Lab 2 DNS ADDS Role - nrubera/SYS-255-03-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

For this lab, I setup and configured a domain server for my network. To do this I first booted up my Windows Server 2019 VM and cabled it into my network. After doing that I booted it up and accessed the "Server Manager" app through the search feature. Inside this app I configured the server name and also the IPv4 settings; configured server name and Ethernet: Capture

Setting the server as a domain controller required me to promote it through the server manager app. To do this I had to add a new forest since this is a new domain and nothing inside of it has been configured. I ran into a DNS error due to the fact that this domain will be ran and operated locally. This error wasn't a big deal because the domain is hosted locally, I was able to disregard the message.

Adding a DNS record for the controller required me to open up he DNS manager in order to access the DNS configuration. image

Once inside of the DNS manager I added a new Reverse Lookup Zone to allow myself to add a Forward Lookup Zone for my firewall so I can successfully ping it form the domain controller.

Creating and adding a user profile to the domain controller as an admin was done by navigating to the Active Directory menu for the server and then under the "Users" tab, adding a new user. Once I added the new user, I added it to the Domain Admins group.

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After adding the DNS Zones it allowed me to use nslookup for my DNS server which gave me the full name of my pfSense firewall.

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Once I was on my Windows workstation, I was able to change the name of the system to match what I have in my domain controller and from there I was able to join the domain from my Windows system.

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