1.1 First Lab Prep

Class Notes

Topic Coverage

• AAA and Cross Platform Authentication
• Containerization
• High Availability/Failover
• Distributed Computing
• Server Automation and Provisioning
• Configuration Management
• Network Management
• DNS, Mail, Web Services
• DevOps and Agile Operations
• And as always... Troubleshooting

Lab Notes

Firewall

As with any new environment, I started by setting up the firewall first, and I configured the LAN and WAN IPs as seen in the IP information entry (Upstream Gateway 10.0.17.2, WAN 10.0.17.101, LAN 10.0.1.1)

Workstation

I then finished the setup on the workstation, setting the hostname to fw01-elizabeth and changing a few other settings. Next was to finish the setup of the workstation, making a new local admin user, as well as setting the hostname (wks01-elizabeth) and the IP information (10.0.1.10, default gateway and dns 10.0.1.1)

I then checked connectivity with whoami, ipconfig, tracert 8.8.8.8, ping 10.0.1.1 and ping champlain.edu

Of note: Might be a good idea to make a script containing the check commands... make it so that it asked for input for specific things like IP addresses or hostnames

Active Directory

Next was ad01. After making sure it was cabled correctly, used sconfig to configure the IP information and hostname of the server core.

Now it was time to install the AD stuff on the server core. To do this I used powershell to run the following commands:

• Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services - Install AD services
• Install-ADDSForest -DomainName elizabeth.local - Install and create the forest for your domain

Management Server

Next was the management server setup. Again, it needed to be cabled, then I used sconfig to configure the hostname. I used the network and internet tools to set the IP information.

Then I used Server Manager to install the Remote Server Administration Tools for AD DS, DHCP, DNS, and File Services

Stopped after adding ad01 to mgmt01