Hi All,

I am trying to learn Biztalk on my own and was wondering if anyone has downloaded the developers training kit. My issue is that I want the Lab files in the AllFiles folder. Would appreciate if someone can tell me where I can download just those without having to download all the vhd files and expanding them.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14865

I want these files because I have a virtual server and I don't know if I can install HyperV server on a virtual server and run the lab files.

All help appreciated.

Thanks.

Manish

Hi Manish,

I am not really clear on your question. But you have several choices to run virtual machines. 2 popular choices are the following:

1. Create the virtual machine instance directly from the VHD file you download from Microsoft but for that you need Windows Server with Hyper-V.

2. If you don't have that version of Windows, you can use VMWare to run your virtual machine. VMWare has 2 free products for your scenario:

- VMWare player to create and run Virtual machines on any Windows client (ie Windows Vista, 7 which might be your case): http://www.vmware.com/products/player/overview.html

- VMware vCenter Converters which can convert VHD disks into vmdk (format used by VMWare player): http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/. There is another tool I also know of to convert vhd files which is: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter . And there are probably others you can find on the internet as well.

HTH,

Francois Malgreve

http://www.malgreve.net

Hi Francois,

Thank you for your quick reply. The issue is that I cannot install any software, as I am not authorised to. There is a pre-installed BizTalk installation in the company on which I have to work and what I really need is just the AllFiles folder from the virtual machine. If I can get hold of that, it will be really really helpful.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Manish

Hi,

In that case just host the virtual machine and get the all files. What is the issue here?

You will need to download the files, run the program to extract the files and in the VM\Comom folder there is an allfiles.vhd, if you have a windows 7 or above machine just mount the vhd and copy the files to where you want them.

Hi can anybody please share the solutions files so that I can open it in my local where I have BizTalk installed.