Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement wor...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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In the "Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments" , something is not very clear: Exchange 2003 and Hyper-V virtualization.
So:
Is Exchange 2003 officialy SUPPORTED OR NOT in some W2003 (32bits - of course-) guests virtualized in an Hyper-V host ?
Cf section of your Support Policy:
Support Policy and Recommendations for Exchange Server 2003:
Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2003 in production on hardware virtualization software (virtual machines) only when all the following conditions are true:
- The hardware virtualization software is Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 or any later version of Microsoft Virtual Server.
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It could be said : Hyper-v is "the later version of Microsoft Virtual Server", isn't it ?
So Exchange 2003 could be supported in Hyper-v guests ?
Wrong or right ?
So:
Is Exchange 2003 officialy SUPPORTED OR NOT in some W2003 (32bits - of course-) guests virtualized in an Hyper-V host ?
Cf section of your Support Policy:
Support Policy and Recommendations for Exchange Server 2003:
Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2003 in production on hardware virtualization software (virtual machines) only when all the following conditions are true:
- The hardware virtualization software is Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 or any later version of Microsoft Virtual Server.
…/…
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It could be said : Hyper-v is "the later version of Microsoft Virtual Server", isn't it ?
So Exchange 2003 could be supported in Hyper-v guests ?
Wrong or right ?