What you need for this book

All of the technologies and features that are discussed in the recipes of this book are included with Windows Server 2012 R2. As long as you have access to the operating system installer disc and a piece of hardware on which you can install it, you will be able to follow along with our lessons. In fact, if you are brand new to the Microsoft world and are not sure how to acquire the Windows Server 2012 R2 installation media, you can download an evaluation copy of it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2

Many of the tasks that we are going to accomplish together require a certain amount of base networking and infrastructure to be configured, in order to fully test the technologies ...

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