Chapter 2. Setting up your lab environment

Configuration Manager is a hands-on product, so it’s important to have a good lab environment for all of your testing and learning. Setting up ConfigMgr from scratch can be daunting; it sits on top of several prerequisite applications, all of which have to be installed and configured correctly before you can install ConfigMgr, such as the following:

  • Microsoft Windows Server
  • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)

The versions of each prerequisite application vary from environment to environment.

Figure 2.1 shows how the lab environment hangs together, how and where all of the prerequisite applications are installed, and which ...

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