Hosting Test Lab Guide Environments in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

The following topics describe how to configure test lab environments in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V as described in Test Lab Guides from Microsoft:

• Hosting the Windows Server 2012 Base Configuration test lab
• Hosting the SharePoint Server 2013 three-tier farm test lab
• Hosting the Corpnet subnet for public cloud test lab
• Hosting the DirectAccess single server test lab
• Hosting the IPv6 test lab
• Hosting the Contoso branch office test lab
• Hosting the Apposite Technologies WAN emulator-based Contoso branch office test lab 
• Hosting the integrated Exchange, Lync, and SharePoint test lab
• Hosting test labs containing mobile clients with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
• Hosting the Lync Server 2013 Test Lab with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 

For the steps to create and manage virtual machines and virtual switches for these test lab environments, see Procedures for configuring test labs in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

For a list of overview videos for Hyper-V test lab configurations, see Hyper-V Test Lab Configuration Overview Videos.

To create your own Hyper-V test lab configuration article, see Wiki: Creating and publishing a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V test lab configuration.

For more information, see Test Lab Guides.

For the latest developments in the Test Lab Guides initiative, see the Microsoft Test Lab Guides blog.