It's DEFINATELY not because you are good.  Just lucky ;)

But I agree... Which was part of my joking Jim about "who says we have
to tell them it's running in a VM."  The only reason I've ever had to
call is when it was part of some particular fubar'd result of an SP or
something like that.  It's only when I *know* it is something "wrong" in
the OS-- like when Win2k3 SP killed replication between 2 servers on
either end of a point-to-point ISA VPN... Stuff like that. In those
cases, when I know it's not the platform or implementation, I would
"suppress" information regarding a deployment if I knew it was
irrelevant ;)

t 

  

-----Original Message-----
From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isapros-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Moffat
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 7:35 AM
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isapros] Re: ..to add to the VM fires

<rant, (perhaps, perhaps not)>

You know, this thing with Microsoft support bugs the hell out of me,
especially when people complain about them. Complain about your own
knowledge and aptitude / ability.

Back in the day, it was the bastion of last resort. Nowadays it seems
to
be first port of call for any small issue.

I have never had to call them for anything, seriously.

I don't know whether it's because I am good, or if I just have a
different attitude to what a major issue consists of and how to go
about
fixing it.

Regarding this issue of ISA on a VM specifically, while I know that it
works, and have actually got an ISA VM, but not for protecting
anything,
just for testing etc, If I did, I would always have a backup. Not much
cost involved in a nice little workstation with 2 raided HDD's, with
ISA
installed to mirror your VM environment. In the event of a VM failure,
then just swap VM for physical....no down time...

I have working images of all my VM's also, just in case...

<rant finished, (for now)>

S

S

-----Original Message-----
From: isapros-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:isapros-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jim Harrison
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:13 AM
To: isapros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [isapros] ..to add to the VM fires

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897615