LAB 1

Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2019 and

Domain Controller
EXERCISE 1.1: INSTALLING WINDOWS SERVER 2019 (DESKTOP
EXPERIENCE)
1. Create a Virtual Machine
- Start VMWare Workstation and create a Virtual Machine (File-> New Virtual
Machine). In the Type of configuration, choose the Typical and click Next
- In the Guest Operating System Installation, choose “I will install the Operating
System later” and click Next
- In Guest Operating System windows, Choose Microsoft Windows and Version
“Windows Server 2016” and click Next.
- Name the Virtual Machine, e..g, SVR-DC1 and select the location to store the file
of VM.
- Then, input the maximum disk size (e.g., 32GB) and click Next and then click
Finish.
2. Attach the Windows Server 2019 ISO file to VM
- Right-click on the created VM and choose Settings…
- Click on CD/DVD (SATA) and choose ISO image file and click Browse … and
select the windows server ISO file
3. Boot the VM to start the installation process
4. After the Windows Setup screen appears, select the correct language, time and
currency format, and keyboard or input type for your locale and click Next.

5. Click Install now.

6. Select Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (Desktop Experience) from the list of
Windows Server 2019 editions and click Next.

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7. Place a check next to I accept the license terms and click Next.
8. Select Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).
Note that the storage devices within your computer are displayed. Highlight any
partitions under the storage device that you would like to install Windows Server 2019
on (e.g., Drive 0) and click Delete in turn until no more partitions exist under your
storage device. Finally, highlight the storage device and click Next to install Windows
Server 2019 on it.
9. After the installation has completed, click Restart now, if necessary.
10. When the Customize settings window appears, supply the password CT209Hm$ in the
Password and Reenter password text boxes and click Finish.
11. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del. At the login screen, supply the password CT209Hm$ for
Administrator and press Enter to log into the system.
The machine will set up the properties of the administrator account.
Notice that the Server Manager dashboard automatically appears. Your Windows Server
2019 installation is now complete.

EXERCISE 2: POST-INSTALLATION TASKS

1. In the left pane of Server Manager, click Local Server. Note the operating system
version and hardware information shown
2. In the Server Manager Properties window, view the hyperlink next to Time zone. If
your time and/or time zone are not correct, click the hyperlink to open the Date and
Time window.
a. To change your time, click Change date and time, specify the correct time,
and click OK.
b. To change your time zone, click Change time zone, select the correct time
zone, and click OK.
c. Click OK to close the Date and Time window.
3. In the Server Manager Properties window, click the On hyperlink next to IE
Enhanced Security Configuration. Select the Off button under the Administrators
section and click OK.
4. In the Server Manager Properties window, click the Public: On hyperlink next to
Windows Defender Firewall.
a. In the Firewall & network protection window, click Domain network.
b. Click the slider under Windows Defender Firewall to turn off the firewall.
c. Click the back arrow in the upper left of the window to return to the Firewall
& network protection window.
d. Click Private network and repeat steps b and c.
e. Click Public network and repeat steps b and c.
f. Close the Firewall & network protection window.
5. In the Server Manager Properties window, click the IPv4 address assigned by
DHCP, IPv6 enabled hyperlink next to your Ethernet network adapter.
a. In the Network Connections window, right-click your Ethernet adapter and
click Status.
b. In the Ethernet Status window, click Details and note whether your network
environment has successfully assigned IPv4 and IPv6 configuration to your

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 network interface automatically via a DHCP server or ICMPv6. Record this
configuration and click Close.
c. In the Ethernet Status window, click Properties.
d. In the Ethernet Properties window, highlight Internet Protocol Version 4
(TCP/IPv4) and click Properties. If your network environment requires
manual IPv4 configuration, select Use the following IP address and supply
the correct information. Next, select Use the following DNS server
addresses and supply the correct DNS server information. Click OK when
finished.
e. In the Ethernet Properties window, highlight Internet Protocol Version 6
(TCP/IPv6) and click Properties. If your network environment requires
manual IPv6 configuration, select Use the following IPv6 address and
supply the correct information. Next, select Use the following DNS server
addresses and supply the correct DNS server information. Click OK when
finished.
f. Click OK to close the Ethernet Properties window, and click Close to close
the Ethernet Status window. Finally, close the Network Connections window

Replace these with

student’s own
information (Please see
the requirement
assignment for the IP
address assigned to each
student )

6. In the Server Manager Properties window, click the hyperlink next to Computer
name.
a. At the System Properties window, click Change. Note that your computer
received a generated computer name and is part of a workgroup called
WORKGROUP.

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 b. In the Computer name box, type a new computer name of SVR-DC1, wher
X is a number that is uniquely assigned to you by your instructor, and click
OK.
c. Click OK at the Computer Name/Domain Changes window, and click Close
in the System Properties window.
d. Click Restart Now to restart your Windows Server 2019 server.
7. After your server has rebooted, log into the system as Administrator using the
password CT209Hm$. After a few moments, Server Manager will open.
8. Within Server Manager, navigate to Local Server and note the hyperlink next to
Product ID. Depending on the installation media that you used to install your server
and the nature of your organization’s network environment, you may see that your
Windows Server 2019 system is activated. If it is not activated, click the Not
activated hyperlink and follow the prompts to supply the correct product key and
license information for your environment. When finished, close the Settings
window and Server Manager.
9. Click the Internet Explorer icon on the Windows taskbar.
a. Click OK at the Internet Explorer 11 window.
b. Enter the URL https://www.google.com/chrome and follow the prompts to
download and install the latest version of the Chrome Web browser.
10. Right-click the Start menu and select Shut down or sign out, and click Shut down.
Click Continue to shut down your system.
EXERCISE 3: Installing Active Directory Domain Services Role
1. Click Dashboard in left pane of Server Manager, then click Add Roles and Features,
and the Click Next

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 2. In Select Installation Type Windows, select “Role-based of feature-based
installation”

3. Click Next to accept the default local server. The Select Server Roles page appears

Add the following roles:

- Active Directory Domain Services
- DNS Server
- DHCP Server

4. Click Next three times and the click Install

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EXERCISE 4: Promoting a Domain Controller
1. On SVR-DC1, in Server Manager, click the AD DS link in the left pane. The AD
DS home page appears, with a warning message stating that configuration is
required for AD DS
2. Click the More link. The All Servers Task Details window appears
3. Click the Promote this server to a domain controller link. The Active Directory
Domain Services Configuration Wizard appears, displaying the Deployment
Configuration page.
(Or simply click on Exclamation next to Manage and choose Promote this server
to a domain controller)

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4. In Deployment Configuration window, select Add a new forest, and in the Root
domain name text box, type the domain name assigned to the student and click
Next.

Replace with domain

name assigned to student

5. The Domain Controller Options page appears, and click Next

6. In the Password and Confirm Password text boxes, type CT209Hm$ and click Next.
The DNS Options page appears

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 7. Follow the wizard to finish AD DS configuration

EXERCISE 5: Install Windows 10 computer

EXERCISE 56 Join a computer to an Active Directory Domain

1. Right-click on the Start menu and choose System.

2. Click on the section called Rename This PC (Advanced) and then click the Change
Settings link.
3. In the Member Of section, choose the Domain option. Type the name of the Active
Directory domain that this computer should join. Click OK.
4. When prompted for the username and password of an account that has permission
to join computers to the domain, enter the information for an administrator of the
domain. Click OK to commit the changes. If you successfully joined the domain,
you will see a dialog box welcoming you to the new domain.
5. You will be notified that you must reboot the computer before the changes take
place. Select Yes when prompted to reboot.

EXERCISE 7: Install the second Domain Controller (SVR-DC2)

EXERCISE 8: Installing AD DS on Server Core Using PowerShell

6. At the Server Core command prompt, type cd c:\windows\system32 and press
Enter.
7. Type timedate.cpl and set your date, local time zone, and time. Click OK.
8. Type Netsh and press Enter (display or modify the network configuration of a
computer)
9. Type Interface, and press Enter.
10. Type IPv4, and press Enter.
11. Type Show IP and press Enter. This will show you the current TCP/IP address and
the interface with which the TCP/IP address is associated.
12. To change the IP configuration for an interface, type the following command and
press Enter (suppose that the Interface ID is 2and the IP address is 172.30.100.3):
Netsh interface ipv4> Set address name="2" source=static address=172.30.100.3
mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=172.30.100.1
(Replace the address, mask, and gateway based on your local settings).
13. Type Show IP and press Enter. You should see that the new address is now manual
and set to the IP address you set.

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 14. Type Exit and press Enter.
15. Type Net User Administrator * and press Enter.
16. Type in the password of user administrator and then confirm the password.
(CT209Hm$).
17. Type the following command (to change the computer name) and press Enter:
Netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname:DC3
18. Type Y and press Enter.
19. Type Shutdown /R /T 0 and press Enter. This will reboot the machine. After the
reboot, log back into the system.
20. Type PowerShell and press Enter.
21. At the PowerShell prompt, type Add-WindowsFeature DNS and press Enter. This
will add DNS to the server.
22. At the PowerShell prompt, type Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services
-IncludeManagementTools and press Enter.
23. At the PowerShell prompt, type Import-Module ADDSDeployment.
24. Configure DNS
Set-DnsClientServerAddress –InterfaceIndex 2 -ServerAddresses 172.30.100.2
25. Promote the server to a domain controller in an existing domain
Install-ADDSDomainController -InstallDns -Credential (Get-Credential
A\Administrator) -DomainName A.lab -SafeModeAdministratorPassword (ConvertTo-
SecureString -AsPlainText "" -Force) –NoGlobalCatalog $false

26. You will be prompted to enter again the password for the domain administrator.
Input the password of the domain administrator
27. Type Y and press Enter.
28. After restarting, running sconfig on the server core to verify that Windows Server
core has joined the domain on the first DC.
29. Verifying that the Windows 2016 core server now is a domain controller
Nltest /dclist:<domain>
Or using the tool ADUC on the Enterprise Desktop DC.