{"id":8579,"date":"2006-09-29T16:40:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8579"},"modified":"2006-09-29T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"virtual-pc-2007-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8579","title":{"rendered":"Virtual PC 2007 Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"

A blank page has appeared on Connect<\/a> that informs us a Beta for Virtual PC 2007 is on the way.\u00a0 It will be publicly available on the 11th of October.\u00a0 No other details are available.<\/p>\n

Virtual PC 2004<\/a> is now a free product and one that any self respecting sys admin should aim to use.\u00a0 VMware’s excellent alternative still requires a purchase, giving Microsoft an advantage.\u00a0 VPC allows you to run virtual machines just like you can with Virtual Server 2005 R2.\u00a0 In fact, the machines are compatible.<\/p>\n

I’ve used VPC before for lab work and for testing.\u00a0 Where I also see it being useful is where you want administrators to use non-admin accounts for day-to-day office work such as email and browsing and a dedicated account for admin work.\u00a0 Run-As is painful to use (who wants to keep banging in the password?) so an alternative is to run a VM with only the admin tools installed.\u00a0 The administrator can log into their physical machine with a non-admin account and into a VM with their admin account.\u00a0 This isolates their email and internet activity from their administrative rights and provides a layer of defense against viable threats.<\/p>\n

Windows Vista Enterprise (requires software assurance) will include a virtualisation solution built into the OS.\u00a0 I’m guessing now that VPC 2007 will be a solution for those who do not buy Vista with software assurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A blank page has appeared on Connect that informs us a Beta for Virtual PC 2007 is on the way.\u00a0 It will be publicly available on the 11th of October.\u00a0 No other details are available. Virtual PC 2004 is now a free product and one that any self respecting sys admin should aim to use.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Virtual PC 2007 Beta”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}