Follow-up on Windows 7 plus VMWare Fusion
Oct1
A quick note: I’ve been using Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro via VMWare Fusion for about a week now and have the following comments:
- Speed – It’s a little slower than I’d like. Once the virtual disk was fully indexed, this issue got a little better, but I’d still say the overall responsiveness of 7-on-Fusion is slower than I’d prefer. It’s entirely possible that once the official Fusion release to include Windows 7 support is out, I’ll have a slightly better experience.
- Compatibility – You may remember my quick article from a ways back about installing admin tools on Windows 7 for Exchange 2003, Server 2003 and such… well, the Exchange extensions for Active Directory Users and Computers don’t work if you’re using the 64-bit edition of 7. Not really a problem, just a minor inconvience.
- Stability – Very good. Have yet to have an issue. This install spends a lot of time just going to sleep when I shut the MacBook lid and always seems to wake up just fine.
A week in and I can’t really complain. Once the official Fusion support is included, hopefully the Aero features will all work. I’ll be sure to add more info once that happens.
Installing Windows 7 Today
Oct0
So we’ll see how this goes: I’m putting Windows 7 Pro on my VMware Fusion install on the MacBook Pro today. Hopefully I won’t discover any driver issues or other oddities with 7-on-OS X.
Windows 7 RC & Admin Tools
Jun2
This really isn’t new, but I needed a place to document it and this seemed like a good place in case I can’t get to Evernote ;-)
Using Windows 7 has been pretty stress-free for the day-to-day typical end user stuff, but for adminitration tasks there was a pretty big hole in 7’s functionality… until, now. By now, I mean I finally had a need to look up the fix… now. The problems discussed below were addressed a while back.
If you admin a Windows domain, you probably need the following (at a bare minimum):
- Active Directory Users and Computers (with the Exchange tab plugins)
- Exchange System Manager (you might still be using ‘03, ja?)
- IIS Management
- Network Service Management (DHCP, DNS, etc…)
These things didn’t really work on 7 with the tool installs that you may have been used to. Read on after the jump for a look at how to get these working on the latest 7 RC…