Virtual server 2005 on Windows 2008 Host - My experience and article I refered to

My current project is to install MOSS 2007 in a virtual setup. I wanted to install a DC on a virtual server and MOSS on a virtual server using the new virutal DC. I want the DC to be isolated and just used by server and services of MOSS 2007.

My first question was this,

"Can I install Virtual Server 2005 on my new Windows server 2008 standard Edition?"

The answer to that is YES. To answer my initial question, here are some of the blogs and article I got from my brother Google.

The article listed below by WSV_GUY(Jeff) from the Technet Blogs is this, great article which talks about how to setup your host server IIS to enable faultless VS 2005 r2 SP1 deployment.

Windows Virtualization Team Blog : Installing Virtual Server R2 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 Beta 3

Another great Article I found was from Gary Olsen's article talks about how to setup a testing lab on Virtual server setup. Gary gives some sound advice and best practices on setting up virutal server and reusing them for other servers.

Building a Windows Server 2008 virtual test lab

Then the second qustion was "Where the heck can I get this Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 from?" I was able to down load the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Enterprise Edition (32-bit) from this page

Download Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1: "Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Enterprise Edition (32-bit)"

This asked me to register , I used my old hotmail ID to login after which I was good to down load. BTW, I was able to download this 40 MB file under 47 seconds, which I thought was an impressive download speed.

Joomla! What is it? is it worthwhile?

Recently I've been hearing a lot about an open source content Management system called Joomla!. Though the base technology is not on .NET framework I am very curious to see how system is put together. Stop by in a day or two to read my $0.02 worth of review.

Dev Express is offering 60 Win and Web form controls FREE!

I came across this offer for free controls and me being a nice guy and all I thought I would share it in my blog!

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress

Enjoy!

Now you too can have a (virutal)Personal assistant.

I know we all want a personal assistant to help us catch up with our day to day tasks and such, the stopping factor had been cost of hiring one, now with this Offshore company in India providing Virtual Personal assitants we all can have our very own personal assistants :) Here is the link to that company in India.

Tasks EveryDay: 24 / 7 Business & Personal Virtual Assistant India.

Wonder what else can I offshore?

Creating System Ino using BGInfo.

I have always wanted a simple app to create background with some of the system info for my servers at home, so that when I give access to people, some of the obvious info like the Domain Name, SQL instance name, IP, OS version will be visible right on the Desktop as desktop background.

Until recently, I was creating bitmaps using MSPaint and using that as thebackground then I found this simple app called BGInfo, its from www.sysinternals.com very handy,

Upgrading WRT54GL to DD-WRT v24 sp1

Hi all, In a few minutes I will attemp to upgrade my brand new WRT54GL's frimware to DD-WRT v24 sp1. I am not sure how this will turn out. This is the first time I am trying to do anything with a firmware of any device. I was able to find numerous articles on how to do this, including this one from M & L Adventures. (How to Flash the WRT54GL with DD-WRT Firmware at M and L Adventures). I will update with pictues on how my upgrade went.