Hands-On-Labs

Windows Server 2016 – .docx versions coming soon

Additional Azure Step-By-Step Labs at:

Make the most of your Hands-On-Lab time: Take the Microsoft Call To Action Challenge before the event so you can get all your tough questions answered.

Lab Environment (see requirements below)
Lab Option 1: Bring your own machine with Windows Server 2012 already running
You can follow instructions at Video Step By Step Dual Boot Windows Server 2012(this does not require a dedicated partition or formatting your drive)
Register for a free Azure Account and you can create machines and remote into these online machines to do labs (Hyper-V labs not available on azure) [Azure account requires credit card but you will not be charged until you “manually” change your account from a test to a production account!]
Setup real servers in your office and configure remote control so you can work on your real servers via RDP
we MAY have access to a few online servers (10) during the event in case someone does not have a laptop that supports Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V. These servers will NOT be available at all events
Lab Option 2: Observe Others and listen to step by step instructions by the instructor
Come without a laptop look over someone else’s shoulder
Downloadable Step-By-Step Hands on Lab Guides will be made available for all attendees so you can walk through the labs whenever you like

1. Dual Boot Windows Server 2012 Using Downloaded VHD

2. Dual Boot Windows 8 With Visual Studio Using Downloaded VHD – Win8.x64.VHD ; Alternate download (DropBox)

3. Install/Enable and Configure Hyper-V Getting Started

4. Configure Firewall

Configure Firewall on host and all guest to allow ping:
Start – type: Control Panel– click Control Panel – System and Security – Windows Firewall – Advanced Settings – Inbound Rules
File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-in) – Right Click and Select Enable Rule

5. Configure Storage Spaces & Configure Storage Deduplication

6. Azure-IaaS-Lab-v1.2

7. Build a SharePoint Dev-Test Farm in the Cloud using Windows Azure Infrastructure

Services

8. Create a Server on Windows Azure Running Windows Server 2012

How to use the Management Portal to creat a custom virtual machine running Windows Server 2012
How to log on to the virtual machine after you create it
How to attach a data disk to the new virtual machine

9. Hyper-V Over SMB

Join your host Hyper‐V machine to the Domain you created
Enable delegation on the computer account of the Hyper‐V server
Create an SMB Share for Hyper‐V
Create a new virtual machine from a VHD running on an SMB file share (the share happens to be clustered)

10. Continuously Available File Share

Add additional hardware to prepare for failover clustering
Create a 2‐node Failover Cluster (Part 1: Configure Storage)
Create a 2‐node Failover Cluster (Part 2: Configure Cluster1 and Cluster2)
Connect to an existing failover cluster
Configure Highly Available File Share
Transfer file server traffic to a different cluster node, without interruption of network services

11. Configure Thin Provisioned Storage (on guest OR HOST) {Coming Soon}

12. Configure Hyper-V Replica (requires two hosts) {Coming Soon}

13. Configure Shared Nothing Live Migration (Requires two hosts) {Coming Soon}

14. Installing Windows Server 2012 using Dual Boot to VHD

15. More??? Please make suggestions

To participate in the hands-on lab session, you will need to bring your own computer (laptop preferred) with the following minimum configuration:

4 GB RAM (8 GB or more preferred)
At least 60 GB of free disk space (75 GB preferred)
NO Drive encryption technology (Bitlocker or 3rd party)
No Dynamic volumes if doing Installing Windows Lab
x64 compatible processor with hardware assisted virtualization (Intel VT or AMD-V technology) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
Installed OS of Windows Server 2012 (Preferred), Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 8
One Network Patch Cable {optional}

HOL Seating is very limited