Post TechNet test lab: Part 1
As most of you will be aware TechNet is being discontinued. Dates differ based on your subscription (Mine is 1/24/2014 ), however the fact it sucks does not. After a month of so of moaning, I decided to recreate my test lab using the time limited VHDs from Microsoft’s evaluation site.
I had already rebuilt my 2 hosts and created a collection of scripts to configure my various servers from base machines (install roles, setup AD, etc.) but I still had to provision the VMs. A genius shellyourexperince article by Laerte Junior has really inspired me to automate as much of my lab creation as possible. So watch this space for how I’m doing this and how I fixed by balls ups 🙂
Post 2: Hyper-V Host Configuration
Post 3 Creating the VM templates
Post 4 PS Script to deploy VMs
Post 5 Configure deployed VMs General