I enjoy your show, I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer. I tell my students to listen to your podcast to give examples of what real admins talk about and work with. An off shoot of your show should be one of thought of sometimes which would be called simply ‘Stupid Users’ Admins tellign stories about how dumb their users are. I have also been on the other side of where you guys are as being a teacher at a college. So I get laughs at both ends!! Take care and thanks for the nice podcast
Gary

One comment on the VMWare disk expansion. You can expand a system partition in a VMWare virtual machine pretty easily by copying the VMDK files to another location.

You then have two VMDK files that are bootable in VMWare. At this point, you can boot to one and mount the other. Diskpart can easily extend the one that isn’t mounted as the primary drive.

This method is somewhat described in the following article.

http://vmprofessional.com/index.php?content=2k3resize

My twist, and I have read this elsewhere on the VMWare forums is to utilize the backup as either a temporary boot volume or a permanent file system and extend it. If you don’t feel comfortable with the approach, you could make an additional backup, but that takes space and time.