Hey TLG, SharePoint, and Azure fans, I just published the new Test Lab Guide: SharePoint Server 2013 Three-Tier Farm in Azure! With this new TLG, you can use a free trial subscription, your MSDN subscription, or your paid Azure subscription to build out a SharePoint Server 2013 farm test lab in a cloud-only virtual network…
Updated Base Configuration TLG for Windows Server 2012 published
The Test Lab Guide: Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration is published. This base configuration TLG contains updates for the released version of Windows Server 2012. Please use this new version (updated from Windows Server “8” Beta) to build out your base configuration test lab for the TLGs in the Windows Server 2012 TLG stack. Kudos…
Installing Exchange Server 2013 TLG now available
Hey TLG and Exchange fans, Test Lab Guide: Install Exchange Server 2013 is a new modular Test Lab Guide (TLG) published in the TechNet Wiki. With this new TLG, you do the following: Install Microsoft Office 2013 Professional (evaluation version) on CLIENT1 Add a new server named EX1 and join it to the corp.contoso.com domain…
Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess with Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) and Remote Desktop Gateway (RDG) Now Available
For all your Test Lab Guide fans – I’m happy to announce that we’ve released the new Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate UAG SP1 RC DirectAccess with Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) and Remote Desktop Gateway (RDG). This was a great Test Lab Guide to create. Why? First, it includes a number of technologies co-located on…
Test Lab Guide: Fabrikam Base Configuration
The Test Lab Guide: Fabrikam Base Configuration test lab guide (TLG) extends the Base Configuration test lab by adding a second organization, the Fabrikam Corporation, to the test lab environment. With this new TLG, you can create modular TLGs or TLG stacks that demonstrate cross-organization IT capabilities. With the combination of the Test Lab Guide: Base Configuration and the Test Lab Guide:…
Test Lab Guide: Exchange Server 2010 with SP1
The Test Lab Guide: Exchange Server 2010 with SP1 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cfc05588-f52b-461b-9573-b903c4b9ab1e) is now available. This modular Test Lab Guide (TLG) contains an introduction to Exchange Server 2010 with SP1 and step-by-step instructions for extending the Base Configuration test lab to include a Exchange Server 2010 with SP1 server. You can now build out multi-product scenarios that…
The first 3-way TLG: Exchange Server 2013 TLG for Windows Server 2012 R2
Hey TLG and Exchange fans, Jeff Cothern and I have been working on the Test Lab Guide: Install Exchange Server 2013 on the Windows 2012 R2 Base Configuration in the TechNet Wiki to make it the first 3-way TLG. What's a 3-way TLG? It's a TLG that can be used to configure and demonstrate a…
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…
New Exchange Server 2013 TLG for the Windows Server 2012 R2 Base Configuration is now available
Hey TLG and Exchange fans, Jeff Cothern just published Test Lab Guide: Install Exchange Server 2013 on the Windows 2012 R2 Base Configuration in the TechNet Wiki. This new TLG builds out an Exchange Server 2013 email server named EX1 on the CorpNet subnet in the latest base configuration (using Windows Server 2012 R2), and…
Configure the Contoso Branch Office TLG now available
Hey TLG fans, I just published the Test Lab Guide: Configure the Contoso Branch Office in the TechNet Wiki. With this new modular TLG, you do the following: Set up two computers acting as routers (RTR1 and RTR2) and two new subnets for a simulated WAN link (Wannet subnet) and for the branch office (Branchnet…