The objective of this Lab is to promote your Windows Server 2019 VM (prepared in Lab 3) to be the first Domain Controller in your brand new (private) Active Directory Forest.
The only AD role you need is Active Directory Domain Services.
Your server must be named DC01. Your domain/forest must be named YourFirstInitialYourLastName.local. For example, “Sparky the Sun Devil” would name his domain:
sdevil.local
Note: Dot Local (.local) domain names are not searchable via public DNS. See https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-chapin-rfc2606bis-00.html (Links to an external site.) about Reserved Top Level Domain Names.
Note: In the Rubric, screenshots are now part of the Presentation grade. If the steps are hard to follow or missing steps, it will affect the Steps grade. Please see the Rubric for full details.
Your deliverable must include:
- The steps you took, including screenshots.
- What features were installed and why.
- A short discussion about reserved/private top level domain names.
- Detail the Warnings shown in the Pre-Req check. Research the warnings. For each warning, your write up must include a solution that YOU recommend from your research.
- Post Promotion screenshots:
- Four from Server Manager:
- Server,
- Events,
- Services,
- Best Practices Analyzer filtered for “error”
- Explain what errors you fixed and why cannot for any unfixable errors
- One of
nslookupfor your domain name, e.g.,nslookup sdevil.local
- Four from Server Manager:
- Reference Sources
Your deliverable may include:
- The PowerShell script generated by Server Manager during the DC Promotion (1 point extra credit)
- The PowerShell script you created and used to promote the server to a DC with the results (2 points extra credit)
VM snapshots:
- Taking one before the promotion is a great idea in case something goes wrong or you miss a screenshot.
- Taking one after the promotion is a good idea as a back up before other labs.
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