Creating a new virtual switch

The following is an example I use often. I am running a new Hyper-V Server, which is connected physically to my corporate network, and so I can spin up new VMs, connect them to my external virtual switch, and have them communicate directly to the corp network. This allows me to domain-join them, and interact with them like I would any server on my network. Maybe I need to create some VMs that I want to be able to talk with each other, but I do not want them to be able to communicate with my production network. A good example of this scenario in the real world is when building a test lab. In fact, I am taking this exact approach for all of the servers that we have used throughout this book. My physical Hyper-V Server is on my production network, yet my entire Contoso network and all of the VMs running within it are on their own separate network, which...