I don't know if MS supports anything else than MS but this (http://www.vmwareinfo.com/2009/12/dell-extpartexe-extend-volumes-easily.html) tells me that it can be used.
It is perhaps a variant of the question I had about Vmware and "unsupported" actions. Microsoft would naturally not give support on how to use 3rd party tools and similar, but my question was more if this would be a very unrecommended / "unlegal" thing to do from MS point of view.
(As in this made up example: Someone trying to open a support case at Microsoft for some problem, say a Active Directory related one, and on the same server has the C: partition been extended with a 3rd party tool - if this could cause MS not wanting to support it at all?)
But it might be me that is still not getting the "unsupport" meaning.. 
It is perhaps a variant of the question I had about Vmware and "unsupported" actions. Microsoft would naturally not give support on how
to use 3rd party tools and similar, but my question was more if this would be a very unrecommended / "unlegal" thing to do from MS
point of view.
(As in this made up example: Someone trying to open a support case at Microsoft for some problem, say a Active Directory related
one, and on the same server has the C: partition been extended with a 3rd party tool - if this could cause MS not wanting to support it
at all?)
But it might be me that is still not getting the "unsupport" meaning..
I think the whole "is supported" thing it's sometimes really a pain in the
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I did think your comment was ironic, and now I feel like a idiot :smileylaugh:
Sorry for that
No problems of course, I am glad it was sorted out.
Just as it is good to know what is officially supported and supposed to work, it is equally good to get a feeling for what has been working for others. The same with hearing for example "it worked for me 30 times, but 5 machines did never boot again". That also gives information for future use.
But the expierence gives you a feeling for when you can "leave" that conformity. For example, when best-practises invole a tool which was used successfully by others.
I think if you try to be always in line with all support conditions and terms of all involved parties, you do not survive in IT or at least you can't move.
By getting educated, collecting (field) expierence, read the README's and (if possible) do good testing before you start,
All this is very true. It is always a nice feeling to have when you have the amount of knowledge and experience to be able to look at some spec from Microsoft or other vendor and could make educated guesses of which conditions really must be followed and which could be safely altered.
All this is very true. It is always a nice feeling to have when you have the amount of knowledge and experience to be able to look at some spec from Microsoft or other vendor and could make educated guesses of which conditions really must be followed and which could be safely altered.50% intuition
30% cheekiness
20% knowledge
will do it 
AWo
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