New Microsoft Appliances

Microsoft has added 6 virtual appliances in their VHD format to the Virtual Appliances Marketplace. These are self-extracting archives that can be run either with Microsoft's own Virtual PC software or VMWare Workstation, Server or Player. The Appliances are limited to 30 day evaluation versions, but at least this means you can evaluate/test something on a Microsoft platform without having physical hardware to try it out on. At the moment, you can download the following appliances:
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition Virtual Appliance
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Virtual Appliance
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Virtual Appliance
  • Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Virtual Appliance
  • Internet Explorer 6 Application Compatibility Virtual Appliance
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Evaluation Virtual Appliance
Five of these are new, one ( Internet Explorer 6 Application Compatibility Virtual Appliance ) was released two weeks ago. Seems like a good way to get eval versions of their software out there and tested, other than shipping CD's and having people either install it on physical hardware or manually install it inside their virtualization environment. Now all we need is a KMS virtual appliance, and we are all set. On second thought, thats probably not going to happen...

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel

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Published December 14, 2006 10:50
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