A fourth way that you can contribute to Microsoft Test Lab Guides (TLGs) is to publish a test lab troubleshooting scenario in the TechNet Wiki. A test lab troubleshooting scenario demonstrates the results of a misconfiguration or other type of common problem and guides the reader through the root cause determination and correction. Test lab troubleshooting scenarios extend…
TLGs: Get your stack on!
The modular nature of Test Lab Guides (TLGs) allows you to create TLG stacks that build additional functionality into a test lab configuration. In a virtualized test environment, these test lab configurations can be saved as snapshots and restored at will for additional experimentation or to add functionality from a modular TLG or a TLG extension….
Contributing to TLGs Part 5: Creating or contributing to an "experiences in the test lab" TechNet Wiki topic
Another way to contribute content to the Test Lab Guide (TLG) initiative is to create or contribute to an Experiences in the Test Lab topic in the TechNet Wiki. These topics allow you to share the following with other IT pros who are configuring the same test lab environment: Virtualized environment experiences, procedures, workarounds, and…
Test Lab Guides as a key element of Learning Roadmaps
Learning Roadmaps are a new content type that step new-to-technology or experienced IT Pros through the set of published text or multimedia resources to build prerequisite, introductory (Level 100), intermediate (Level 200), advanced (Level 300), and expert (Level 400) knowledge and experience for a technology, feature, product, or solution. They are designed to reduce technical…
Test Lab Guide integration with core product documentation
Although Test Lab Guides (TLGs) are a valuable tool for quickly getting some configuration and demonstration hands-on experience when performing an evaluation of a product or technology, they can be used for much more. For example, for DirectAccess in Windows Server 2008 R2, I built out the DirecAccess test lab environment and then used it as a…
New IPv6 Test Lab Guide extension: Demonstrating DNS Zone Transfers over IPv6
I just published the Demonstrating DNS Zone Transfers over IPv6 extension for the IPv6 Test Lab in the TechNet Wiki. With this extension, you configure DC1, the DNS server for the corp.contoso.com domain, to allow zone transfers to the IPv6 address of APP1. You then add the DNS Server service to APP1 and configure a secondary…
TLGs: The gathering storm…
Just a quick note to remind test lab guide (TLG) fans out there that although it has been fairly quiet on the new content front lately, there are projects in the works here at Microsoft to produce new waves of TLG content in the future. While I cannot give specific details, I can say that the scope…
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…
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…
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…