To get the most out of this book, you need to experiment with the code contained in the recipes. To avoid errors impacting live production servers, you should instead use virtualization to create a test lab, where mistakes do not cause any serious damage. This book uses a variety of servers within a single Reskit.Org domain containing multiple servers, and using an IP address block of 10.10.10/24 described in Getting the most from this book.
Ideally, you should have a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 host with virtualization capabilities and use a virtualization solution. If you have access to a cloud computing platform, then you could perform most of the recipies in cloud-hosted virtual machines although that has not been tested. You can use any virtualization.
The book was developed using Hyper-V and nested Hyper-V on Windows 10 Creator's Update and Windows Server 2016. More details of the servers are contained in the preface and each recipe.
