Windows 7 Lab Setup

ishivji

Hello Everyone,

I will start studying for 70-680 exam in couple of days. I am planning to set up a lab for that. I have windows 7 installed on my laptop with 6 GB RAM and Intel i3 processor.

I would appreciate if anyone suggest me as how to set up a lab.

Thanks.

chopsticks

Hi, what kind of lab are you setting up?
Normally a lab is likely to consist of:

Hardware - A physical PC with latest CPU, plenty of RAMs, large hard disk capacity, and maybe two NICs
Software - A virtual machine (VM), your target guest OS for your lab be installed on the VM

Like right now at this moment, I am setting up my lab. I've just installed Virtualbox as my VM, and is still waiting for the Microsoft Server 2008 R2 .iso file finishes its downloading, and then to install it on to the VM. I hope everything will be working smoothly.

chopsticks

Ok, just finished setup my first VM machine and taken a snapshot of it after initial boot up. Will continue to clone the machine tomorrow for lab networking environment excercises.

kriscamaro68

ishivji wrote: »

Hello Everyone,

I will start studying for 70-680 exam in couple of days. I am planning to set up a lab for that. I have windows 7 installed on my laptop with 6 GB RAM and Intel i3 processor.

I would appreciate if anyone suggest me as how to set up a lab.

Thanks.

Download virtual box to use for the vm's: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
once you have that get the iso's for win7 enterprise. Also get server 2008r2 iso and install 2 clients and 1 server. Then lab through the material.

Give each vm 1-1.5gb of ram and a single cpu/core

Windows 7 Enterprise | Trial, Evaluation, Test, Download
Download Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1

Make sure you go through all the videos on the following sites multiple times till you hate their voices:
Professor Messer's Free Microsoft 70-680 Certification Training | Professor Messer - CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, Certification Training
Windows 7 Free Training

The videos from the links above will help with what to lab and how to do it.

ProfessorMesser

kriscamaro68 wrote: »

Make sure you go through all the videos on the following sites multiple times till you hate their voices:
Professor Messer's Free Microsoft 70-680 Certification Training | Professor Messer - CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, Certification Training
Windows 7 Free Training

In the future, I'll try to change my accent in the middle of a video. My Scottish brogue could use some work!

NOLAJ

Professor Messer's videos are awesome resources!