. > > > > Any ideas on alternatives? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
