Christmas is a time for catching up with friends and family and if your lucky receiving funds to buy shiny new things for your lab 🙂 This year I was quite fortunate and bought the below

System Centre End Point Protection Antivirus is a costly, but important aspect of any infrastructure, sadly I don’t have the sort of money that it would cost to buy antivirus and Free AV I’ve used in the past has been pap.

In the last post I shared the script that I use as a base for all of my test lab VMs.

Once your VMs have deployed, you’ll need to confirm the regional settings and enter the password for the administrator account (if you’ve followed the preceding posts), then your be dumped on the desktop.

I’ve increased my mighty test lab to 4 hyper-v hosts and each of them runs Hyper-V 2012 R2, I recently tried the tech preview (OCT 2014) of Hyper-V, but it incorrectly stated my machines don’t support SLAT, so I had to revert to 2012R2.

In my previous post I showed how I created a Windows 2012R2 image.

I wanted to create servers and clients with the least effort, I didn’t want to have to spend hours setting up my lab to test one setting.

As most of you will be aware TechNet is being discontinued.