putting windows server 2003 on vpc

I am new at this and have been reading on the internet about what I want to
do and have come up with the following scenario

I have a virtual pc on my laptop and my ultimate goal is to work with
Microsoft office server sharepoint 2007.
I already have vista sp1 on the vpc.
I found a site
http://wareseeker.com/download/windo....1.rar/3506088
that allows the downloading of microsoft office server 2003 which MOSS needs
to be located on
Since this will take over 41/2 hours to download I wanted to ask by opening
the website above in my vpc and clicking on each one of the three downloads -
should it work.

thanks

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:14:02 -0800, barry
<> wrote:

>I am new at this and have been reading on the internet about what I want to
>do and have come up with the following scenario
>
>I have a virtual pc on my laptop and my ultimate goal is to work with
>Microsoft office server sharepoint 2007.
>I already have vista sp1 on the vpc.
>I found a site
>http://wareseeker.com/download/windo....1.rar/3506088
>that allows the downloading of microsoft office server 2003 which MOSS needs
>to be located on
>Since this will take over 41/2 hours to download I wanted to ask by opening
>the website above in my vpc and clicking on each one of the three downloads -
>should it work.
>
>thanks

Depends on the size of the VHDs of the trial, if they're over 127GB
they won't mount in VPC. Otherwise, you should be fine.
Instructions are here:
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...5e7/ReadMe.htm
Keep in mind this is a trial and expires in January 2010.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
http://smudj.wordpress.com/

"barry" wrote:

> I am new at this and have been reading on the internet about what I want to
> do and have come up with the following scenario
>
> I have a virtual pc on my laptop and my ultimate goal is to work with
> Microsoft office server sharepoint 2007.
> I already have vista sp1 on the vpc.
> I found a site
> http://wareseeker.com/download/windo....1.rar/3506088
> that allows the downloading of microsoft office server 2003 which MOSS needs
> to be located on
> Since this will take over 41/2 hours to download I wanted to ask by opening
> the website above in my vpc and clicking on each one of the three downloads -
> should it work.
>
> thanks

Barry --

You need to download the files to the host machine and then extract them and
then run your VPC file
>