Building the Internal Development and Test Environment

This section provides procedures for building the servers in the internal environment. The internal environment contains a test Web server that runs the Business Management applications, a test database server, and an internal domain controller. The internal environment is useful for developing and testing site updates without disrupting the run-time site and services. This tier should not be used for business management or development.

Follow these steps when you build a test tier:

1. Set up your network switch, load balancer, and firewalls.

2. Install Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 on each server.

3. Configure the domain controller. See Configuring a Domain Controller.

4. Configure the test SQL Server. See Configuring the Internal Database Server.

5. Configure the Development/Test Web server. To configure this server, see Configuring the Business Management Server.

In This Section

• What Is the Internal Domain Controller?

• Configuring the Internal Database Server

• What Is the Internal Development-Test Server?

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