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