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January 31 Virtual PC 2007 Beta 1 ProblemI tend to keep a number of virtual machines on an 'options' drive, which is a high-speed secondary drive on my portable computer. Since I am using Windows Vista, the only Microsoft virtual machine solution is Virtual PC 2007 Beta 1 (I found a copy at http://connect.microsoft.com/).
Recently, I had removed the drive and shared it with a colleague who needed a copy of a VM for an upcoming LiveMeeting. Once I put the drive back in my computer, I tested all the VM's to make sure they worked. One of them did not. I received an error message telling me it was not a virtual machine or it was corrupted.
This was pretty upsetting to say the least and I went about deleting the VM from the VPC control panel and re-adding it. That did not work either. Knowing all the drives worked and my colleague never touched that VM, I was suspicious (note: I did make sure I used the 'safely remove hardware' feature before ejecting the disk).
Before re-building the entire VM again, I renamed the files and just put a '2' suffix on each filename, like this: MyVPC2.VMC, MyVHD2.VHD, etc.
Using the Virtual PC control panel, I re-added the same VMC/VHD files with the '2' suffix and it worked like a charm. I'm not sure what caused this problem but since it is beta, I'm guessing there was a corrupt entry in the software for the VM and just adding what it thinks is a new set of files did the trick.
-Bill January 29 Windows Vista & Office Launch EventsTomorrow, Jan 29 '07, I will be at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the Windows and Office Launch event. If you are considering attending, or wondering "why should I attend?", this is from the Microsoft website:
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Why Attend?
Attending one of the live launch events enables you to experience the latest technologies and gives you first-hand access to the new Microsoft solutions.
---CLIP--- January 18 VIDEO: What's New in the Microsoft Project 2007 UIAs you may already know, Microsoft recently released Windows Vista and a brand new Office 2007 suite of products. Included in these new products are a brand new versions of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint. There is too much to cover in all these products, so I will talk about many of the new features over time.
Some of the key new features in the Project Professional client -- with or without Project Server -- are the new user interface (UI) enhancements. As you will see, they are designed to help anyone updating project schedules to better understand how their changes affect the overall schedule. These key new features include:
Rather than write an article on all these topics, I thought it might be a better idea to step you through the features in a video. It was designed in Flash and depending on your connection it might take up to a minute or so to begin showing the video. This is my first video and the audio and video could be better so any thoughts you have on improvements for future videos is greatly appreciated. For that matter, let me know if there is anything you think would make for a good 15-20 minute video. To view the video, clink on this link: 
Welcome to my new Blog site!It has been a long time, but for many followers of my previous Blog site have pointed out, there were spam problems. After much investigation and stressing over making a final home for my blog, this is where I landed. It is a natural choice to use the Windows Live site since much of what I discuss is related to Microsoft technologies, such as Project Server, SharePoint and PerformancePoint.
One cool new thing I will be doing is posting videos, pictures and share some of my photography. If you are interested in a particular subject, I would love to hear from you. Please feel free to respond and I will check occassionally.
I will no longer post to the old Blog but the good folks at MPA have offered to keep my old Blog up for awhile. No guarantees as to when it will go down, but here is the link: http://blogs.lv0.net/mpatest/ |
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