Lab 02 DNS ADDS Role (SYS255) - Herrscherr0Z/SYS255 GitHub Wiki

In the start of the lab we had to power on the Windows Server in addition to the Windows VM and Firewall. Once in the Windows Server (ad01) we began to configure the Server Manager's Local Server, which was just configuring the computer name, RTC and IPv4 properties. After this we had to add a server role to the server mainly just the Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS). Then after this step we had to promote our server to a domain controller. In order to complete this we had to create a new "forest" (A collection of domains that don't share the same namespace) by setting it up with a root domain name and a DSRM password which is use in case of anything going wrong it can help recover. However we were given a DNS error because we gave our environment a .local top level domain (TLD). We logged back in but as the Domain Admin, after this the next step was adding a DNS Record. First we had to access the DNS manager within the Server Manager then we had to find our .local file within the Forward Lookup Zone to add a new host(A or AAAA), this lets us to ping ad01 via the hostname and/or domain name. Next we added an entry for the firewall. From within the .local folder (within Forward Lookup Zones folder). After this step we had to create a PTR record however there was an error given since we needed to create a reverse lookup zone. In order for us to do this we had to add a reverse DNS by adding a reverse primary lookup for all the IP addresses within the 10.0.5.0/24 network (select new zone options and used the defaults). Afterwards we created a new PTR record from the A record of fw01-joshua & ad01-joshua by unchecking and applying checking the update PTR record and re enabling our firewalls properties. After this we had to create named domain users on ad01 via "AD DS" and selecting Active Directory Users and Computers. Then via the Active Directory Users and Computers folder you'll go under joshua.local and will see users which will guide you to creating two new users, the first being an administrative account and a local and adding the admin account to a group(Domain Admins). Next we start to initiate wks01 to join joshua.local, first we go into the windows virtual machine and change the network adapter properties and configure the DNS to ad01's address (10.0.5.5). To finish this lab off we check that we are successfully connected to ad01 via some nslookup commands in our windows PowerShell.