It’s officially unofficial…
My primary focus is shifting to Essential Business Server.
Well, not that SBS was ever really a focus for me. Still don’t know how that happened.
But it doesn’t take a badge to push information that matters, right?
First up…
Virtualizing Essential Business Server (posts tomorrow)
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For all you troubleshooters out there…
First one to post up the right answer might get a prize from the infamous Funcave prize stash.
Unless your last name is Stanfill. Or you have a pink blog.
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Trust me on this one.
NEVER make this setting change on a virtual machine…
Unless you really don’t care how it runs, or if it runs at all.
Or if you just want to see what it would be like to run Small Business Server with the processing equivalent of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum…
Kicking it old school. Word.
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Weird weird issue on the normally kickass server here at the Funcave, which just so happens to be named Charlene. As in…
The name of this server is CHARLENE, SIR!
Tried to copy a 45GB VHD file to our girl…
A file which came courtesy of someone who just so happens to have a pink blog…
No matter how many different ways I tried to copy the file, Charlene eventually got into a totally frozen state. No matter if I tried to copy directly from USB HDD, via network client, or copying from another share, eventually Charlene would become totally unresponsive at the console, sever all network connects, etc.
Now Charlene’s a badass in her own right…
Charlene’s running…
Seeing all kinds of weirdness trying to copy files to/from her.
All the mayhem starts when Free Physical Memory drops to sickeningly low levels.
Anyone with any serious knowledge of what’s going on wanna ping me? I’m talking Windows Server team, etc. Or anyone with the last name of Russinovich.
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If you’re interested in getting familiar with Windows Mobile without having to shell out any of your hard earned cash nor becoming a total vendor whore to score some free hardware, then Device Emulator could be the answer to your prayers.
I could go on and on about the many many ways you can use Device Emulator for fun & profit. Here are just a few I’ve run across since writing my very first Device Emulator guide in 2005:
But enough of that, let’s get to installing this bad mamma-jamma. I’ll fully detail the installation process, including screen shots, for the less bravely-endowed in an upcoming section, Installing Device Emulator and Images. Since all of the installs are pretty much simple click-throughs, those of you capable enough to brave it on your own can use this Getting Started section as a Quick Install.
One thing to keep in mind: If you get prompted to reboot after any item is done installing, reboot before proceeding to the next item.
Here’s the bare minimum you’ll need to get started with the standalone version of Device Emulator:
Here’s the order to install everything:
After your desired image installations are complete, you can test your installation by launching one image for each of the WM versions you installed. You’ll find the images at the following locations:
Windows Mobile 5 (I recommend using “PocketPC – Coldboot”)
Windows Mobile 6 and 6.1 (I recommend using “Professional”)
Once all three versions are running side-by-side, then you know you’ve got a solid installation.
On Windows Vista, after installing the Windows Mobile 6.x images you may not see any images listed under the Windows Mobile 6 SDK folder in the Program menu.
If this occurs, then open the Programs Control Panel and execute a “repair” on each of the Windows Mobile 6.x standalone image files.
Once each finishes the repair, the respective images will appear under the Windows Mobile 6 SDK folder and you launch them as outlined above.
So if you want to get your grubby little mitts on the hot-n-sexxay new interface for Standard devices in Windows Mobile 6.1 without paying an arm and a leg for a new device…
Device Emulator could be your best and only chance!
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