[AccessD] 2007 over 2003

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Wed Jul 29 07:29:34 CDT 2009


Yes I can see the advantage in those cases.  It's a great tool - I hope I
need it someday. 

Rocky
 

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Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:27 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] 2007 over 2003

Rocky,

Where they come in handy is that they can be "played" anywhere.  Take the
virtual machine, place it on a usb hard drive and it can be used on your
laptop, attached to your desktop, at a friends house etc.  Of course you
have to have the "player" installed on the host machine but the ability to
move the vm can be a godsend.

As I mentioned previously I use a specific program to do address validation
for a client.  I do so much of this and it takes so long, that I have a
server pretty much dedicated to that purpose. 
But... the license is machine specific.  So over the years, as I upgraded
machines to make them faster, I would be moving the software from machine to
machine.  A royal PITA because I would have to call tech support, actually
talk to someone there, read them a new string of characters for a specific
machine config, and get a new key.  Same drill again if I needed to move the
software again (which I did many times in several years).

One day it occurred to me... place it in a VM and just move the vm to the
faster machine.  Voila, PITA GONE!!!

Furthermore I was talking to the software developer about how long it takes
to run my huge address lists and he mentioned that I could install the
software multiple times on the same machine. 
Hmmm....  Copy my VM three times, run it on the same (physical) machine...
license issues obeyed, multiple installs on the same (physical) "machine".

The VM just solved two HUGE issues I was having... moving the installed
software as my hardware changed, and legally running the software several
times on the same machine.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Rocky Smolin wrote:
> I implemented VPC on my Vista box.  It was OK.  Didn't really float my
boat.
> But it was dead simple.
> 
> Rocky
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:48 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] 2007 over 2003
> 
> Easy to say Arthur, not so easy to do when new to VMs.
> 
> You are of course correct in your statement.  And once you are up on 
> VMs it is a huge tool.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Arthur Fuller wrote:
>> Forget about this path, my friend, and instead go with a VM manager 
>> of your choice. Trusting MS to take care of these problems is IMO 
>> seppuku. Do not go there! Create a VM for every version of everything 
>> you want to run, and proceed from there. Isolated spaces = no
brain-drain.
>>
>> A.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Rocky Smolin
> <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>wrote:
>>> Yeah, I saw that so I uninstalled 2003 and then the 2007 
>>> installation went OK.  So now I'm going to try to install 2003 AFTER 
>>> 2007 and see if I can get away with that.
>>>
>>> Anther forum had a reference to O2003 SP2 installation doing away 
>>> with the hidden cab files.
>>>
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