1.4. Setting up your lab environment
Learning a new technology is always a challenge—particularly a technology that reaches to the internet—without a place to practice. I want you to do a lot of practicing with IIS as you work through the book. That means you need an environment you can safely practice on that won’t cause any disruption. Your company’s production environment isn’t that safe place. Please don’t experiment on your company and friends. I have a better, safer idea.
I suggest that you create a virtual environment to work on for the month. Using your laptop, desktop, or a spare computer at work, pick your favorite virtualization software (Hyper-V, VMware, Parallels) and build the environment I describe in the next section. Keep in ...
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