27 juillet
Running an awesome demo Virtual PC
We're getting some questions about running the Business Scorecard Manager ("Maestro") demo Virtual PC. It contains just about every BI-related product Microsoft has to offer (SQL Server 2005, SharePoint Portal, Office Web Components, MapPoint and Visio) and it's over 8 GB in size and may require some tweaking to have it perform at its best, here's what I recommend:
1. Defragment your harddrive until defrag is able to complete in 3-5 minutes
2. Shutdown and restart your machine prior to the demo to minimize the services loaded into memory (e.g. Outlook)
3. Turn off virus scanning software
4. Turn off desktop search software you might have installed
5. Use a seperate harddrive from your OS harddrive, i.e. a seperate spindel
I'd also note that this recording shows the Beta 1 VPC, Beta 2 has caching improvements that will load pages even faster.
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