Hi have an enquiry from a potential customer. Two people miles apart
that want shared access to email/files etc.
I'm thinking about installing VPC on the SBS box and running a virtual
XP machine for the remote one of the two of them.
Has anyone tried this, or is it a no no ?

Thanks Simon.

Re: Virtual PC on SBS ? by Cris

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Re: Virtual PC on SBS ? by Charlie

Charlie
Thu Jul 10 13:46:00 PDT 2008

I've done it - but with Virtual Server. The advantage to VS is that it's
designed to run in a Server environment, and it supports things like
autostart for the clients. The big problem is that SBS is already pretty
busy on most networks, and adding in one or more virtual machines pulls from
that limited resource pool. But it should be doable.

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"Simon" <news@boolean-it.co.remove-this.uk> wrote in message
news:uUR$per4IHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi have an enquiry from a potential customer. Two people miles apart that
> want shared access to email/files etc.
> I'm thinking about installing VPC on the SBS box and running a virtual XP
> machine for the remote one of the two of them.
> Has anyone tried this, or is it a no no ?
>
> Thanks Simon.


Re: Virtual PC on SBS ? by Lanwench

Lanwench
Thu Jul 10 17:40:54 PDT 2008

Simon <news@boolean-it.co.remove-this.uk> wrote:
> Hi have an enquiry from a potential customer. Two people miles apart
> that want shared access to email/files etc.
> I'm thinking about installing VPC on the SBS box and running a virtual
> XP machine for the remote one of the two of them.
> Has anyone tried this, or is it a no no ?
>
> Thanks Simon.

And the other one will be using a LAN-connected computer in the office? It
should work fine - although you'll want to make sure the hardware is up to
snuff. I personally prefer VMWare to MS virtual stuff, but that's just me.



Re: Virtual PC on SBS ? by Simon

Simon
Thu Jul 10 22:39:46 PDT 2008

Hi all,
Thanks for the replies, yes the other user will be using a desktop PC to
access the server, the vpc is purely for the remote user.
My own SBS server is running in a VPC on a win 2003 server install which
also runs an XP VPC, this seems to run fine for me. I'll have another
play with Virtual server though.
simon
Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote:
> Simon <news@boolean-it.co.remove-this.uk> wrote:
>> Hi have an enquiry from a potential customer. Two people miles apart
>> that want shared access to email/files etc.
>> I'm thinking about installing VPC on the SBS box and running a virtual
>> XP machine for the remote one of the two of them.
>> Has anyone tried this, or is it a no no ?
>>
>> Thanks Simon.
>
> And the other one will be using a LAN-connected computer in the office? It
> should work fine - although you'll want to make sure the hardware is up to
> snuff. I personally prefer VMWare to MS virtual stuff, but that's just me.
>
>