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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Announcements

Friday, 15 April 2005 by Michel Roth

From John Howard's weblog:

Microsoft Virtual Server Support Policy.
This article addresses support provided by Microsoft for Windows Server System software running within a Microsoft Virtual Server environment.Except as noted in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 897614, Microsoft supports Windows Server System software running within a Microsoft Virtual Server environment subject to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle policy and use of the virtual hard disk (.vhd) format. We will make commercially reasonable efforts to investigate the issue and, if necessary, attempt to reproduce the issue on appropriate hardware...()

Windows Server System Software That Is Not Supported.
� Microsoft Speech Server. Speech Server requires telephony hardware not available in a virtualized hardware environment, and thus Speech Server is not supported when run within Virtual Server.
� Microsoft Certificate Server. Certificate Server is supported starting with Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition SP1 and Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition SP1 as the host and guest operating systems.
� Microsoft ISA Server. ISA Server is currently not supported running within Microsoft Virtual Server. Support for ISA Server within Virtual Server is expected in a future release.
� Microsoft Exchange Server. Exchange is currently not supported running within Microsoft Virtual Server. Exchange will be supported within Virtual Server starting with Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 and subsequent releases.
� Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server. SharePoint Portal Server is currently not supported running within Virtual Server. Support for SharePoint Portal Server within Virtual Server is expected in a future release.