70-680 lab

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I'm building a 70-680 virtual lab and I can't seem to find a Win 7 Enterprise evaluation anywhere.

Does anyone have any active links?

Also what's peoples thoughts on the lab set up? I have 16gb ram, quad core cpu.

I'm thinking 2 servers and 2 clients?

Regards
Eilidh

 

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Hi Eilidh,

It's not the Enterprise version but you can get the Ultimate x86 trial iso from http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24394.iso
Ultimate has all the same features as Enterprise except it is available to consumers, whereas Enterprise is only for volume license customers

With 16GB RAM and a beefy enough CPU you should be fine running 2 clients and 2 servers. Having just completed the 70-685 myself I was labbing DirectAccess at one point with 5 different VM's on my laptop with 16GB RAM

 

Hi Stuzzle,

That's great, thanks very much.

What hypervisor did you use. I have virtualbox and vm workstation

 

I used VM Player the whole time. Good thing if you have Workstation is you should have the network config editor by default to create isolated networks for your labs

 

You can get 7 Enterprise (and a bunch of other stuff) from Microsoft's 'Previous Versions' pages.

I used Virtualbox to run my VMs, so if you don't get on with VMWare...