SYS255: Week 2 - Windows Server 2019, AD DS, and DNS

NEW PAGES:

• Configuring Windows Server 2019
• AD DS Setup

Working Notes

This week, I decided to document my process in more detail, in part as a way to get a better sense of how to use GitHub's Wiki functionality. Links to my documentation below

Configuring Windows Server 2019

• While trying to change the hostname, I accidentally changed the Computer description instead. I caught it immediately after rebooting, so it wasn't the end of the world, but it still sucked.
• This was a fairly straightforward process, despite that minor hiccup.

AD DS Setup

• Things went suspiciously smoothly here, until the very end, when I realized that I added the new users to the root directory, instead of the Users directory. When trying to fix this, it came with a warning that moving objects could break the system.

• Everything was working as expected until I ran the whoami command, and it showed me logged in as a local user. Switching the system from the eli.local domain to a workgroup called "WORKGROUP" and back seemed not to work, then I realized that I had, in fact, logged on as a local user, rather than the remote one.

• Upon properly logging in to the remote user, things were working perfectly.

MAJOR TAKEAWAY: it is unwise to stay up past 1 in the morning reading webcomics, when I'm already sleep deprived, then wait until the afternoon of the day that a lab is due to get started, as it might lead me to make silly mistakes like these.