
Make sure you've run through the steps listed above under Installing Microsoft Device Emulator. Installing & running Windows Mobile 6 or newer images 1. Upgrade to Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0 by following the instructions & running either vs_emulator.exe (32bit) or vs_emulator_圆4_vista.exe (64bit) from here. Download V1Emulator.zip from here & install the standalone emulator by running standalone_emulator_V1.exe from V1Emulator.zip. Brian Peek documents this in his blog here: Windows Virtual PC and the Microsoft Device Emulator. Note if running on Windows 7: There is a special method to get the special Virtual PC 2007 network driver installed.

Notes if running on a Windows Server 2008 host: Previously you could install the stand alone Virtual Machine Network Driver however that has been removed from : In order to install any of the emulator packages below you must have Virtual PC 2007 or Virtual Server 2005 R2 installed.

I'm blogging this to help anyone else interested in installing Windows Mobile Emulator. I wrote the following directions to help my colleagues to quickly install and run Windows Mobile 5+MSFP or Windows Mobile 6 (and above) emulators without having to install the development tools. The directions have never been clearly listed online (unless you're developing for the Windows Mobile platform since they come with the development tools) so it can take a lot of searching to pull all the required bits of information to finally get it installed. One thing I'm often asked is how to install them. On the Exchange Client Server Infrastructure (XCSI) support team we use Windows Mobile emulators on a daily basis to troubleshoot customer issues.
