Office and Vista Beta 2 Notifcations!

Wow they are getting so slammed I can not even get to the download.


"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> OK, 2007 Office System is available, check out the info. here:
> http://www.msblog.org/?p=654
>
> Also, Windows Vista Beta 2 is available to MSDN (OS and above) and TechNet
> Plus (in the next shipment) - availability to wider customers shortly )
> Read more here:
> http://www.msblog.org/?p=655
>
> Have fun guys!! )
>
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Seriously - if you're gonna run it in a virtual machine, *please* go for
Virtual Server 2005 R2. I've had nothing but good experiences with it )

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"Bill" <dontwriteme@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> Bill wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks. Not too bad then. Maybe install on external HD??
>>>
>>
>> I installed Beta 1 into a virtual machine, so it couldn't break any
>> existing Office installations. I plan on doing the same thing with Beta 2
>> (once I manage to get the download <g>).
>>
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>> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
>> ---------------------------------------
>> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.
>
>
> good to know that it will work on ext HD. Now if I can only get onto the
> server :-)
> thanks Steve
>

Use a previous build number - 5342 and above should work fine )

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"Tom Lake" <tlake@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> "Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23xEBrNofGHA.2032@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> OK, 2007 Office System is available, check out the info. here:
>> http://www.msblog.org/?p=654
>>
>> Also, Windows Vista Beta 2 is available to MSDN (OS and above) and
>> TechNet Plus (in the next shipment) - availability to wider customers
>> shortly ) Read more here:
>> http://www.msblog.org/?p=655
>>
>> Have fun guys!! )
>
> I can't seem to get the product key for Ultimate. The others
> came down fine.
>
> Tom Lake
>

Zack Whittaker wrote:

>Seriously - if you're gonna run it in a virtual machine, please go for
>Virtual Server 2005 R2. I've had nothing but good experiences with it )

VS2005 R2 is what I'm using here, though if VMWare Server has decent
64-bit guest support by the time it comes out of beta, I may be forced
into switching.

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Bill wrote:

>
>good to know that it will work on ext HD. Now if I can only get onto the
>server :-)

Not quite what I said, since I wasn't quite answering your question (at
least not directly).

I don't see any reason that the Office installation would block
installation to an external HD - they're just hard drives as far as
Windows is concerned, and I'm not sure that the Office installer would be
able to tell it's removable.

On the other hand, I don't see any major benefit - the installation
wouldn't be portable (moving the HD to another machine would not "move"
Office, and it wouldn't protect any existing Office installation from
being "mangled" (various common/shared bits would likely still be written
to %Program Files% as usual).

To my mind, there's only one safe way to deploy beta software, and that's
on a separate machine - whether that be an actual test machine, or more
likely these days, a virtual one.

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Well, that stinks. I nominated one guy for the friends and family beta, and
he never got in, so was waiting for the public beta. And now it's even
later.

--
Nancy Ward
Beta Butterfly
MSN Messenger MVP


"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> OK, 2007 Office System is available, check out the info. here:
> http://www.msblog.org/?p=654
>
> Also, Windows Vista Beta 2 is available to MSDN (OS and above) and TechNet
> Plus (in the next shipment) - availability to wider customers shortly )
> Read more here:
> http://www.msblog.org/?p=655
>
> Have fun guys!! )
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
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> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
>

BETA2 is 5384?

I have been told in other post in this group that beta2 would be 54xx
Is the 5384 on ms connect the beta2 u guys are talking about?

"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23xEBrNofGHA.2032@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> OK, 2007 Office System is available, check out the info. here:
> http://www.msblog.org/?p=654
>
> Also, Windows Vista Beta 2 is available to MSDN (OS and above) and TechNet
> Plus (in the next shipment) - availability to wider customers shortly )
> Read more here:
> http://www.msblog.org/?p=655
>
> Have fun guys!! )
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
>

Windows Vista Beta 2 is Build 5384.
What you may have been told was a rumour and like many rumours is false.

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http://www.dts-l.org


"Deborggraeve Randy" <randy1130@moerstaal.nl> wrote in message
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> BETA2 is 5384?
>
> I have been told in other post in this group that beta2 would be 54xx
> Is the 5384 on ms connect the beta2 u guys are talking about?

"Steve Foster [SBS MVP]" <steve.foster@picamar.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Bill wrote:
>
>>
>>good to know that it will work on ext HD. Now if I can only get onto the
>>server :-)
>
> Not quite what I said, since I wasn't quite answering your question (at
> least not directly).
>
> I don't see any reason that the Office installation would block
> installation to an external HD - they're just hard drives as far as
> Windows is concerned, and I'm not sure that the Office installer would be
> able to tell it's removable.
>
> On the other hand, I don't see any major benefit - the installation
> wouldn't be portable (moving the HD to another machine would not "move"
> Office, and it wouldn't protect any existing Office installation from
> being "mangled" (various common/shared bits would likely still be written
> to %Program Files% as usual).
>
> To my mind, there's only one safe way to deploy beta software, and that's
> on a separate machine - whether that be an actual test machine, or more
> likely these days, a virtual one.
>
> --
> Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
> ---------------------------------------
> MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

Wasnt interested in it being portable. Just wanted to see what it looked
like. Your suggestion to deploy on a test machine is taken.

Will therefore pass on it since I have only one machine for both work and
play and reformatting if any problem would not be nice.

Thanks
Bill

I was told Beta 2 was going to be 54xx as well :-o
Grrrrr.....

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"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
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> Windows Vista Beta 2 is Build 5384.
> What you may have been told was a rumour and like many rumours is false.
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
> http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "Deborggraeve Randy" <randy1130@moerstaal.nl> wrote in message
> news:ej2%23f2vfGHA.1320@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> BETA2 is 5384?
>>
>> I have been told in other post in this group that beta2 would be 54xx
>> Is the 5384 on ms connect the beta2 u guys are talking about?
>
>