This should work nicely for those that want to wait to deploy XP SP3 a little longer but need to connect to Server 2008 TS Remote App. Link is at the bottom of brief overview.
Description of the Remote Desktop Connection 6.1 client update for Terminal Services in Windows XP Service Pack 2
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Article ID: 952155
Last Review: June 24, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
This article discusses the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.1 client update that helps you use the new Terminal Services features. These features are introduced in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008 and are available from a computer that is running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Description of the Remote Desktop Connection 6.1 client update for Terminal Services in Windows XP Service Pack 2
Categories: Virtualization · Windows 2008 · XP
Even if you aren’t testing out Internet Explorer Applications you might find a practical use for these fully functional operating systems including Windows XP SP2 and Vista. Why XP isn’t SP3 is a mystery but that can be easily remedied.
This is also a convenient way to look at the beta of IE 8.
Version:
3.0
Date Published:
7/3/2008
Language:
English
Download Size:
445.0 MB – 3388.3 MB*
*Download size depends on selected download components.
Overview
This download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test.
- IE6-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE6 VHD file
- IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
- IE8B1-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE8 Beta 1 VHD file
- IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD file.
Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run IE7-VIS1.exe.
This VPC image will expire in Early September, 2008.
Download details: IE App Compat VHD
Categories: Internet Browser · Virtualization · Vista · XP
Finally! Let the virtualization deployments begin.
26 June 2008
Hyper-V RTM announcement. Available today from the Microsoft Download Centre
In the Hyper-V shiproom, we have signed off on Hyper-V RTM (Release To Manufacturing). The build and articles are actively working their way through the systems and will be available from Microsoft Download Centre from around noon Pacific time. While waiting, please take a few moments to review the information in this post, plus the appropriate Knowledge Base (KB) articles I’ve linked to. There is a significant amount of information to take on board. It is fantastic for me to be able to publicly state that Hyper-V is released and ready for production deployment.
John Howard – Hyper-V and virtualization blog : Hyper-V RTM announcement. Available today from the Microsoft Download Centre
Categories: Virtualization · Windows 2008
Microsoft’s John Howard posted this insightful tip – you can download an ISO of XP SP3 which of course makes it easy to mount as a virtual disk in order to create a XP SP3 virtual image. You might want to do that for testing …perhaps 
– besides testing, if you want the Integration Services to install so say …that you can have a network connection …then this is also relevant.
Who is John Howard? – My top favorite Server Core & Hyper-V blog author & Senior Program Manager, Hyper-V team, Windows Core Operating System Division.
As you are probably aware from KB949219 (RC0 release of Hyper-V), the Hyper-V Integration Services in our RC0 release require Service Pack 3 to install on Windows XP 32-bit. The final build of SP3 was released to microsoft.com yesterday. Here’s the links (and I like the way they are also packaging it as an ISO which makes it dead easy to update a virtual machine).
Landing Page for SP3
Download link for ISO
Download link for standalone install
Cheers,
John.
John Howard : Windows XP SP3 on Hyper-V
Categories: Core Server · Virtualization · Windows 2008 · XP
Bug #1 ME (Humility ahead – check the ego at the door) – Thank you to Ben for pointing out my tremendous oversight.
If you don’t meet the pre-requisites then the resultant failure is NOT a bug …but just yours. Doh! Vista SP1 is a pre-requisite. The screen-shots below show as much.
Can’t get the Integrated Components (Release Candidate update) to install into my Vista Ultimate guest.
Screen clipping taken: 4/3/2008, 9:50 AM
**solution**
download Vista SP1 as an .iso, mount it as a Disk virtually, install
Categories: Human Engineering · Virtualization · Vista
Tagged: Hyper-V, Vista SP1
