Jon, Just to query whats a TS2 and is virtualising SBS 2008 and official MS line?
Graeme On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Jon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was at a TS2 today and they were talking about virtualizing this beast to > make recovery easier and faster. They have also put in a lot of new changes > so you might want to look at the entire thing again. > > Jon > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eric E Eskam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Phillip Partipilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/13/2008 12:18:43 AM: >> >> > I mean for real, you dont see Linux vomiting over certain >> > requirements, it'll be perfectly happy to install on incredibly, >> > totally substandard hardware, where it will be doing nothing but swap >> > the entire time. To be so draconian is really disturbing. >> >> >> On the flip side, look at the market MS is targeting - non-technical >> users. >> >> Now I know it's a little absurd to expect a non-technical person to >> install SBS, but that is part of their target audience. If MS didn't cut >> off the requirements somewhere, they could go through the whole "vista >> capable" fiasco all over again, so they drew a line in the sand and said >> "here are the requirements". Either way they can't win. Now if they had a >> way for you to push F6 or something on install and basically acknowledge you >> knew what you were doing and to turn the sanity checks off, then that would >> make some folks happy... until some consultant did that in a production >> environment at a clients demand and then they were subject to complaints >> about SBS "sucking".... >> >> I dunno. Tough call - I don't blame them, though. The 64-bit >> requirements and the lack of an in place upgrade option aren't putting me in >> a hurry to upgrade any time soon. That and I'm keeping an eye on: >> >> http://www.bilal.ca/ >> >> Their appliance has some pretty compelling features - esp for hardware >> recovery, is cost competitive to SBS (esp. after the 2008 price hike) and >> with Symphony I could probably eliminate Office for further cost savings. >> >> Either way I'm not in a hurry to touch my SBS 2003 installs. >> >> Eric Eskam >> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >> The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any >> position of the U.S. Government >> "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange >> protein; it rejects it." >> - P. B. Medawar >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- Carbon credits are a bit like beating someone up on this side of the world and sponsoring one of those poor starving kids on the other side of the world to make up for the fact that you're a complete shit at home. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
