Tech Journal Week 2 - ArtTHEbard/SYS255FA19-Notes GitHub Wiki

Week 2 Lab (Setting up AD and DNS in a domain)

Started the Lab by setting up my Windows Server in vSphere and changing the VM Network option to be hooked up to my LAN. Set the IPv4 info to access my firewall and give it an Ip within my LAN (static: 10.0.5.5, Gateway: 10.0.5.2, DNS: 10.0.5.2). Once the server re-booted, I configured Windows Server to add the Active Directory and Domain Services toolkit. I linked my Server to be the DC of samjohnson.local. I set up a new Ad forest called sam.local. I set up a A reference for my firewall (fw01-samjohnson, 10.0.5.2) in my DNS manager. To do this I first set up a new reverse lookup zone for 10.0.5. I made some accounts on the AD (samjohnson-adm, samjohnson). I configured my workstations DNS settings (10.0.5.5) and joined it to the sam.local domain using my admin creds. Once this was complete, I logged in to my workstation with my Domain creds to ensure that the domain binding was successful.

Issues My big issue this lab was organization, frankly. I had to keep checking other VMs to remember account names and domain names. To alleviate this problem, I created a new Git page to store all of my useful information regarding my naming schemes.