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Hi We have completed the development phase and need to deploy the app to the test environment. Needed to know what all things are involved in setting up the test environment. the application consists of Serviced Components and ASP.NET 2.0 pages/code and SQL 2005 database. I think i would need the following: Need to install the Serviced components on the test server Copy over the ASP.NET pages and the precompiled Code behind. However I should use the existing database server setup in the test environment. I think it is a bad idea to backup the DEV database and restore it to the TEST database, since it would already contain the data that is supposed to get populated after you run the application and play around with it right???   SQL Server Backup Get SQL Server Protection Today! Learn More -Download Free WP Today. www.doubletake.visionsolutions.com       07-06-2006 Why wouldn't your unit tests remove the specified test data prior to starting the test. I don't see anything wrong with restoring your dev database to test. -- Robbe Morris - 2004-2006 Microsoft MVP C# Earn money answering .NET questions http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forums/merit.asp "rbg" <> wrote in message news: oups.com... > Hi > > We have completed the development phase and need to deploy the app to > the test environment. Needed to know what all things are involved in > setting up the test environment. > the application consists of Serviced Components and ASP.NET 2.0 > pages/code and SQL 2005 database. > I think i would need the following: > > Need to install the Serviced components on the test server > Copy over the ASP.NET pages and the precompiled Code behind. > However I should use the existing database server setup in the test > environment. I think it is a bad idea to backup the DEV database and > restore it to the TEST database, since it would already contain the > data that is supposed to get populated after you run the application > and play around with it right??? > Hi all, Whats the best way to set up a test environment? I would like to create a test domain on a physical server (win 2003) that runs vmware server. Now I want to create a virtual dc and some virtual clients on the vmware server But I have no experience about setting up a test environment. Of course, the test environment may not effect anything on the live domain.. Any ideas? Maybe some examples? Thx a lot Download a free copy of VMWare server, Microsoft Virtual Server. Install that on a server or workstation that will only be used for testing. Get a good bit of RAM for that box (2-3Gb should be good...more is better). If possible, create a VLAN on your switch and put this box on its own VLAN so it can't see any of your production environment. Install the first OS (should be the test DC) and set it up. Minimize the DC's VM and create a second (on the same box) and install your first client. You will more than likely have to bridge the NIC in the VM setup so it will be able to talk to the test DC. Setup the first client and join it to the test DC. Repeat step 5 for all of your clients and other test servers. VMWare also has an option for creating a private virtualized lan. I used this option to create a demonstration AD domain for a webinar. Since I was using a Fedora host, I enabled it as a router (iptables) and was able to add a static route on my laptop to the virtual vmware lan. This allowed me access to the virtual domain via remote desktop with the assurance that it was not going to affect anything in the production domain and without having to modify our production lan.