BDD Lite Touch and Zero Touch Lab Recommendations

re: BDD Lite Touch and Zero Touch Lab Recommendations

Chad Ingles — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:08:59 GMT

This is a nice, simple big-picture view of a build/test environment. We're currently beginning a large BDD project, it would be great to get more detailed prescriptive guidance on creating a build/test environment based on the diagram above. Our fully isolated test lab doesn't have an Internet connection, is there an easy way to build this environment with Virtual PC on my own workstation but still connect to the Internet easily/safely without impacting the production network?

Laboratoire Business Desktop Deployment pour les scénarii Light et Zero Touch

WebLog de Stéphane PAPP [MSFT] — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:43:50 GMT

Mon collègue anglais Richard SMITH a publié un article sur son blog dans lequel il décrit une infrastructure

re: BDD Lite Touch and Zero Touch Lab Recommendations

ricsmith — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:51:59 GMT

In answer to your question - you can build this environment as one or two Virtual Servers or as a single physical server if hardware is in short supply...this is what I do - I have a laptop (AMD 64 - 2.2 Ghz, 2GB Ram) on which I have installed Windows Server 2003 R2, SMS 2003 SP2, Windows AIK, BDD 2007, WDS and Virtual PC 2007. I have made it a domain controller for my domain (BUILDDOMAIN) so it also runs DHCP and DNS. I then run virtual client machines to test my build processes - I find that this works better than trying to run a complete virtual environment.

re: BDD Lite Touch and Zero Touch Lab Recommendations

barrycaruth — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:14:30 GMT

What's not clear to me is whether you can run BDD on multiple workstations and point them at the same distribution share so that different staff can work on different builds at the same time. Can you shed any light there?