Test Lab Guide: Base Test Lab Guide for Windows Server "8" Beta
This Microsoft Test Lab Guide (TLG) provides you with step-by-step instructions to create the Windows Base Configuration test lab, using computers running Windows 8 Consumer Preview or Windows Server “8” Beta. With the resulting test lab environment, you can build test labs based on other Windows Server "8" Beta-based TLGs from Microsoft, TLG extensions in the TechNet Wiki, or a test lab of your own design that can include Microsoft or non-Microsoft products.
For a test lab based on physical computers, you can image the drives for future test labs. For a test lab based on virtual machines, you can create snapshots of the base configuration virtual machines. This enables you to easily return to the base configuration test lab, where most of the routine infrastructure and networking services have already been configured, so that you can focus on building a test lab for the product, technology, or solution of interest. See also the following new Guides for Windows Server 8 Beta:
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server "8" Beta- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Remote Desktop Services Desktop Virtualization in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate High Availability Printing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Virtualized Domain Controller (VDC) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate ADDS Simplified Administration in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess Single Server Setup with Mixed IPv4 and IPv6 in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess Simplified Setup in an IPv4-only Test Environment in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Windows Server "8" Beta Print and Document Services
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrating DHCP Failover in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Servicing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot BitLocker in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Remote Desktop Services Desktop Virtualization in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Scale-out File Servers in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Printing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Remote Access in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot High Availability Printing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Activation Technologies in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Cluster-Aware Updating_(CAU) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Hyper-V Replica in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot DHCP Failover in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Microsoft Online Backup Service in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot AD DS Simplified Administration in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Virtualized Domain Controller (VDC) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Understand and Troubleshoot Storage Spaces in Windows Server "8" Beta
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