Windows Server 2012 Beta - Configure a test environment
Learn how to configure and demonstrate Windows Server “8” Beta features, technologies, and scenarios in a standardized and simplified test lab environment.
The Windows Server “8” Beta Test Lab Guides (TLGs) are a set of documents that describe how to configure and demonstrate the new features and functionality in Windows Server “8” Beta in a simplified and standardized test lab environment.
The test lab starts with the Windows Server “8” Beta Base Configuration test lab, which can consist of two subnets representing a simplified intranet and simulated Internet. The following figure shows the initial setup of the Windows Server “8” Beta test lab based on the Test Lab Guide: Windows Server “8” Beta Base Configuration .
The TLGs for Windows Server “8” Beta are the following:
- Test Lab Guide: Windows Server “8” Beta Base Configuration
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess Single Server Setup with Mixed IPv4 and IPv6 in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess Simplified Setup in an IPv4-only Test Environment in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Deploying Remote Desktop Licensing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrating DHCP Failover in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Virtualized Domain Controller (VDC) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Printing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Remote Desktop Services Desktop Virtualization in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate IP Address Management (IPAM) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate ADDS Simplified Administration in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate High Availability Printing in Windows Server "8" Beta
- Test Lab Guide: Deploying an AD CS Two Tier PKI Hierarchy
For more information about the TLG initiative and a list of all the TLGs, see Test Lab Guides in the TechNet Wiki.
For the latest information about TLGs for Windows Server “8” Beta, see the Test Lab Guides blog .