Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP) is a security and antimalware solution integrated into System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Together, they are a software solution that provides security and antimalware management for desktops, portable computers, and servers. Microsoft Support Escalation Engineer Kevin McKinnerney has published the following new Test Lab Guides (TLGs) for FEP: System Center Configuration Manager…
Year: 2012
New set of TLGs for SharePoint Server 2013 Preview
The SharePoint Server 2013 Preview test lab is designed to install, configure, and demonstrate the features and capabilities of SharePoint Server 2013 Preview. The following step-by-step test lab guides (TLGs) for SharePoint Server 2013 Preview are available: Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2013 Preview in a Three-Tier Farm Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Intranet Collaboration…
New TLG mini-module for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 now available
TLG fans, Take a look at Test Lab Guide Mini-Module: Install AD FS 2.0. This TLG mini-module installs AD FS 2.0 on the DC1 computer in the Base Configuration test lab. In the new lab configuration, DC1 is both an AD DS domain controller and an identity provider security token service (IP-STS), which acts as an…
Guest post: Creating a portable demonstration environment to showcase Gemalto’s OTP Windows logon with DirectAccess on a Windows 8 tablet
Today’s guest blog post comes from Matthias Büchner and Michael Hutchinson, Pre-Sales and Software Engineers at Gemalto, a leader in digital security. Microsoft has a long history with Gemalto as they have been using Gemalto smart cards as a corporate badge since 2005 for login into Windows, VPN access, to sign and encrypt emails but…
New TLG stack for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 now available
Prolific TLG uber-writer Bill Mathers just published the following twelve TLGs for Forefront Identity Manager 2012 R2: Test Lab Guide: Installing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2To demonstrate installing FIM 2010 R2 with the new Reporting and Self-Service Password Reset features see Test Lab Guide: Installing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2. Test Lab Guide: Upgrading to…
Corpnet subnet configuration for public cloud technologies is now available
The original design of the Base Configuration test lab was for two subnets (Corpnet and Internet) that were isolated from a production environment. These isolated subnets were an ideal environment in which you had ultimate control to demonstrate and experiment without having to deal with the configuration requirements or restraints of real-world private and public…
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrating a File-based Extensible Connectivity 2.0 Management Agent
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrating a File-based Extensible Connectivity 2.0 Management Agent (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh859477(WS.10).aspx) is now available and is the first Test Lab Guide (TLG) to my knowledge published on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) web site. This TLG takes you through the creation of two management agents; one for Active Directory and a new ECMA 2.0 management agent. It then synchronizes…
SQL Server 2012 Enterprise TLG published
The Test Lab Guide: Install SQL Server 2012 Enterprise is a new building block TLG that steps you through the default installation of SQL Server 2012 Enterprise on APP1 or another domain member server in the Base Configuration test lab. This TLG is offered in parallel with the Test Lab Guide: SQL Server 2008 R2 and Test Lab…
Three-tier farm SharePoint Server 2010 TLG published
The Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a Three-Tier Farm describes how to install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 in a 3-tier farm configuration (Web front end/application server/database server), starting with the computers in the Base Configuration test lab. Here is the resulting test lab configuration. This TLG takes you through a default installation of…
Single-server SharePoint Server 2010 TLG published
The Test Lab Guide: Configure SharePoint Server 2010 as a Single Server with Microsoft SQL Server describes how to install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 on a single server with Microsoft SLQ Server 2008 R2 using the computers in the Base Configuration test lab. Here is the resulting test lab configuration. If you are relatively new to…