This is a continuation of the series Re Imaging SharePoint VMs on the fly.
Now that you have captured your bootable virtual hard drive that was prepared for SharePoint Installation, you can apply that to another active partition or a virtual hard drive and then install whichever flavour of SharePoint you please!
As seen in the earlier post, capturing a virtual hard drive to create a Windows Image File is time consuming (compared to taking a snapshot in VMWare or Hyper-V) and memory intensive as well, however the advantage is that you can leverage on bare metal power – like having dual boot or multi-boot environment on your laptop.
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This is an interesting one and when I saw the answer to this question in the MSDN forums, I knew that is worth referring to on my blog.
This was the question:
When a list in SharePoint 2010 has inbound email setup, for example, it would be: MyList@sp2010.domain.local (sp2010 is the name of the SharePoint server, domain.local is the local domain).
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I have seen this question pop-up in the forums and I think I also got an email from one of my blog readers asking how they can move a site collection from one database to another database.
This can be done via SharePoint 2010 Management Shell [aka PowerShell] and this is what you need to do.
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Again this is a reference blog post that I am copying across from Ravi’s blog to have all steps in one place and more so for my own reference 
on the web, just in case I lost my drives, laptop and skydrive was unavailable in future… 
This is continuing with method 2 to prepare environment for building a SharePoint 2010 Farm [Dev]
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As a follow up to the previous post, this method was blogged well before Microsoft released WIM2VHD and I still use this method to create Windows Server 2008 R2 VHD using either ISO mounted or the actual media.
To be honest, a vhd is being created right now using this method as I blog this! 
Building a SharePoint farm in Hyper-V.. so you may want to follow the series…
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Early this week on site deploying SharePoint 2010, the client wanted to create few site collections for their development team. He tried to create using the Central Administration and could not see any options for creating SharePoint site collections in their own databases!
Well, that’s not news to all of us in the SharePoint World! Is it?
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