Lab Setup Guides
Lab Setup Guides
Lab Setup Guides
LAB CONFIGURATION
This course should be taught in a lab containing computers where students can
develop their skills through hands-on experience with Microsoft Windows and
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. The exercises in the lab
manual require the computers to be installed and configured in a specific
manner. Failure to adhere to the setup instructions in this document can produce
unanticipated results when the students perform the exercises.
The lab configuration consists of an instructor computer running Microsoft
Windows 7 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. Since the
students are only working with their programming environment on their local
machines, the classroom does not need to be on an isolated network or in its own
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain separate from the rest of
the school or organization network. The instructor server will act as a demo
machine and will provide access to any files necessary to perform the exercises.
This document includes a setup procedure that configures the server and the
workstations to provide the minimum services required throughout the course.
Once you have completed the initial setup, no further modifications to the lab
server should be necessary.
Since the lab does not require a network environment, the name of the instructor
server and the workstations are not important. However, each workstation will
be a member of the domain and the students will need to have local
administrative account called Student.
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Note
For the purposes of this lab, all server and workstation passwords, for user accounts and other purposes,
will be set to Pa$$w0rd. This is obviously not a secure practice in a real world situation, and instructors
should remind students of this at the outset.
Server Requirements
The computer running Windows 7 in the classroom requires the following
hardware and software:
Hardware Requirements
Minimum: Dual-core processor
Minimum: 4 GB RAM
Minimum: 120 GB
DVD drive
Network interface adapter
Minimum: Super VGA (1024x768) display
Keyboard
Mouse
Software Requirements
All of the software listed below is required for this course:
Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate – evaluation edition available as a
free download from Microsoft’s web site at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.
Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition – evaluation edition available
as a free download from Microsoft’s web site at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3713.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Management Tools – Free
download from Microsoft’s web site at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23650.
Northwind and Pubs Sample Databases located at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&i
d=23654.
Note
This list includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the software products, where available. If all of your
workstations use the same processor platform, you need download one of the versions.
Workstation Requirements
Each workstation requires the following hardware and software:
Hardware Requirements
Minimum: 64-bit dual-core processor
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Software Requirements
All of the software listed below is required for this course:
Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate – evaluation edition available as a
free download from Microsoft’s web site at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.
Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition – evaluation edition available
as a free download from Microsoft’s web site at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3713.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Management Tools – Free
download from Microsoft’s web site at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23650.
Northwind and Pubs Sample Databases located at
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&i
d=23654.
Note
Each of the student workstations can run either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows, as long as the
computer has the appropriate hardware for the operating system and you provide each workstation with the
additional software it needs in the version for the appropriate platform.
Warning
By performing the following setup instructions, your computer’s hard disks will be repartitioned and
reformatted. You will lose all existing data on these systems.
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