If you go to www.microsoft.com/sce<http://www.microsoft.com/sce> and then select the Try It tab at the top of the page, Virtual Hard Drive is one of the options along with Trial Software and Virtual Labs. For checking out SCE's capabilities it is better than installing the trial. Once you decide that SCE is the way you want to go, then install the trial version on your production network in the configuration that you want so that you can just enter the product key when you purchase it without reconfiguring anything. Having to change your topology with SCE after the fact isn't a lot of fun. Tim
From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 1:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: System Center Essentials The version I found to download did not have any VHD's just the time limited install. Would these VHD's work in Hyper-V? I have found that any VM built in VS will not run in Hyper-V but sure would be nice if it did. Jon On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Jon, Are you using the virtual demo of SCE that you can download? It contains prebuilt vhd's for the DC and SCE as well as for clients. I use it on a virtual server with no network access to my true domain just for testing purposes. It has always worked well for me. Tim From: Jon Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: System Center Essentials I need to test System Center Essentials and during the setup it is requesting access to Active Directory. I don't have a lab so testing is going to be very tight. I can build an DC just for this test but will I be able to see enough to really decide if it is worth the cost or not if the DC is empty of any machines but the 2 test machines? Hyper-V is nice I must say. I am still bringing it up the moment but it is much nicer than Virtual Server. The interface is better, to me any way, than either Virtual Server or the free VMWare product. Thanks for any comments, Jon ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
