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Lab 02: AD and DNS

Pre-Setup:​

The ad01 preconfigured machine didn't boot, so I followed the regedit instructions in this guide: https://woshub.com/windows-install-error-computer-restarted-unexpectedly/ And afterwards it booted.

IP Setup for ad01​

IP Config windows for ad01

And the details that were set:

IP Address:  10.0.5.5
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway 10.0.5.2 (Make sure fw01 is running).
DNS 10.0.5.2

Final config: Finished ad01 ipv4

Date & TZ & Machine Name​

  • Timezone already read UTC-5 in the server manager, so I left it alone.
  • Clicking on the computer name box in the server manager opened a dialog box to change the hostname, so I did, and then rebooted.

Verifying system settings & network connectivity​

powershell command output

Installing ADDS Role​

There are screens to bypass where the defaults are ok. The box that must be selected is "Active Directory Domain Services" Make sure to allow the installer to grab dependencies as well. Then you can skip all the way to performing install.

Seting AD Deployment Config​

You'll see the following message ad error after install

Click on it, and then change the "deployment operation" to "add a new forest", and enter "yourname.local" as the root domain name.

And then.... after one long install and reboot

Setting up local DNS for fw01​

DNS manager clicks i hate the windows clicky-things

Reverse PTR Zone​

Here's the menu hate windows Then you do a new zone with mostly defaults

uejfiefsef It works!!

Making Accounts​

Management is under Tools/Active Directory Users and Computers from the Server Manager

Right-click on users and select new add user flow

After creating, you can delegate groups by: set group menu

Both are similar to the Control Panel flow with local users.

Prepping wks01 for AD​

Make sure that DNS for wks01 is ad01 Adapter settings for wks01

Changing AD: whoopie

Deliverable 1​

it's here!

Deliverable 2​

AD accounts

Deliverable 3​

powershell command output