Microsoft KB Archive/909840

= Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 do not support Virtual PC and Virtual Server for production environments =

Article ID: 909840

Article Last Modified on 7/13/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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SYMPTOMS
Microsoft offers the following hardware virtualization software products:
 * Microsoft Virtual PC
 * Microsoft Virtual Server

These two products let you run multiple operating system instances at the same time on a single computer. However, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 do not support the use of hardware virtualization software products for production environments.



CAUSE
This issue occurs because Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 were not thoroughly tested with hardware virtualization software products. Therefore, hardware virtualization software products are not supported for production environments.

Currently, you can use the following products together with hardware virtualization software products only for testing:
 * Windows SharePoint Services
 * SharePoint Portal Server 2003
 * Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Virtualization is supported for production when using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.)
 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Virtualization is supported for production when using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.)

Support will be provided under the following scenarios:
 * Support will be provided on a commercially-reasonable-effort basis only for issues that occur with the 2003 version of SharePoint products and technologies in a virtual environment.
 * Support will be provided for issues that occur with the 2007 version of SharePoint products and technologies for production only when using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.
 * Support will be provided on a commercially-reasonable-effort basis for issues that occur with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 products in a virtual environment and with SharePoint Server 2007 products in a virtual environment only for hardware virtualization other than Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

897614 Windows Server System software not supported within a Microsoft Virtual Server environment

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

897615 Support policy for Microsoft software running in non-Microsoft hardware virtualization software

Additional query words: WSS SPS WSS2007 SPS2007 MOSS2007

Keywords: kbtshoot kbprb KB909840

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