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

SysAdmin Show

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