Milestone #10: Blue4.Local - wAlber47/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Server19 Core Setup

For our domain controller, we are deploying a server19 core server, it will then be configured using Ansible. A previous guide for this can be found here

Before running sysprep on the machine, we need to do a few things:

  • Add deployer 1. user
  • Adjust Time Zone
  • Update the System
  • Make sure the Hard Drive uses a Thin Provisioned Disk
  • Configure SSH
  • Install VMWareTools
  • Remove any ISOs from the CD Drive

Once all those things are complete, we can sysprep the machine using this unattend.xml file to use with sysprep.

After this is complete, we can use the 480utils file to deploy a new version of this virtual machine to the blue4-lan network as dc-blue4.

Configuration with Ansible

We utilized these various playbooks and inventory files in order to add a static DHCP mapping for dc-blue4, set the hostname, admin password, and to install an Active Directory Forest.