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I'm trying to setup a VMware virtual server for WSUS, there is a free appliance for 2003 that not ask for license activation?, also I try to PS2 with vmware converter to get the image from one of my server and ask to activate the OS. what is the work around if I just need it for updates o for testing<br />
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many thanks
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I'm trying to setup a VMware virtual server for WSUS, there is a free appliance for 2003 that not ask for license activation?, also I try to PS2 with vmware converter to get the image from one of my server and ask to activate the OS. what is the work around if I just need it for updates o for testing

many thanks

VMware WSUS server setup

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.