Hi Tony, I have to respond to this. Many IT managers think you can just virtualize any application because of all the marketing hype. Be very careful, I/O is critical to Exchange and any other database application which may make running it on VMWARE or VIRTUAL SERVER unpractical not to mention Exchange is also very resource intensive and will take whatever it can. Now I am sure if you have a very small environment that it may make sense, but with Microsoft Small Business server why would you want to? Any body else car to throw in there two cents? Sincerely, Jose Medeiros ADP | National Account Services ProBusiness Division | Information Services 925.737.7967 | 408-449-6621 CELL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tony Murray Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:49 PM To: ActiveDir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange now supported on virtual hardware Microsoft has introduced support for Exchange 2003 SP2 and later on Virtual Server 2005 R2. This article has just been released. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320220 I guess this means we can now run a DC and Exchange on the same physical hardware without any of the previous limitations. Tony