Milestone 3.1 AD - absentee-neptune/SYS-480 GitHub Wiki

Set-Up to Create

Open datastore2-super8 and select Datastore Browser
Making sure you are in the isos directory, select Upload to upload files
- Navigate to \\foster-synology.cyber.local\480-SHARE\isos
- Upload the .iso files for Windows Server
Close the Datastore Browser when finished

Creating the VM

System Prepping the VM

Start the VM
Go through the standard installation
When arrived at the Administrator Set-up, break out the virtual keyboard and press Ctrl, Shift, Fn, then F3 to skip it
When rebooted onto the desktop, open the command prompt and type sconfig
When in the sconfig terminal, do the following in order:
- Change the timezone to Eastern Standard Time
- Change the Update Settings to Manual
- Download and Install ALL updates until there are no more
- Install VMware Tools
Exit the Command Terminal and open Powershell
Create an Administrative user called deployer
- $Password = Read-Host -AsSecureString
- Enter a password
- New-LocalUser "deployer" -Password $Password
- Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "deployer"
Enable Powershell for SSH
- Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0
- Start-Service sshd
- Set-Service -Name sshd -StartupType Automatic
- Set-ItemProperty "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Powershell\1\ShellIds" -Name ConsolePrompting -Value $true
- New-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\OpenSSH -Name DefaultShell -Value "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -PropertyType string -Force
Then use the Disk Cleanup Tool to delete any temporary files that were created and create any spare space
Reboot the System
When rebooted to the desktop, generalize the disk and shutdown
Create a Snapshot of the System called Base

Set-Up Server

Before starting the machine again, change the network adapter to 480-WAN
When powered on and gone through the initial user set-up, go to server manager and do the following:
- Change the hostname to dc
- Change the network settings to the following:
Then reboot the system

:bulb: The following installations and configurations can be done either through the GUI or command line

Install Active Directory and DHCP

When rebooted to the Server Manager, navigate to the upper right and press Manager, then Add Roles and Features
Install the Server Roles of ADDS and DHCP
- Install any managing tools as well
Reboot the system when finished

Configure Active Directory

Promote the server to a Domain Controller with the domain name.local
Add a user to the AD through the Active Directory Users and Computers Manager
- name-adm
- Add the user in both Administrator and DHCP Administrator security groups
Configure DNS
- Navigate to the DNS Manager
- Under the Reverse Lookup Zone folder in the domain, add a new zone
  - Network ID: 10.0.17.x
- Add DNS A and PTR entries for the following:
  - xubuntu-wan: 10.0.17.100
  - 480-fw8: 10.0.17.2
  - vcenter: 10.0.17.3
  - A and PTR entries should already be there for dc (host) but just double check

Configure DHCP

Navigate to DHCP Manager
Create a new DHCP scope under IPv4 in the domain
- it will be from 10.0.17.101 to 10.0.17.150
- Router Address will be 10.0.17.2
- DNS Server will be 10.0.17.4

Installing Remmina on xubuntu-wan

On xubuntu-wan, open the terminal
Type in the following commands:
- sudo apt-add-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret

Configuring Remmina for dc