Lab02 ADDS - nicholaslamon/SYS255 GitHub Wiki

This weeks lab is about setting up our own domain and hosting our own server/services. If I'm being 100% honest with myself, never in my dreams would I have thought that I'd be setting up a domain this soon in my cybersec path. I know it's nerdy, but it feels so cool to have my own domain established.

Setting up the domain wasn't that difficult. Initially, I setup my Windows Server 2019 by giving it its own IP address and Gateway through the pfSense firewall that I setup. I enabled ADDS and DNS on the server so that it would be able to resolve addresses outside and inside of the domain.

Once all of that was established, I promoted the Server to my primary domain controller and set the domain name to nicholas.local. Once the server was set as the primary controller, I was able to link a window VM to my server and assign it an IP address within the domain. After doing that, I set up 2 accounts on a windows VM, one was a regular account while the other was an admin.

Once all of that was done, I was done! :) Here's a few powershell lines to show all of the connections: