Windows 10 Deployment and Management Lab Kit Update Now Available

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One of the downloads I regularly recommend from the TechNet Evaluation Center is the Windows 10 deployment and management lab kit. It's a self contained virtual machine environment that lets you run through several different Windows 10 deployment and management technologies and scenarios so you can get hands on in a live environment. Following are the full details, and you can download the rest here.

A complete lab environment*

The kit includes a pre-configured virtual lab environment with evaluation versions of:

  • Windows 10 Enterprise, Version 1511
  • System Center 2012 Configuration Manager 1511 (including upgrade guidance for Configuration Manager 1602)
  • Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 10
  • Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update 2
  • Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.1
  • Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) 2.5 Service Pack 1
  • Windows Server 2012 R2

*Lab environment requires 32 GB of available memory and 300 GB of free disk space. Lab expires August 30, 2016. A new version will be published prior to expiration.

Step-by-step labs

Illustrated lab guides take you through multiple deployment and management scenarios, including:

  • Image creation
  • Lite-touch and zero touch deployment
  • Managing Windows 10 with Configuration Manager
  • Code integrity
  • Windows 10 provisioning
  • In-place upgrade
  • Application compatibility
  • Application virtualization
  • BitLocker administration and monitoring
  • Credential Guard