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MCSE W2K Lab Simulation
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| Billy 2003-12-18, 10:26 pm |
| I'm currently enrolled in a W2K class and we have very limited access to the
lab simulations outside of the class hours. I especially like the lab
simulations included on the CD's with the books that we received, but the
simulation topics are very limited. Is there a site that you could recommend
that provided the entire curriculum of MCSE topics in a simulated
environment? I need to perform the hands-on simulations but have limited
resources to build my own lab.
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| Donnie 2003-12-19, 2:25 pm |
| Sybex has a Windows 2000 Virtual Lab that has simulated labs that correspond
to each of their MCSE Core books.
"Billy" <nospam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I'm currently enrolled in a W2K class and we have very limited access to
the
> lab simulations outside of the class hours. I especially like the lab
> simulations included on the CD's with the books that we received, but the
> simulation topics are very limited. Is there a site that you could
recommend
> that provided the entire curriculum of MCSE topics in a simulated
> environment? I need to perform the hands-on simulations but have limited
> resources to build my own lab.
>
>
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| Trust No OneŽ 2003-12-20, 2:25 pm |
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Donnie wrote:
> Sybex has a Windows 2000 Virtual Lab that has simulated labs that
> correspond to each of their MCSE Core books.
I dunno. I still think there is much benefit to building a small test lab. 3
or so PII-400 or PIII-450 base units along with a screen switch and hub
would cost a minimal amount and should allow you to practice with W2K or
even W2K3. Speed is not really the issue 
High end PII or low-end PIII machines are dirt cheap these days - especially
from ex-corporate sources. It is also possible to get time limited
evaluation copies of the W2K and W2K3 s/w. Your only major outlay is perhaps
memory.
I'm about to kick-off my W2K certification (this newsgroup was very helpful
during my NT4 one) and this type of spec is exactly what I'm using in my
test lab.
hth
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| Steven L Umbach 2003-12-20, 7:24 pm |
| I agree about the lab. You can buy PII computers [Dell, etc] off of Ebay for $75 that
will work fine. Two computers is minimum and three will be ideal minimum. KVM
switches and cables are also cheap used on Ebay, but get the electronic kind such as
the Belkin Omnicube. You can also install Terminal Services in remote administration
mode to view the other servers and configure them. Another item I find very useful
are the swappable hard drive trays that are cheap brand new at
http://www.compgeeks.com . In my lab I use them and have a couple dual or triple
boot hard drives configured that I swap out depending on what I want to do. One is
bootable to clients such as W98/XP Pro/W2K Pro. Another has W2K server bootable to
additional domain controller/child domain controller/separate forest domain
controller. --- Steve
"Trust No OneŽ" <dana.scully@usa.net> wrote in message
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> Donnie wrote:
>
> I dunno. I still think there is much benefit to building a small test lab. 3
> or so PII-400 or PIII-450 base units along with a screen switch and hub
> would cost a minimal amount and should allow you to practice with W2K or
> even W2K3. Speed is not really the issue
>
> High end PII or low-end PIII machines are dirt cheap these days - especially
> from ex-corporate sources. It is also possible to get time limited
> evaluation copies of the W2K and W2K3 s/w. Your only major outlay is perhaps
> memory.
>
> I'm about to kick-off my W2K certification (this newsgroup was very helpful
> during my NT4 one) and this type of spec is exactly what I'm using in my
> test lab.
>
> hth
> --
> Peter <X-Files Fan>
> Please Note: Emailed replies cc'd / bcc'd , containing HTML or attachments
> auto-binned as spam
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