SAS 011 – In the Lab – Server 2016 Configuring AD, DNS, DHCP & File Server

In today’s show we will continue working in the lab.  I walk through the process of deploying Active Directory on a new Server 2016 VM with DNS and DHCP.  We also setup a file server with a basic network share.

Follow-Up

• One way conversation so far, I want to hear from you
  
  
  
  • [email protected]
  
  
  • @sysadminshow
  
  
  
  


• Some upcoming topics include server room specs, DR, patch management


• I got VMRC working on Linux Mint
  
  
  
  • Download the linux .bundle file from VMware
  
  
  • Run sudo sh, follow install instructions
  
  
  
  


• If you want to catch up go back to episodes 7,8,10.  So far we have
  
  
  
  • Setup VMware ESXi
  
  
  • Setup Server 2016 & Windows 10 templates
  
  
  • Setup dedicated VLAN for the LAB Follow Up
  
  
  
  

Today’s Show

• Cloning VMs in ESXi
  
  
  
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
  
  
  • Psgetsid
  
  
  
  


• Setup domain controller, new domain
  
  
  
  • I setup my lab root domain as corp.sysadminshow.com, but I should have done it just sysadminshow.com.  No real harm, just more to type.
  
  
  
  


• Setup DNS
  
  
  
  • Setup forward and reverse zones
  
  
  
  


• Set DHCP
  
  
  
  • Setup IPv4 scope
  
  
  
  


• Setup VMware client network
  
  
  
  • Set our lab VMs to use the Lab network we created earlier