What you need for this book
This book has been written to work solely with the tools that are bundled in Windows: the original Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 products, as well as the R2 releases of those operating systems.
If you will be following the graphical interface instructions for the 2012 release, at least one copy of Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8 is required. If you will be following the graphical interface instructions for the 2012 R2 release, at least one copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 is required.