Windows Vista® Resource Kit, Second Edition

Preparing the Lab

Planning application deployment requires a lab environment for application repackaging. Within an organization, different teams that work on deployment (image engineering, application packaging, and so on) can and often should share a single lab environment. Sharing a lab enables teams to more easily share deliverables and integration-test their work with other components. In a shared lab environment, however, each team must have its own workspace on the file server and dedicated computers on which to work.

Although the lab must have access to the Internet, it should be separate from the production network. However, if you don’t install any server components like Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, separating the lab from the ...