In the second of two high-quality test lab guides (TLGs), Microsoft MVP Deb Shinder has published the TMG Core Test Lab. In Deb’s own words: In this TMG Core Test Lab Guide module, we’ll install a single TMG Enterprise Edition firewall and then install Service Pack 1 and Update 1. Deb’s guide takes you through…
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Test Lab Guide: Install Configuration Manager 2007 (community authored)
The Test Lab Guide: Install Configuration Manager 2007 is now available. This community-authored modular Test Lab Guide (TLG) from prolific contributor Fred Smithers describes how to install System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on APP1, using the SQL Server 2008 R2 modular TLG. Feel free to add to this topic or create your own modular TLGs or test…
"Community Test Lab Guide – Demonstrate Windows Server 2008 R2 VPN Reconnect" published by MVP Deb Shinder!
In the first of what we hope to be several high-quality test lab guides (TLGs) from the community, Microsoft MVP Deb Shinder has published Community Test Lab Guide – Demonstrate Windows Server 2008 R2 VPN Reconnect. In Deb’s own words: This community test lab guide will take you through the process of setting up the exciting…
IPv6 Test Lab Extension: Demonstrating an IPv6-only Environment
I just published the Demonstrating an IPv6-only Environment extension for the IPv6 Test Lab in the TechNet Wiki. With this extension, you reconfigure DC1, the native IPv6 router for the Corpnet and Corpnet2 subnets, to stop advertising address prefixes and act as a DHCPv6 server to assign IPv6 addresses and the IPv6 address of a DNS server…
Contributing to TLGs Part 3: Writing a troubleshooting TLG
A third way that you can contribute to Microsoft Test Lab Guides (TLGs) is to publish a troubleshooting TLG in the TechNet Wiki. A troubleshooting TLG contains the following sections: The troubleshooting tools for the technology or feature and how they appear in a working test lab. This sets the stage for using these tools…
IPv6 Test Lab Extension: Demonstrating DHCPv6
I just published the Demonstrating DHCPv6 extension for the IPv6 Test Lab in the TechNet Wiki. This extension reconfigures DC1, the native IPv6 router for the Corpnet and Corpnet2 subnets, to stop advertising address prefixes and act as a DHCPv6 server. Additionally, you configure DC1 with a DHCPv6 option for the IPv6 address of a DNS…
New "Test Lab Guides in Development" section added to the main Test Lab Guides Wiki topic
With multiple people working on Test Lab Guides or extensions, Tom Shinder added a “Test Lab Guides in Development” section to the main Test Lab Guides Wiki topic. If you are developing Test Lab Guide content, please check here first to make sure that someone is not already developing similar content. If someone is already working…
IPv6 Test Lab portal page published
With the Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate IPv6 creating an IPv6 test lab environment and two IPv6 test lab extensions on the way, I published the IPv6 Test Lab for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 topic in the TechNet Wiki. This topic shows the IPv6 test lab configuration and has places to link to…
CMAK Test Lab Extension and VPN Remote Access Portal page published
Greetings Keepers of the TLG Flame, Our community co-writer Fred Smithers has struck again, this time publishing the VPN Test Lab Extension: Using CMAK to Configure VPN Connections. This extension shows how you can quickly and easily use the Connection Manager Administration Kit (CMAK) in Windows Server 2008 R2 to create VPN connection profiles that…
Remote Access VPN Test Lab Extension: Adding IPv6 Connectivity
Just on a whim, I asked myself: How easy would it be to add IPv6 connectivity to the new Remote Access VPN Test Lab configured from the Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Remote Access VPNs? The result, after a few hours effort, is the newly published Remote Access VPN Test Lab Extension: Adding IPv6 Connectivity. This…