Re: Virtual PC 2007 and SBS2003
- From: Owen Williams [SBS MVP] <Owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:41:39 -0400
In article <51BEB2E2-23B2-445D-8699-32F1C8435819@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
hijack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Amoungst many problems, I do not have drivers available for an HP plotter
for Vista. As an alternate solution, what will the consiquences be, if I load
Virtual PC 2007 on the Vista client to run Win XP ( for which the drivers are
available). What are the pitfall with this setup(exclude the option of a roll
back from Vista to Win XP).
This may not be precisely on-point, but perhaps it will help. I am in
the process of migrating a 5+ year-old XP laptop with Office 2003 to a
new Vista laptop with Office 2007. Most of this has gone well and I've
joined the Vista PC to my SBS domain without any problems.
However, I still need XP and Office 2003 for 2 reasons:
[1] To support the majority of my clients who are still on XP/2003.
[2] To run my non-Vista-compliant accounting program.
[Sure, I could continue to do the preceding on my old laptop, but it's
pretty long in the tooth plus it's more than a little painful to be
carrying around TWO laptops. And I _do_ have some clients using Vista -
something that will definitely increase over time - so I need to be
running that.]
I installed VPC2007 on Vista, installed a virtual XP Pro instance, then
joined the virtual XP to my SBS domain with /ConnectComputer. (It looks
like just another computer to SBS - even works fine with WSUS 3.0.)
Installed Office 2003 and my accounting app; all is working well so far.
This includes being able to print to a non-Vista-compliant printer from
virtual XP despite the fact that the host Vista cannot do so. [I think
the preceding sentence is on-point with your question.]
-- Owen Williams (SBS MVP)
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