Downloading software

We will use VMware Player, a free virtual machine application, and the trial versions for Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Server 2014, Windows Management Framework, and optionally Visual Studio 2010:

  1. Download and install VMware player from http://www.vmware.com/products/player/. You can find the VMWare player documentation at http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/player_pubs.html.
  2. Download the Windows Server 2012 R2 trial version ISO file (or if you have a licensed copy, use that) from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2.
  3. Download the SQL Server 2014 trial version ISO file (or if you have a licensed copy, use that) from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2014.
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