Lab Notes/Overview

• This lab was similar to our sys-255 midterm where we had to connect our VMs to the internet
• Of course we had to set up our firewall first through pfsense and create our hostnames for our machines
• We set up wks01 just as before using static IP addresses
• Then through our wks01 we went into wizard to connect to internet
• Then we went into our ad01 which is our server core went into sconfig which we did a little in sys-255 and added our ip addresses
• Then we had to install our AD on our server core via powershell which we have not done before creating a new forest with our domain name
• Once that is finished we were able to create our Domain Admin account on our domain and not the lo0cal admin PRe-AD account.
• Now we had to configure our mgmt01 which is the same as our other windows machine, setting our static ip addresses, however, in this one we wanted it to join our DNS so we changed our DNS ip to the IP of our ad01.
• Then changed the hostname along with adding it to our yourname.local
• Then we went into server manager to install a couple admin features on mgmt01 the added our ad01 into server manager to the list of managed servers which will be our DNS server
• After that we created our two accounts our normal user and named domain admin which we learned all about in sys-255
• Created our reverse zone to then create our A records which were then automatically duplicated as ptr records
• To join our wks01 to our domain because right now it is just getting access to internet through our firewall upstream gateway address we had to change the dns address to our ad01 IP from the firewall ip, join it to our domain in the file explorer properties and then add it to our computers in our server manager user and computers.
• Once this was done our lab was complete and our environment is set up.

3 Terms/Topics I want to learn more about

• I would like to learn more about our server core ad01 because before our ad01 was treated as our active directory where we would use server manager now it acts as a DNS server which confuses me a little bit.
• I would not say there is much more topics I need to learn in this lab as this was very similar to our midterm in sys-255, however, it was a good review to get warmed up.

Troubleshooting

• as always making sure we have both WAN and LAN cables in our firewall and any other machine have our LAN cables instead of WAN
• Create A records first so they can automatically be put into your reverse lookup zones.
• Snapshot your VMs from scratch that way if something is not working that you do not understand you can go back from scratch and see where something went wrong.