Building lab environments is a time-consuming task. First you are creating your topology using the SfB Topology Builder. Then you need to create the virtual machines, configure the networking, setup Active Directory, a PKI, IIS, Office Online Server and SQL Server. This takes a lot of time and it is easy to forget a configuration item or click the wrong button.

SfBAutomatedLab does it all for you. It reads the topology file (tbxml) created by the Topology Builder and creates all the machines defined there. It also sets up Active Directory with an Enterprise PKI and SQL Server, all according to what is defined in the topology file. After that, the SfB components are installed on the edge and frontend servers.

• AutomatedLab 3.9 or higher
• Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 or Windows 10
• Windows Server 2012 ISO file
• Skype for Business 2015 ISO file
• Office Online Server ISO file (Last updated November 2016)
• SQL Server 2014 ISO file

These lines are all it requires:

if (-not (Test-SfBLabRequirements))
{
    Set-SfBLabRequirements
}

Start-SfBLabDeployment -LabName SfbTest1 -TopologyFilePath D:\export.tbxml