Microsoft Trial Software

Sometimes you may not have enough licenses, or may want to test a Windows version/edition you don't have. The following are some of the trials available from Microsoft.

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• • Windows 8 Enterprise Trial

• Windows 7 Enterprise Trial

• Windows Home Server trial

• Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2 trial

• Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

• Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 trial

• Windows Server 2008 Release Trial

Some are in the Virtual Hard Drive (VHD format) many from MS VHD site:

• BizTalk Server 2006

• Exchange Server 2007 SP1

• Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (IE6 & IE7) - expires early Sept, 2008

• ISA Server 2006

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Virtual PC

• Microsoft Office 2007 Professional (not working atm)

• Office SharePoint Server 2007

• Search Server 2008 Express

• SQL Server 2005

• SQL Server 2005/Exchange 2007

• SQL Server 2008 November CTP

• System Center Configuration Manager 2007

• System Center Essentials 2007

• Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite

• Visual Studio 2005 Team System

• Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server VPC Image (Trial)

• Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server and Team Suite VPC Image (Trial)

• Visual Studio Team System Basics Training

• Visual Studio® Team System Code Name "Rosario" November 2007 CTP (VPC Image)

• Windows Server 2008 Beta 3

• Windows Server 2003 R2

• Windows Vista

Free for students only:

• • Microsoft DreamSpark (Developer tools & Server 2003 Standard)

Some related links:

• MSDN Virtual Labs

• Virtual PC 2007

  • Virtuals Server 2005 R2 SP1

-Thanks to 'scratchme' for this content