Windows® 7 Resource Kit

Preparing the Lab

Planning application deployment requires a lab environment for application repackaging. Within an organization, different teams that work on deployment (image engineering, application packaging, and so on) can and often should share a single lab environment. Sharing a lab enables teams to share deliverables and integration-test their work with other components more easily. In a shared lab environment, however, each team must have its own workspace on the file server and dedicated computers on which to work.

Although the lab must have access to the Internet, it should be insulated from the production network. However, if you don’t install any server features like Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), separating the lab from ...