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(More customer reviews)The Technet subscription is very useful - especially the professional version that I ordered.
It's great to be able to download and install dozens of evaluation products (including widows client and server operating systems, MS Office, etc..) that don't expire after 30 or 90 days and I wouldn't hesitate to order a subscription again.
It's just a matter of which version of the subscription to order. The pro version gives many more licenses than the standard version (five for most products instead of one) and the pro with media actually sends the DVDs of some of the products.
When I ordered this I thought it would be like the Microsoft Action Pack that we had at our office years ago which shipped dozens of CDs at once of just about every product that Microsoft currently sold.
This Technet with Media subscription I ordered in October last year was not the same.
My first shipment included a binder and binder sleeves for the DVDs plus 12 DVDs:
Disk 1 [August 2010] Technical Information library
Disk 0197.20 [August 2010] Office 2010 system
Disk 0337.27 [June 2009] Downloads
Disk 0364.19 [November 2009] Service Packs
Disk 0429.09 [November 2009] Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
Disk 0898.05 [June 2009] Technical Training
Disk 0930 [November 2007] Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server
Disk 0949.12 [August 2010] Security Updates
Disk 0957.03 [June 2009] Service Packs
Disk 0959.02 [August 2010] SQL Server 2008 R2
Disk 0966 [January 2009] System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with SP1, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Disk 0968.01 [January 2010] Exchange 2010 (x64)
My November 2010 shipment included:
Disk 1 Technical Information library
Disk 0949.13 Security updates
Disk 0957.04 Service Packs
Disk 0959.03 SQL Server 2008 R2
Disk 0968.02 Exchange 2010 with SP1 (x64)
March 2011 shipment included:
Disk 0202 Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 plus Office Communicator for Mac 2011
Disk 0203 Lync Server 2010
Disk 0204 Lync 2010
June 2011 shipment included:
Disk 0972 Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 (x64)
August 2011 shipment included:
Disk 0202.01 Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 with SP 1
Disk 0957.05 Service Packs
Disk 0973 Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1 (x86)
Disk 0974 (Windows 7 N Ultimate with SP1 (x86)
That's two dozen DVDs over the course of a year with no DVDs at all during some months.
I don't think it was worth it to spend the extra money for the version with media since I had to download so many of the products I needed anyway.
I'm going to let this subscription expire and purchase the version without media.
For those persons with a slow or unreliable connection it may still be worth it to get the version with media but be aware that you may not get all of the products you want on the DVDs.
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