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Acknowledgments
Microsoft Learning would like to acknowledge and thank the following for their contribution towards
developing this title. Their effort at various stages in the development has ensured that you have a good
classroom experience.

Stan Reimer — Content Developer and Lead Subject Matter Expert

Stan Reimer is president of S. R. Technical Services Inc., and he works as a consultant, trainer, and author.
Stan has extensive experience consulting on Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) and Microsoft
Exchange Server deployments for some of the largest companies in Canada. Stan is the lead author for
two Active Directory books for Microsoft Press®. For the last nine years, Stan has been writing courseware
for Microsoft Learning, specializing in Active Directory and Exchange Server courses. Stan has been a
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for 12 years.

Damir Dizdarevic — Content Developer and Subject Matter Expert

Damir Dizdarevic, an MCT, Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Technology
Specialist (MCTS), and Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP), is a manager and trainer of the
Learning Center at Logosoft d.o.o., in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Damir has more than 17 years
of experience on Microsoft platforms, and he specializes in Windows Server®, Exchange Server, security
and virtualization. He has worked as a subject matter expert and technical reviewer on many Microsoft®
Official Curriculum (MOC) courses, and has published more than 400 articles in various Information
Technology (IT) magazines, such as Windows ITPro and INFO Magazine. Damir is also a frequent and
highly rated speaker on most of Microsoft conferences in Eastern Europe. Additionally, he is a Microsoft
Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Server Infrastructure Management.

Gary Dunlop — Subject Matter Expert

Gary Dunlop is based in Winnipeg, Canada, and is a technical consultant and trainer for Broadview
Networks. He has authored a number of Microsoft Learning titles, and has been an MCT since 1997.

Siegfried Jagott — Content Developer

Siegfried Jagott is a Principal Consultant and Team Lead for the Messaging and Collaboration team at
Atos Germany. He is an award winning author of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices (Microsoft
Press) and has authored and technically reviewed several MOC courses on various topics such as MOC
10165: Updating Your Skills from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange
Server 2010 SP1. Siegfried has coauthored various other Windows® operating system, System Center
Virtual Machine Manager (SC VMM) and Exchange books, and is a frequent presenter on these topics at
international conferences such as the IT & Dev Connections conference, held in spring 2012, in Las Vegas.
Siegfried has planned, designed, and implemented some of the world’s largest Windows and Exchange
Server infrastructures for international customers. He received an MBA from Open University in England,
and is an MCSE since 1997.

Jason Kellington — Subject Matter Expert

Jason Kellington (MCT, MCITP, and MCSE) is a consultant, trainer, and author. He has experience working
with a wide range of Microsoft technologies, and focuses on enterprise network infrastructure. Jason
works in several capacities with Microsoft. He is a content developer for Microsoft Learning courseware
titles, a senior technical writer for Microsoft IT Showcase, and an author for Microsoft Press.
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Vladimir Meloski — Content Developer

Vladimir is a MCT, an MVP on Exchange Server, and consultant, providing unified communications and
infrastructure solutions based on Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Lync® Server, and Microsoft
System Center. Vladimir has devoted 16 years of professional experience in information technology.
Vladimir has been involved in Microsoft conferences in Europe and in the United States as a speaker,
moderator, proctor for hands-on labs, and technical expert. He has been also involved as a subject matter
expert and technical reviewer for several MOC courses.

Nick Portlock — Subject Matter Expert

Nick has been an MCT for 15 years. He is a self-employed IT trainer, consultant, and author. Last year,
Nick taught in over 20 countries. He specializes in AD DS, Group Policy, and Domain Name System (DNS),
and has consulted with a variety of companies over the last decade. He has reviewed more than 100
Microsoft courses. Nick is a member of the Windows 7 Springboard Series Technical Expert Panel (STEP)
program.

Brian Svidergol — Technical Reviewer

Brian Svidergol specializes in Microsoft infrastructure and cloud-based solutions based around Windows
operating systems, AD DS, Exchange Server, System Center, virtualization, and Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Package (MDOP). He holds the MCT, MCITP (Enterprise Administrator (EA)), MCITP
(Virtualization Administrator (VA)), MCITP (Exchange 2010), and several other Microsoft and industry
certifications. Brian authored Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) course 6426C: Configuring and
Troubleshooting Identity and Access Solutions with Windows Server 2008 Active Directory. He has also
worked for several years on Microsoft certification exam development and related training content.

Orin Thomas — Subject Matter Expert

Orin Thomas is an MVP, an MCT, and has a variety of MCSE and MCITP certifications. He has written more
than 20 books for Microsoft Press, and is a contributing editor at Windows IT Pro magazine. He has been
working in IT since the early 1990's. He regularly speaks at events such as TechED in Australia, and around
the world on Windows Server, Windows Client, System Center, and security topics. Orin founded and runs
the Melbourne System Center Users Group.

Byron Wright — Content Developer and Subject Matter Expert

Byron Wright is a partner in a consulting firm, where he performs network consulting, computer systems
implementation, and technical training. Byron is also a sessional instructor for the Asper School of
Business at the University of Manitoba, teaching management information systems and networking. Byron
has authored and co-authored a number of books on Windows Server operating systems, Windows Vista,
and Exchange Server, including the Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Resource Kit.
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Contents
Module 1: Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012
Lesson 1: Windows Server 2012 Overview 1-2
Lesson 2: Overview of Windows Server 2012 Management 1-14
Lesson 3: Installing Windows Server 2012 1-20
Lesson 4: Post-Installation Configuration of Windows Server 2012 1-25
Lesson 5: Introduction to Windows PowerShell 1-34
Lab: Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012 1-39

Module 2: Introduction to Active Directory Domain Services

Lesson 1: Overview of AD DS 2-2
Lesson 2: Overview of Domain Controllers 2-8
Lesson 3: Installing a Domain Controller 2-14
Lab: Installing Domain Controllers 2-20

Module 3: Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects

Lesson 1: Managing User Accounts 3-3
Lesson 2: Managing Group Accounts 3-10
Lesson 3: Managing Computer Accounts 3-17
Lesson 4: Delegating Administration 3-23
Lab: Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects 3-26

Module 4: Automating Active Directory Domain Services Administration

Lesson 1: Using Command-line Tools for AD DS Administration 4-2
Lesson 2: Using Windows PowerShell for AD DS Administration 4-8
Lesson 3: Performing Bulk Operations with Windows PowerShell 4-14
Lab: Automating AD DS Administration by Using Windows PowerShell 4-21

Module 5: Implementing IPv4

Lesson 1: Overview of TCP/IP 5-2
Lesson 2: Understanding IPv4 Addressing 5-6
Lesson 3: Subnetting and Supernetting 5-11
Lesson 4: Configuring and Troubleshooting IPv4 5-16
Lab: Implementing IPv4 5-24
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Module 6: Implementing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Lesson 1: Installing a DHCP Server Role 6-2
Lesson 2: Configuring DHCP Scopes 6-7
Lesson 3: Managing a DHCP Database 6-12
Lesson 4: Securing and Monitoring DHCP 6-16
Lab: Implementing DHCP 6-21

Module 7: Implementing Domain Name System

Lesson 1: Name Resolution for Windows Clients and Servers 7-2
Lesson 2: Installing and Managing a DNS Server 7-11
Lesson 3: Managing DNS Zones 7-17
Lab: Implementing DNS 7-21

Module 8: Implementing IPv6

Lesson 1: Overview of IPv6 8-2
Lesson 2: IPv6 Addressing 8-7
Lesson 3: Coexistence with IPv6 8-13
Lesson 4: IPv6 Transition Technologies 8-17
Lab: Implementing IPv6 8-22

Module 9: Implementing Local Storage

Lesson 1: Overview of Storage 9-2
Lesson 2: Managing Disks and Volumes 9-11
Lesson 3: Implementing Storage Spaces 9-20
Lab: Implementing Local Storage 9-25

Module 10: Implementing File and Print Services

Lesson 1: Securing Files and Folders 10-2
Lesson 2: Protecting Shared Files and Folders Using Shadow Copies 10-15
Lesson 3: Configuring Network Printing 10-18
Lab: Implementing File and Print Services 10-24

Module 11: Implementing Group Policy

Lesson 1: Overview of Group Policy 11-2
Lesson 2: Group Policy Processing 11-10
Lesson 3: Implementing a Central Store for Administrative Templates 11-16
Lab: Implementing Group Policy 11-20
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Module 12: Securing Windows Servers Using Group Policy Objects

Lesson 1: Windows Operating Systems Security Overview 12-2
Lesson 2: Configuring Security Settings 12-6
Lab A: Increasing Security for Server Resources 12-15
Lesson 3: Restricting Software 12-22
Lesson 4: Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security 12-26
Lab B: Configuring AppLocker and Windows Firewall 12-30

Module 13: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V

Lesson 1: Overview of Virtualization Technologies 13-2
Lesson 2: Implementing Hyper-V 13-8
Lesson 3: Managing Virtual Machine Storage 13-15
Lesson 4: Managing Virtual Networks 13-22
Lab: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V 13-27

Lab Answer Keys

Module 1 Lab: Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012 L1-1
Module 2 Lab: Installing Domain Controllers L2-9
Module 3 Lab: Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects L3-13
Module 4 Lab: Automating AD DS Administration by Using
Windows PowerShell L4-21
Module 5 Lab: Implementing IPv4 L5-25
Module 6 Lab: Implementing DHCP L6-29
Module 7 Lab: Implementing DNS L7-35
Module 8 Lab: Implementing IPv6 L8-41
Module 9 Lab: Implementing Local Storage L9-45
Module 10 Lab: Implementing File and Print Services L10-51
Module 11 Lab: Implementing Group Policy L11-57
Module 12 Lab A: Increasing Security for Server Resources L12-61
Module 12 Lab B: Configuring AppLocker and Windows Firewall L12-67
Module 13 Lab: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V L13-73
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About This Course

This section provides you with a brief description of the course—20410B: Installing and Configuring
Windows Server® 2012—audience, suggested prerequisites, and course objectives.

Course Description
This course is part one of a three-part series that provides the skills and knowledge necessary to
implement a core Windows Server 2012 infrastructure in an existing enterprise environment. The
three courses collectively cover implementing, managing, maintaining, and provisioning services and
infrastructure in a Windows Server 2012 environment. While there is some cross-over in skills and tasks
across the courses, this course primarily covers the initial implementation and configuration of core
services including Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS), networking services, and Microsoft®
Hyper-V® Server 2012 configuration.

Audience
This course is intended for Information Technology (IT) Professionals who have good Windows® operating
system knowledge and experience, and want to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to implement
the core infrastructure services in an existing Windows Server 2012 environment.

The secondary audience consists of those seeking certification in the 70-410, Installing and Configuring
Windows Server 2012 exam.

Student Prerequisites
This course requires that students meet the following prerequisites:
• A good understanding of networking fundamentals

• An understanding of and experience with configuring security and administration tasks in an

enterprise environment
• Experience supporting or configuring Windows operating system clients

• Good hands-on Windows client operating system experience with Windows Vista®, Windows 7, or
Windows 8

Students would also benefit from having some previous Windows Server operating system experience.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Install and Configure Windows Server 2012.

• Describe AD DS.
• Manage Active Directory objects.

• Automate Active Directory administration.

• Implement IPv4.
• Implement Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

• Implement Domain Name System (DNS).

• Implement IPv6.
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• Implement local storage.

• Share files and printers.

• Implement Group Policy.

• Use Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to secure Windows Servers.

• Implement server virtualization using Hyper-V.

Course Outline
This section provides an outline of the course:

Module 1, Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012

This module starts the course by discussing installation of Windows Server 2012. This is not the
most commonly performed task that is discussed in the course, but it provides a logical
starting point for students to begin working with Windows Server 2012.

Module 2, Introduction to Active Directory Domain Services

AD DS is a core part of network management in an enterprise environment. It is introduced
early in the course so that students will be able to use it to perform other tasks—such as
creating users and groups—in later modules. In this module, students will install a domain
controller.

Module 3, Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects

This module discusses creating and managing specific Active Directory objects such as users,
groups, and computer accounts. This is a core part of what a beginning server administrator
does on a daily basis. Some of these tasks are also delegated to help desk staff.
Module 4, Automating Active Directory Domain Services Administration
This module expands on the knowledge gained in Module 3 by providing students with
methods for automating the creation and management of Active Directory objects. This is a
relatively advanced topic, but logically flows after module 3.

Module 5, Implementing IPv4

This module begins a new thread of learning in the course. Configuring and understanding
IPv4 is fundamental to working as a system administrator.

Module 6, Implementing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

This module discusses how to use DHCP to distribute IPv4 address information.

Module 7, Implementing Domain Name System

This module includes how DNS converts names to IP addresses and why this is important in an
Active Directory environment.

Module 8, Implementing IPv6

This module introduces IPv6 configuration, which is likely to be new content for the students.
Module 8 is separated from Module 5 because both are theory-intensive and may overwhelm
students if they are sequential. IPv6 knowledge is not required for Modules 6 and 7.
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Module 9, Implementing Local Storage

This module includes content on storage configuration for Windows Server 2012. This is
prerequisite information for Module 10, which discusses creating and securing file shares.
Module 10, Implementing File and Print Services

This module discusses file shares and printing at the same time because both are commonly
used network services. Security for file shares and printing uses the knowledge about user
accounts and groups covered in Modules 2 and 3.

Module 11, Implementing Group Policy

This module builds on the information students have already learned about AD DS to
introduce the creation and management of GPOs.

Module 12, Securing Windows Servers Using Group Policy Objects

This module then covers specific Group Policy settings that can be used to increase security.
The settings include security policies, application restriction policies, and Windows Firewall
rules.

Module 13, Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V

The final module discusses how to configure Hyper-V and how to create virtual machines. This
module is last because the lab has the potential to negatively impact the virtual machines
already deployed on the student machines.

Exam/Course Mapping
This course, 20410B: Installing and Configuring Windows Server® 2012, has a direct mapping of its content
to the objective domain for the Microsoft exam 70-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012.

The table below is provided as a study aid that will assist you in preparation for taking this exam and to
show you how the exam objectives and the course content fit together. The course is not designed
exclusively to support the exam but rather provides broader knowledge and skills to allow a real-world
implementation of the particular technology. The course will also contain content that is not directly
covered in the examination and will utilize the unique experience and skills of your qualified Microsoft
Certified Trainer.

Note: The exam objectives are available online at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-410&locale=en-us#tab2.
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Exam Objective Domain: Exam 70-410: Installing and

Configuring Windows Server 2012 Course Content
Install and Configure Servers Module Lesson Lab
This objective may include but is not Mod 1 Lesson 1 Mod 1 Ex 1
limited to: Plan for a server installation;
plan for server roles; plan for a server
upgrade; install Server Core; optimize
resource utilization by using Features on
Install Demand; migrate roles from previous
servers. versions of Windows Server
This objective may include but is not Mod 1 Lesson 1/2/4 Mod 1 Ex 1/2/3
limited to: Configure Server Core; delegate
administration; add and remove features
in offline images; deploy roles on remote Mod 3 Lesson 4 Mod 3 Ex 2
servers; convert Server Core to/from full
Configure GUI; configure services; configure NIC
servers. teaming
This objective may include but is not Mod 9 Lesson 1/2/3 Mod 9 Ex 1/2/3
limited to: Design storage spaces;
configure basic and dynamic disks;
configure MBR and GPT disks; manage
volumes; create and mount virtual hard
Configure disks (VHDs); configure storage pools and
local storage. disk pools
Configure Server Roles and Features
This objective may include but is not Mod 10 Lesson 1/2 Mod 10 Ex 1/2
limited to: Create and configure shares;
configure share permissions; configure
offline files; configure NTFS permissions;
Configure file configure access-based enumeration
and share (ABE); configure Volume Shadow Copy
access. Service (VSS); configure NTFS quotas
This objective may include but is not Mod 10 Lesson 3 Mod 10 Ex 3
limited to: Configure the Easy Print
Configure print driver; configure Enterprise Print
print and Management; configure drivers; configure
document printer pooling; configure print priorities;
services. configure printer permissions
This objective may include but is not Mod 1 Lesson 1/2/4 Mod 1 Ex 2
limited to: Configure WinRM; configure
down-level server management; configure
Configure servers for day-to-day management tasks; Mod 12 Lesson 4 Mod 12 Lab B Ex 2
servers for configure multi-server management;
remote configure Server Core; configure Windows
management. Firewall
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Exam Objective Domain: Exam 70-410: Installing and

Configuring Windows Server 2012 Course Content
Configure Hyper-V
Create and Mod 13 Lesson 2 Mod 13 Ex 3/4
configure This objective may include but is not limited
virtual to: Configure dynamic memory; configure
machine smart paging; configure Resource Metering;
settings. configure guest integration services
Create and This objective may include but is not limited Mod 9 Lesson 1
configure to: Create VHDs and VHDX; configure
virtual differencing drives; modify VHDs; configure
machine pass-through disks; manage snapshots; Mod 13 Lesson 2/3 Mod 13 Ex 3/4
storage. implement a virtual Fibre Channel adapter
This objective may include but is not Mod 13 Lesson 4 Mod 13 Ex 2
limited to: Implement Hyper-V Network
Virtualization; configure Hyper-V virtual
Create and switches; optimize network performance;
configure configure MAC addresses; configure
virtual network isolation; configure synthetic and
networks. legacy virtual network adapters
Deploy and Configure Core Network Services
Mod 1 Lesson 4 Mod 1 Ex 1/2
This objective may include but is not limited
to: Configure IP address options; configure
Configure subnetting; configure supernetting;
IPv4 and IPv6 configure interoperability between IPv4 and Mod 5 Lesson 2/3/4 Mod 5 Ex 1/2
addressing. IPv6; configure ISATAP; configure Teredo Mod 8 Lesson 3/4 Mod 8 Ex 2
Deploy and Mod 6 Lesson 1/2/3/4 Mod 6 Ex 1/2
configure This objective may include but is not limited
Dynamic Host to: Create and configure scopes; configure a
Configuration DHCP reservation; configure DHCP options;
Protocol configure client and server for PXE boot;
(DHCP) configure DHCP relay agent; authorize
service. DHCP server
This objective may include but is not limited Mod 7 Lesson 1/2/3 Mod 7 Ex 1/2/3
to: Configure Active Directory integration
Deploy and of primary zones; configure forwarders;
configure configure Root Hints; manage DNS cache;
DNS service. create A and PTR resource records
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Exam Objective Domain: Exam 70-410: Installing and

Configuring Windows Server 2012 Course Content
Install and Administer Active Directory
This objective may include but is not limited Mod 2 Lesson 3 Mod 2 Ex 1/2
to: Add or remove a domain controller from
a domain; upgrade a domain controller;
install Active Directory Domain Services
(AD DS) on a Server Core installation; install
a domain controller from Install from Media
Install domain (IFM); resolve DNS SRV record registration
controllers. issues; configure a global catalog server
This objective may include but is not Mod 1 Lesson 4
limited to: Automate the creation of Active
Create and Directory accounts; create, copy, configure,
manage and delete users and computers; configure
Active templates; perform bulk Active Directory
Mod 3 Lesson 1 Mod 3 Ex 2/3
Directory operations; configure user rights; offline
users and domain join; manage inactive and disabled Mod 4 Lesson 1/2/3 Mod 4 Ex 1/2/3
computers. accounts
This objective may include but is not limited Mod 3 Lesson 1/2/4 Mod 3 Ex 1/2/3
to: Configure group nesting; convert groups
including security, distribution, universal,
Create and domain local, and domain global; manage
manage group membership using Group Policy;
Active enumerate group membership; delegate
Directory the creation and management of Active Mod 4 Lesson 1/2 Mod 4 Ex 1
groups and Directory objects; manage default Active
organizational Directory containers; create, copy,
units (OUs). configure, and delete groups and OUs
Create and Manage Group Policy
This objective may include but is not limited Mod 11 Lesson 1/2 Mod 11 Ex 1/2
to: Configure a Central Store; manage
Create Group starter GPOs; configure GPO links; configure
Policy objects multiple local group policies; configure
(GPOs). security filtering
his objective may include but is not limited Mod 12 Lesson 1/2 Mod 12 Lab A
to: Configure User Rights Assignment; Ex 1/2/3
configure Security Options settings;
configure Security templates; configure
Configure Audit Policy; configure Local Users and
security Groups; configure User Account Control
policies. (UAC)
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Exam Objective Domain: Exam 70-410: Installing and

Configuring Windows Server 2012 Course Content
Create and Manage Group Policy
Configure This objective may include but is not limited Mod 12 Lesson 3 Mod 12 Lab B
application to: Configure rule enforcement; configure Ex 1
restriction Applocker rules; configure Software
policies. Restriction Policies
This objective may include but is not limited Mod 12 Lesson 4 Mod 12 Lab B
to: Configure rules for multiple profiles Ex 2
using Group Policy; configure connection
security rules; configure Windows Firewall
Configure to allow or deny applications, scopes, ports,
Windows and users; configure authenticated firewall
Firewall. exceptions; import and export settings

Note: Attending this course in itself will not successfully prepare you to pass any associated
certification exams.

The taking of this course does not guarantee that you will automatically pass any certification exam. In
addition to attendance at this course, you should also have the following:
• Real-world, hands-on experience Installing and configuring a Windows Server 2012 Infrastructure

• Windows 7 or Windows 8 client configuration experience

• Additional study outside of the content in this handbook

There may also be additional study and preparation resources, such as practice tests, available for you
to prepare for this exam. Details of these are available at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-410&locale=en-us#tab3
You should familiarize yourself with the audience profile and exam prerequisites to ensure you are
sufficiently prepared before taking the certification exam. The complete audience profile for this exam
is available at the following URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-410&locale=en-us#tab1

The exam/course mapping table outlined above is accurate at the time of printing, however it is subject to
change at any time and Microsoft bears no responsibility for any discrepancies between the version
published here and the version available online and will provide no notification of such changes.
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Course Materials
The following materials are included with your kit:

• Course Handbook A succinct classroom learning guide that provides all the critical technical
information in a crisp, tightly-focused format, which is just right for an effective in-class learning
experience.
• Lessons: Guide you through the learning objectives and provide the key points that are critical to
the success of the in-class learning experience.

• Labs: Provide a real-world, hands-on platform for you to apply the knowledge and skills learned
in the module.

• Module Reviews and Takeaways: Provide improved on-the-job reference material to boost
knowledge and skills retention.
• Lab Answer Keys: Provide step-by-step lab solution guidance at your fingertips when it’s
needed.

Course Companion Content on the http://www.microsoft.com/learning/companionmoc Site:

Searchable, easy-to-navigate digital content with integrated premium online resources designed to
supplement the Course Handbook.

• Modules: Include companion content, such as questions and answers, detailed demo steps and
additional reading links, for each lesson. Additionally, they include Lab Review questions and
answers and Module Reviews and Takeaways sections, which contain the review questions and
answers, best practices, common issues and troubleshooting tips with answers, and real-world
issues and scenarios with answers.

• Resources: Include well-categorized additional resources that give you immediate access to the
most up-to-date premium content on TechNet, MSDN®, and Microsoft Press®.
Student Course files on the http://www.microsoft.com/learning/companionmoc Site: Includes the
Allfiles.exe, a self-extracting executable file that contains all the files required for the labs and
demonstrations.

• Course evaluation At the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to complete an online
evaluation to provide feedback on the course, training facility, and instructor.

• To provide additional comments or feedback on the course, send e-mail to

[email protected]. To inquire about the Microsoft Certification Program, send e-mail
to [email protected].
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Virtual Machine Environment

This section provides the information for setting up the classroom environment to support the business
scenario of the course.

Virtual Machine Configuration

In this course, you will use Microsoft® Hyper-V to perform the labs.

Important At the end of each lab, you must close the virtual machine and must not save any
changes. To close a virtual machine without saving the changes, perform the following steps:
1. On the virtual machine, on the Action menu, click Close.
2. In the Close dialog box, in the What do you want the virtual machine to do? list, click Turn
off and delete changes, and then click OK.

The following table shows the role of each virtual machine used in this course.

Virtual machine Role

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20410B-LON-DC1 A domain controller running Windows Server 2012 in the Adatum.com
domain.

20410B-LON-SVR1 A member server running Windows Server 2012 in the Adatum.com domain.

A member server running Windows Server 2012 in the Adatum.com domain.

20410B-LON-SVR2
This server will be located on a second subnet.

20410B-LON-SVR3 A blank virtual machine on which students will install Windows Server 2012.

20410B-LON-HOST1 A bootable VHD for running Windows Server 2012 as the host for Hyper-V.

20410B-LON-CORE A standalone server running Windows Server 2012 Server Core.

20410B-LON-RTR A router that is used for network activities that require a separate subnet.

20410B-LON-CL1 A client computer running Windows 8 and Microsoft® Office 2010 Service
Pack 1 (SP1) in the Adatum.com domain.

20410B-LON-CL2 A client computer running Windows 8 and Office 2010 SP1 in the
Adatum.com domain that is located in a second subnet.

Software Configuration
The following software is installed on each virtual machine:
• Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4 is installed on LON-SVR2.

Classroom Setup
Each classroom computer will have the same virtual machine configured in the same way.
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Course Hardware Level

To ensure a satisfactory student experience, Microsoft Learning requires a minimum equipment
configuration for trainer and student computers in all Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions
(CPLS) classrooms in which Official Microsoft Learning Product courseware are taught.

• Hardware level 6 with 8 gigabytes (GB) of random access memory (RAM)

Navigation in Windows Server 2012

If you are not familiar with the user interface in Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8, then the following
information will help orient you to the new interface.

• Sign in and Sign out replace Log in and Log off.

• Administrative tools are found in the Tools menu of Server Manager.

• Move your mouse to the lower right corner of the desktop to open a menu with:

• Settings: This includes Control Panel and Power.

• Start menu: This provides access to some applications.

• Search: This allows you to search applications, settings, and files.

You may also find the following shortcut keys useful:

• Windows: Opens the Start menu.

• Windows+C: Opens the same menu as moving the mouse to the lower right corner.
• Windows+I: Opens Settings.

• Windows+R: Opens the Run window.

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Module 1
Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012
Contents:
Module Overview 1-1

Lesson 1: Windows Server 2012 Overview 1-2

Lesson 2: Overview of Windows Server 2012 Management 1-14

Lesson 3: Installing Windows Server 2012 1-20

Lesson 4: Post-Installation Configuration of Windows Server 2012 1-25

Lesson 5: Introduction to Windows PowerShell 1-34
Lab: Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012 1-39

Module Review and Takeaways 1-48

Module Overview
Understanding the capabilities of a new Windows Server® 2012 operating system enables you to leverage
that operating system effectively. If you do not understand the capabilities of your new Windows Server
2012 operating system, you may end up using it the same way that you used the previous operating
system, and you may forego the advantages of the new system. By understanding how to utilize your new
Windows Server 2012 operating system fully, and by understanding the tools that are available to manage
that functionality, you can provide your organization with more value.

This module introduces the new Windows Server 2012 administrative interface. In this module, you will
learn about the different roles and features that are available with the Windows Server 2012 operating
system. You will also learn about the different installation options that you can use when you install
Windows Server 2012.

This module discusses the configuration steps that you can perform both during installation and after
deployment to ensure that the servers can begin functioning in its assigned role. You will also learn how
to use Windows PowerShell® to perform common administrative tasks in Windows Server 2012.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe Windows Server 2012.

• Describe the management tools available in Windows Server 2012.

• Install Windows Server 2012.

• Perform post-installation configuration of Windows Server 2012.

• Perform basic administrative tasks using Windows PowerShell.

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Lesson 1
Windows Server 2012 Overview
Before deploying Windows Server 2012, you need to understand how each of the Windows Server 2012
editions might benefit your organization’s servers. You also need to know whether a particular hardware
configuration is appropriate for Windows Server 2012, whether a virtual deployment might be more
suitable than a physical deployment, and which installation source allows you to deploy Windows Server
2012 in an efficient manner. If you do not have an understanding of these issues, you could end up
costing your organization time and money by making a choice that you must later correct.

This lesson provides an overview of the various Windows Server 2012 editions, installation options, roles,
and features. Using this information, you will be able to determine which Windows Server 2012 edition
and installation options are right for your organization.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe the role of on-premises servers on a modern network.

• Explain the difference between the private and public clouds.

• List the different editions of Windows Server 2012.

• Describe the difference between a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012 and traditional
installation of Windows Server 2012.

• Explain the function of the server roles that are available on computers running Windows Server2012.

• Explain the purpose of various Windows Server 2012 features.

On-Premises Servers
As an IT professional, you most likely have heard
about cloud computing. You might have heard
how software and services are being moved to
a public or private cloud because the cloud is
predicted to be an important aspect of the future
of enterprise computing. You also may have heard
that Windows Server 2012 is ready for the cloud.
As an IT professional who has worked with
locally-deployed servers, it would be reasonable
to ask why, If everything is moving to cloud
computing, do you need to learn about deploying
Windows Server 2012 locally?

The reality is, not every service and application that is used on a daily basis should be hosted by cloud
computing. Locally deployed servers form the backbone of an organizational network, and provide the
following resources to clients:

• Infrastructure services. Servers provide clients with infrastructure resources, including Domain Name
System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services. These services allow clients
to connect and communicate with other resources. Without these services, clients would not be able
to connect either to each other or to remote resources—including resources that are hosted by cloud
computing.
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• Shared files and printers. Servers provide a centralized location that allows users to store and share
documents. Servers also host resources such as shared printers that allow groups of users to leverage
resources more efficiently. Without these centralized, locally deployed resources, sharing and backing
up files centrally would be a more complex and time-intensive process. While it might be possible to
host some of this information with cloud computing, it does not always make sense to send a job to a
printer that is in the next room through a server that is hosted at a remote location.

• Hosted applications. Servers host applications such as Microsoft® Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL
Server®, Microsoft Dynamics®, and Microsoft System Center. Clients access these applications to
accomplish different tasks, such as accessing email or self-service deployment of desktop applications.
In some cases, these resources can be deployed to cloud computing. In many cases these resources
must be hosted locally for performance, cost, and regulatory reasons. Whether it is best to host these
resources locally or with cloud computing depends on the specifics of the individual organization.

• Network access. Servers provide authentication and authorization resources to clients on the network.
By authenticating against a server, a user and client can prove their identity. Even when many of an
organization’s servers are located in a public or private cloud, people still need to have some form of
local authentication and authorization infrastructure.
• Application, Update, and Operating System deployment. Servers are often deployed locally to assist
with the deployment of applications, updates, and operating systems to clients on the organizational
network. Because of intensive bandwidth utilization, these servers must be in proximity to the clients
to which they are providing this service.

Each organization will have its own requirements. An organization in an area that has limited Internet
connectivity will need to rely more on on-premises servers than an organization that has access to
high-speed bandwidth. It is important that, even in a case of Internet connectivity issues, work in an
organization can continue. Productivity will be negatively affected if the failure of the organization’s
Internet connection suddenly means that no one is able to access his or her shared files and printers.
While Windows Server 2012 is ready for integration with cloud computing, it is also still eminently suited
to the traditional tasks that Windows Server operating systems have performed historically. Therefore, you
will still be able to configure and deploy Windows Server 2012 to perform the same or similar workloads
that you configured for servers running Windows Server 2003, and maybe even for the Microsoft
Windows NT® Server 4.0.

Question: What is the difference between a server and a client operating system?

Question: How has the role of the server evolved over time from the Microsoft
Windows NT 4.0 Server operating system to Windows Server 2012?
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What Is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a general description that
encompasses several different technologies.

The most common forms of cloud computing are:

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). With this

form of cloud computing, you run a full
virtual machine in the cloud. The cloud
hosting provider manages the hypervisor
platform, and you manage the virtual
machine that runs on the cloud provider’s
infrastructure. Windows Azure™ Compute is
an example of IaaS. You can run Windows
Server 2012 as a virtual machine in an IaaS
cloud, but in some cases the operating system will host the virtual machines in an IaaS cloud.
• Platform as a Service (PaaS). With PaaS, the cloud hosting provider provisions you with a particular
platform. For example, a provider may allow you to host databases. You manage the database itself,
and the cloud hosting provider hosts the database server. SQL Azure™ is an example of Platform as a
Service.

• Software as a Service (SaaS). The cloud hosting provider hosts your application and the entire
infrastructure that supports that application. You purchase and run a software application from a
cloud hosting provider. Windows InTune™ and Microsoft Office 365 are examples of SaaS.

Public and Private Clouds

A public cloud is a cloud service that is hosted by a cloud services provider, and is made available for
public use. A public cloud may host a single tenant, or it might host tenants from multiple organizations.
As such, public cloud security is not as strong as private cloud security, but public cloud hosting typically
costs less because multiple tenants absorb costs.
In contrast, private clouds are cloud infrastructure that is dedicated to a single organization. Private clouds
may be hosted by the organization itself, or may be hosted by a cloud services provider who ensures that
the cloud services are not shared with any other organization.
Private clouds are more than large-scale hypervisor deployments; they can use the Microsoft System
Center 2012 management suite, which makes it possible to provide self-service delivery of services and
applications. For example, in an organization that has its own private cloud, it would be possible for users
to use a self-service portal to request multitier applications including web server, database server, and
storage components. Windows Server 2012 and the components of the System Center 2012 suite are
configured in such a way that this service request can be processed automatically, without requiring the
manual deployment of virtual machines and database server software.

Question: Which type of cloud would you use to deploy a custom virtual machine running
Windows Server 2012?
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Windows Server 2012 Editions

There are several different editions of Windows
Server 2012 from which to choose. These editions
allow organizations to select a version of Windows
Server 2012 that best meets their needs, rather
than pay for features they do not require.

When deploying a server for a specific role,

systems administrators can save substantially by
selecting the appropriate edition.

The following table lists the Windows Server 2012

editions.

Edition Description

The Windows Server 2012 Provides all roles and features available on the Windows Server 2012
Standard operating system platform. Supports up to 64 sockets and up to 4 terabytes (TB) of
random access memory (RAM). Includes two virtual machine licenses.

The Windows Server 2012 Provides all roles and features that are available on the Windows
Datacenter operating Server 2012 platform. Includes unlimited virtual machine licenses for
system virtual machines that are run on the same hardware. Supports 64
sockets, up to 640 processor cores, and up to 4 TB of RAM.

The Windows Server 2012 Designed for small business owners, allows only 15 users, cannot be
Foundation operating joined to a domain, and includes limited server roles. Supports one
system processor core and up to 32 gigabytes (GB) of RAM.

The Windows Server 2012 Next edition of Small Business Server. Must be root server in domain. It
Essentials operating system cannot function as a Hyper-V®, Failover Clustering, Server Core, or
Remote Desktop Services server. It has limits for 25 users and 50
devices. Supports two processor cores and 64 GB of RAM.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server Stand-alone Hyper-V platform for virtual machines with no UI. No
2012 licensing cost (free) for host operating system, but virtual machines are
licensed normally. Supports 64 sockets and 4 TB of RAM. Supports
domain join. Does not support other Windows Server 2012 roles other
than limited file services features.

The Windows Storage Entry-level unified storage appliance. Limited to 50 users, one
Server°2012 Workgroup processor core, 32 GB of RAM. Supports domain join.
operating system

The Windows Storage Supports 64 sockets, but is licensed on a two-socket incrementing

Server 2012 Standard basis. Supports 4 TB of RAM. Includes two virtual machine licenses.
operating system Supports domain join. Supports some roles including DNS and DHCP
Server roles, but does not support others including Active Directory®
Domain Services (AD DS), Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS),
and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).

The Windows MultiPoint Supports multiple users accessing the same host computer directly
Server 2012 Standard using separate mouse, keyboard, and monitors. Limited to one socket,
operating system 32 GB of RAM, and a maximum of 12 sessions. Supports some roles
including DNS and DHCP Server roles, but does not support others
including AD DS, AD CS, and AD FS. Does not support domain join.
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Edition Description

The Windows MultiPoint Supports multiple users accessing the same host computer directly
Server 2012 Premium using separate mouse, keyboard, and monitors. Limited to two sockets,
operating system 4 TB of RAM, and a maximum of 22 sessions. Supports some roles
including DNS and DHCP Server roles, but does not support others
including AD DS, AD CS, and AD FS. Supports domain join.

Additional Reading: For more information about the differences

between Windows Server 2012 editions, see the Windows Server Catalog at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266736.

What Is Server Core?

Server Core is a minimal installation option for
Windows Server 2012 that you manage from
Windows PowerShell or a command-line interface,
rather than by using GUI-based tools. A Windows
Server 2012 Server Core installation offers fewer
components and administrative management
options than the full installation of Windows
Server 2012.
Server Core installation is the default installation
option when installing Windows Server 2012.
Server Core has the following advantages over a
traditional Windows Server 2012 deployment:

• Reduced update requirements. Because Server Core installs fewer components, its deployment
requires you to install fewer software updates. This reduces the number of monthly reboots required
and the amount of time required for an administrator to service Server Core.

• Reduced hardware footprint. Server Core computers require less RAM and less hard disk space. When
virtualized, this means that you can deploy more servers on the same host.

Increasing numbers of Microsoft server applications are designed to run on computers with Server Core–
installed operating systems. For example, you can install SQL Server 2012 on computers that are running
the Server Core–installed version of Windows Server 2008 R2.

There are two ways of installing Windows Server 2012 in a Server Core configuration:

• Server Core. This is the standard deployment of Server Core. It is possible to convert to the full version
of Windows Server 2012 with the graphical administration components, but only if you have access to
an installation source with all server files, such as a mounted Windows image file (.wim) image.

• Server Core with Minimal Server Interface. This works the same as a deployment of Windows Server
2012 with the graphical component, except that the graphical components are not installed, nor are
they removed. You can convert between Server Core with Minimal Interface and Windows Server
2012 with a graphical interface by installing the graphical features, but without needing to specify an
installation source.
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You can switch from Server Core to the graphical version of Windows Server 2012 by running the
following Windows PowerShell cmdlet, where c:\mount is the root directory of a mounted image that
hosts the full version of the Windows Server 2012 installation files:

Import-Module ServerManager
Install-WindowsFeature -IncludeAllSubFeature User-Interfaces-Infra -Source c:\mount

Installing the graphical components gives you the option of performing administrative tasks using the
graphical tools. You can also add the graphical tools using the sconfig.cmd menu-driven command-line
tool.

Once you have performed the necessary administrative tasks, you can return the computer to its original
Server Core configuration. You can switch a computer that has the graphical version of Windows Server
2012 to Server Core by removing the following features:
• Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructure

• Server Graphical Shell

Note: Be careful when removing graphical features, as some servers will have other
components installed that are dependent upon those features.

When connected locally, you can use the tools that are listed in the following table to manage Server Core
deployments of Windows Server 2012.

Tool Function

Cmd.exe Allows you to run traditional command-line tools such as ping.exe, ipconfig.exe,
and netsh.exe.

PowerShell.exe Launches a Windows PowerShell session on the Server Core deployment. You
can then perform Windows PowerShell tasks normally.

Sconfig.cmd A command-line menu-driven administrative tool that allows you to perform

most common server administrative tasks.

Notepad.exe Allows you to use the Notepad.exe text editor within the Server Core
environment.

Regedt32.exe Provides registry access within the Server Core environment.

Msinfo32.exe Allows you to view system information about the Server Core deployment.

Taskmgr.exe Launches the Task Manager.

Note: If you accidentally close the command window on a computer that is running Server
Core, you can recover the command window by performing the following steps:

1. Press the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys, and then click Task Manager.

2. From the File menu, click New Task (Run…), and then type cmd.exe.
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Server Core supports most Windows Server 2012 roles and features. However, you cannot install the
following roles on a computer running Server Core:

• AD FS
• Application Server

• Network Policy and Access Services (NPAS)

• Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS)

Even if a role is available to a computer that is running the Server Core installation option, a specific role
service that is associated with that role may not be available.

Note: You can check which roles on Server Core are available and which are not by running
the query Get-WindowsFeature | where-object {$_.InstallState -eq “Removed”}.

The Windows Server 2012 administration paradigm focuses more on managing many servers from one
console than the traditional method of managing each server separately. This means that when you want
to perform an administrative task, you are more likely to manage multiple computers that are running the
Server Core operating system from one computer, than you are to connect to each computer individually.

You can enable remote management of a computer that is running Server Core through sconfig.cmd, or
by running the following command:

Netsh.exe firewall set service remoteadmin enable ALL

Windows Server 2012 Roles

To properly plan how you are going to
use Windows Server 2012 to support your
organization’s requirements, you need to be fully
aware of what roles are available as part of the
operating system. Each version of Windows Server
comes with a different set of roles. As new
versions of Windows Server are released, some
roles are enhanced and others are deprecated. For
the most part, the roles that are available in
Windows Server 2012 are familiar to IT
professionals that have managed Windows Server
2008 and Windows Server 2003.

Windows Server 2012 supports the server roles that are listed in the following table.

Role Function

AD CS Allows you to deploy certification authorities and related role services.

AD DS A centralized store of information about network objects, including

user and computer accounts. Used for authentication and
authorization.

AD FS Provides web single sign-on (SSO) and secured identify federation

support.
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Role Function

Active Directory Supports storage of application-specific data for directory-aware

Lightweight Directory applications that do not require the full infrastructure of AD DS.
Services (AD LDS)

Active Directory Rights Allows you to apply rights management policies to prevent
Management Services unauthorized access to sensitive documents.
(AD RMS)

Application Server Supports centralized management and hosting of high-performance

distributed business applications, such as those built with Microsoft
.NET Framework 4.5.

DHCP Server Provisions client computers on the network with temporary IP

addresses.

DNS Server Provides name resolution for TCP/IP networks.

Fax Server Supports sending and receiving of faxes. Also allows you to manage
fax resource on the network.

File and Storage Services Supports the management of shared folders storage, distributed file
system (DFS), and network storage.

Hyper-V® Enables you to host virtual machines on computers that are running
Windows Server 2012.

Network Policy and Access Authorization infrastructure for remote connections, including Health
Services Registration Authority (HRA) for Network Access Protection (NAP).

Print and Document Supports centralized management of document tasks, including

Services network scanners and networked printers.

Remote Access Supports Seamless Connectivity, Always On, and Always Managed
features based on the Windows 7 DirectAccess feature. Also supports
remote access through virtual private network (VPN) and dial-up
connections.

Remote Desktop Services Supports access to virtual desktops, session-based desktops, and
(RDS) RemoteApp programs.

Volume Activation Services Allows you to automate and simplify the management of volume
license keys and volume key activation. Allows you to manage a Key
Management Service (KMS) host or configure AD DS–based activation
for computers that are members of the domain.

Web Server (IIS) The Windows Server 2012 web server component.

Windows DS Allows you to deploy server operating systems to clients over the
network.

Windows Server Update Provides a method of deploying updates for Microsoft products to
Services (WSUS) network computers.
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When you deploy a role, Windows Server 2012 automatically configures aspects of the server’s
configuration (such as firewall settings), to support the role. Windows Server 2012 also automatically and
simultaneously deploys role dependencies. For example, when you install the WSUS role, the Web Server
(IIS) role components that are required to support the WSUS role are also installed automatically.

You add and remove roles using the Add Roles and Features Wizard, which is available from the Windows
Server 2012 Server Manager console. If you are using Server Core, then you can also add and remove
roles using the Install-WindowsFeature and Remove-WindowsFeature Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
Question: Which roles are often co-located on the same server?

What Are the Windows Server 2012 Features?

Windows Server 2012 features are independent
components that often support role services or
support the server directly. For example, Windows
Server Backup is a feature because it only provides
backup support for the local server; it is not a
resource that other servers on the network can
use.

Windows Server 2012 includes the features that

are listed in the following table.

Feature Description

.NET Framework 3.5 Features Installs .NET Framework 3.5 technologies.

.NET Framework 4.5 Features Installs .NET Framework 4.5 technologies. This feature is
installed by default.

Background Intelligent Transfer Allows asynchronous transfer of files to ensure that other
Service (BITS) network applications are not adversely impacted.

Windows BitLocker® Drive Supports full-disk and full-volume encryption, and startup
Encryption environment protection.

BitLocker network unlock Provides a network-based key protector that can unlock
locked BitLocker–protected domain-joined operating systems.

Windows BranchCache® Allows the server to function as either a hosted cache server or
a BranchCache content server for BranchCache clients.

Client for NFS Provides access to files stored on network file system (NFS)
servers.

Data Center Bridging Allows you to enforce bandwidth allocation on Converged

Network Adapters.

Enhanced Storage Provides support for additional functionality available in

Enhanced Storage Access (IEEE 1667 protocol) device,
including data access restrictions.
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Feature Description

Failover Clustering A high availability feature that allows Windows Server 2012 to
participate in failover clustering.

Group Policy Management An administrative management tool for administering Group

Policy across an enterprise.

Ink and Handwriting Services Allows use of Ink Support and Handwriting Recognition.

Internet Printing Client Supports use of Internet Printing Protocol.

IP Address Management (IPAM) Centralized management of IP address and namespace

Server infrastructure.

Internet SCSI (iSCSI) Target Storage Provides iSCSI target and disk management services to
Provider Windows Server 2012.

Internet Storage name Service (iSNS) Supports discovery services of iSCSI storage area networks
Server service (SANs).

Line Printer Remote (LPR) Port Allows computer to send print jobs to printers that are shared
Monitor using the Line Printer Daemon (LPD) service.

Management Open Data Protocol Allows you to expose Windows PowerShell cmdlets through
(OData) IIS Extension an OData–based web service running on the Internet
Information Services (IIS) platform.

Media Foundation Supports media file infrastructure.

Message Queuing Supports message delivery between applications.

Multipath input/output (I/O) Supports multiple data paths to storage devices.

Network Load Balancing (NLB) Allows traffic to be distributed in a load-balanced manner

across multiple servers that host the same stateless
application.

Peer Name Resolution Protocol Name resolution protocol that allows applications to resolve
(PNRP) names on the computer.

Quality Windows Audio Video Supports audio and video streaming applications on IP home
Experience networks.

Remote Access Server (RAS) Allows you to create connection manager profiles that simplify
Connection Manager Administration remote access configuration deployment to client computers.
Kit

Remote Assistance Allows remote support through invitations.

Remote Differential Compression Transfers the differences between files over a network,
(RDC) minimizing bandwidth utilization.

Remote Server Administration Tools Collection of consoles and tools for remotely managing roles
and features on other servers.

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) over Relays RPC traffic over HTTP as an alternative to VPN
HTTP Proxy connections.
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Feature Description

Simple TCP/IP Services Supports basic TCP/IP services, including Quote of the Day.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Supports transfer of email messages.

(SMTP) Server

Simple Network Management Includes SNMP agents that are used with the network
Protocol (SNMP) Service management services.

Subsystem for UNIX-based Supports Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX
Applications (POSIX)–compliant UNIX-based applications.

Telnet Client Allows outbound connections to Telnet servers and other

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)–based services.

Telnet Server Allows clients to connect to the server using the Telnet
protocol.

Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) Allows you to access TFTP servers.
Client

User Interfaces and Infrastructure Contains the components necessary to support the graphical
interface installation option on Windows Server 2012. On
graphical installations, this feature is installed by default.

Windows Biometric Framework Allows use of fingerprint devices for authentication.

(WBF)

Windows Feedback Forwarder Supports sending of feedback to Microsoft when joining a

Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP).

Windows Identity Foundation 3.5 Set of .NET Framework classes that support implementing
claims based identity on .NET applications.

Windows Internal Database Relational data store that can only be used by Windows roles
and features such as WSUS.

Windows PowerShell Task-based command-line shell and scripting language used

to administer computers running Windows operating systems.
This feature is installed by default.

Windows PowerShell Web Access Allows remote management of computers by running

Windows PowerShell sessions in a web browser.

Windows Process Activation service Allows applications hosting Windows Communication

(WAS) Foundation (WCF) services that to not use HTTP protocols to
use features of IIS.

Windows Search service Allows fast searches of files hosted on a server for clients
compatible with the Windows Search service.

Windows Server Backup Backup and recovery software for Windows Server 2012.

Windows Server Migration Tools Collection of Windows PowerShell cmdlets that assist in the
migration of server roles, operating system settings, files, and
shares from computers running previous versions of Windows
Server operating systems to Windows Server 2012.
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Feature Description

Windows Standards-Based Storage Set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that allow
Management the discovery, management, and monitoring of storage
devices that use standards such as Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

Windows System Resource Manager Allows you to control the allocation of CPU and memory
(WSRM) resources.

Windows TIFF IFilter Supports Optical Character Recognition on Tagged Image File
Format (TIFF) 6.0-compliant files.

WinRM IIS Extension Windows Remote Management for IIS.

Windows Internet Naming Service Supports name resolution for NetBIOS names.
(WINS) Server

Wireless local area network (LAN) Allows the server to use a wireless network interface.
Service

Windows on Windows (WoW) 64 Supports running 32-bit applications on Server Core

Support installations. This feature is installed by default.

XPS Viewer Supports the viewing and singing of documents in XPS

formats.

Features on Demand
Features on Demand enables you to add and remove role and feature files, also known as feature payload,
from the Windows Server 2012 operating system to conserve space. You can install roles and features
where the feature payload is not present by using a remote source, such as a mounted image of the full
operating system. If an installation source is not present but an internet connection is, source files will
be downloaded from Windows Update. The advantage of a Features on Demand installation is that it
requires less hard disk space than a traditional installation. The disadvantage is that if you want to add
a role or feature, you must have access to a mounted installation source. This is something that is not
necessary if you perform an installation of Windows Server 2012 with the graphical features enabled.

Question: Which feature do you need to install to support NetBIOS name resolution for
client computers running a Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 operating system workstation?
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Lesson 2
Overview of Windows Server 2012 Management
Configuring a server correctly can save you from substantial problems later. Windows Server 2012
provides multiple tools to perform specific administrative tasks, each of which is appropriate for a given
set of circumstances. The Windows Server 2012 management interface also enhances your ability to
perform administrative tasks on more than one server simultaneously.

In this lesson you will learn about the different management tools that you can use to perform
administrative tasks on computers that are running the Windows Server 2012 operating system.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe Server Manager.

• Describe how to use administrative tools and Remote Server Administration Tools.

• Describe how to use Server Manager to perform a variety of tasks.

• Describe how to configure services.

• Describe how to configure Windows Remote Management.

What Is Server Manager?

Server Manager is the primary graphical tool that
you use to manage computers running Windows
Server 2012. You can use the Server Manager
console to manage both the local server and
remote servers. You can also manage servers as
groups. By managing servers as groups, you can
perform the same administrative tasks quickly
across multiple servers that either perform the
same role, or are members of the same group.

You can use the server manager console to

perform the following tasks on both local servers
and remote servers:
• Add roles and features

• Launch Windows PowerShell sessions

• View events

• Perform server configuration tasks

Best Practices Analyzer

Server Manager includes a Best Practices Analyzer tool for all Windows Server 2012 roles. With Best
Practices Analyzer, you can determine whether roles on your network are functioning efficiently or if
there are problems that you need to remediate. Best Practices Analyzer examines how a role functions
—including querying associated event logs for warning and error events—so you can be aware of health
issues associated with specific roles before those health issues cause a failure that impacts the server
functionality.
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Administrative Tools and Remote Server Administration Tools

When you use Server Manager to perform
a specific role-related or feature-related
administrative task, the console launches the
appropriate administrative tool. When you install
a role or feature using Server Manager locally
or remotely, you are prompted to install the
appropriate administrative tool. For example, if
you use Server Manager to install the DHCP role
on another server, you will be prompted to install
the DHCP console on the local server.

Remote Server Administration Tools

You can install the complete set of administrative
tools for Windows Server 2012 by installing the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) feature. When
you install RSAT, you can choose to install all of the tools, or only the tools to manage specific roles and
features. You can also install RSAT on computers running the Windows 8 operating system. This allows
administrators to manage servers remotely, without having to log on directly to each server.
In addition to Windows PowerShell, the tools that administrators most commonly use include the
following:

• Active Directory Administrative Center. With this console, you can perform Active Directory
administrative tasks such as raising domain and forest functional levels, and enabling the Active
Directory Recycle Bin. You also use this console to manage Dynamic Access Control.

• Active Directory Users and Computers. With this tool, you can create and manage Active Directory
users, computers, and groups. You can also use this tool to create Organizational Units (OUs).
• DNS console. With the DNS console, you can configure and manage the DNS Server role. This
includes creating forward and reverse lookup zones, and managing DNS records.
• Event Viewer. You can use the Event Viewer to view events recorded in the Windows Server 2012
event logs.

• Group Policy Management Console. With this tool, you can edit Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and
manage their application in AD DS.

• IIS Manager Tool. You can use this tool to manage websites.

• Performance Monitor. You can use this console to view record performance data by selecting
counters associated with specific resources that you want to monitor.
• Resource Monitor. You can use this console to view real-time information on CPU, memory, and disk
and network utilization.
• Task Scheduler. You can use this console to manage the execution of scheduled tasks.

You can access each of these tools in Server Manager by accessing the Tools menu.

Note: You can also pin frequently used tools to the Windows Server 2012 taskbar, or to the
Start menu.
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Demonstration: Using Server Manager

In this demonstration, you will see how to use Server Manager to perform the following tasks:

• Sign in to Windows Server 2012 and view the Windows Server 2012 desktop.
• Add a feature by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard.

• View role-related events.

• Run the Best Practice Analyzer for a role.

• List the tools available from Server Manager.

• Restart Windows Server 2012.

Demonstration Steps
Sign in to Windows Server 2012 and view the Windows Server 2012 desktop
• Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd, and
then close the Server Manager console.

Add a feature by using the Add Roles and Features Wizard

1. Open Server Manager from the taskbar.
2. Start the Add Roles and Features Wizard.

3. Select the Role-based or featured-based installation check box.

4. Click Select a server from the server pool, verify that LON-DC1.Adatum.com is selected, and then
click Next.
5. On the Select server roles page, select Fax Server.

6. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard dialog box, click Add Features.

7. On the Select features page, click BranchCache.

8. On the Fax Server page, click Next.

9. On the Print and Document Services page, click Next twice.

10. On the Confirmation page, select the Restart the destination server automatically if required
check box, click Yes, click Install, and then click Close.

11. Click the flag icon next to Server Manager Dashboard, and review the messages.

Note: You can close this console without terminating the task.

View role-related events

1. Click the Dashboard node.

2. In the Roles and Server Groups pane, under DNS, click Events.

3. On the DNS - Events Detail View, change the time period to 48 hours, and the Event Sources
to All.

Run the Best Practice Analyzer for a role

1. Under DNS, click BPA results.

2. Select All on the Severity Levels drop-down menu, and then click OK.
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List the tools available from Server Manager

• Click on the Tools menu, and review the tools that are installed on LON-DC1.

Sign out the currently signed-in user

1. Sign out of LON-DC1.

2. Sign back in to LON-DC1 using the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

Restart Windows Server 2012

• In a Windows PowerShell window, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Shutdown /r /t 15

Configuring Services
Services are programs that run in the background
and provide services to clients and to the host
server. You can manage services through the
Services console, which is available in Server
Manager from the Tools menu. When securing a
computer, you should disable all services except
those that are required by the roles, features, and
applications that are installed on the server.

Startup Types
Services use one of the following startup types:
• Automatic. The service starts automatically
when the server boots.

• Automatic (Delayed Start). The service starts automatically after the server has booted.
• Manual. The service must be started manually, either by a program or by an administrator.

• Disabled. The service is disabled and cannot be started.

Note: If a server is behaving problematically, open the Services console, sort by startup
type, and then locate those services that are configured to start automatically, and which are not
in a running state.

Service Recovery
Recovery options determine what a service does in the event that it fails. You access the Recovery tab
from the DNS Server Properties window. On the Recovery tab, you have the following recovery options:

• Take no action. The service remains in a failed state until attended to by an administrator.

• Restart the Service. The service restarts automatically.

• Run a Program. Allows you to run a program or a script.

• Restart the Computer. The computer restarts after a preconfigured number of minutes.

You can configure different recovery options for the first failure, the second failure, and subsequent
failures. You can also configure a period of time after which the service failure clock resets.
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Managed Service Accounts

Managed service accounts are special domain-based accounts that you can use with services. The
advantage of a managed service account is that the account password is rotated automatically according
to a schedule. These password changes are automatic, and do not require administrator intervention. This
minimizes the chance that the service account password will be compromised, something that happens
because administrators traditionally assign simple passwords to service accounts with the same service
across a large number of servers, and never bother to update those passwords. Virtual accounts are
service-specific accounts that are local rather than domain-based. Windows Server 2012 rotates and
manages the password for virtual accounts.

Question: What is the advantage of a managed service account compared to a traditional

domain-based service account?

Configuring Windows Remote Management

Most administrators no longer perform systems
administration tasks solely from the server room.
Almost all tasks that they perform on a daily basis
are now performed using remote management
technologies.
With Windows Remote Management (WinRM),
you can use Remote Shell, remote Windows
PowerShell, and other remote management tools
to manage a computer remotely.
You can enable WinRM from Server Manager by
performing the following steps:
1. In the Server Manager console, click the Local Server node.
2. In the Properties dialog box for the local server, next to Remote Management, click Disabled. This
opens the Configure Remote Management dialog box.
3. In the Configure Remote Management dialog box, select the Enable Remote Management Of
This Server From Other Computers check box, and then click OK.

You also can enable WinRM from a command line by running the command WinRM -qc. You disable
WinRM by using the same method that you use to enable it. You can disable WinRM on a computer
running the Server Core installation option using the sconfig.cmd tool.

Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop is the traditional method by which systems administrators connect remotely to the
servers that they manage. You can configure Remote Desktop on a computer that running the full version
of Windows Server 2012 by performing the following steps:

1. In the Server Manager console, click the Local Server node.

2. Next to Remote Desktop, click Disabled.

3. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Remote tab, select one of the following options:

o Don’t allow connections to this computer. The default state of remote desktop is disabled.
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o Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop. Allows
connections from Remote Desktop clients that do not support Network Level Authentication.

o Allow Connections only from Computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level
Authentication. Allows secure connections from computers running Remote Desktop clients that
support network-level authentication.

You can enable and disable Remote Desktop on computers that are running the Server Core installation
option by using the sconfig.cmd command-line tool.
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Lesson 3
Installing Windows Server 2012
When preparing to install Windows Server 2012, you need to understand whether a particular hardware
configuration is appropriate. You also need to know whether a Server Core deployment might be more
suitable than a full GUI deployment, and which installation source allows you to deploy Windows Server
2012 in an efficient manner.

In this lesson you will learn about the process of installing Windows Server 2012, including the methods
that you can use to install the operating system, the different installation options, the minimum system
requirements, and the decisions that you need to make when using the Installation Wizard.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the different methods that you can use to install Windows Server 2012.

• Identify the different installation types that you can choose when installing the Windows Server 2012.

• Determine whether a computer or virtual machine meets the minimum hardware requirements
necessary to install Windows Server 2012.

• Describe the decisions that you need to make when performing a Windows Server 2012 installation.

Installation Methods
Microsoft distributes Windows Server 2012 on
optical media and in an .iso (ISO) image format.
ISO format is becoming more common as
organizations acquire software over the Internet
rather than obtaining physical removable media.

Once you have obtained the Windows Server

2012 operating system from Microsoft, you can
then use your own method to deploy the
operating system. You can install Windows Server
2012 by using a variety of methods, including the
following:

• Optical Media

o Advantages include:
 Traditional method of deployment.
o Disadvantages include:
 Requires that the computer have access to a DVD-ROM drive.
 Is typically slower than USB media.
 You cannot update the installation image without replacing the media.
 You can only perform one installation per DVD-ROM at a time.
• USB Media

o Advantages include:
 All computers with USB drives allow boot from USB media.
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 The image can be updated as new software updates and drivers become available.
 The answer file can be stored on a USB drive, minimizing the amount of interaction that the
administrator must perform.
o Disadvantages include:
 Requires the administrator perform special steps to prepare USB media from an ISO file.
• Mounted ISO image

o Advantages include:
 With virtualization software, you can mount the ISO image directly, and install Windows
Server 2012 on the virtual machine.
o Disadvantages include:
 None.
• Network Share

o Advantages include:
 It is possible to boot a server off a boot device (DVD or USB drive) and install from
installation files that are hosted on a network share.
o Disadvantages include:
 This method is much slower than using Windows DS. If you already have access to a DVD or
USB media, it is simpler to use those tools for operating system deployment.
• Windows DS

o Advantages include:
 You can deploy Windows Server 2012 from .wim image files or specially prepared VHD files.
 You can use the Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) to configure lite-touch
deployment.
 Clients perform a Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot to contact the Windows DS
server, and the operating system image is transmitted to the server over the network.
 Windows DS allows multiple concurrent installations of Windows Server 2012 using multicast
network transmissions.
• System Center Configuration Manager
o Advantages include:
 Configuration Manager allows you to fully automate the deployment of Windows Server
2012 to new servers that do not have an operating system installed. This process is called
Zero Touch deployment.
• Virtual Machine Manager Templates
o Advantages include:
 Windows Server 2012 is typically deployed in private cloud scenarios from preconfigured
virtual machine templates. You can configure multiple components of the System Center
suite to allow self-service deployment of Windows Server 2012 virtual machines.
Question: What is another method that you can use to deploy Windows Server 2012?
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Installation Types
How you deploy Windows Server 2012 on a
specific server depends on the circumstances
of that installation. Installing on a server that
is running Windows Server 2008 R2 requires
different actions than installing on a server
running an x86 edition of Windows Server 2003.

When you are performing an installation of the

Windows Server 2012 operating system, you can
choose one of the options in the following table.

Installation option Description

Fresh installation Allows you to perform a fresh install on a new disk or volume. Fresh
installations are the most frequently used, and take the shortest amount of
time. You can also use this option to configure Windows Server 2012 to
perform a dual boot if you want to keep the existing operating system.

Upgrade An upgrade preserves the files, settings, and applications that are installed
already on the original server. You perform an upgrade when you want to
keep all of these items, and want to continue to use the same server
hardware. You can only upgrade to an equivalent or newer edition of
Windows Server 2012 from x64 versions of Windows Server 2003, Windows
Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. You
launch an upgrade by running setup.exe from within the original Windows
Server operating system.

Migration Use migration when migrating from an x86 version of Windows Server 2003,
Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012.
You can use the Windows Server Migration Tools feature in Windows Server
2012 to transfer files and settings.

When you perform a fresh installation, you can deploy Windows Server 2012 to an unpartitioned disk, or
to an existing volume. You can also install Windows Server 2012 to a specially prepared VHD file in a
“boot to VHD” scenario. Boot to VHD requires special preparation, and is not an option that you can
choose when performing a typical installation using the Windows Setup Wizard.

Hardware Requirements for Windows Server 2012

Hardware requirements define the minimum
hardware that is required to run the Windows
Server 2012 server. Your actual hardware
requirements might be greater, depending on
the services that the server is hosting, the load on
the server, and the responsiveness of your server.
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Each role service and feature places a unique load on network, disk I/O, processor, and memory resources.
For example, the file server role places different stresses on server hardware than the DHCP role.

When considering hardware requirements, remember that Windows Server 2012 can be deployed
virtually. Windows Server 2012 is supported on Hyper-V and some other non-Microsoft virtualization
platforms. Windows Server 2012 virtualized deployments need to match the same hardware specifications
as physical deployments. For example, when creating a virtual machine to host Windows Server 2012, you
need to ensure that you configure the virtual machine with enough memory and hard disk space.
Windows Server 2012 has the following minimum hardware requirements:

• Processor architecture: x86-64

• Processor speed: 1.4 gigahertz (GHz)

• Memory (RAM): 512 megabytes (MB)

• Hard disk drive space: 32 GB, more if the server has more than 16 GB of RAM

The Datacenter edition of Windows Server 2012 supports the following hardware maximums:
• 640 logical processors

• 4 TB of RAM
• 63 failover cluster nodes

Additional Reading: For more information about the Windows Server Virtualization
Validation Program, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266736.

Question: Why does a server need more hard disk drive space if it has more than 16 GB of
RAM?

Installing Windows Server 2012

The process of deploying a Windows Server
operating system is simpler today than it has
been historically. The administrator performing
the deployment has fewer decisions to make,
although the decisions that they do make are
critical to the success of the deployment. A typical
installation of Windows Server 2012 (if you do not
already have an existing answer file), involves
performing the following steps:
1. Connect to the installation source. Options for
this include:

o Insert a DVD-ROM containing the

Windows Server 2012 installation files, and boot from the DVD-ROM.
o Connect a specially prepared USB drive that hosts the Windows Server 2012 installation files.

o Perform a PXE boot, and connect to a Windows DS server.

2. On the first page of the Windows Setup Wizard, select the following:

o Language to install
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o Time and currency format

o Keyboard or input method

3. On the second page of the Windows Setup Wizard, click Install now. You can also use this page to
select Repair Your Computer. You use this option in the event that an installation has become
corrupted, and you are no longer able to boot into Windows Server 2012.

4. In the Windows Setup Wizard, on the Select The Operating System You Want To Install page,
choose from the available operating system installation options. The default option is Server Core
Installation.

5. On the License Terms page, review the terms of the operating system license. You must choose to
accept the license terms before you can proceed with the installation process.

6. On the Which Type Of Installation Do You Want page, you have the following options:

o Upgrade. Select this option if you have an existing installation of Windows Server that you want
to upgrade to Windows Server 2012. You should launch upgrades from within the previous
version of Windows Server rather than booting from the installation source.

o Custom. Select this option if you want to perform a new installation.

7. On the Where do you want to install Windows page, choose an available disk on which to install
Windows Server 2012. You can also choose to repartition and reformat disks from this page. When
you click Next, the installation process will copy files and reboot the computer several times.
8. On the Settings page, provide a password for the local Administrator account.
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Lesson 4
Post-Installation Configuration of Windows Server 2012
The Windows Server 2012 installation process involves answering a minimal number of questions. Once
you have completed installation, you need to perform several post-installation configuration steps before
you can deploy it in a production environment. These steps allow you to prepare the server for the role it
will perform on your organization’s network.

This lesson includes how to perform a range of post-installation configuration tasks, including configuring
network addressing information, setting a server’s name and joining it to the domain, and understanding
product activation options.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe how to use Server Manager to perform post-installation configuration tasks.

• Describe how to configure server network settings.

• Describe how to join an Active Directory domain.

• Explain how to perform an offline domain join.

• Explain how to activate Windows Server 2012.

• Describe how to configure a Server Core installation.

Overview of Post-Installation Configuration

Unlike previous versions of Windows operating
systems, the Windows Server 2012 installation
process minimizes the number of questions that
you need to answer. For example, you no longer
need to configure network connections, a
computer name, a user account, and domain
membership information. The only information
that you provide during the installation process is
the password for the default local Administrator
account. The post-installation process involves
configuring all of the other settings that the server
requires before it can be deployed to a
production environment.
You use the Local Server node in the Server Manager console to perform the following tasks:

• Configure the IP address

• Set the computer name
• Join an Active Directory domain
• Configure the time zone
• Enable automatic updates
• Add roles and features
• Enable remote desktop
• Configure Windows Firewall settings
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Configuring Server Network Settings

To communicate on the network, a server needs
correct IP address information. Once you have
completed installation, you need to either set or
check the server’s IP address configuration. By
default, a newly-deployed server attempts to
obtain IP address information from a DHCP server.
You can view a server’s IP address configuration
by clicking the Local Server node in Server
Manager.

If the server has an IPv4 address in the Automatic

Private IP Addressing (APIPA) range of 169.254.0.1
to 169.254.255.254, then the server has not yet
been configured with an IP address from a DHCP server. This may be because a DHCP server has not yet
been configured on the network, or, if there is a DHCP server, because there is a problem with the
network infrastructure that blocks the adapter from receiving an address.

Note: If you are using only an IPv6 network, then an IPv4 address in this range is not
problematic, and IPv6 address information is still configured automatically.

Configuration Using Server Manager

You can manually configure IP address information for a server by performing the following steps:

1. In the Server Manager console, click on the address next to the network adapter that you want to
configure.

2. In the Network Connections window, right-click on the network adapter for which you want to
configure an address, and then click Properties.

3. In the Adapter Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click
Properties.

4. In the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties dialog box, enter the following IPv4
address information, and then click OK twice:
o IP address

o Subnet Mask
o Default Gateway

o Preferred DNS server

o Alternate DNS server

Command-Line IPv4 Address Configuration

You can set IPv4 address information manually from an elevated command prompt by using the netsh.exe
command from the interface IPv4 context.
For example, to configure the adapter named Local Area Connection with the IPv4 address 10.10.10.10
and subnet mask 255.255.255.0, type the following command:

Netsh interface ipv4 set address “Local Area Connection” static 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.0

You can use the same context of the netsh.exe command to configure DNS configuration.
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For example, to configure the adapter named Local Area Connection to use the DNS server at IP address
10.10.10.5 as the primary DNS server, type the following command:

Netsh interface ipv4 set dnsservers “Local Area Connection” static 10.10.10.5 primary

Network Interface Card Teaming

With Network Interface Card (NIC) teaming, you can increase the availability of a network resource. When
you configure the NIC teaming feature, a computer uses one network address for multiple cards. In the
event that one of the cards fails, the computer is able to maintain communication with other hosts on the
network that are using that shared address. NIC teaming does not require that the network cards be the
same model or use the same driver. To team network cards, perform the following steps:

1. Ensure that the server has more than one network adapter.
2. In Server Manager, click the Local Server node.

3. Next to Network Adapter Teaming, click Disabled. This will launch the NIC Teaming dialog box.

4. In the NIC Teaming dialog box, hold down the Ctrl key, and then click each network adapter that
you want to add to the team.
5. Right-click on these selected network adapters, and then click Add to New Team.

6. In the New Team dialog box, provide a name for the team, and then click OK.

How to Join a Domain

When you install Windows Server 2012, the
computer is assigned a random name. Prior
to joining a domain, you should configure the
server with the name that you want it to have
in the domain. As a best practice, you should use
a consistent naming scheme when devising a
computer name. Computers should be given
names that reflect their function and location, not
names with personal ties, such as pet names, or
fictional or historical characters. It is simpler for
everyone to determine that a server named
MEL-DNS1 is a DNS server in Melbourne, than it is
to determine that a server named Copernicus holds the DNS role in the Melbourne office.

You change this name using the Server Manager console by performing the following steps:
1. In Server Manager, click the Local Server node.

2. In the Properties window, click the active text next to Computer Name. This will launch the System
Properties dialog box.

3. In the System Properties dialog box, in the Computer Name tab, click Change.

4. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, enter the new name that you want to assign
to the computer.

5. Restart the computer to implement the name change.

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Prior to joining the domain, be sure to complete the following steps to verify that the new server is ready
to be domain-joined:

• Ensure that you are able to resolve the IP address of the domain controller, and can contact that
domain controller. Use the PING protocol to ping the domain controller by hostname to accomplish
both of these goals.

• Complete one of the following tasks:

o Create a computer account in the domain that matches the name of the computer that you want
to join to the domain. This is often done when large numbers of computers need to be joined to
the domain automatically.

o Join the computer to the domain using a security account that has the right to perform
domain-join operations.

• Verify that the security account that is used for the domain operation already exists within the
domain.

Now that you have renamed your Windows Server 2012 server and have verified that it is ready to be
domain-joined, you can join the server to the domain.
To join the domain using Server Manager, perform the following steps:
1. In Server Manager, click the Local Server node.

2. In the Properties window, next to Workgroup, click WORKGROUP.

3. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Computer Name tab, click Change.
4. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, in the Member Of area, click the Domain
option. Enter the new domain name, and then click OK.

5. In the Windows Security dialog box, enter domain credentials that allow you to join the computer to
the domain.

6. Restart the computer.

Performing an Offline Domain Join

Offline domain join is a feature that you can
use to join a computer to the domain when
that computer does not have an active network
connection. This feature can be useful in situations
where connectivity is intermittent, such as when
you are deploying a server to a remote site that is
connected via satellite uplink.

Use the djoin.exe command-line tool to perform

an offline domain join. You can perform an offline
domain join by performing the following steps:

1. Log on to the domain controller with a user

account that has the appropriate rights to join
other computers to the domain.
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2. Open an elevated command prompt and use the djoin.exe command with the /provision option.
You also need to specify the domain to which you want to join the computer, the name of the
computer you will be joining to the domain, and the name of the savefile that you will transfer to the
target of the offline domain join.

For example, to join the computer Canberra to the domain adatum.com using the savefile
Canberra-join.txt, type the following command:

djoin.exe /provision /domain adatum.com /machine canberra /savefile

c:\canberra-join.txt

3. Transfer the generated savefile to the new computer, and then run the djoin.exe command with the
/requestODJ option.

For example, to perform the offline domain join, after transferring the savefile Canberra-join.txt to
computer Canberra, you would run the following command from an elevated command prompt on
Canberra:

djoin.exe /requestODJ /loadfile canberra-join.txt /windowspath %systemroot% /localos

4. Restart the computer to complete the domain-join operation.

Question: In what situation would you perform an offline domain join rather than a
traditional domain join?

Activating Windows Server 2012

To ensure that your organization is correctly
licensed and to receive notices for product
updates, you must activate every copy of
Windows Server 2012 that you install. Windows
Server 2012 requires activation after installation.
Unlike previous versions of the Windows Server
operating system, there is no longer an activation
grace period. If you do not perform activation,
you cannot perform operating system
customization.

To activate Windows Server 2012, you can use one

of two general strategies:

• Manual activation. Suitable when you are deploying a small number of servers.
• Automatic activation. Suitable when you are deploying larger numbers of servers.

Manual Activation
With manual activation, you enter the product key, and the server contacts Microsoft. Alternatively, an
administrator performs the activation over the phone or through a special clearinghouse website.
You can perform manual activation from the Server Manager console by performing the following steps:

1. Click the Local Server node.

2. In the Properties window, next to Product ID, click Not Activated.

3. In the Windows Activation dialog box, enter the product key, and then click Activate.
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4. If a direct connection cannot be established to the Microsoft activation servers, details will display
about performing activation using a website from a device that has an Internet connection, or by
using a local telephone number.

Because computers running the Server Core installation option do not have the Server Manager
console, you can also perform manual activation using the slmgr.vbs command. Use the slmgr.vbs /ipk
command to enter the product key, and slmgr.vbs /ato to perform activation once the product key is
installed.
You can perform manual activation using either the retail product key, or the multiple activation key. You
can use a retail product key to activate only a single computer. However, a multiple activation key has a
set number of activations that you can use. Using a multiple activation key, you can activate multiple
computers up to a set activation limit.

OEM keys are a special type of activation key that are provided to a manufacturer and allow automatic
activation when a computer is first powered on. This type of activation key is typically used with
computers that are running client operating systems such as Windows 7 and Windows 8. OEM keys are
rarely used with computers that are running server operating systems.

Performing activation manually in large-scale server deployments can be cumbersome. Microsoft provides
a method of activating large numbers of computers automatically without having to enter product keys
on each system manually.

Automatic Activation
In previous versions of the Windows Server operating system, you could use KMS to perform centralized
activation of multiple clients. The Volume Activation Services server role in Windows Server 2012 allows
you to manage a KMS server through a new interface. This simplifies the process of installing a KMS key
on the KMS server. When you install Volume Activation Services, you can also configure Active Directory–
based activation. Active Directory–based activation allows automatic activation of domain-joined
computers. When you use Volume Activation Services, each computer activated must periodically contact
the KMS server to renew its activation status.

You use the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 3.0 in conjunction with Volume Activation
Services to perform activation of multiple computers on networks that are not connected directly to the
Internet. You can use VAMT to generate license reports and manage client and server activation on
enterprise networks.

Configuring a Server Core Installation

Performing post installation on a computer
running the Server Core operating system option
can be daunting to administrators that have not
performed the task before. Instead of having GUI–
based tools that simplify the post-installation
configuration process, IT professionals are faced
with performing complex configuration tasks from
a command-line interface.
The good news is that you can perform the
majority of post-installation configuration tasks
using the sconfig.cmd command-line tool. Using
this tool minimizes the possibility of making
syntax errors when using more complicated command-line tools.
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You can use sconfig.cmd to perform the following tasks:

• Configure Domain and Workgroup information

• Configure the computer’s name

• Add local Administrator accounts

• Configure WinRM

• Enable Windows Update

• Download and install updates

• Enable Remote Desktop

• Configure Network Address information

• Set the date and time

• Perform Windows Activation

• Enable the Windows Server GUI

• Sign out
• Restart the server

• Shut down the server

Configure IP Address Information

You can configure the IP address and DNS information using sconfig.cmd or netsh.exe. To configure IP
address information using sconfig.cmd, perform the following steps:
1. From a command-line command, run sconfig.cmd.

2. Choose option 8 to configure Network Settings.

3. Choose the index number of the network adapter to which you want to assign an IP address.
4. In the Network Adapter Settings area, choose between one of the following options:

o Set Network Adapter Address

o Set DNS Servers

o Clear DNS Server Settings

o Return to Main Menu

Change Server Name

You can change a server’s name using the netdom command with the renamecomputer option.
For example, to rename a computer to Melbourne, type the following command:

Netdom renamecomputer %computername% /newname:Melbourne

You can change a server’s name using sconfig.cmd by performing the following steps:

1. From a command-line command, run sconfig.cmd.

2. Choose option 2 to configure the new computer name.

3. Type the new computer name, and then press Enter.

You must restart the server for the configuration change to take effect.
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Joining the Domain

You can join a Server Core computer to a domain using the netdom command with the join option.

For example, to join the adatum.com domain using the Administrator account, and to be prompted for a
password, type the following command:

Netdom join %computername% /domain:adatum.com /UserD:Administrator /PasswordD:*

Note: Prior to joining the domain, verify that you are able to ping the DNS server by
hostname.

To join a Server Core computer to the domain using sconfig.cmd, perform the following steps:

1. From a command-line command, run sconfig.cmd.

2. Choose option 1 to configure Domain/Workgroup.

3. To choose the Domain option, type D, and then press Enter.

4. Type the name of the domain to which you want to join the computer.

5. Provide the details in domain\username format, of an account that is authorized to join the domain.

6. Type the password associated with that account.

To complete a domain join operation it is necessary to restart the computer.

Adding Roles and Features

You can add and remove roles and features on a computer that is running the Server Core installation
option by using the Windows PowerShell cmdlets Get-WindowsFeature, Install-WindowsFeature, and
Remove-WindowsFeature. These cmdlets are available after you load the ServerManager Windows
PowerShell module.
For example, you can view a list of roles and features that are installed by typing the following command:

Get-WindowsFeature | Where-Object {$_.InstallState -eq “Installed”}

You can also install a Windows role or feature using the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet. For example, to
install the NLB feature, execute the command:

Install-WindowsFeature NLB

Not all features are available directly for installation on a computer running the Server Core operating
system. You can determine which features are not directly available for installation by running the
following command:

Get-WindowsFeature | Where-Object {$_.InstallState -eq “Removed”}

You can add a role or feature that is not directly available for installation by using the -Source parameter
of the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet. You must specify a source location that hosts a mounted
installation image that includes the full version of Windows Server 2012. You can mount an installation
image using the DISM.exe command-line tool. If you do not specify a source path when installing a
component that is not available and the server has internet connectivity, Install-WindowsFeature will
attempt to retrieve source files from Windows Update.
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Add the GUI

You can configure a Server Core computer with the GUI using the sconfig.cmd command-line tool. To do
this, choose option 12 from within the sconfig.cmd Server Configuration menu.

Note: You can add or remove the graphical component of the Windows Server 2012
operating system by using the Install-WindowsFeature cmdlet.

You can also use the dism.exe command-line tool to add and remove Windows roles and features from a
Server Core deployment, even though this tool is used primarily for managing image files.
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Lesson 5
Introduction to Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell is a command-line interface and task-based scripting technology that is built into
the Windows Server 2012 operating system. Windows PowerShell simplifies the automation of common
systems administration tasks. With Windows PowerShell, you can automate tasks, leaving you more time
for more difficult systems administration tasks.

In this lesson, you will learn about Windows PowerShell, and why Windows PowerShell is a critical piece of
a server administrator’s toolkit.
This lesson describes how to use Windows PowerShell’s built-in discoverability features to learn how to
use specific cmdlets and to find related cmdlets. This lesson also discusses how to leverage the Windows
PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) to assist you in creating effective Windows PowerShell
scripts.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe the purpose of Windows PowerShell.

• Describe Windows PowerShell cmdlet syntax, and explain how to determine commands associated
with a particular cmdlet.
• Describe common Windows PowerShell cmdlets used to manage services, processes, roles and
features.
• Describe the functionality of Windows PowerShell ISE.

• Explain how to use Windows PowerShell.

• Explain how to use Windows PowerShell ISE.

What Is Windows PowerShell?

Windows PowerShell is a scripting language and
command-line interface that is designed to assist
you in performing day-to-day administrative
tasks. Windows PowerShell is made up of cmdlets
that you execute at a Windows PowerShell
command prompt, or combine into Windows
PowerShell scripts. Unlike other scripting
languages that were designed initially for another
purpose, but have been adapted for system
administration tasks, Windows PowerShell is
designed with system administration tasks in
mind.

An increasing number of Microsoft products—such as Exchange Server 2010—have graphical interfaces

that build Windows PowerShell commands. These products allow you to view the generated Windows
PowerShell script so you can execute the task at a later time without having to complete all of the steps in
the GUI. Being able to automate complex tasks simplifies a server administrator’s job, and saves time.
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You can extend Windows PowerShell functionality by adding modules. For example, the Active Directory
module includes Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are specifically useful for performing Active
Directory–related management tasks. The DNS Server module includes Windows PowerShell cmdlets that
are specifically useful for performing DNS server-related management tasks. Windows PowerShell includes
features such as tab completion, which allows administrators to complete commands by pressing the tab
key rather than having to type the complete command. You can learn about the functionality of any
Windows PowerShell cmdlet by using the Get-Help cmdlet.

Windows PowerShell Cmdlet Syntax

Windows PowerShell cmdlets use a verb-noun
syntax. Each noun has a collection of associated
verbs. The available verbs differ with each cmdlet’s
noun.
Common Windows PowerShell cmdlet verbs
include:
• Get
• New
• Set
• Restart
• Resume
• Stop
• Suspend
• Clear
• Limit
• Remove
• Add
• Show
• Write
You can learn the available verbs for a particular Windows PowerShell noun by executing the following
command:

Get-Help -Noun NounName

You can learn the available Windows PowerShell nouns for a specific verb by executing the following
command:

Get-Help -Verb VerbName

Windows PowerShell parameters start with a dash. Each Windows PowerShell cmdlet has its own
associated set of parameters. You can learn what the parameters are for a particular Windows PowerShell
cmdlet by executing the following command:

Get-Help CmdletName
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You can determine which Windows PowerShell cmdlets are available by executing the Get-Command
cmdlet. The Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are available depend on which modules are loaded. You
can load a module using the Import-Module cmdlet.

Common Cmdlets for Server Administration

As a server administrator, there are certain
cmdlets that you are more likely to use. These
cmdlets relate primarily to services, event logs,
processes, and the ServerManager module
running on the server.

Service Cmdlets
You can use the following Windows PowerShell
cmdlets to manage services on a computer that is
running Windows Server 2012:

• Get-Service. View the properties of a service.

• New-Service. Creates a new service.

• Restart-Service. Restarts an existing service.

• Resume-Service. Resumes a suspended service.

• Set-Service. Configures the properties of a service.

• Start-Service. Starts a stopped service.

• Stop-Service. Stops a running service.

• Suspend-Service. Suspends a service.

Event Log Cmdlets

You can use the following Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage event logs on a computer that is
running Windows Server 2012:
• Get-EventLog. Displays events in the specified event log.

• Clear-EventLog. Deletes all entries from the specified event log.

• Limit-EventLog. Sets event log age and size limits.
• New-EventLog. Creates a new event log and a new event source on a computer running Windows
Server 2012.

• Remove-EventLog. Removes a custom event log and unregisters all event sources for the log.

• Show-EventLog. Shows the event logs of a computer.

• Write-EventLog. Allows you to write events to an event log.

Process Cmdlets
You can use the following Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage processes on a computer that is
running Windows Server 2012:

• Get-Process. Provides information on a process.

• Start-Process. Starts a process.

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• Stop-Process. Stops a process.

• Wait-Process. Waits for the process to stop before accepting input.

• Debug-Process. Attaches a debugger to one or more running processes.

ServerManager Module
The ServerManager module allows you to add one of three cmdlets that are useful for managing features
and roles. These cmdlets are:

• Get-WindowsFeature. View a list of available roles and features. Also displays whether the feature is
installed, and whether the feature is available. You can only install an unavailable feature if you have
access to an installation source.
• Install-WindowsFeature. Installs a particular Windows Server role or feature. The
Add-WindowsFeature cmdlet is aliased to this command and is available in previous versions of
Windows operating systems.

• Remove-WindowsFeature. Removes a particular Windows Server role or feature.

What Is Windows PowerShell ISE?

Windows PowerShell ISE is an integrated scripting
environment that provides you with assistance
when using Windows PowerShell. It provides
command completion functionality, and allows
you to see all available commands and the
parameters that you can use with those
commands.
Windows PowerShell ISE simplifies the process
of using Windows PowerShell because you can
execute cmdlets from the ISE. You can also use a
scripting window within Windows PowerShell ISE
to construct and save Windows PowerShell scripts.
The ability to view cmdlet parameters ensures that you are aware of the full functionality of each cmdlet,
and can create syntactically-correct Windows PowerShell commands.

Windows PowerShell ISE provides color-coded cmdlets to assist with troubleshooting. The ISE also
provides you with debugging tools that you can use to debug simple and complex Windows PowerShell
scripts.

You can use the Windows PowerShell ISE environment to view available cmdlets by module. You can then
determine which Windows PowerShell module you need to load to access a particular cmdlet.
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Demonstration: Using Windows PowerShell

In this demonstration, you will see how to use Windows PowerShell to display the running services and
processes on a server.

Demonstration Steps

Use Windows PowerShell to display the running services and processes on a server
1. On LON-DC1, open a Windows PowerShell session.

2. Execute the following commands, and then press Enter:

Get-Service | where-object {$_.status -eq “Running”}

Get-Command -Noun Service
Get-Process
Get-Help Process
Get-Help –Full Start-Process

3. On the taskbar, right-click on the Windows PowerShell icon, and then click Run as Administrator.

Demonstration: Using Windows PowerShell ISE

In this demonstration, you will see how to complete the following tasks:
• Use Windows PowerShell ISE to import the ServerManager module.

• View the cmdlets made available in the ServerManager module.

• Use the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet from Windows PowerShell ISE.

Demonstration Steps
Use Windows PowerShell ISE to import the ServerManager module
1. Ensure that you are signed in to LON-DC1 as Administrator.
2. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Windows PowerShell ISE.

3. At the command prompt, type Import-Module ServerManager.

View the cmdlets made available in the ServerManager module

• In the Commands pane, use the Modules drop-down menu to select the ServerManager module.

Use the Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet from Windows PowerShell ISE

1. Click Get-WindowsFeature, and then click Show Details.
2. In the ComputerName field, type LON-DC1, and then click Run.
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Lab: Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with Windows 8
clients.

You have been working for A. Datum for several years as a desktop support specialist and have recently
accepted a promotion to the server support team.

The marketing department has purchased a new web-based application. You need to install and configure
the servers in the data center for this application. One server has a GUI interface, and the other server is
configured as Server Core.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
• Deploy Windows Server 2012.

• Configure Windows Server 2012 Server Core.

• Manage servers by using Server Manager.

• Manage servers with Windows PowerShell.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-SVR3
20410B-LON-CORE

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

a. User name: Adatum\Administrator

b. Password: Pa$$w0rd

5. Repeat steps 1 to 3 for 20410B-LON-CORE and 20410B-LON-SVR3. Do not sign in until directed to
do so.
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Exercise 1: Deploying Windows Server 2012

Scenario
The first Windows Server 2012 server that you are installing for the Marketing department will host a SQL
Server 2012 database engine instance. You want to configure the server so that it will have the full GUI, as
this will allow the application vendor to run support tools directly on the server, rather than requiring a
remote connection.

The first server you are installing for the new marketing application is for a SQL Server 2012 database. This
server will have the full GUI to allow the application vendor to run support tools directly on the server.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Install the Windows Server® 2012 server.

2. Change the server name.

3. Change the date and time.

4. Configure the network and NIC teaming.

5. Add the server to the domain.

 Task 1: Install the Windows Server® 2012 server

1. In the Hyper-V Manager console, open the settings for 20410B-LON-SVR3.
2. Configure the DVD drive to use the Windows Server 2012 image file named Windows2012_RTM.iso.
This file is located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\20410\Drives.

3. Start 20410B-LON-SVR3. In the Windows Setup Wizard, on the Windows Server 2012 page, verify
the following settings, click Next, and then click Install Now.

o Language to install: English (United States)

o Time and currency format: English (United States)

o Keyboard or input method: US

4. Click to install the Windows Server Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Evaluation (Server with a
GUI) operating system.
5. Accept the license terms, and then click Custom: Install Windows only (advanced).

6. Install Windows Server 2012 on Drive 0.

Note: Depending on the speed of the equipment, the installation will take approximately 20
minutes. The virtual machine will restart several times during this process.

7. Enter the password Pa$$w0rd in both the Password and Reenter password boxes, and then click
Finish to complete the installation.

 Task 2: Change the server name

1. Sign in to LON-SVR3 as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, on the Local Server node, click the randomly-generated name next to Computer
name.
3. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Computer Name tab, click Change.

4. In the Computer name box, type LON-SVR3, and then click OK.
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5. Click OK again, and then click Close.

6. Restart the computer.

 Task 3: Change the date and time

1. Sign in to server LON-SVR3 as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. On the taskbar, click the time display, and then click Change date and time settings.
3. Click Change Time Zone, and set the time zone to your current time zone.

4. Click Change Date and Time, and verify that the date and time that display in the Date and Time
Settings dialog box match those in your classroom.

5. Close the Date and Time dialog box.

 Task 4: Configure the network and NIC teaming

1. On LON-SVR3, click Local Server, and then next to NIC Teaming, click Disabled.
2. Press and hold the Ctrl key, and then in the Adapters And Interfaces area, click both Local Area
Connection and Local Area Connection 2.

3. Right-click on the selected network adapters, and then click Add to New Team.
4. Enter LON-SVR3 in the Team name, box, click OK, and then close the NIC Teaming dialog box.
Refresh the console pane.

5. Next to LON-SVR3, click IPv4 Address Assigned by DHCP, IPv6 Enabled.

6. In the Network Connections dialog box, right-click LON-SVR3, and then click Properties.

7. Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click Properties.

8. Enter the following IP address information, then and click OK:

o IP address: 172.16.0.101

o Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

o Default Gateway: 172.16.0.1

o Preferred DNS server: 172.16.0.10
9. Close all dialog boxes.

 Task 5: Add the server to the domain

1. On LON-SVR3, in the Server Manager console, click Local Server.

2. Next to Workgroup, click WORKGROUP.

3. On the Computer Name tab, click Change.

4. Click the Domain option, and in the Domain box, enter adatum.com.

5. Enter the following account details

o Username: Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd
6. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, click OK.

7. Restart the computer to apply changes.

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8. In the System Properties dialog box, click Close.

9. After LON-SVR3 restarts, sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have deployed Windows Server 2012 on LON-SVR3.
You also should have configured LON-SVR3, including name change, date and time, networking, and
network teaming.

Exercise 2: Configuring Windows Server 2012 Server Core

Scenario
The web-based tier of the marketing application is a .NET application. To minimize the operating system
footprint and reduce the need to apply software updates, you have chosen to host the IIS component on
a computer that is running the Server Core installation option of the Windows Server 2012 operating
system.
To enable this, you will need to configure a computer that is running Windows Server 2012 with the
Server Core installation option.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Set computer name.

2. Change the computer’s date and time.

3. Configure the network.

4. Add the server to the domain.

 Task 1: Set computer name

1. Sign in to LON-CORE as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. On LON-CORE, type sconfig.cmd.

3. Click option 2 to select Computer Name.

4. Set the computer name as LON-CORE.

5. In the Restart dialog box, click Yes to restart the computer.

6. After the computer restarts, sign in to server LON-CORE using the Administrator account with the
password Pa$$w0rd.

7. At the command prompt, type hostname, and then press Enter to verify the computer’s name.

 Task 2: Change the computer’s date and time

1. Ensure you are signed in to server LON-CORE as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd.

3. To select Date and Time, type 9.

4. Click Change time zone, and then set the time zone to the same time zone that your classroom uses.
5. In the Date and Time dialog box, click Change Date and Time, and verify that the date and time
match those in your location.

6. Exit sconfig.cmd.
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 Task 3: Configure the network

1. Ensure that you are signed in to server LON-CORE using the account Administrator and password
Pa$$w0rd.

2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd, and then press Enter.

3. To configure Network Settings, type 8.

4. Type the number of the network adapter that you want to configure.

5. Type 1 to set the Network Adapter Address.

6. Click static IP address configuration, and then enter the address 172.16.0.111.

7. At the Enter subnet mask prompt, type 255.255.0.0.

8. At the Enter default gateway prompt, type 172.16.0.1.

9. Type 2 to configure the DNS server address.

10. Set the preferred DNS server to 172.16.0.10.

11. Do not configure an alternate DNS server address.

12. Exit sconfig.cmd.

13. Verify network connectivity to lon-dc1.adatum.com using the PING tool.

 Task 4: Add the server to the domain

1. Ensure that you are signed in to server LON-CORE using the account Administrator with password
Pa$$w0rd.
2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd, and then press Enter.

3. Type 1 to switch to configure Domain/Workgroup.

4. Type D to join a domain.
5. At the Name of domain to join prompt, type adatum.com.

6. At the Specify an authorized domain\user prompt, type Adatum\Administrator.

7. At the Type the password associated with the domain user prompt, type Pa$$w0rd.
8. At the prompt, click No.

9. Restart the server.

10. Sign in to server LON-CORE with the Adatum\Administrator account using the password
Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have configured a Windows Server 2012 Server Core
deployment, and verified the server’s name.
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Exercise 3: Managing Servers

Scenario
After deploying the servers LON-SVR3 and LON-CORE for hosting the Marketing application, you need to
install appropriate server roles and features to support the application. With this in mind, you will install
the Windows Server Backup feature on both LON-SVR3 and LON-CORE. You will install the Web Server
role on LON-CORE.

You also need to configure the World Wide Web Publishing service on LON-CORE.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a server group.

2. Deploy features and roles to both servers.

3. Review services, and change a service setting.

 Task 1: Create a server group

1. Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. In the Server Manager console, click Dashboard, and then click Create a server group.

3. Click the Active Directory tab, and then click Find Now.
4. In the Server group name box, type LAB-1.
5. Add LON-CORE and LON-SVR3 to the server group.

6. Click LAB-1. Select both LON-CORE and LON-SVR3.

7. Scroll down, and under the Performance section, select both LON-CORE and LON-SVR3.
8. Right-click LON-CORE, and then click Start Performance Counters.

 Task 2: Deploy features and roles to both servers

1. In Server Manager on LON-DC1, click the LAB-1 server group, right-click LON-CORE, and then click
Add Roles and Features.
2. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Next, click Role-based or feature-based installation,
and then click Next.

3. Verify that LON-CORE.Adatum.com is selected, and then click Next.

4. Select the Web Server (IIS) Server role.

5. Select the Windows Server Backup feature.

6. Add the Windows Authentication role service, and then click Next.

7. Select the Restart the destination server automatically if required check box, and then click
Install.

8. Click Close.

9. Right-click LON-SVR3, click Add Roles and Features, and then click Next.

10. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Role-based or feature-based installation, and then
click Next.
11. Verify that LON-SVR3.Adatum.com is selected, and then click Next twice.
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12. Click Windows Server Backup, and then click Next.

13. Select the Restart the destination server automatically if required check box, click Install, and
then click Close.
14. In Server Manager, click the IIS node, and verify that LON-CORE is listed.

 Task 3: Review services, and change a service setting

1. Sign in to LON-CORE with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In the Command Prompt window, type the following command:

netsh.exe firewall set service remoteadmin enable ALL

3. Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Adatum\Administrator account.

4. In Server Manager, click LAB-1, right-click LON-CORE, and then click Computer Management.

5. Expand Services and Applications, and then click Services.

6. Verify that the Startup type of the World Wide Web Publishing service is set to Automatic.
7. Verify that the service is configured to use the Local System account.

8. Configure the following service recovery settings:

o First failure: Restart the Service

o Second failure: Restart the Service

o Subsequent failures: Restart the Computer.

o Reset fail count after: 1 days

o Reset service after: 1 minute

9. Configure the Restart Computer option to 2 minutes, and then close the Service Properties dialog
box.

10. Close the Computer Management console.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have created a server group, deployed roles and
features, and configured the properties of a service.

Exercise 4: Using Windows PowerShell to Manage Servers

Scenario
The marketing application vendor has indicated that they can provide some Windows PowerShell scripts
to configure the web server that is hosting the application. You need to verify that remote administration
is functional before running the scripts.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Use Windows PowerShell® to connect remotely to servers and view information.

2. Use Windows PowerShell to remotely install new features.
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 Task 1: Use Windows PowerShell® to connect remotely to servers and view

information
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click the LAB-1 server group.

3. Right-click LON-CORE, and then click Windows PowerShell.

4. Type Import-Module ServerManager.

5. Type Get-WindowsFeature, and review roles and features.

6. Use the following command to review the running services on LON-CORE:

Get-service | where-object {$_.status -eq “Running”}

7. Type get-process to view a list of processes on LON-CORE.

8. Review the IP addresses assigned to the server by typing the following command:

Get-NetIPAddress | Format-table

9. Review the most recent 10 items in the security log by typing the following command:

Get-EventLog Security -Newest 10

10. Close Windows PowerShell.

 Task 2: Use Windows PowerShell to remotely install new features

1. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. Type import-module ServerManager.

3. Type the following command to verify that the XPS Viewer feature has not been installed on
LON-SVR3

Get-WindowsFeature -ComputerName LON-SVR3

4. To deploy the XPS Viewer feature on LON-SVR3, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Install-WindowsFeature XPS-Viewer -ComputerName LON-SVR3

5. Type the following command to verify that the XPS Viewer feature has now been deployed on
LON-SVR3:

Get-WindowsFeature -ComputerName LON-SVR3

6. In the Server Manager console, in the Tools drop-down menu, click Windows PowerShell ISE.

7. In the Untitled1.ps1 script pane, type the following:

Import-Module ServerManager
Install-WindowsFeature WINS -ComputerName LON-SVR3
Install-WindowsFeature WINS -ComputerName LON-CORE
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8. Save the script as InstallWins.ps1 in a new folder named Scripts.

9. Press the F5 key to execute InstallWins.ps1.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have used Windows PowerShell to perform a remote
installation of features on multiple servers.

 To prepare for the next module

When you have completed the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this,
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, switch to the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CORE and 20410B-LON-SVR3.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: What is the benefit of using Windows PowerShell to automate common tasks?

Question: What are the advantages to performing a Server Core deployment compared to
the full GUI deployment?
Question: What tool can you use to determine which cmdlets are contained in a Windows
PowerShell module?

Question: Which role can you use to manage KMS?

Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

WinRM connections fail.

Windows PowerShell cmdlets not available.

Cannot install the GUI features on Server

Core deployments.

Unable to restart a computer running

Server Core.

Unable to join the domain.

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Module 2
Introduction to Active Directory Domain Services
Contents:
Module Overview 2-1

Lesson 1: Overview of AD DS 2-2

Lesson 2: Overview of Domain Controllers 2-8

Lesson 3: Installing a Domain Controller 2-14

Lab: Installing Domain Controllers 2-20

Module Review and Takeaways 2-24

Module Overview
Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) and its related services form the foundation for enterprise
networks that run Windows® operating systems. The AD DS database is the central store of all the domain
objects, such as user accounts, computer accounts, and groups. AD DS provides a searchable hierarchical
directory, and provides a method for applying configuration and security settings for objects in the
enterprise. This module covers the structure of AD DS and its various components, such as forest, domain,
and organizational units (OUs).
The process of installing AD DS on a server is refined and improved with Windows Server® 2012. This
module examines some of the choices that are available with Windows Server 2012 for installing AD DS
on a server.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the structure of AD DS.

• Describe the purpose of domain controllers.

• Explain how to install a domain controller.

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Lesson 1
Overview of AD DS
The AD DS database stores information on user identity, computers, groups, services and resources. AD DS
domain controllers also host the service that authenticates user and computer accounts when they log on
to the domain. Because AD DS stores information about all of the objects in the domain, and all users and
computers must connect to AD DS domain controllers when signing into the network, AD DS is the
primary means by which you can configure and manage user and computer accounts on your network.

This lesson covers the core logical components that make up an AD DS deployment.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson you will be able to:

• Describe the components of AD DS.

• Describe AD DS domains.

• Describe OUs and their purpose.

• Describe AD DS forests and trees, and explain how you can deploy them in a network.
• Explain how an AD DS schema provides a set of rules that manage the objects and attributes that are
stored in the AD DS domain database.

Overview of AD DS
AD DS is composed of both physical and logical
components. You need to understand the way the
components of AD DS work together so that you
can manage your network efficiently, and control
what resources your users can access. In addition,
you can use many other AD DS options, including
installing and configuring of software and
updates, managing the security infrastructure,
enabling Remote Access and DirectAccess, and
certificate handling.

One of the AD DS features is Group Policy, which

enables you to configure centralized policies that
you can use to manage most objects in AD DS. Understanding the various AD DS components is
important to successfully using Group Policy.
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Physical Components
AD DS information is stored in a single file on each domain controller’s hard disk. The following table lists
some of the physical components and where they are stored.

Physical component Description

Domain controllers Contain copies of the AD DS database.

Data store The file on each domain controller that stores the AD DS information.

Global catalog servers Host the global catalog, which is a partial, read-only copy of all the objects
in the forest. A global catalog speeds up searches for objects that might be
stored on domain controllers in a different domain in the forest.

Read-only domain A special install of AD DS in a read-only form. These are often used in
controllers (RODC) branch offices where security and IT support are often less advanced than
in the main corporate centers.

Logical Components
AD DS logical components are structures that you use to implement an Active Directory design that is
appropriate for an organization. The following table describes some of the types of logical structures that
an Active Directory database might contain.

Logical component Description

Partition A section of the AD DS database. Although the database is one file named
NTDS.DIT, it is viewed, managed, and replicated as if it consisted of distinct
sections or instances. These are called partitions, which are also referred to as
naming contexts.

Schema Defines the list of object types and attributes that all objects in AD DS can
have.

Domain A logical, administrative boundary for users and computers.

Domain tree A collection of domains that share a common root domain and a Domain
Name System (DNS) namespace.

Forest A collection of domains that share a common AD DS.

Site A collection of users, groups, and computers as defined by their physical

locations. Sites are useful in planning administrative tasks such as replication
of changes to the AD DS database.

OU OUs are containers in AD DS that provide a framework for delegating

administrative rights and for linking Group Policy Objects (GPOs).

Additional Reading: For more information about domains and forests, see Domains and
Forests Technical Reference at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=104447.
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What Are AD DS Domains?

An AD DS domain is a logical grouping of user,
computer, and group objects for the purpose of
management and security. All of these objects are
stored in the AD DS database, and a copy of this
database is stored on every domain controller in
the AD DS domain.

There are several types of objects that can be

stored in the AD DS database, including user
accounts. User accounts provide a mechanism that
you can use to authenticate and then authorize
users to access resources on the network. Each
domain-joined computer must have an account in
AD DS. This enables domain administrators to use policies that are defined in the domain to manage the
computers. The domain also stores groups, which are the mechanism for grouping together objects for
administrative or security reasons—for instance, user accounts and computer accounts.

The AD DS domain is also a replication boundary. When changes are made to any object in the domain,
that change is replicated automatically to all other domain controllers in the domain.
An AD DS domain is an administrative center. It contains an Administrator account and a Domain
Admins group, which both have full control over every object in the domain. Unless they are in the forest
root domain, however, their range of control is limited to the domain. Password and account rules are
managed at the domain level by default. The AD DS domain provides an authentication center. All user
accounts and computer accounts in the domain are stored in the domain database, and users and
computers must connect to a domain controller to authenticate.

A single domain can contain more than 1 million objects, so most organizations need to deploy only a
single domain. Organizations that have decentralized administrative structures, or that are distributed
across multiple locations, might instead implement multiple domains in the same forest.

What Are OUs?

An organizational unit (OU) is a container object
within a domain that you can use to consolidate
users, groups, computers, and other objects. There
are two reasons to create OUs:
• To configure objects contained within the
OU. You can assign GPOs to the OU, and the
settings apply to all objects within the OU.
GPOs are policies that administrators create
to manage and configure computer and user
accounts. The most common way to deploy
these policies is to link them to OUs.

• To delegate administrative control of objects

within the OU. You can assign management permissions on an OU, thereby delegating control of that
OU to a user or group within AD DS other than the administrator.
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You can use OUs to represent the hierarchical, logical structures within your organization. For example,
you can create OUs that represent the departments within your organization, the geographic regions
within your organization, or a combination of both departmental and geographic regions. You can use
OUs to manage the configuration and use of user, group, and computer accounts based on your
organizational model.

Every AD DS domain contains a standard set of containers and OUs that are created when you install
AD DS, including the following:
• Domain container. Serves as the root container to the hierarchy.

• Builtin container. Stores a number of default groups.

• Users container. The default location for new user accounts and groups that you create in the
domain. The users container also holds the administrator and guest accounts for the domain, and
some default groups.
• Computers container. The default location for new computer accounts that you create in the domain.

• Domain Controllers OU. The default location for the computer accounts for domain controller
computer accounts. This is the only OU that is present in a new installation of AD DS.

Note: None of the default containers in the AD DS domain can have GPOs linked to them,
except for the default Domain Controllers OU and the domain itself. All the other containers are
just folders. To link GPOs to apply configurations and restrictions, create a hierarchy of OUs, and
then link GPOs to them.

Hierarchy Design
The design of an OU hierarchy is dictated by the administrative needs of the organization. The design
could be based on geographic, functional, resource, or user classifications. Whatever the order, the
hierarchy should make it possible to administer AD DS resources as effectively and with as much flexibility
as possible. For example, if all computers that IT administrators use must be configured in a certain way,
you can group all the computers in an OU, and then assign a GPO to manage its computers. To simplify
administration, you also can create OUs within other OUs.

For example, your organization might have multiple offices, and each office might have a set of
administrators who are responsible for managing user and computer accounts in their office. In addition,
each office might have different departments with different computer configuration requirements. In this
situation, you could create an OU for the office that is used to delegate administration, and then create a
department OU within the office OU to assign desktop configurations.

Although there is no technical limit to the number of levels in your OU structure, for the purpose of
manageability, limit your OU structure to a depth of no more than 10 levels. Most organizations use five
levels or fewer to simplify administration. Note that Active Directory–enabled applications can have
restrictions on the OU depth within the hierarchy. These applications can also have restrictions on the
number of characters that can be used in the distinguished name, which is the full Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) path to the object in the directory.
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What Is an AD DS Forest?
A forest is a collection of one or more domain
trees. A tree is a collection of one or more
domains. The first domain that is created in the
forest is called the forest root domain. The forest
root domain contains a few objects that do not
exist in other domains in the forest. For example,
the forest root domain contains two special
domain controller roles, the schema master and
the domain naming master. In addition, the
Enterprise Admins group and the Schema Admins
group exist only in the forest root domain. The
Enterprise Admins group has full control over
every domain within the forest.

The AD DS forest is a security boundary. This means that, by default, no users from outside the forest can
access any resources inside the forest. It also means that administrators from outside the forest have no
administrative access within the forest. One of the primary reasons why organizations deploy multiple
forests is because they need to isolate administrative permissions between different parts of the
organization.

The AD DS forest is also the replication boundary for the configuration and schema partitions in the
AD DS database. This means that all domain controllers in the forest must share the same schema. A
second reason why organizations deploy multiple forests is because they must deploy incompatible
schemas in two parts of the organization.

The AD DS forest is also the replication boundary for the global catalog. This makes most forms of
collaboration between users in different domains easier. For example, all Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010
recipients are listed in the global catalog, making it easy to send mail to any of the users in the forest,
even those users in different domains.
By default, all the domains in a forest automatically trust the other domains in the forest. This makes it
easy to enable access to resources such as file shares and websites for all users in a forest, regardless of
the domain in which the user account is located.

What Is the AD DS Schema?

The AD DS schema is the AD DS component that
defines all object types and attributes that AD DS
uses to store data. It is sometimes referred to as
the blueprint for AD DS.
AD DS stores and retrieves information from a
wide variety of applications and services. AD DS
standardizes how data is stored in the AD DS
directory so that it can store and replicate data
from these various sources. By standardizing how
data is stored, AD DS can retrieve, update, and
replicate data, while ensuring that the integrity of
the data is maintained.
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AD DS uses objects as units of storage. All object types are defined in the schema. Each time that the
directory handles data, the directory queries the schema for an appropriate object definition. Based on
the object definition in the schema, the directory creates the object and stores the data.

Object definitions control both the types of data that the objects can store, and the syntax of the data.
Using this information, the schema ensures that all objects conform to their standard definitions. As a
result, AD DS can store, retrieve, and validate the data that it manages, regardless of the application that
is the original source of the data. Only data that has an existing object definition in the schema can be
stored in the directory. If a new type of data needs to be stored, a new object definition for the data must
first be created in the schema.

In AD DS, the schema defines the following:

• Objects that are used to store data in the directory

• Rules that define what types of objects you can create, what attributes must be defined (mandatory)
when you create the object, and what attributes are optional
• Structure and content of the directory itself

You can use an account that is a member of the Schema Administrators to modify the schema
components in a graphical form. Examples of objects that are defined in the schema include user,
computer, group, and site. Among the many attributes are location, accountExpires, buildingName,
company, manager, and displayName.
The schema master is one of the single master operations domain controllers in AD DS. Because it is a
single master, you must make changes to the schema by targeting the domain controller that holds the
schema master operations role.

The schema is replicated among all domain controllers in the forest. Any change that is made to the
schema is replicated to every domain controller in the forest from the schema operations master role
holder, typically the first domain controller in the forest.
Because the schema dictates how information is stored, and because any changes that are made to the
schema affect every domain controller, changes to the schema should be made only when necessary.
Before making any changes, you should review the changes through a tightly-controlled process, and
then implement them only after you have performed testing to ensure that the changes will not adversely
affect the rest of the forest and any applications that use AD DS.

Although you might not make any change to the schema directly, some applications make changes to the
schema to support additional features. For example, when you install Exchange Server 2010 into your
AD DS forest, the installation program extends the schema to support new object types and attributes.
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Lesson 2
Overview of Domain Controllers
Because domain controllers authenticate all users and computers in the domain, domain controller
deployment is critical to the correct functioning of the network.

This lesson examines domain controllers, the logon process, and the importance of the DNS in that
process. In addition, this lesson discusses the purpose of the global catalog.
All domain controllers are essentially the same, with two exceptions. RODCs contain a read-only copy
of the AD DS database, while other domain controllers have a read-write copy. There are also certain
operations that can only be performed on specific domain controllers called operations masters, which are
discussed at the end of this lesson.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe the purpose of domain controllers.

• Describe the purpose of the global catalog.

• Describe the AD DS logon process, and the importance of DNS and SRV records in the logon process.
• Describe the functionality of SRV records.

• Explain the functions of operations masters.

What Is a Domain Controller?

A domain controller is a server that is configured
to store a copy of the AD DS directory database
(NTDS.DIT) and a copy of the SYSVOL folder.
All domain controllers except RODCs store a
read/write copy of both NTDS.DIT and the
SYSVOL folder. NTDS.DIT is the database itself,
and the SYSVOL folder contains all the template
settings for GPOs.
Changes to the AD DS database can be initiated
on any domain controller in a domain except
for RODCs. The AD DS replication service then
synchronizes the changes and updates to the
AD DS database to all other domain controllers in the domain. The SYSVOL folders are replicated either by
the file replication service (FRS), or by the newer Distributed File System (DFS) Replication.
Domain controllers host several other Active Directory–related services, including the Kerberos
authentication service, which is used by User and Computer accounts for logon authentication, and the
Key Distribution Center (KDC). The KDC is the service that issues the ticket-granting ticket (TGT) to an
account that logs on to the AD DS domain. You can optionally configure domain controllers to host a
copy of the Active Directory global catalog.

An AD DS domain should always have a minimum of two domain controllers. This way, if one of the
domain controllers fails, there is a backup to ensure continuity of the AD DS domain services. When you
decide to add more than two domain controllers, consider the size of your organization and the
performance requirements.
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Note: Two domain controllers should be considered an absolute minimum.

When you deploy a domain controller in a branch office where physical security is less than optimal, there
are some additional measures that you can use to reduce the impact of a breach of security. One option is
to deploy an RODC.

The RODC contains a read only copy of the AD DS database, and by default, it does not cache any user
passwords. You can configure the RODC to cache the passwords for users in the branch office. If an RODC
is compromised, the potential loss of information is much lower than with a full read-write domain
controller. Another option is to use Windows BitLocker® Drive Encryption to encrypt the domain
controller hard drive. If the hard drive is stolen, BitLocker encryption ensures that there is a very low
chance of a malicious user getting any useful information from it.

Note: BitLocker is a drive encryption system that is available for Windows Server®
operating systems, and for certain Windows client operating system versions. BitLocker securely
encrypts the entire operating system so that the computer cannot start without being supplied a
private key and (optionally) passing an integrity check. A disk remains encrypted even if you
transfer it to another computer.

What Is the Global Catalog?

Within a single domain, the AD DS database
contains all the information about every object in
that domain. This information is not replicated
outside the domain. For example, a query for an
object in AD DS is directed to one of the domain
controllers for that domain. If there is more than
one domain in the forest, then that query does
not provide any results for objects in a different
domain. To enable searching across multiple
domains, you can configure one or more domain
controllers to store a copy of the global catalog.
The global catalog is a distributed database that
contains a searchable representation of every object from all the domains in a multiple domain forest. By
default, the only global catalog server that is created is the first domain controller in the forest root
domain.

The global catalog does not contain all attributes for each object. Instead, the global catalog maintains
the subset of attributes that are most likely to be useful in cross-domain searches. These attributes might
include firstname, displayname, and location. There are a variety of reasons why you might perform a
search against a global catalog rather than a domain controller that is not a global catalog. For example,
when an Exchange server receives an incoming email, it needs to search for the recipient’s account so that
it can decide how to route the message. By automatically querying a global catalog, the Exchange server
is able to locate the recipient in a multiple domain environment. When a user logs on to their Active
Directory account, the domain controller that is performing the authentication must contact a global
catalog to check for universal group memberships before the user is authenticated.
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In a single domain, all domain controllers should be configured as holders of the global catalog; however,
in a multiple domain environment, the infrastructure master should not be a global catalog server. Which
domain controllers are configured to hold a copy of the global catalog depends on replication traffic and
network bandwidth. Many organizations are opting to make every domain controller a global catalog
server.

Question: Should a domain controller be a global catalog?

The AD DS Logon Process

When you log on to AD DS, your system looks in
DNS for service resource (SRV) records to locate
the nearest suitable domain controller. SRV
records are records that specify information on
available services, and are recorded in DNS by all
domain controllers. By using DNS lookups, clients
can locate a suitable domain controller to service
their logon requests.
If the logon is successful, the local security
authority (LSA) builds an access token for the
user that contains the security identifiers (SIDs)
for the user and any groups of which the user is a
member. The token provides the access credentials for any process initiated by that user. For example,
after logging on to AD DS, a user runs Microsoft Office Word and attempts to open a file. Office Word
uses the credentials in the user’s access token to verify the level of the user’s permissions for that file.

Note: A SID is a unique number in the form of S-1-5-21-4130086281-3752200129-

271587809-500, where:

• The first four blocks of letters and numbers (S-1-5-21) represents the type of ID

• The next three blocks of numbers (4130086281-3752200129-271587809) are the number of the
database where the account is stored (usually the AD DS domain)
• The last section (500) is the relative ID (RID), which is the part of the SID that uniquely identifies that
account in the database

Every user and computer account and every group that you create has a unique SID. They only
differ from each other by virtue of the unique RID. You can tell that this particular SID is the SID
for the administrator account because it ends with RID 500.

Sites
Sites are used by a client system when it needs to contact a domain controller. It starts by looking up SRV
records in DNS. The client system then attempts to connect to a domain controller in the same site before
trying elsewhere.

Administrators can define sites in AD DS. Sites usually align with the parts of the network that have good
connectivity and bandwidth. For example, if a branch office is connected to the main data center by an
unreliable wide area network (WAN) link, it would be better to define the data center and the branch
office as separate sites in AD DS.
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SRV records are registered in DNS by the Net Logon service that is running on each domain controller.
If the SRV records are not entered in DNS correctly, you can trigger the domain controller to reregister
those records by restarting the Net Logon service on that domain controller. This process only reregisters
the SRV records; if you want to reregister the host (A) record information in DNS, you must run ipconfig
/registerdns from a command prompt, just as you would for any other computer.

Although the logon process appears to the user as a single event, it is actually made up of two parts:
• The user provides credentials, usually a user account name and password, which are then checked
against the AD DS database. If the user account name and the password match the information that
is stored in the AD DS database, the user becomes an authenticated user and is issued a TGT by the
domain controller. At this point, the user does not have access to any resources on the network.

• A secondary process in the background submits the TGT to the domain controller and requests access
to the local machine. The domain controller issues a service ticket to the user, who is then able to
interact with the local computer. At this point in the process, the user is authenticated to AD DS and
logged on to the local machine.

When a user subsequently attempts to connect to another computer on the network, the secondary
process is run again, and the TGT is submitted to the nearest domain controller. When the domain
controller returns a service ticket, the user can access the computer on the network, which generates a
logon event at that computer.

Note: A domain-joined computer also logs on to AD DS when it starts—a fact that is

often overlooked. You do not see the transaction when the computer uses its computer account
name and a password to log on to AD DS. Once authenticated, the computer becomes a member
of the Authenticated Users group. Although the computer logon process does not have any
visual confirmation in the form of a GUI, there are event log events that record the activity.
Additionally, if auditing is enabled, there are more events that are viewable in the Security Log
of the Event Viewer.

Demonstration: Viewing the SRV Records in DNS

The demonstration shows you how to display the various types of SRV records that the domain controllers
register in DNS. These records are crucial to the operability of AD DS, because they are used to find
domain controllers for logons, password changes, and editing GPOs. SRV records are also used by domain
controllers to find replication partners.

Demonstration Steps
View the SRV records by using DNS Manager
1. Open the DNS Manager window, and explore the underscore DNS domains.

2. View the SRV records that are registered by domain controllers. These records provide alternate paths
so that clients can discover them.
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What Are Operations Masters?

Although all domain controllers are essentially
equal, there are some tasks that can only be
performed by targeting one particular domain
controller. For example, if you need to add an
additional domain to the forest, then you must
be able to connect to the domain naming master.
The domain controllers that have these roles are:

• Operations masters
• Single master roles

• Flexible single-master operations (FSMOs)

These roles are distributed as follows:

• Each forest has one schema master and one domain naming master

• Each AD DS domain has one RID master, one infrastructure master, and one primary domain
controller (PDC) emulator

Forest Operations Masters

The following are single master roles found in a forest:
• Domain naming master. This is the domain controller that must be contacted when you add or
remove a domain, or when you make domain name changes.

• Schema master. This is the domain controller where all schema changes are made. To make changes
you would typically log on to the schema master as a member of both the Schema Admins and
Enterprise Admins groups. A user who is a member of both of these groups and who has the
appropriate permissions could also edit the schema by using a script.

Domain Operations Masters

The following are single master roles found in a domain:

• RID master. Whenever an object is created in AD DS, the domain controller where the object is
created assigns the object a unique identifying number known as a SID. To ensure that no two
domain controllers assign the same SID to two different objects, the RID master allocates blocks of
RIDs to each domain controller within the domain.
• Infrastructure master. This role is responsible for maintaining inter-domain object references, such
as when a group in one domain contains a member from another domain. In this situation, the
infrastructure master is responsible for maintaining the integrity of this reference. For example, when
you look at the security tab of an object, the system looks up the SIDs that are listed and translates
them into names. In a multi-domain forest, the infrastructure master looks up SIDs from other
domains.

The Infrastructure role should not reside on a global catalog server. The exception is when you follow
best practices and make every domain controller a global catalog. In that case, the Infrastructure role
is disabled because every domain controller knows about every object in the forest.
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• PDC emulator master. The domain controller that holds the PDC emulator role is the time source
for the domain. The domain controllers that hold the PDC emulator role in each domain in a forest
synchronize their time with the domain controller that has the PDC emulator role in the forest root
domain. You set the PDC emulator in the forest root domain to synchronize with an external atomic
time source.

The PDC emulator is also the domain controller that receives urgent password changes. If a user’s
password is changed, the information is sent immediately to the domain controller holding the PDC
emulator role. This means that if the user subsequently tried to log on and they were authenticated
by a domain controller in a different location that had not yet received an update about the
new password, the domain controller in the location to which the user tried to log on would
contact the domain controller holding the PDC emulator role and check for recent changes.

The PDC emulator is also used when editing GPOs. When a GPO other than a local GPO is opened for
editing, the copy that is edited is the one stored on the PDC emulator.

Note: The global catalog is not one of the operations master roles.

Question: Why would you make a domain controller a global catalog server?
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Lesson 3
Installing a Domain Controller
Sometimes you need to install additional domain controllers on your Windows Server 2012 operating
system. It might be that the existing domain controllers are overworked and you need additional
resources. Perhaps you are planning for a new remote office that requires you to deploy one or more
domain controllers. You also might be setting up a test lab or a backup site. The installation method that
you use varies with the circumstances.

This lesson examines several ways to install additional domain controllers. It also demonstrates the process
of using Server Manager to install AD DS on a local machine and on a remote server. This lesson also
discusses installing AD DS on a Server Core installation, and installing AD DS on a computer using a
snapshot of the AD DS database that is stored on removable media. Finally, it examines the process of
upgrading a domain controller from an earlier Windows operating system to Windows Server 2012.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Explain how to install a domain controller by using the GUI.

• Explain how to install a domain controller on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012.

• Explain how to upgrade a domain controller by using Install from Media.

• Explain how to install a domain controller by using Install from Media.

Installing a Domain Controller from Server Manager

Prior to Windows Server 2012, it was common
practice to use the dcpromo.exe tool to install
domain controllers. If you attempt to run
dcpromo.exe on a Windows Server 2012 server,
you will receive the following error message:
“The Active Directory Domain Services Installation
Wizard is relocated in Server Manager. For more
information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink
/?LinkId=220921.”

Note: The dcpromo.exe tool is a tool that

you run on a server to make the server an AD DS
domain controller. Until Windows Server 2012, dcpromo.exe was the preferred method to install
AD DS, and it usually ran in GUI mode. In Windows Server 2012, this tool is replaced with Server
Manager. Dcpromo.exe is still available, but can only be used for unattended installations from
the command–line interface.

When you run Server Manager, you can choose whether the operation is performed on the local
computer, on a remote computer, or by members of a server pool. Then you add the AD DS role. At the
end of the initial installation process, the AD DS binaries are installed, but AD DS is not yet set up on that
server. A message to that effect displays in Server Manager.
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You can select the link to Promote this server to a domain controller, and then the Active Directory
Domain Services Configuration Wizard runs. You can then provide the information listed in the following
table about the proposed structure.

Required information Description

Add a domain controller to an existing Choose whether to add an additional domain

domain controller to a domain.

Add a new domain to an existing forest Create a new domain in the forest.

Add a new forest Create a new forest.

Specify the domain information for this Supply information about the existing domain to
operation which the new domain controller will connect.

Supply the credentials to perform this Enter the name of a user account that has the rights
operation to perform this operation.

Some additional information that you need to have prior to running the domain controller promotion is
listed in the following table.

Required information Description

DNS name for the AD DS domain For example, adatum.com

NetBIOS name for the AD DS domain For example, adatum

Whether the new forest needs to support For example, if you are considering deploying Windows
domain controllers running previous Server 2008 R2 domain controllers, you should select the
versions of Windows operating systems Windows Server 2008 R2 domain and forest functional
(affects choice of functional level) level.

Whether this domain controller will also Your DNS must be functioning well to support AD DS.
be a DNS server

Location to store the database files, for By default, these files will be stored in C:\Windows\NTDS.
example, NTDS.DIT, edb.log, or edb.chk

The Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard continues through several different pages
where you can enter prerequisites such as the NetBIOS domain name, DNS configuration, whether this
domain controller should be a global catalog server, and the Directory Services Restore Mode password.
Finally, you must restart to complete the installation.

Note: If you need to restore the AD DS database from a backup, restart the domain
controller in Directory Services Restore Mode. When the domain controller starts up, it is not
running the AD DS services; instead, it is running as a member server in the domain. To log on
to that server in the absence of AD DS, sign in using the Directory Services Recovery Mode
password.
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Installing a Domain Controller on a Server Core Installation of Windows

Server 2012
Configuring a Windows Server 2012 server that
is running Server Core as a domain controller is
more difficult because you cannot run the Active
Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard
on the server. To install the AD DS binaries on the
server, you can use Server Manager to connect
remotely to the Server Core server. You can also
use the Windows PowerShell command
Install-Windowsfeature -name
AD-Domain-Services to install the binaries.

Once you install the AD DS binaries, you can

complete the installation and configuration in one
of the following four ways:

• In Server Manager, click the notification icon to complete the post-deployment configuration. This
starts the configuration and setup of the domain controller.
• Run the Windows PowerShell command Install-ADDSDomainController –domainname
“Adatum.com”, with other arguments as required.

• Create an answer file and run dcpromo /unattend:”D:\answerfile.txt” at a command prompt

where “D:\answerfile.txt” is the path to the answer file.

Run dcpromo /unattend at a command prompt with the appropriate switches, for example:

dcpromo /unattend /InstallDns:yes /confirmglobal catalog:yes /replicaOrNewDomain:replica

/replicadomaindnsname:"mynewdomain.com" /databasePath:"c:\ntds" /logPath:"c:\ntdslogs"
/sysvolpath:"c:\sysvol" /safeModeAdminPassword:Pa$$w0rd /rebootOnCompletion:yes

Upgrading a Domain Controller

You can upgrade two ways to a Windows Server
2012 domain controller. You can upgrade the
operating system on existing domain controllers
that are running Windows Server 2008 or
Windows Server 2008 R2. Alternatively, you
can introduce Windows Server 2012 servers as
domain controllers in a domain containing
domain controllers that are running previous
versions of Windows Server. Of the two, the
second is the preferred method because when
you finish, you have a clean installation on the
server of the Windows Server 2012 operating
system and the AD DS database.
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Upgrading to Windows Server 2012

To upgrade an AD DS domain that is running at an older Windows Server functional level to an
AD DS domain running at Windows Server 2012 functional level, you must first upgrade all the domain
controllers to the Windows Server 2012 operating system. You can achieve this by upgrading all of the
existing domain controllers to Windows Server 2012, or by introducing new domain controllers that are
running Windows Server 2012, and then phasing out the existing domain controllers.

To perform an in-place upgrade of a computer that has the AD DS role installed, you must first use the
command-line commands Adprep.exe /forestprep and Adprep.exe /domainprep to prepare the forest
and domain. An in-place operating system upgrade does not perform automatic schema and domain
preparation. Adprep.exe is included on the installation media in the \Support\Adprep folder. There are
no additional configuration steps after that point, and you can continue to run the Windows Server 2012
operating system upgrade.

When you promote a Windows Server 2012 server to be a domain controller in an existing domain, and if
you are logged in as a member of the Schema Admins and Enterprise Admins groups, the AD DS schema
will be updated automatically to Windows Server 2012. In this scenario, you do not need to run the
Adprep.exe commands before starting the installation.

Deploying Windows Server 2012 Domain Controllers

To upgrade the operating system of a Windows Server 2008 domain controller to Windows Server 2012,
perform the following steps:
1. Insert the installation disk for Windows Server 2012, and then run Setup.

2. After the language selection page, click Install now.

3. After the operating system selection window and the license acceptance page, in the Which type of
installation do you want? window, click Upgrade: Install Windows and keep files, settings, and
apps.

Note: With this type of upgrade, there is no need to preserve users’ settings and reinstall
applications; everything is upgraded in place. Remember to check for hardware and software
compatibility before performing an upgrade.

To introduce a clean install of Windows Server 2012 as a domain controller, perform the following steps:

1. Deploy and configure a new installation of Windows Server 2012 and join it to the domain.

2. Promote the new server to be a domain controller in the domain by using Server Manager 2012 or
one of the other methods described previously.

Note: You can upgrade directly from Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
to Windows Server 2012.
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Installing a Domain Controller by Using Install from Media

If you have an intervening network that is slow,
unreliable, or costly, you might find it necessary
to add another domain controller at a remote
location or branch office. In this scenario, it is
often better to deploy AD DS to a server by using
the Install from Media (IFM) method.

For example, if you connect to a server in a

remote office and use Server Manager to install
AD DS, you need to copy the entire AD DS
database and the SYSVOL folder to the new
domain controller. This process must take place
over a potentially unreliable WAN connection. As
an alternative, and to significantly reduce the amount of traffic copied over the WAN link, you can make a
backup of AD DS by using the Ntdsutil tool. When you run Server Manager to install AD DS, you can then
select the option to Install from Media. Most of the copying is then done locally (perhaps from a USB
drive), and the WAN link is used only for security traffic and to ensure that the new domain controller
receives any changes that are made after you create the IFM backup.

To install a domain controller by using IFM, browse to a domain controller that is not an RODC. Use
the Ntdsutil tool to create a snapshot of the AD DS database, and then copy the snapshot to the server
that will be promoted to a domain controller. Use Server Manager to promote the server to a domain
controller by selecting the Install from Media option, and then providing the local path to the IFM
directory that you created previously.

The full procedure is as follows:

1. On the full domain controller, at an administrative command prompt, type the following commands
(where C:\IFM is the destination directory that will contain the snapshot of the AD DS database) and
press Enter after each line:

Ntdsutil
activate instance ntds
ifm
create SYSVOL full C:\IFM

2. On the server that you are promoting to a domain controller, perform the following steps:

a. Use Server Manager to add the AD DS role.

b. Wait while the AD DS binaries install.

c. In Server Manager, click the notification icon to complete the post-deployment configuration.
The Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard runs.
d. At the appropriate time during the wizard, select the option to install from IFM, and then provide
the local path to the snapshot directory.

AD DS then installs from the snapshot. When the domain controller restarts, it contacts other domain
controllers in the domain and updates AD DS with any changes that were made since the snapshot was
created.
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Additional Reading: For more information about the steps necessary to

install AD DS, see Install Active Directory Domain Services (Level 100) at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266739.

Question: What is the reason to specify the Directory Services Restore Mode password?
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Lab: Installing Domain Controllers

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with
Windows 8 clients.

You have been asked by your manager to install a new domain controller in the data center to improve
logon performance. You have been asked also to create a new domain controller for a branch office by
using IFM.

Objectives
After performing this lab, you will be able to:

• Install a domain controller.

• Install a domain controller by using IFM.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1 (start first)

20410B-LON-SVR1
20410B-LON-RTR
20410B-LON-SVR2

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before beginning the lab, you must
complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Domain: Adatum

5. Repeat steps 1 to 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1, 20410B-LON-RTR, and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

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Exercise 1: Installing a Domain Controller

Scenario
Users have been experiencing slow logons in London during peak usage times. The server team has
determined that the domain controllers are overwhelmed when many users are authenticating
simultaneously. To improve logon performance, you are adding a new domain controller in the London
data center.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Add an Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) role to a member server.
2. Configure a server as a domain controller.
3. Configure a server as a Global Catalog server.

 Task 1: Add an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) role to a member server
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, add LON-SVR1 to the server list.
2. Add the Active Directory Domain Services server role to LON-SVR1. Add all required features as
prompted.

3. Installation will take several minutes. When the installation completes, click Close to close the Add
Roles and Features Wizard.

 Task 2: Configure a server as a domain controller

• On LON-DC1, use Server Manager to promote LON-SVR1 to a domain controller, and choose the
following options:
o Add a domain controller to the existing Adatum.com domain.

o Use the credentials Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

o For Domain Controller Options, install the Domain Name System, but remove the selection to
install the global catalog.
o The DSRM password is Pa$$w0rd.

o For all other options, use the default options.

 Task 3: Configure a server as a Global Catalog server

1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. Use Active Directory Sites and Services to make LON-SVR1 a global catalog server.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have explored Server Manager and promoted a
member server to be a domain controller.
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Exercise 2: Installing a Domain Controller by Using IFM

Scenario
You have been assigned by management to manage one of the new branch offices that are being
configured. A faster network connection is scheduled to be installed in a few weeks. Until that time,
network connectivity is very slow.

It has been determined that the branch office requires a domain controller to support local logons. To
avoid problems with the slow network connection, you are using IFM to install the domain controller in
the branch office.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Use the Ntdsutil tool to generate IFM.

2. Add the AD DS role to the member server.

3. Use IFM to configure a member server as a new domain controller.

 Task 1: Use the Ntdsutil tool to generate IFM

• On LON-DC1, open an administrative command-line interface, and use Ntdsutil to create an IFM
backup of both the AD DS database and the SYSVOL folder. The commands to create the backup are
as follows:

Ntdsutil
Activate instance ntds
Ifm
Create sysvol full c:\ifm

 Task 2: Add the AD DS role to the member server

1. Switch to LON-SVR2, and sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open a command prompt and map the drive letter K: to \\LON-DC1\C$\IFM.

3. Use Server Manager to install the AD DS server role on LON-SVR2.

 Task 3: Use IFM to configure a member server as a new domain controller

1. On LON-SVR2, open a command prompt and then copy the IFM backup from K: to C:\ifm.

2. On LON-SVR2, use Server Manager with the following options to perform the post-deployment
configuration of AD DS:

o Add a domain controller to the existing Adatum.com domain.

o Use Adatum\administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd for credentials.

o Use Pa$$w0rd for the DSRM password.

o Use the IFM media to configure and install AD DS. Use the location C:\IFM for the IFM media.

o Accept all other defaults.

3. Restart LON-SVR2 to complete the AD DS installation.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have installed an additional domain controller for the
branch office by using IFM.
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 To prepare for the next module

When you have completed the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this,
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1, 20410B-LON-RTR, and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: What are the two main purposes of OUs?

Question: Why would you need to deploy an additional tree in the AD DS forest?

Question: Which deployment method would you use if you had to install an additional
domain controller in a remote location that had a limited WAN connection?

Question: If you needed to promote a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012 to be
a domain controller, which tool or tools could you use?
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Module 3
Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects
Contents:
Module Overview 3-1

Lesson 1: Managing User Accounts 3-3

Lesson 2: Managing Group Accounts 3-10

Lesson 3: Managing Computer Accounts 3-17

Lesson 4: Delegating Administration 3-23

Lab: Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects 3-26
Module Review and Takeaways 3-32

Module Overview
User accounts are fundamental components of network security. Stored in Active Directory® Domain
Services (AD DS), user accounts identify users for the purposes of authentication and authorization.
Because of their importance, an understanding of user accounts and the tasks related to supporting
them is a critical aspect of administering a Windows® Server operating system enterprise network.

Although users and computers, and even services, change over time, business roles and rules tend to
remain more stable. Your business probably has a finance role, which requires certain capabilities in the
enterprise. The user or users who perform that role might change over time, but the role will remain
relatively the same. For that reason, it is not sensible to manage an enterprise network by assigning
rights and permissions to individual users, computers, or service identities. Instead, you should associate
management tasks with groups. Consequently, it is important that you know how to use groups to
identify administrative and user roles, to filter Group Policy, to assign unique password policies, and to
assign rights and permissions.

Computers, like users, are security principals:

• They have an account with a logon name and password that Windows Server changes automatically
on a periodic basis.

• They authenticate with the domain.

• They can belong to groups, have access to resources, and you can configure them by using Group
Policy.

Managing computers—both the objects in AD DS and the physical devices—is one of the day-to-day
tasks of most IT pros. New computers are added to your organization, taken offline for repairs, exchanged
between users or roles, and retired or upgraded. Each of these activities requires managing the
computer’s identity, which is represented by its object, or account, and AD DS. As a result, it is important
that you know how to create and manage computer objects.
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In small organizations, one person might be responsible for performing all of these day-to-day
administrative tasks. However, in large enterprise networks, with thousands of users and computers,
that is not feasible. It is important for an enterprise administrator to know how to delegate specific
administrative tasks to designated users or groups to ensure that enterprise administration is efficient
and effective.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Manage user accounts with graphical tools.

• Manage group accounts with graphical tools.

• Manage computer accounts.

• Delegate permissions to perform AD DS administration.

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Lesson 1
Managing User Accounts
A user object in AD DS is far more than just properties related to the user’s security identity, or account. It
is the cornerstone of identity and access in AD DS. Therefore, consistent, efficient, and secure processes
regarding the administration of user accounts are the cornerstone of enterprise security management.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• View AD DS objects by using various AD DS administration tools.

• Explain how to create user accounts that you can use in an enterprise network.

• Describe how to configure important user account attributes.

• Describe how to create user profiles.

• Explain how to manage user accounts.

AD DS Administration Tools
Before you can begin creating and managing user,
group, and computer accounts, it is important
that you understand which tools you can use to
perform these various management tasks.

Active Directory Administration

Snap-Ins
Most AD DS administration is performed with the
following snap-ins and consoles:
• Active Directory Users and Computers. This
snap-in manages most common day-to-day
resources, including users, groups, computers,
and organizational units (OUs). This is likely to be the most heavily used snap-in for an Active
Directory administrator.

• Active Directory Sites and Services. This snap-in manages replication, network topology, and related
services.

• Active Directory Domains and Trusts. This snap-in configures and maintains trust relationships and
the forest functional level.

• Active Directory Schema snap-in. This snap-in examines and modifies the definition of Active
Directory attributes and object classes. It is the blueprint for AD DS. It is rarely viewed, and even more
rarely changed. Therefore, the Active Directory Schema snap-in is not installed, by default.

Note: To administer AD DS from a computer that is not a domain controller, you must
install Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT). RSAT is a feature that can be installed from the
Features node of Server Manager on Windows Server® 2012.
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You also can install RSAT on Windows clients, including Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (or
newer), Windows 7, and Windows 8. After you download the RSAT installation files from the
Microsoft website, run the Setup Wizard, which steps you through the installation. After installing
RSAT, you must turn on the tool or tools that you want to use. To do this, in Control Panel, in the
Programs And Features application, use the Turn Windows Features On or Off command.

Additional Reading: To download the RSAT installation files, see the Microsoft Download
Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266735.

Active Directory Administrative Center

Windows Server 2012 provides another option for managing AD DS objects. The Active Directory
Administrative Center provides a graphical user interface (GUI) built upon Windows PowerShell®. This
enhanced interface allows you to perform AD DS object management by using task-oriented navigation.
Tasks that you can perform by using the Active Directory Administrative Center include:
• Create and manage user, computer, and group accounts.

• Create and manage OUs.

• Connect to, and manage multiple domains within a single instance of the Active Directory
Administrative Center.

• Search and filter Active Directory data by building queries.

Windows PowerShell
You can use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell (Active Directory module) to create and
manage objects in AD DS. Windows PowerShell is not only a scripting language; it also enables you to run
commands that perform administrative tasks, such as creating new user accounts, configuring services,
deleting mailboxes, and similar functions.

Windows PowerShell is installed by default on Windows Server 2012, but the Active Directory module is
only present when:
• You install the AD DS or Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) server roles.

• You run Dcpromo.exe to promote a computer to a domain controller.

• You install RSAT.

Directory Service Command-Line Tools

You also can use the Directory Service command-line tools, in addition to Windows PowerShell. These
tools enable you to create, modify, manage, and delete AD DS objects, such as users, groups, and
computers. You can use the following commands:

• Dsadd. Use to create new objects.

• Dsget. Use to display objects and their properties.

• Dsmod. Use to edit objects and their properties.

• Dsmove. Use to move objects.

• Dsquery. Use to query AD DS for objects that match criteria that you supply.
• Dsrm. Use to delete objects.
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Note: It is possible to pipe the results of the Dsquery command to other Directory Service
commands. For example, typing the following at a command prompt returns the office telephone
number of all users that have a name starting with John:
dsquery user –name John* | dsget user –office

Creating User Accounts

In AD DS, all users that require access to network
resources must be configured with a user account.
With this user account, users can authenticate to
the AD DS domain and receive access to network
resources.

In Windows Server 2012, a user account is an

object that contains all of the information that
defines a user. A user account includes the user
name and password, and group memberships. A
user account also contains many other settings
that you can configure based upon your
organizational requirements.
With a user account, you can:

• Allow or deny users permission to log on to a computer based on their user account identity.
• Grant users access to processes and services for a specific security context.
• Manage users’ access to resources such as AD DS objects and their properties, shared folders, files,
directories, and printer queues.

A user account enables a user to log on to computers and domains with an identity that the domain can
authenticate. When creating a user account, you must provide a user logon name, which must be unique
in the domain/forest in which the user account is created.
To maximize security, you should avoid multiple users sharing a single account, and instead ensure that
each user who logs on to the network has a unique user account and password.

Note: Although AD DS accounts are the focus of this course, you also can store user
accounts in the local security accounts manager (SAM) database of each computer, enabling local
logon and access to local resources. Local user accounts are, for the most part, beyond the scope
of this course.

Creating User Accounts

A user account includes the user name and password, which serve as the logon credentials for a user. A
user object also includes several other attributes that describe and manage the user.

You can use the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in, Active Directory Administrative Center,
Windows PowerShell, or the dsadd.exe command-line tool to create a user object.
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When creating user accounts, consider the following properties:

• The Full name user account property is used to create several attributes of a user object, most
notably, the common name (CN) and display name properties. The CN of a user is the name
displayed in the details pane of the snap-in, and it must be unique within the container or OU. If
you are creating a user object for a person with the same name as an existing user in the same OU
or container, you need to enter a unique name in the Full name field.
• The User UPN logon property consists of a user logon name prefix and a user principal name (UPN)
suffix that will be appended to the user logon name following the @ symbol.

o User names in AD DS can contain special characters, including periods, hyphens, and
apostrophes. These special characters let you generate accurate user names, such as O’Hare and
Smith-Bates. However, certain applications might have other restrictions, so we recommend that
you use only standard letters and numerals until you fully test the applications in your enterprise
environment for compatibility with special characters.

o You can manage the list of available UPN suffixes by using the Active Directory Domains and
Trusts snap-in. Right-click the root of the snap-in, click Properties, and then use the UPN
Suffixes tab to add or remove suffixes. The DNS name of your AD DS domain is always available
as a suffix, and you cannot remove it.

Note: It is important that you implement a user account naming strategy, especially in
large networks where users might share the same full name. A combination of last name and first
name, and where necessary, additional characters, should yield a unique user account name.
Specifically, it is only the UPN name that must be unique within your AD DS forest. The Full name
needs to be unique only within the organizational unit where it resides, while the User
SamAccountName name must be unique within that domain.

Configuring User Account Attributes

When you create a user account in AD DS, you
also configure all the associated account
properties, or attributes.

Note: The attributes that are associated with

a user account are defined as part of the AD DS
schema, which members of the Schema Admins
security group can modify.
Generally, the schema does not change
frequently. However, when an enterprise-level
application (such as Microsoft® Exchange Server
2010) is introduced, many schema changes are required. These changes enable objects, including
user objects, to have additional attributes.

When you create a new user object, you are not required to define many attributes beyond those
required to allow the user to log on by using the account. Since you can associate a user object with many
attributes, it is important that you understand what these attributes are, and how you can use them in
your organization.
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Attribute Categories
The attributes of a user object fall into several broad categories. These categories display in the navigation
pane of the User Properties dialog box in the Active Directory Administrative Center, and include the
following:

• Account. In addition to the user’s name properties (First name, Middle initial, Last name, Full
name) and the user’s various logon names (User UPN logon, User SamAccountName logon), you
can configure the following additional properties:
o Log on hours. This property defines when the account can be used to access domain computers.
You can use the weekly calendar style view to define Logon permitted hours and Logon denied
hours.

o Log on to. Use this property to define which computers a user can use to log on to the domain.
Specify the computer’s name and add it to a list of allowed computers.

o Account expires. This value is useful when you want to create temporary-use user accounts. For
example, you might want to create user accounts for interns that are used for just one year. You
can use this value to set an account expiration date in advance. The account cannot be used after
the expiration date until manually reconfigured by an administrator.
o User must change password at next log on. This property enables you to force a user to reset
their own password the next time they log on. This is typically something you might enable after
you have reset a user’s password.
o Smart card is required for interactive log on. This value resets the user’s password to a
complex, random sequence of characters, and sets a property that requires that the user use a
smart card to authenticate during logon.
o Password never expires. This is a property that you normally use with service accounts; that is,
those accounts that are not used by regular users but by services. By setting this value, you must
remember to update the password manually on a periodic basis; however, you are not forced to
do so at a predetermined interval. Consequently, the account can never be locked out due to
password expiration—a feature that is particularly important for service accounts.
o User cannot change password. Again, this option is generally used for service accounts.

o Store password using reversible encryption. This policy provides support for applications that
use protocols that require knowledge of the user's password for authentication purposes. Storing
passwords using reversible encryption is essentially the same as storing plaintext versions of the
passwords. For this reason, this policy should never be enabled unless application requirements
outweigh the need to protect password information. This policy is required when using Challenge
Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) authentication through remote access or Internet
Authentication Service (IAS). It is also required when using Digest Authentication in Internet
Information Services (IIS).

o Account is trusted for delegation. You can use this property to allow a service account to
impersonate a standard user to access network resources on behalf of a user.

• Organization. This includes properties such as the user’s Display name, Office, Email address,
various contact telephone numbers, managerial structure, department and company names,
addresses and so forth.

• Member of. This section enables you to define the group memberships for the user.
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• Profile. This section enables you to configure a location for the user’s personal data, and to define a
location in which to save the user’s desktop profile when he or she logs out.

• Extensions. This section exposes many additional user properties, most of which do not normally
require manual configuration.

Creating User Profiles

When users log off, their desktop and application
settings are saved to a subfolder that is created
in the C:\Users folder on the local hard disk that
matches their user name. This folder contains
their user profile. Within this folder, subfolders are
created that contain documents and settings that
represent the user’s profile, including Documents,
Videos, Pictures, and Downloads.

If a user is likely to log on interactively at more

than one client workstation, it is preferable for
these settings and documents to be available
on those other client workstations. As an
administrator, you have a number of methods that you can use ensure that users can access their profiles
from multiple workstations.

Configuring User Account Properties to Manage Profiles

Using the user account settings in the Active Directory Administrative Center, you can configure the
following properties relating to a user’s desktop profile:

• Profile path. This path is either a local, or more usually, a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path.
The user’s desktop settings are stored in the profile. Once you define a user profile by using a UNC
path, then whichever domain computer services a user’s logon, their desktop settings will be
available. This is known as a roaming profile.

Note: As a best practice, use a subfolder of the user’s home folder for the user’s profile
path.

• Logon script. This script is the name of a batch file that contains commands that execute when the
user logs on. Typically, you use these commands to create drive mappings. Rather than use a logon
script batch file, administrators typically implement logon scripts by using Group Policy Objects
(GPOs) or Group Policy preferences. If you use a login script, this value should be in the form of a
filename (with extension) only. Scripts should be stored in the C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\scripts
folder on all domain controllers.
• Home folder. This value enables you to create a personal storage area in which users can save their
personal documents. You can specify either a local path, or more usually, a UNC path to the user’s
folder. You also must specify a drive letter that is used to map a network drive to the specified UNC
path. You can then configure a user’s personal documents to this redirected home folder.

Using Group Policy to Manage Profiles

As an alternative to using the individual user account settings, you can also use GPOs to manage these
settings. You can configure Folder Redirection settings by using the Group Policy Management Editor to
open a GPO for editing, and then navigating to the User Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings node.
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These settings contain the sub-nodes in the following table.

Sub-nodes in the Windows Settings node

• AppData (Roaming) • Pictures • Downloads

• Desktop • Music • Links
• Start Menu • Videos • Searches
• Document • Favorites • Saved Games
• Contacts

You can use these sub-nodes to configure all aspects of a user’s desktop profile and application settings.
For a given sub-node, such as Documents, you can choose between Basic and Advanced redirection. In
Basic redirection, all users affected by the GPO have their Documents folder redirected to an individual
named subfolder off a common root folder defined by a UNC name, for example, \\LON-SVR1\Users\.
Advanced redirection enables you to use security group membership to determine where a user’s settings
and documents will be stored.

Demonstration: Managing User Accounts

This demonstration shows you how to:
• Open the Active Directory Administrative Center.

• Delete a user account.

• Create a new user account
• Move the user account.

Demonstration Steps
Open the Active Directory Administrative Center
• On LON-DC1, open the Active Directory Administrative Center.

Delete a user account

• Locate Ed Meadows in the Managers OU, and delete the account.

Create a new user account

• Create a new user account named Ed Meadows. Ensure that the account is created with a strong
password.

Move the user account

• Move the Ed Meadows account to the IT OU.
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Lesson 2
Managing Group Accounts
While it might be practical to assign permissions and abilities to individual user accounts in small
networks, it becomes impractical and inefficient in large enterprise networks. For example, if many users
need the same level of access to a folder, it is more efficient to create a group that contains the required
user accounts, and then assign the group the required permissions. This has the added benefit of enabling
you to change a user’s file permissions by adding or removing them from groups rather than editing the
file permissions directly.

Before implementing groups in your organization, you must understand about the scope of various
Windows Server group types, and how best to use these to manage access to resources or to assign
management rights and abilities.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe group types.

• Describe group scopes.

• Explain how to implement group management.

• Describe default groups.

• Describe special identities.

• Manage groups in Windows Server.

Group Types
In a Windows Server 2012 enterprise network,
there are two types of groups: security, and
distribution. When you create a group, you
choose the group type and scope.

Distribution groups, which are not

security-enabled, are used primarily by email
applications. This means that they do not have
SIDs, so they cannot be given permission to
resources. Sending a message to a distribution
group sends the message to all group members.

Security groups are security principals with SIDs.

You can therefore use these groups in permission
entries in access control lists (ACLs) to control security for resource access. You also can use security
groups as a means of distribution for email applications. If you want to use a group to manage security, it
must be a security group.

Note: The default group type is security.

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Because you can use security groups for both resource access and email distribution, many organizations
use only security groups. However, we recommend that if a group is used only for email distribution, you
should create the group as a distribution group. Otherwise, the group is assigned a SID, and the SID is
added to the user’s security access token, which can lead to an unnecessary size increase of the security
token.

Note: Consider that when you add a user to a security group, the user’s access token—
which authenticates user processes—updates only when the user signs in. Therefore, if the user is
currently logged on, they must log off and log back on to update their access token with any
changed group memberships.

Note: The benefit of using distribution groups becomes more evident in large-scale
Exchange Server deployments, especially where there is a need to nest these distribution groups
across the enterprise.

Group Scopes
Windows Server 2012 supports group scoping.
The scope of a group determines both the range
of a group’s abilities or permissions, and the
group membership.
There are four group scopes:

• Local. This group type is for standalone

servers or workstations, on domain member
servers that are not domain controllers, or on
domain member workstations. Local groups
are truly local, which means that they are
available only on the computer where they
exist. The important characteristics of a local
group are:
o You can assign abilities and permissions only on local resources, meaning on the local computer.

o Members can be from anywhere in the AD DS forest, and can include:

 Any security principals from the domain: users, computers, global groups, or domain local
groups.
 Users, computers, and global groups from any domain in the forest.
 Users, computers, and global groups from any trusted domain.
 Universal groups defined in any domain in the forest.
• Domain Local. This group type is used primarily to manage access to resources or to assign
management responsibilities (rights). Domain local groups exist on domain controllers in an AD DS
forest, and consequently, the group’s scope is localized to the domain in which they reside. The
important characteristics of domain local groups are:

o You can assign abilities and permissions only on domain local resources, meaning on all
computers in the local domain.
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o Members can be from anywhere in the AD DS forest, and can include:

 Any security principals from the domain: users, computers, global groups, or domain local
groups.
 Users, computers, and global groups from any domain in the forest.
 Users, computers, and global groups from any trusted domain.
 Universal groups defined in any domain in the forest.
• Global. This group type is used primarily to consolidate users that have similar characteristics. For
example, global groups often are used to consolidate users that are part of a department or
geographic location. The important characteristics of global groups are:

o You can assign abilities and permissions anywhere in the forest.

o Members can be only from the local domain, and can include:
 Users, computers, and global groups from then local domain.
• Universal. This group type is most useful in multidomain networks because it combines the
characteristics of both domain local groups and global groups. Specifically, the important
characteristics of universal groups are:
o You can assign abilities and permissions anywhere in the forest, as with global groups.
o Members can be from anywhere in the AD DS forest, and can include:
 Users, computers, and global groups from any domain in the forest.
 Universal groups defined in any domain in the forest.
o Properties of universal groups are propagated to the global catalog, and made available
across the enterprise network on all domain controllers that host the global catalog role. This
makes universal groups’ membership lists more accessible, which can be useful in multidomain
scenarios. For example, if a universal group is used for email distribution purposes, the process
for determining the membership list typically is quicker in distributed multidomain networks.

Implementing Group Management

Adding groups to other groups is a process called
nesting. Nesting creates a hierarchy of groups that
support your business roles and management
rules.
A best practice for group nesting is known as
IGDLA, which is an acronym for the following:

• Identities
• Global groups

• Domain local groups

• Access
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Identities (user and computer accounts) are members of global groups, which represent business roles.
Those role groups (global groups) are members of domain local groups, which represent management
rules—for example, determining who has Read permission to a specific collection of folders. These rule
groups (domain local groups) are granted access to resources. In the case of a shared folder, access is
granted by adding the domain local group to the folder’s ACL, with a permission that provides the
appropriate level of access.

In a multidomain forest, there are universal groups also, which fit in between global and domain local
groups. Global groups from multiple domains are members of a single universal group. That universal
group is a member of domain local groups in multiple domains. You can remember the nesting as
IGUDLA.

IGDLA Example
This figure on the slide represents a group implementation that reflects the technical view of group
management best practices (IGDLA), and the business view of role-based, rule-based management.

Consider the following scenario:

The sales force at Contoso, Ltd has just completed its fiscal year. Sales files from the previous year are in a
folder called Sales. The sales force needs Read access to the Sales folder. Additionally, a team of auditors
from Woodgrove Bank, a potential investor, require Read access to the Sales folder to perform the audit.
You would perform the following steps to implement the security required by this scenario:
1. Assign users with common job responsibilities or other business characteristics to role groups
implemented as global security groups. Do this separately in each domain. Salespeople at Contoso
are added to a Sales role group; Auditors at Woodgrove Bank are added to an Auditors role group.

2. Create a group to manage access to the Sales folders with Read permission. You implement this in the
domain containing the resource that is being managed. In this case, the Sales folder resides in the
Contoso domain. Therefore, you create the resource access management rule group as a domain
local group named ACL_Sales Folders_Read.
3. Add the role groups to the resource access management rule group to represent the management
rule. These groups can come from any domain in the forest or from a trusted domain, such as
Woodgrove Bank. Global groups from trusted external domains, or from any domain in the same
forest, can be members of a domain local group.

4. Assign the permission that implements the required level of access. In this case, grant the Allow Read
permission to the domain local group.
This strategy results in two single points of management, reducing the management burden. One point of
management defines who is in Sales, the other point of management defines who is an Auditor. Because
these roles are likely to have access to a variety of resources beyond the Sales folder, you have another
single point of management to determine who has Read access to the Sales folder. Furthermore, the Sales
folder might not be a single folder on a single server; it could be a collection of folders across multiple
servers, each of which assigns the Allow Read permission to the single domain local group.
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Default Groups
The Windows Server 2012 server creates a number
of groups automatically. These are called default
local groups, and they include well-known groups
such as Administrators, Backup Operators, and
Remote Desktop Users. There are additional
groups that are created in a domain, both in the
Builtin and Users containers, including Domain
Admins, Enterprise Admins, and Schema Admins.

The following list provides a summary of

capabilities for the subset of default groups that
have significant permissions and user rights
related to the management of AD DS:

• Enterprise Admins (in the Users container of the forest root domain). This group is a member
of the Administrators group in every domain in the forest, which gives it complete access to the
configuration of all domain controllers. It also owns the Configuration partition of the directory and
has full control of the domain naming context in all forest domains.
• Schema Admins (Users container of the forest root domain). This group owns and has full control of
the Active Directory schema.

• Administrators (Built-in container of each domain). Members of this group have complete
control over all domain controllers and data in the domain naming context. They can change the
membership of all other administrative groups in the domain, and the Administrators group in the
forest root domain can change the membership of Enterprise Admins, Schema Admins, and Domain
Admins. The Administrators group in the forest root domain is arguably the most powerful service
administration group in the forest.

• Domain Admins (Users container of each domain). This group is added to the Administrators group of
its domain. It therefore inherits all of the capabilities of the Administrators group. It is also, by default,
added to the local Administrators group of each domain member computer, giving Domain Admins
ownership of all domain computers.
• Server Operators (Built-in container of each domain). Members of this group can perform
maintenance tasks on domain controllers. They have the right to log on locally, start and stop
services, perform backup and restore operations, format disks, create or delete shares, and shut down
domain controllers. By default, this group has no members.

• Account Operators (Built-in Container of each domain). Members of this group can create, modify,
and delete accounts for users, groups, and computers located in any OU in the domain (except the
Domain Controllers OU), and in the Users and Computers container. Account Operator group
members cannot modify accounts that are members of the Administrators or Domain Admins groups,
nor can they modify those groups. Account Operator group members also can log on locally to
domain controllers. By default, this group has no members.

• Backup Operators (Built-in container of each domain). Members of this group can perform backup
and restore operations on domain controllers, and log on locally and shut down domain controllers.
By default, this group has no members.

• Print Operators (Built-in container of each domain). Members of this group can maintain print queues
on domain controllers. They also can log on locally and shut down domain controllers.

You need to carefully manage the default groups that provide administrative privileges, because they
typically have broader privileges than are necessary for most delegated environments, and because they
often apply protection to their members.
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The Account Operators group is a good example of this. If you examine the capabilities of the Account
Operators group in the preceding list, you can see that members of this group have very broad rights—
they can even log on locally to a domain controller. In very small networks, such rights would probably be
appropriate for one or two individuals who typically would be domain administrators anyway. In large
enterprises, the rights and permissions granted to Account Operators usually are far too broad.

Additionally, the Account Operators group is, like the other administrative groups, a protected group.
Protected groups are defined by the operating system and cannot be unprotected. Members of a
protected group become protected by association. The result of protection is that the permissions (ACLs)
of members are modified so that they no longer inherit permissions from their OU, but rather receive a
copy of an ACL that is quite restrictive. For example, if you add Jeff Ford to the Account Operators group,
his account becomes protected, and the help desk, which can reset all other user passwords in the
Employees OU, cannot reset Jeff Ford’s password.

You should try to avoid adding users to the groups that do not have members by default (Account
Operators, Backup Operators, Server Operators, and Print Operators). Instead, create custom groups to
which you assign permissions and user rights that achieve your business and administrative requirements.

For example, if Scott Mitchell should be able to perform backup operations on a domain controller, but
should not be able to perform restore operations that could lead to database rollback or corruption, and
should not be able to shut down a domain controller, do not put Scott in the Backup Operators group.
Instead, create a group and assign it only the Backup Files And Directories user right, and then add Scott
as a member.

Special Identities
Windows and AD DS also support special
identities, which are groups for which membership
is controlled by the operating system. You cannot
view the groups in any list (in the Active Directory
Users and Computers snap-in, for example), you
cannot view or modify the membership of these
special identities, and you cannot add them to
other groups. You can, however, use these groups
to assign rights and permissions.

The most important special identities—often

referred to as groups (for convenience)—are
described in the following list:
• Anonymous Logon. This identity represents connections to a computer and its resources that are
made without supplying a user name and password. Prior to Windows Server 2003, this group was a
member of the Everyone group. Beginning with Windows Server 2003, this group is no longer a
default member of the Everyone group.

• Authenticated Users. This represents identities that have been authenticated. This group does not
include Guest, even if the Guest account has a password.

• Everyone. This identity includes Authenticated Users and the Guest account. (On computers that are
running versions of the Windows Server operating system that precede Windows Server 2003, this
group includes Anonymous Logon.)
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• Interactive. This represents users accessing a resource while logged on locally to the computer that is
hosting the resource, as opposed to accessing the resource over the network. When a user accesses
any given resource on a computer to which the user is logged on locally, the user is added to the
Interactive group automatically for that resource. Interactive also includes users who log on through
a Remote Desktop connection.

• Network. This represents users accessing a resource over the network, as opposed to users who
are logged on locally at the computer that is hosting the resource. When a user accesses any given
resource over the network, the user is added automatically to the Network group for that resource.

The importance of these special identities is that you can use them to provide access to resources based
on the type of authentication or connection, rather than the user account. For example, you could create
a folder on a system that allows users to view its contents when they are logged on locally to the system,
but that does not allow the same users to view the contents from a mapped drive over the network. You
could achieve this by assigning permissions to the interactive special identity.

Demonstration: Managing Groups

This demonstration shows you how to:
• Create a new group.

• Add members to the group.

• Add a user to the group.
• Change the group type and scope.

• Modify the group’s Managed By property.

Demonstration Steps
Create a new group
1. On LON-DC1, open the Active Directory Administrative Center.
2. Create a new Global Security group in the IT OU called IT Managers.

Add members to the group

• Add multiple users to the new group.

Add a user to the group

• Add Ed Meadows to the IT Managers group.

Change the group type and scope

• In the properties of the IT Managers group, change the group scope to Universal, and the type to
Distribution.

Modify the group’s Managed By property

• Add Ed Meadows to the Managed By list, and then grant him the Manager can update
membership list permission.
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Lesson 3
Managing Computer Accounts
A computer account begins its life cycle when you create it and join it to your domain. Thereafter,
day-to-day administrative tasks include the following:

• Configuring computer properties.

• Moving the computer between OUs.

• Managing the computer itself.

• Renaming, resetting, disabling, enabling, and eventually deleting the computer object.
It is important that you know how to perform these various computer-management tasks so you can
configure and maintain the computer objects within your organization.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Explain the purpose of the AD DS Computers container.

• Describe how to configure the location of computer accounts.

• Explain how to control who has permission to create computer accounts.

• Describe computer accounts and the secure channel.

• Explain how to reset the secure channel.

What Is the Computers Container?

Before you create a computer object in the
Directory Service, you must have a place to put it.

When you create a domain, the Computers

container is created by default (CN=Computers).
This container is not an OU; instead, it is an object
of the Container class.

There are subtle but important differences

between a container and an OU. You cannot
create an OU within a container, so you cannot
subdivide the Computers OU. You also cannot link
a GPO to a container. Therefore, we recommend
that you create custom OUs to host computer
objects, instead of using the Computers container.
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Specifying the Location of Computer Accounts

Most organizations create at least two OUs for
computer objects: one for servers, and another
to host computer accounts for client computers,
such as desktops, laptops, and other user systems.
These two OUs are in addition to the Domain
Controllers OU that is created by default during
the AD DS installation.

Computer objects are created in both OUs. There

is no technical difference between a computer
object in a client’s OU and a computer object in
a server’s or domain controller’s OU; computer
objects are computer objects. However, separate
OUs typically are created to provide unique scopes of management, so that you can delegate
management of client objects to one team and management of server objects to another.
Your administrative model might necessitate further dividing of your client and server OUs. Many
organizations create sub-OUs beneath a server OU, to collect and manage specific types of servers.
For example, you might create an OU for file and print servers, and an OU for database servers. By doing
so, you can delegate permissions to manage computer objects in the appropriate OU to the team of
administrators for each type of server. Similarly, geographically-distributed organizations with local
desktop support teams often divide a parent OU for clients into sub-OUs for each site. This approach
enables each site’s support team to create computer objects in the site for client computers, and to join
computers to the domain by using those computer objects.
These specific examples aside, what is most important is that your OU structure reflects your
administrative model so that your OUs can provide single points of management for the delegation of
administration.
Additionally, by using separate OUs, you can create various baseline configurations by using different
GPOs that are linked to the client and the server OUs. With Group Policy, you can specify configuration
for collections of computers by linking GPOs that contain configuration instructions to OUs. It is common
for organizations to separate clients into desktop and laptop OUs. You then can link GPOs that specify
desktop or laptop configuration to the appropriate OUs.

Note: You can use the Redircmp.exe command-line tool to reconfigure the default
computer container. For example, if you want to change the default computer container to an
OU called mycomputers, use the following syntax:
redircmp ou=mycomputers,DC=contoso,dc=com
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Controlling Permissions to Create Computer Accounts

To join a computer to an Active Directory domain,
four conditions must be met:

• A computer object must exist in the Directory

Service.
• You must have appropriate permissions on
the computer object that allow you to join a
physical computer with a name that matches
that of the object in AD DS to the domain.

• You must be a member of the local

Administrators group on the computer. This
allows you to change the computer’s domain
or workgroup membership.

• You must not have exceeded the maximum number of computer accounts that you can add to the
domain. By default, users can only add a maximum of ten computers to the domain; this value is
known as the machine account quota and is controlled by the MS-DS-MachineQuota value. You can
modify this value by using the ADSIEdit snap-in.

Note: You do not have to create a computer object in the directory service, but it is
recommended. Many administrators join computers to a domain without first creating a
computer object. However, when you do this, Windows Server attempts to join the domain to
an existing object. When Windows Server does not find the object, it fails back and creates a
computer object in the default Computer container.

The process of creating a computer account in advance is called prestaging a computer. There are two
major advantages of prestaging a computer:

• The account is placed into the correct OU, and is therefore delegated according to the security policy
defined by the ACL of the OU.

• The computer is within the scope of GPOs linked to the OU, before the computer joins the domain.
After you have been given permission to create computer objects, you can do so by right-clicking the
OU and from the New menu, clicking Computer. Next, enter the computer name, following the naming
convention of your enterprise, and select the user or group that will be allowed to join the computer
to the domain with this account. The two computer names—Computer Name and Computer Name
(previous to Windows 2000)—should be the same. Very rarely is there a justification for configuring them
separately.

Delegating Permissions
By default, the Enterprise Admins, Domain Admins, Administrators, and Account Operators groups have
permission to create computer objects in any new OU. However, as discussed earlier, we recommend that
you tightly restrict membership in the first three groups, and that you do not add Administrators to the
Account Operators group.

Instead, you should delegate the permission to create computer objects (called Create Computer Objects)
to appropriate administrators or support personnel. This permission, which is assigned to an OU’s group,
allows group members to create computer objects in that OU. For example, you might allow your desktop
support team to create computer objects in the clients OU, and allow your file server administrators to
create computer objects in the file servers OU.
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To delegate permissions to create computer accounts, you can use the Delegate Control Wizard to choose
a custom task to delegate.

When you delegate permissions to manage computer accounts, you might consider granting additional
permissions beyond those required to create computer accounts. For example, you might decide to allow
a delegated administrator to manage the properties of existing computer accounts, to delete the
computer account, or to move the computer account.

Note: If you want to allow a delegated administrator to move a computer accounts,

consider that they require the appropriate permissions both in the source AD DS container
(where the computer currently exists), and in the target container (to which they will move the
computer). Specifically, they must have Delete Computer permissions in the source container and
Create Computer permissions in the target container.

Computer Accounts and Secure Channels

Every member computer in an AD DS domain
maintains a computer account with a user name
(SamAccountName) and password, just like a user
account does. The computer stores its password in
the form of a local security authority (LSA) secret,
and changes its password with the domain
approximately every 30 days. The NetLogon
service uses the credentials to log on to the
domain, which establishes the secure channel with
a domain controller.
Computer accounts and the secure relationships
between computers and their domain are robust.
Nevertheless, certain scenarios might arise in which a computer is no longer able to authenticate with the
domain. Examples of such scenarios include:

• After reinstalling the operating system on a workstation, the workstation is unable to authenticate,
even though the technician used the same computer name as was used in the previous installation.
Because the new installation generated a new SID, and because the new computer does not know the
original computer account password in the domain, it does not belong to the domain and cannot
authenticate to the domain.

• A computer has not been used for an extended period, perhaps because the user is on vacation or
working away from the office. Computers change their passwords every 30 days, and AD DS
remembers the current and previous password. If the computer is unused within this period,
authentication can fail.

• A computer’s LSA secret gets out of synchronization with the password that the domain knows. You
can think of this as the computer forgetting its password. Although it did not forget its password, it
just disagrees with the domain over what the password really is. When this happens, the computer
cannot authenticate, and the secure channel cannot be created.
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Resetting the Secure Channel

Occasionally, the security relationship between a
computer account and its domain can be broken;
this results in a number of symptoms and errors.
The most common signs of computer account
problems are:

• Messages at logon indicate that a domain

controller cannot be contacted, that the
computer account might be missing, that
the password on the computer account is
incorrect, or that the trust relationship
(another way of saying the secure relationship)
between the computer and the domain has
been lost.
• Error messages or events in the event log indicate similar problems or suggest that passwords, trusts,
secure channels, or relationships with the domain or a domain controller have failed. One such error
is “NETLOGON Event ID 3210: Failed To Authenticate,” which appears in the computer’s event log.
• A computer account is missing in AD DS.

When the secure channel fails, you must reset it. Many administrators do this by removing the computer
from the domain, putting it in a workgroup, and then rejoining the domain. However, this is not a good
practice because it has the potential to delete the computer account altogether. Deleting the computer
account removes the computer’s SID, and more importantly, its group memberships. When you rejoin the
domain using this procedure, even though the computer has the same name, the account has a new SID,
and all the group memberships of the previous computer object must be recreated to include the new
SID. Therefore, if the trust with the domain has been lost, do not remove a computer from the domain
and then rejoin it. Instead, reset the secure channel. This will ensure that the existing computer account
can be reused.

To reset the secure channel between a domain member and the domain, use the Active Directory Users
and Computers snap-in, DSMod.exe, NetDom.exe, or NLTest.exe. If you reset the account, the computer’s
SID remains the same, and it maintains its group memberships.
To reset the secure channel by using the Active Directory Administrative Center:

1. Right-click a computer, and then click Reset Account.

2. Click Yes to confirm your choice.

3. Rejoin the computer to the domain, and then restart the computer.

To reset the secure channel by using DSMod:

1. At a command prompt, type the following command:

dsmod computer “ComputerDN” –reset

2. Rejoin the computer to the domain, and then restart the computer.
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To reset the secure channel by using NetDom.exe, type the following command at a command prompt,
where the credentials belong to the local Administrators group of the computer:

netdom reset MachineName /domain DomainName /UserO UserName /PasswordO {Password |

*}

This command resets the secure channel by attempting to reset the password on both the computer and
the domain, so it does not require rejoining or rebooting.

To reset the secure channel by using NLTest.exe, on the computer that has lost its trust, type the following
command at a command prompt:

NLTEST /SERVER:SERVERNAME /SC_RESET:DOMAIN\DOMAINCONTROLLER

You also can use Windows PowerShell with Active Directory module to reset a computer account. The
following example demonstrates how to reset the secure channel between the local computer and the
domain to which it is joined.
You must run this command on the local computer:

Test ComputerSecureChannel –Repair

Note: You also can reset a remote computer’s password with Windows PowerShell:
invoke-command -computername Workstation1 -scriptblock {reset-computermachinepassword}
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Lesson 4
Delegating Administration
Although a single person can manage a small network with a few user and computer accounts, as the
network grows, so too does the volume of work that relates to network management. At some point,
teams with particular specializations evolve, each with responsibility for some specific aspect of network
management. In AD DS environments, it is common practice to create OUs to bring departmental or
geographic structure to the networked objects, and to enable configuration of administrative delegation.
It is important that you know why and how to create OUs, and how to delegate administrative tasks to
users on objects within those OUs.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe AD DS permissions.

• Determine a user’s effective AD DS permissions on an AD DS object.

• Delegate administrative control of an AD DS object to a specified user or group of users.

AD DS Permissions
All AD DS objects, such as users, computers,
and groups, can be secured by using a list of
permissions. The permissions on an object are
called access control entries (ACEs), and they are
assigned to users, groups, or computers, which are
also known as security principals. ACEs are saved
in the object’s discretionary access control list
(DACL), which is part of the object’s ACL. The ACL
contains the system access control list (SACL) that
includes auditing settings.
Each object in AD DS has its own ACL. If you
have sufficient permissions, you can modify the
permissions to control the level of access on a specific AD DS object. The delegation of administrative
control involves assigning permissions that manage access to objects and properties in AD DS. Just as you
can give a group the ability to change files in a folder, you can give a group the ability, for example, to
reset passwords on user objects.

The DACL of an object also allows you to assign permissions to an object’s specific properties. For
example, you can allow (or deny) permission to change phone and email options. This is, in fact, not just
one property. It is a property set that includes multiple, specific properties. Using property sets, you can
easily manage permissions to commonly used collections of properties. However, you can also assign
more granular permissions and allow or deny permission to change just some of the information, such as
the mobile telephone number or the street address.
Assigning the help desk permission to reset passwords for each individual user object is tedious. Even so,
in AD DS, it is not a good practice to assign permissions to individual objects. Instead, you should assign
permissions at the level of OUs.
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The permissions that you assign to an OU are inherited by all objects in the OU. Therefore, if you give
the help desk permission to reset passwords for user objects and attach that permission to the OU that
contains the users, all user objects within that OU will inherit that permission. In just one step, you have
delegated that administrative task.

Child objects inherit the permissions of the parent container or OU. That container or OU in turn inherits
its permissions from its parent container OU. If it is a first-level container or OU, it inherits the permissions
from the domain itself. The reason child objects inherit permissions from their parents is that, by default,
each new object is created with the Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent option
enabled.

Effective AD DS Permissions
Effective permissions are the resulting permissions
for a security principal (such as a user or group),
based on the cumulative effect of each inherited
and explicit ACE. Your ability to reset a user’s
password, for example, might be due to your
membership in a group that is allowed the Reset
Password permission on an OU several levels
above the user object. The inherited permission
assigned to a group to which you belong results
in an effective permission of Allow: Reset
Password. Your effective permissions can be
complicated when you consider Allow and Deny
permissions, explicit and inherited ACEs, and the fact that you might belong to multiple groups, each of
which might be assigned different permissions.

Permissions, whether assigned to your user account or to a group to which you belong, are equivalent.
This means that ultimately an ACE applies to you, the user. The best practice is to manage permissions
by assigning them to groups, but it is also possible to assign ACEs to individual users or computers. A
permission that has been assigned directly to you, the user, is neither more important nor less important
than a permission assigned to a group to which you belong.
The Allow permissions, which allow access, are cumulative. When you belong to several groups, and when
those groups have been granted permissions that allow a variety of tasks, you will be able to perform all
of the tasks assigned to all of those groups, and tasks assigned directly to your user account.
Deny permissions, which deny access, override equivalent Allow permissions. If you are in one group that
has been allowed the permission to reset passwords, and you are also another group that has been
denied permission to reset passwords, the Deny permission prevents you from resetting passwords.

Note: Use Deny permissions rarely. In fact, it is unnecessary to assign Deny permissions,
because if you do not assign an Allow permission, users cannot perform the task. Before
assigning a Deny permission, check to see if you could achieve your goal instead by removing
an Allow permission. For example, if you want to delegate an Allow permission to a group, but
exempt only one member from that group, you can use a Deny permission on that specific user
account while the group still has an Allow permission.
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Every permission is granular. Even if you have been denied the ability to reset passwords, you might still
have the ability through other Allow permissions to change the user’s logon name or email address.

Because child objects inherit the inheritable permissions of parent objects by default, and because explicit
permissions can override inheritable permissions, an explicit Allow permission will actually override an
inherited Deny permission.

Unfortunately, the complex interaction of user, group, explicit, inherited, Allow, and Deny permissions can
make evaluating effective permissions tedious. You can use the permissions reported by the DSACL
command, or listed on the Effective Access tab of the Advanced Security Settings dialog box to begin
evaluating effective permissions, but it is still a manual task.

Demonstration: Delegating Administrative Control

This demonstration shows you how to:
• Delegate a standard task.

• Delegate a custom task.

• View AD DS permissions resulting from these delegations.

Demonstration Steps
Delegate a standard task
1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. Use the Delegate Control Wizard to grant the IT group the following standard management tasks on
the IT OU:

o Create, delete, and manage user accounts

o Reset user passwords and force password change at next logon
o Read all user information

Delegate a custom task

• Use the Delegate Control Wizard to grant the following permissions on the IT OU to the IT group:
o Full Control on computer objects

o Create computer objects

o Delete computer objects

View AD DS permissions resulting from these delegations

1. Enable the Advanced Features view in Active Directory Users and Computers.

2. View the Properties of the IT OU.

3. Use the Security tab to verify the assigned permissions. Close all open windows.
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Lab: Managing Active Directory Domain Services Objects

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London office and
other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with Windows 8
clients.

You have been working for A. Datum as a desktop support specialist and have visited desktop computers
to troubleshoot application and network problems. You have recently accepted a promotion to the server
support team. One of your first assignments is configuring the infrastructure service for a new branch
office.

To begin deployment of the new branch office, you are preparing AD DS objects. As part of this
preparation, you need to create an OU for the branch office and delegate permission to manage it. Then
you need to create users and groups for the new branch office. Finally, you need to reset the secure
channel for a computer account that has lost connectivity to the domain in the branch office.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Delegate administration for a branch office.

• Create and configure user accounts in AD DS.

• Manage computer objects in AD DS.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-CL1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, from Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.

3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

a. User name: Administrator

b. Password: Pa$$w0rd

c. Domain: Adatum

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Exercise 1: Delegating Administration for a Branch Office

Scenario
A. Datum delegates management of each branch office to a specific group. This allows an employee
who works onsite to be configured as an administrator when required. Each branch office has a branch
administrators group that is able to perform full administration within the branch office OU. There is
also a branch office help desk group that is able to manage users in the branch office OU, but not other
objects. You need to create these groups for the new branch office and delegate permissions to the
groups.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Delegate administration for Branch Administrators.

2. Delegate a user administrator for the Branch Office Help Desk.

3. Add a member to the Branch Administrators.

4. Add a member to the Branch Help Desk group.

 Task 1: Delegate administration for Branch Administrators

1. On LON-DC1, open Active Directory Users and Computers, and create in the Adatum.com
domain a new OU named Branch Office 1.
2. Create the following global security groups in the Branch Office 1 OU:

o Branch 1 Help Desk

o Branch 1 Administrators
o Branch 1 Users

3. Move Holly Dickson from the IT OU to the Branch Office 1 OU.

4. Move the following users to the Branch Office 1 OU:

o Development\Bart Duncan

o Managers\Ed Meadows

o Marketing\Connie Vrettos
o Research\Barbara Zighetti

o Sales\Arlene Huff

5. Move the LON-CL1 computer to the Branch Office 1 OU, and then restart the LON-CL1 computer.
6. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

7. On LON-DC1, in Active Directory Users and Computers, use the Delegate Control Wizard to delegate
administration of the Branch Office 1 OU to the Branch 1 Administrators security group by
delegating the following common and custom tasks:

a. Delegate the following common tasks:

 Create, delete, and manage user accounts
 Reset user passwords and force password change at next logon
 Read all user information
 Create, delete and manage groups
 Modify the membership of a group
 Manage Group Policy links
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b. Delegate the following custom tasks:

 Create and delete computer objects in the current OU
 Full control of computer objects in the current OU

 Task 2: Delegate a user administrator for the Branch Office Help Desk
1. On LON-DC1, in Active Directory Users and Computers, use the Delegate Control Wizard to delegate
administration of the Branch Office 1 OU to the Branch 1 Help Desk security group.

2. Delegate the following common tasks:

o Reset user passwords and force password change at next logon

o Read all user information

o Modify the membership of a group

 Task 3: Add a member to the Branch Administrators

1. On LON-DC1, add Holly Dickson to the Branch 1 Administrators global group.

2. Add the Branch 1 Administrators global group to the Server Operators domain local group. Sign
out from LON-DC1.

3. Sign in as Adatum\Holly with the password Pa$$w0rd. You can log on locally at a domain controller
because Holly belongs indirectly to the Server Operators domain local group.

4. From Server Manager, open Active Directory Users and Computers. Confirm Holly’s current
credentials in the User Account Control dialog box.

5. Attempt to delete Sales\Aaren Ekelund. You are unsuccessful, because Holly lacks the required
permissions.
6. Try to delete Branch Office 1\Ed Meadows. You are successful, because Holly has the required
permissions.

 Task 4: Add a member to the Branch Help Desk group

1. On LON-DC1, add Bart Duncan to the Branch 1 Help Desk global group.
2. Close Active Directory Users and Computers, and then close Server Manager.

3. Open Server Manager, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers. In the User
Account Control dialog box, specify Adatum\Administrator and Pa$$w0rd as the required
credentials.

Note: To modify the Server Operators membership list, you must have permissions beyond those
available to the Branch 1 Administrators group.

4. Add the Branch 1 Help Desk global group to the Server Operators domain local group. Sign out
from LON-DC1.

5. Sign in as Adatum\Bart with the password Pa$$w0rd. You can log on locally at a domain controller
because Bart belongs, indirectly, to the Server Operators domain local group.

6. Open Server Manager, and then open Active Directory Users and Computers. Confirm your
current credentials in the User Account Control dialog box.
7. Try to delete Branch Office 1\Connie Vrettos. You are unsuccessful, because Bart lacks the required
permissions.
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8. Reset Connie’s password to Pa$$w0rd.

9. After confirming the password reset is successful, sign out from LON-DC1.

10. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have successfully created an OU and delegated
administration of it to the appropriate group.

Exercise 2: Creating and Configuring User Accounts in AD DS

Scenario
You have been a given a list of new users for the branch office, and you need to begin creating user
accounts for them.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a user template for the branch office.

2. Configure the template settings.
3. Create a new user for the branch office, based on the template.

4. Sign in as a user to test account settings.

 Task 1: Create a user template for the branch office

1. On LON-DC1, create a folder called C:\branch1-userdata, and then share it.
2. Modify the shared folder permissions so that the Everyone group has Full Control Allow
permissions.

3. From Server Manager, open Active Directory Users and Computers, and then create a new user
with the following properties in the Branch Office 1 OU:

o Full name: _Branch_template

o User logon name: _Branch_template

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Account is disabled

 Task 2: Configure the template settings

• On LON-DC1, modify the following properties of the _Branch_template account:
o City: Slough

o Group: Branch 1 Users

o Home folder: \\lon-dc1\branch1-userdata\%username%

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 Task 3: Create a new user for the branch office, based on the template
1. On LON-DC1, copy the _Branch_template user account, and configure the following properties:

o First name: Ed

o Last name: Meadows

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o User must change password at next logon is cleared.

o Account is disabled is cleared.

2. Verify that the following properties have been copied during account creation:

o City: Slough

o Home folder path: \\lon-dc1\branch1-userdata\Ed

o Group: Branch 1 Users

3. Sign out from LON-DC1.

 Task 4: Sign in as a user to test account settings

1. Switch to LON-CL1 and sign off.
2. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Ed with the password Pa$$w0rd. You are able to sign in successfully.

3. Verify that you have a drive mapping for drive Z to Ed’s home folder on LON-DC1.

4. Sign out of LON-CL1.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have successfully created and tested a user account
created from a template.

Exercise 3: Managing Computer Objects in AD DS

Scenario
A workstation has lost its connectivity to the domain and cannot authenticate users properly. When users
attempt to access resources from this workstation, access is denied. You need to reset the computer
account to recreate the trust relationship between the client and the domain.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Reset a computer account.

2. Observe the behavior when a client logs on.

3. Rejoin the domain to reconnect the computer account.

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 Task 1: Reset a computer account

1. On LON-DC1, sign in as Adatum\Holly with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.

3. Confirm your credentials in the User Account Control dialog box.

4. Navigate to Branch Office 1.

5. Reset the LON-CL1 computer account.

 Task 2: Observe the behavior when a client logs on

1. Switch to LON-CL1 and attempt to sign in as Adatum\Ed with the password Pa$$w0rd. A message
displays stating that The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain
failed.

2. Click OK to acknowledge the message.

 Task 3: Rejoin the domain to reconnect the computer account

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. Open Control Panel, switch to Large icons view, and then open System.

3. View the Advanced system settings, and then click the Computer Name tab.
4. In the System Properties dialog box, use the Network ID button to rejoin the computer to the
domain.

5. Complete the wizard using the following settings:

o User name: administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Domain: Adatum

o Do you want to enable a domain user account on this computer: No

6. When prompted, restart the computer.

7. Sign in as Adatum\Ed with the password of Pa$$w0rd. You are successful because the computer had
been successfully rejoined.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have successfully reset a trust relationship.

 To prepare for the next module

When you have completed the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this,
complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-CL1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-DC1.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: A company with branches in multiple cities has members of a sales team that
travel frequently between domains. Each of these domains has their own printers that are
managed by using domain local groups. How can you provide these members with access to
the various domains printers?

Question: You are responsible for managing accounts and access to resources for your
group members. A user in your group transfers to another department within the company.
What should you do with the user’s account?
Question: What is the main difference between the Computers container and an OU?

Question: When should you reset a computer account? Why is it better to reset the
computer account rather than to disjoin and then rejoin it to the domain?

Question: A project manager in your department is starting a group project that will
continue for the next year. Several users from your department and other departments will
be dedicated to the project during this time. The project team must have access to the same
shared resources. The project manager must be able to manage the user accounts and group
accounts in AD DS; however, you do not want to give the project manager permission to
manage anything else in AD DS. What is the best way to do this?
Question: You are working as an IT technician in Contoso, Ltd. You are managing the
Windows Server–based infrastructure. You have to find a method for joining new
Windows 8-based computers to a domain during the installation process, without
intervention of a user or an administrator. What is the best way to do this?

Tools
Tool Use Where to find it

Active Directory Users and Manage groups Administrative Tools

Computers

Active Directory module for Manage groups Installed as Windows Feature

Windows Power Shell

DS utilities Manage groups Command line

Active Directory module for Computer account management Administrative Tools

Windows PowerShell

Djoin.exe Offline domain join Command line

Redircmp.exe Change default computer Command line

container

DSACLS View and modify AD DS Command line

permissions
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Best Practices
Best Practices for User Account Management
• Do not let users share user accounts. Always create a user account for each individual, even if that
person will not be with your organization for long.

• Educate users about the importance of password security.

• Ensure that you choose a naming strategy for user accounts that enables you to identify the user to
whom the account relates. Also ensure that your naming strategy uses unique names within your
domain.

Best Practices for Group Management

• When managing access to resources, try to use both domain local group and role groups.

• Use universal groups only when necessary because they add weight to replication traffic.

• Use Windows PowerShell with Active Directory Module for batch jobs on groups.

• Avoid adding users to built-in and default groups.

Best Practices Related to Computer Account Management

• Always provision a computer account before joining computers to a domain, and then place them in
appropriate OU.
• Redirect the default computer container to another location.

• Reset the computer account, instead of disjoining and rejoining.

• Integrate the Offline Domain Join functionality with unattended installations.
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Module 4
Automating Active Directory Domain Services
Administration
Contents:
Module Overview 4-1

Lesson 1: Using Command-line Tools for AD DS Administration 4-2

Lesson 2: Using Windows PowerShell for AD DS Administration 4-8

Lesson 3: Performing Bulk Operations with Windows PowerShell 4-14

Lab: Automating AD DS Administration by Using Windows PowerShell 4-21
Module Review and Takeaways 4-25

Module Overview
You can use command-line tools and Windows PowerShell® to automate Active Directory® Domain
Services (AD DS) administration. Automating administration speeds up processes that you might
otherwise perform manually. Windows PowerShell includes cmdlets for performing AD DS administration
and for performing bulk operations. You can use bulk operations to change many AD DS objects in a
single step rather than updating each object manually.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Use command-line tools for AD DS administration.

• Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets for AD DS administration.

• Perform bulk operations by using Windows PowerShell.

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Lesson 1
Using Command-line Tools for AD DS Administration
Windows Server® 2012 includes several command-line tools that you can use to perform AD DS
administration. Many organizations create scripts that use command-line tools to automate the creation
and management of AD DS objects, such as user accounts and groups. You must understand how to use
these command-line tools to ensure that if required, you can modify the scripts that your organization
uses.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using command-line tools for AD DS administration.

• Describe how and when to use csvde.

• Describe how and when to use ldifde.

• Describe how and when to use DS commands.

Benefits of Using Command-Line Tools for AD DS Administration

Many administrators prefer to use graphical
tools for AD DS administration whenever possible.
Graphical tools, such as the Active Directory Users
and Computers snap-in, are intuitive to use
because they represent information visually and
provide options in the form of radio buttons and
dialog boxes. When information is represented
graphically, you do not need to memorize syntax.
Graphical tools work well in many situations, but
they cannot be automated. To automate AD DS
administration, you require command-line tools.
Command-line tools can be used in scripts, or
they can be used by other applications.

Some benefits of using command-line tools are:

• Faster implementation of bulk operations. For example, you can export a list of new user accounts
from a human resources application. You use a command-line tool or script to create the new user
accounts based on the exported information. This is much faster than creating each new user account
manually.

• Customized processes for AD DS administration. You can use a customized graphical program to
gather information about a new group, and then create the new group. When the information is
gathered, the graphical program can verify that the information format—such as the naming
convention—is correct. Then, the graphical program uses a command-line tool to create the new
group. This process allows company-specific rules to be enforced.

• AD DS administration on Server Core. The Server Core installation of Windows Server cannot run
graphical administration tools such as Active Directory Users and Computers. However, you can use
command-line tools on Server Core.
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Note: You can administer Server Core remotely by using graphical tools.

What Is Csvde?
Csvde is a command-line tool that exports
or imports Active Directory objects to or from
a comma-separated values (.csv) file. Many
applications are capable of exporting or
importing data from .csv files. This makes csvde
useful for interoperability with other applications,
such as databases or spreadsheets.

The main limitation of csvde is that it cannot

modify existing Active Directory objects; it can
only create new objects. For example, you can use
csvde to create a set of new user accounts, but
you cannot use it to modify the properties of the
user accounts after they are created. You can also use csvde to export object properties, such as a list of
users and their email addresses.

Export Objects by Using csvde

To export objects by using csvde, as a minimum, you need to specify the filename of the .csv file to which
data will be exported. With only the filename specified, all objects in the domain will be exported.
The basic syntax to use csvde for export is:

csvde f filename

Other options that you can use with csvde are listed in the following table.

Option Description

-d RootDN Specifies the distinguished name of the container from which the export
will begin. The default is the domain.

-p SearchScope Specifies the scope of the search relative to the container specified by the
option -d. The SearchScope option can be either base (this object only),
onelevel (objects within this container), or subtree (this container and all
subcontainers). The default is subtree.

-r Filter Limits the objects returned to those that match the filter. The filter is
based on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) query syntax.

-l ListOfAtrributes Specifies the attributes to be exported. Use the LDAP name for each
attribute, and separate them with commas.

After the export completes, the .csv file will contain a header row and one row for each object that was
exported. The header row is a comma-separated list with the names of the attributes for each object.
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Create Objects by Using csvde

The basic syntax for using csvde to create objects is:

csvde i f filename k

The -i parameter specifies import mode. The -f parameter identifies the file name from which to import.
The -k parameter instructs csvde to ignore error messages, including the “Object Already Exists” error
message. The suppress errors option is useful when importing objects to ensure that all of the objects
possible are created, instead of stopping when partially complete.

The .csv file that is being used for an import must have a header row that contains names of LDAP
attributes for the data in the .csv file. Each row must contain exactly the correct number of items as
specified in the header row.
You cannot use csvde to import passwords, because passwords in a .csv file are not protected. As a result,
user accounts that you create with csvde have a blank password and are disabled.

Note: For more information about parameters for csvde, at a command prompt, type
csvde /?, and then press Enter.

Additional Reading: For more information about LDAP query syntax, see LDAP Query
Basics at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=168752.

What Is Ldifde?
Ldifde is a command-line tool that you can use
to export, create, modify, or delete AD DS objects.
Like csvde, ldifde uses data that is stored in a file.
The file must be in LDAP Data Interchange Format
(LDIF). Most applications cannot export or import
data in LDIF format. It is more likely that you will
obtain data in LDIF format from another directory
service.
An LDIF file is text-based, with blocks of lines
composing a single operation such as creating
or modifying a user object. Each line within
the operation specifies something about the
operation, such as an attribute or the type of operation. A blank line separates multiple operations within
the LDIF file.
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The following is an example of an LDIF file that creates a single user:

dn: CN=Bonnie Kearney,OU=Employees,OU=User Accounts,DC=adatum,DC=com

changetype: add
objectClass: top
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: user
cn: Bonnie Kearney
sn: Kearney
title: Operations
description: Operations (London)
givenName: Bonnie
displayName: Kearney, Bonnie
company: Contoso, Ltd.
sAMAccountName: bonnie.kearney
userPrincipalName: [email protected]
mail: [email protected]

For each operation in an LDIF file, the changetype line defines the operation to be performed. The valid
values are add, modify, or delete.

Export Objects by Using Ldifde

When using ldifde to export objects, the minimum information you must provide is a filename to hold the
data. When no other options are selected, all objects in the domain are exported.
The basic syntax for exporting objects by using LDIFE is:

ldifde f filename

Some other options you can use when exporting objects ldifde are listed in the following table.

Option Description

-d RootDN The root of the LDAP search. The default is the root of the domain.

-r Filter An LDAP search filter that limits the results returned.

-p SearchScope The scope, or depth, of the search. This can be:

• subtree (the container and all child containers)
• base (the immediate child objects of the container only)
• onelevel (the container and its immediate child containers)

-l ListOfAttributes A comma-separated list of attributes to include in the export.

-o ListOfAttributes A comma-separated list of attributes to exclude in the export.

Import Objects by Using Ldifde

When you use ldifde to import objects, you must specify the operation to perform on the object. For each
operation in an LDIF file, the changetype line defines the operation to be performed.
The basic syntax for using ldifde to import objects is:

ldifde i f filename k
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The -i parameter specifies import mode. The -f parameter identifies the file name from which to import.
The -k parameter instructs ldifde to ignore errors, including the “Object Already Exists” error. The option
suppress errors is useful when importing objects to ensure that all objects possible are created, instead
of stopping when partially complete.

You cannot use ldifde to import passwords, because passwords in an LDIF file would not be secure. As a
result, user accounts created by ldifde have a blank password and are disabled.

What Are DS Commands?

Windows Server 2012 includes command-line
tools called DS commands, which are suitable for
use in scripts. You can use DS command-line tools
to create, view, modify, and remove AD DS
objects.

The following table describes DS command-line

tools.

Tool Description

DSadd Creates AD DS objects.

DSget Displays properties of AD DS objects.

DSquery Searches for AD DS objects.

DSmod Modifies AD DS objects.

DSrm Removes AD DS objects.

DSmove Moves AD DS objects.

User Management Command Examples

The following are examples of DS commands that you could type at a command prompt.
To modify the department of a user account, type:

dsmod user "cn=Joe Healy,ou=Managers,dc=adatum,dc=com" dept IT

To display the email of a user account, type:

dsget user "cn=Joe Healy,ou=Managers,dc=adatum,dc=com" email

To delete a user account, type:

dsrm "cn=Joe Healy,ou=Managers,dc=adatum,dc=com"

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To create a new user account, type:

dsadd user "cn=Joe Healy,ou=Managers,dc=adatum,dc=com"

Question: What criteria would you use to select between using csvde, ldifde, and the DS
commands?
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Lesson 2
Using Windows PowerShell for AD DS Administration
Windows PowerShell is the preferred scripting environment in Windows Server 2012. It is much easier
to use than previous scripting languages such as Microsoft® Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript).
Windows PowerShell includes an extensive list of cmdlets to manage AD DS objects. You can use cmdlets
to create, modify, and remove user accounts, groups, computer accounts, and organizational units (OUs).

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage user accounts.

• Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage groups.

• Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage computer accounts.

• Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to manage OUs.

Using Windows PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage User Accounts

You can use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to
create, modify, and delete user accounts. These
cmdlets can be used for individual operations or
as part of a script to perform bulk operations.
Some of the cmdlets for managing user accounts
are in the following table.

Cmdlet Description

New-ADUser Creates user accounts.

Set-ADUser Modifies properties of user accounts.

Remove-ADUser Deletes user accounts.

Set-ADAccountPassword Resets the password of a user account.

Set-ADAccountExpiration Modifies the expiration date of a user account.

Unlock-ADAccount Unlocks a user account when it is locked after exceeding the

accepted number of incorrect login attempts.

Enable-ADAccount Enables a user account.

Disable-ADAccount Disables a user account.

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Create New User Accounts

When you use the New-ADUser cmdlet to create new user accounts, you can set most user properties
including a password. For example:

• If you do not use the -AccountPassword parameter, no password is set and the user account is
disabled. The -Enabled parameter cannot be set as $true when no password is set.

• If you use the -AccountPassword parameter to specify a password, then you must specify a variable
that contains the password as a secure string, or choose to be prompted for the password. A secure
string is encrypted in memory. If you set a password then you can enable the user account by setting
the -Enabled parameter as $true.

Some commonly used parameters for the New-ADUser cmdlet are listed in the following table.

Parameter Description

AccountExpirationDate Defines the expiration date for the user account.

AccountPassword Defines the password for the user account.

ChangePasswordAtLogon Requires the user account to change passwords at the next logon.

Department Defines the department for the user account.

Enabled Define whether the user account is enabled or disabled.

HomeDirectory Defines the location of the home directory for a user account.

HomeDrive Defines the drive letters that are mapped to the home directory for a
user account.

GivenName Defines the first name for a user account.

Surname Defines the last name for a user account.

Path Defines the OU or container where the user account will be created.

The following is an example of a command that you could use to create a user account with a prompt for
a password:

New ADUser "Sten Faerch" AccountPassword (Read Host AsSecureString "Enter password")
Department IT

Question: Are all cmdlet parameters that you use to manage user accounts the same?
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Using Windows PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage Groups

You can use Windows PowerShell to create,
modify, and delete groups. These cmdlets can be
used for individual operations or as part of a script
to perform bulk operations.

Some of the cmdlets for managing groups are

listed in the following table.

Cmdlet Description

New-ADGroup Creates new groups.

Set-ADGroup Modifies properties of groups.

Get-ADGroup Displays properties of groups.

Remove-ADGroup Deletes groups.

Add-ADGroupMember Adds members to groups.

Get-ADGroupMember Displays membership of groups.

Remove-ADGroupMember Removes members from groups.

Add-ADPrincipalGroupMembership Adds group membership to objects.

Get-ADPrincipalGroupMembership Displays group membership of objects.

Remove-ADPrincipalGroupMembership Removes group membership from an object.

Create New Groups

You can use the New-ADGroup cmdlet to create groups. However, when you create groups using the
New-ADGroup cmdlet, you must use the GroupScope parameter in addition to the group name. This is
the only required parameter. The following table lists commonly used parameters for New-ADGroup.

Parameter Description

Name Defines the name of the group.

GroupScope Defines the scope of the group as DomainLocal, Global, or Universal. You
must provide this parameter.

DisplayName Defines the LDAP display name for the object.

GroupCategory Defines whether it is a security group or a distribution group. If you do not

specify either, a security group is created.

ManagedBy Defines a user or group that can manage the group.

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Parameter Description

Path Defines the OU or container in which the group is created.

SamAccountName Defines a name that is backward compatible with older operating systems.

The following command is an example of what you could type at a Windows PowerShell prompt to create
a new group:

New ADGroup Name "CustomerManagement" Path "ou=managers,dc=adatum,dc=com" GroupScope

Global GroupCategory Security

Manage Group Membership

There are two sets of cmdlets that you can use to manage group membership: *-ADGroupMember, and
*-ADPrincipalGroupMembership. The distinction between these two sets of cmdlets is the perspective
used when modifying group membership. They are:
• The *-ADGroupMember cmdlets modify the membership of a group. For example, you add or
remove members of a group.

o You cannot pipe a list of members to these cmdlets.

o You can pass a list of groups to these cmdlets.

• The *-ADPrincipalGroupMembership cmdlets modify the group membership of an object such as a
user. For example, you can modify a user account to add it as a member of a group.
o You can pipe a list of members to these cmdlets.

o You cannot provide a list of groups to these cmdlets.

Note: When you pipe a list of objects to a cmdlet, you pass a list of objects to a cmdlet.

The following is a command you could use to add a member to a group:

Add ADGroupMember CustomerManagement Members "Joe Healy"

Using Windows PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage Computer Accounts

You can use Windows PowerShell to create,
modify, and delete computer accounts. These
cmdlets can be used for individual operations or
as part of a script to perform bulk operations.
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Some of the cmdlets for managing computer accounts are listed in the following table.

Cmdlet Description

New-ADComputer Creates a new computer account.

Set-ADComputer Modifies properties of a computer account.

Get-ADComputer Displays properties of a computer account.

Remove-ADComputer Deletes a computer account.

Test-ComputerSecureChannel Verifies or repairs the trust relationship between a computer

and the domain.

Reset-ComputerMachinePassword Resets the password for a computer account.

Create New Computer Accounts

You can use the New-ADComputer cmdlet to create a new computer account before the computer is
joined to the domain. You do this so you can create the computer account in the correct OU before
deploying the computer.
The following table lists commonly used parameters for New-ADComputer.

Parameter Description

Name Defines the name of the computer account.

Path Defines the OU or container where the computer account will be created.

Enabled Defines whether the computer account is enabled or disabled. By default, the
computer account is enabled and a random password is generated.

The following is an example that you can use to create a computer account:

New ADComputer Name LON SVR8 Path "ou=marketing,dc=adatum,dc=com" Enabled $true

Repair the Trust Relationship for a Computer Account

You can use the Test-ComputerSecureChannel cmdlet with the -Repair parameter to repair a lost trust
relationship between a computer and the domain. You must run the cmdlet on the computer with the lost
trust relationship.

The following is a command that you could use to repair the trust relationship for a computer account:

Test ComputerSecureChannel –Repair

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Using Windows PowerShell Cmdlets to Manage OUs

You can use Windows PowerShell cmdlets to
create, modify, and delete OUs. These cmdlets
can be used for individual operations or as part of
a script to perform bulk operations.

Some of the cmdlets for managing OUs are listed

in the following table.

Cmdlet Description

New-ADOrganizationalUnit Creates OUs.

Set-ADOrganizationalUnit Modifies properties of OUs.

Get-ADOrganizationalUnit Displays properties of OUs.

Remove-ADOrganizationalUnit Deletes OUs.

Create New OUs

You can use New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet to create a new OU to represent departments or
physical locations within in your organization.
The following table shows commonly used parameters for the New-ADOrganizationalUnit cmdlet.

Parameter Description

Name Defines the name of the new OU.

Path Defines the location of the new OU.

ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion Prevents the OU from being deleted accidentally. The

default value is $true.

The following is an example you can use when you want to create a new OU:

New ADOrganizationalUnit Name Sales Path "ou=marketing,dc=adatum,dc=com"

ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion $true

Question: In the slide example, is the ProtectedFromAccidentalDeletion parameter

required?
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Lesson 3
Performing Bulk Operations with Windows PowerShell
Windows PowerShell is a powerful scripting environment that you can use to perform bulk operations,
which would normally be tedious to perform manually. You can also perform some bulk operations in
graphical tools.

To perform bulk operations using Windows PowerShell, you must first understand how to create queries
for a list of AD DS objects, and how to work with .csv files. Then you can create scripts that perform the
bulk operations that you require.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe bulk operations.

• Use graphical tools to perform bulk operations.

• Query AD DS objects by using Windows PowerShell.

• Modify AD DS objects by using Windows PowerShell.

• Use .csv files with Windows PowerShell.

• Modify and execute Windows PowerShell scripts to perform bulk operations.

What Are Bulk Operations?

A bulk operation is a single action that changes
multiple objects. Performing a bulk operation
is much faster than changing many objects
individually. It might also be more accurate,
because performing many individual actions
increases the likelihood of making a typographical
error.

The general process for performing bulk

operations is as follows:

1. Define a query. You use the query to select

the objects that you want to modify. For
example, you might want to modify all user
accounts in a specific OU.

2. Modify the objects defined by the query. When using graphical tools, you typically select the objects
that you want to modify, and then edit the properties of those objects. When using command-line
tools, you might use a list of objects or variables to identify the objects that you want to modify.

You can perform bulk operations with graphical tools, at a command prompt, or by using scripts. Each
method for performing bulk operations has different capabilities.
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For example:

• Graphical tools tend to be limited in the properties that they can modify.

• Command-line tools tend to be more flexible than graphical tools when defining queries, and they
have more options for modifying object properties.

• Scripts can combine multiple command-line actions for the most complexity and flexibility.

Demonstration: Using Graphical Tools to Perform Bulk Operations

You can use the graphical tools Active Directory Administrative Center and the Active Directory Users and
Computers snap-in to modify the properties of multiple objects simultaneously.

Note: When you use graphical tools to modify multiple user accounts simultaneously, you
are limited to modifying the properties that display in the user interface.

To perform a bulk operation using graphical tools, perform the following steps:

1. Perform a search or create a filter to display the objects that you want to modify.

2. Select the objects.

3. Examine the properties of the objects.

4. Modify the properties that you want to change.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a query for all users.

• Configure the Company attribute for all users.

• Verify that the Company attribute has been modified.

Demonstration Steps
Create a query for all users
1. Start 20410B-LON-DC1 and sign in as Adatum\Administrator by using the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. On LON-DC1, open Active Directory Administrative Center.

3. Browse to Global Search, and add the criteria Object type is user/inetOrgPerson/computer
/group/organization unit.

4. Verify that the criteria that you added is for the type User, and perform the search.

Configure the Company attribute for all users

1. Select all the user accounts and modify their properties.

2. Type the Company as A. Datum.

Verify that the Company attribute has been modified

• Open the properties of Adam Barr, and verify that the Company is A. Datum.
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Querying Objects with Windows PowerShell

In Windows PowerShell, you use the Get-*
cmdlets to obtain lists of objects, such as user
accounts. You can also use these cmdlets to
generate queries for objects on which you can
perform bulk operations.

The following table lists commonly used

parameters with the Get-AD* cmdlets.

Parameter Description

SearchBase Defines the AD DS path to begin searching, for example, the domain or an OU.

SearchScope Defines at what level below the SearchBase a search should be performed. You
can choose to search only in the base, one level down, or the entire subtree.

ResultSetSize Defines how many objects to return in response to a query. To ensure that all
objects are returned, you should set this to $null.

Properties Defines which object properties to return and display. To return all properties,
type an asterisk (*). You do not need to use this parameter to use a property for
filtering.

Create a Query
You can use the Filter parameter or the LDAPFilter parameter to create queries for objects with the
Get-AD* cmdlets. The Filter parameter is used for queries written in Windows PowerShell. The
LDAPFilter parameter is used for queries written as LDAP query strings.

Windows PowerShell is preferred because:

• It is easier to write queries in Windows PowerShell.

• You can use variables inside the queries.

• There is automatic conversion of variable types, when it is required.

The following table lists commonly used operators that you can use in Windows PowerShell.

Operator Description

-eq Equal to

-ne Not equal to

-lt Less than

-le Less than or equal to

-gt Greater than

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Operator Description

-ge Greater than or equal to

-like Uses wildcards for pattern matching

The following is a command that you use to display all of the properties for a user account:

Get ADUser Administrator Properties *

The following is a command that you use to return all the user accounts in the Marketing OU, and all of
its child OUs:

Get ADUser –Filter * SearchBase "ou=Marketing,dc=adatum,dc=com" SearchScope subtree

The following is a command that you use to show all of the user accounts with a last logon date older
than a specific date:

Get ADUser Filter {lastlogondate lt "January 1, 2012"}

The following is a command that you use to show all of the user accounts in the Marketing department
that have a last logon date older than a specific date:

Get-ADUser -Filter {(lastlogondate -lt "January 1, 2012") -and (department -eq

"Marketing")}

Additional Reading: For more information about filtering with Get-AD* cmdlets, see
about_ActiveDirectory_Filter at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266740.

Question: What is the difference between using -eq and -like when comparing strings?

Modifying Objects with Windows PowerShell

To perform a bulk operation, you need to pass the
list of objects that you have queried to another
cmdlet to modify the objects. In most cases, you
use the Set-AD* cmdlets to modify the objects.

To pass the list of queried objects to another

cmdlet for further processing, you use the pipe
( | ) character. The pipe character passes each
object from the query to a second cmdlet, which
then performs a specified operation on each
object.

The following is a command that you could use

for those accounts that do not have the Company
attribute set. It would generate a list of user accounts and set the Company attribute to A. Datum

Get-ADUser -Filter {company -notlike "*"} | Set-ADUser -Company "A. Datum"

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The following is a command that you could use to generate a list of user accounts that have not logged
on since a specific date, and then disable them:

Get ADUser Filter {lastlogondate lt "January 1, 2012"} | Disable ADAccount

Use Objects from a Text File

Instead of using a list of objects from a query to perform a bulk operation, you can use a list of objects
in a text file. This is useful when you have a list of objects to modify or remove, and it is not possible to
generate that list by using a query. For example, the human resources department might generate a list
of user accounts to be disabled. There is no query that can identify a list of users that have left the
organization.

When you use a text file to specify a list of objects, the text file needs to have the name of each object on
a single line.
The following is a command that you could use to disable the user accounts that are listed in a text file:

Get Content C:\users.txt | Disable ADAccount

Question: Which attributes of a user account can you use when creating a query by using
the Filter parameter?

Working with CSV Files

A .csv file can contain much more information
than a simple list. Similar to a spreadsheet, a
.csv file can have multiple rows and columns of
information. Each row in the .csv file represents
a single object, and each column in the .csv file
represents a property of the object. This is useful
for bulk operations such as creating user accounts
where multiple pieces of information about each
object are required.
You can use the Import-CSV cmdlet to read
the contents of a .csv file into a variable, and then
work with the data. After the data is imported into
the variable, you can then refer to each individual row of data and each individual column of data. Each
column of data has a name that is based on the header row (the first row) of the .csv file. You can refer to
each column by name.

The following is an example a .csv file with a header row:

FirstName,LastName,Department
Greg,Guzik,IT
Robin,Young,Research
Qiong,Wu,Marketing

Use Foreach to Process CSV Data

In many cases, you are creating script that will be reused for multiple .csv files, and you do not know how
many rows there are in each .csv file. You can use a foreach loop to process each row in a .csv file. This
type of loop does not require that you know how many rows there are. During each iteration of the
foreach loop, a row from the .csv is imported into a variable that can be processed.
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The following is a command that you could use to import a .csv file into a variable, and use a foreach
loop to display the first name from each row in a .csv file:

$users=Import-CSV C:\users.csv
Foreach ($i in $users) {
Write Host "The first name is:" $i.FirstName"
}

Question: In the foreach loop, how does $i change?

Demonstration: Performing Bulk Operations with Windows PowerShell

You can use a script to combine multiple Windows PowerShell commands to perform more complex
tasks. Within a script, you often use variables and loops to process data. Windows PowerShell scripts have
a .ps1 extension.

The execution policy on a server determines whether scripts are able to run. The default execution policy
on Windows Server 2012 is RemoteSigned. This means that local scripts can run without being digitally
signed. You can control the execution policy by using the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Configure a department for users.

• Create an OU.

• Run a script to create new user accounts.

• Verify that new user accounts were created.

Demonstration Steps
Configure a department for users
1. Start 20410B-LON-DC1, and sign in as Adatum\Administrator by using the password of
Pa$$w0rd.

2. On LON-DC1, open a Windows PowerShell prompt.

3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, search for user accounts in the Research OU using the following
command:

Get-ADUser –Filter * -SearchBase "ou=Research,dc=adatum,dc=com"

4. Set the department attribute of all users in the Research OU using the following command:

Get-ADUser –Filter * -SearchBase "ou=Research,dc=adatum,dc=com" | Set-ADUser

-Department Research

5. Display a table-formatted list of users in the Research department. Display the distinguished name
and department by using the following command:

Get-ADUser –Filter 'department -eq "Research"' | Format-Table

DistinguishedName,Department
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6. Use the Properties parameter to allow the previous command to display the department correctly.
Use the following command:

Get-ADUser –Filter 'department -eq "Research"' -Properties Department | Format-Table

DistinguishedName,Department

Create an OU
• At the Windows PowerShell prompt, create a new OU named LondonBranch using the following
command:

New-ADOrganizationalUnit LondonBranch -Path "dc=adatum,dc=com"

Run a script to create new user accounts

1. Open E:\Labfiles\Mod04\DemoUsers.csv, and read the header row.

2. Edit DemoUsers.ps1, and review the contents of the script. Note that the script:
o Refers to the location of the .csv file.

o Uses a foreach loop to process the .csv file contents.

o Refers to the columns defined by the header in the .csv file.

3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, change to the E:\Labfiles\Mod04 directory, and then run the
following command:

.\DemoUsers.ps1

Verify that new user accounts were created

1. In Server Manager, open Active Directory Administrative Center.
2. In Active Directory Administrative Center, browse to Adatum (local)>LondonBranch, and verify that
the user accounts were created. Note that the passwords are disabled because no password was set
during creation.
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Lab: Automating AD DS Administration by Using Windows

PowerShell
Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with
Windows 8 clients.

You have been working for A. Datum for several years as a desktop support specialist. In this role, you
visited desktop computers to troubleshoot application and network problems. You have recently accepted
a promotion to the server support team. One of your first assignments is configuring the infrastructure
service for a new branch office.

As part of configuring a new branch office, you need to create user and group accounts. Creating multiple
users with graphical tools is inefficient, so, you will be using Windows PowerShell.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Create user accounts and groups by using Windows PowerShell.

• Use Windows PowerShell to create user accounts in bulk.

• Use Windows PowerShell to modify user accounts in bulk.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-CL1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.

3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

• User name: Adatum\Administrator

• Password: Pa$$w0rd

5. Repeat steps 2-3 for 20410B-LON-CL1. Do not sign in to LON-CL1 until directed to do so.
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Exercise 1: Creating User Accounts and Groups by Using Windows

PowerShell
Scenario
A. Datum Corporation has a number of scripts that have been used in the past to create user accounts by
using command-line tools. It has been mandated that all future scripting will be done by using Windows
PowerShell. As the first step in creating scripts, you need to identify the syntax required to manage AD DS
objects in Windows PowerShell.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a user account by using Windows PowerShell.

2. Create a group by using Windows PowerShell.

 Task 1: Create a user account by using Windows PowerShell

1. On LON-DC1, open a Windows PowerShell prompt.
2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, create a new OU named LondonBranch by typing the following
command:

New-ADOrganizationalUnit LondonBranch

3. Create a new user account for Ty Carlson in the LondonBranch OU using the following command:

New-ADUser -Name Ty -DisplayName "Ty Carlson" -GivenName Ty -Surname Carlson -Path

"ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com"

4. Change the blank password for the new account to Pa$$w0rd, using the following command:

Set-ADAccountPassword Ty

5. Enable the new user account using the following command:

Enable-ADAccount Ty

6. On LON-CL1, sign in as Ty using a password of Pa$$w0rd.

7. Verify that sign in is successful, and then sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 2: Create a group by using Windows PowerShell

1. On LON-DC1, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, create a new global security group for users in the
London branch office, using the following command:

New-ADGroup LondonBranchUsers -Path "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com" -GroupScope

Global -GroupCategory Security

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, add Ty as a member of LondonBranchUsers, using the following
command:

Add-ADGroupMember LondonBranchUsers -Members Ty

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3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, confirm that Ty has been added as a member of
LondonBranchUsers, using the following command:

Get-ADGroupMember LondonBranchUsers

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have created user accounts and groups by using
Windows PowerShell.

Exercise 2: Using Windows PowerShell to Create User Accounts in Bulk

Scenario
You have been given a .csv file that contains a large list of new users for the branch office. It would be
inefficient to create these users individually with graphical tools. Instead, you will use a Windows
PowerShell script to create the users. A colleague that is experienced with scripting has provided you with
a script that she created. You need to modify the script to match the format of your .csv file.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Prepare the .csv file.

2. Prepare the script.

3. Run the script.

 Task 1: Prepare the .csv file

1. On LON-DC1, read the contents in E:\Labfiles\Mod04\LabUsers.ps1 to identify the header
requirements for the .csv file

2. Edit the contents in C:\Labfiles\Mod04\LabUsers.csv, and add the appropriate header.

 Task 2: Prepare the script

1. On LON-DC1, use Windows PowerShell Internet Scripting Environment (ISE) to modify the variables in
LabUsers.ps1:

o $csvfile: E:\Labfiles\Mod04\labUsers.csv

o $OU: "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com"
2. Save the modified LabUsers.ps1.

3. Review the contents of the script.

 Task 3: Run the script

1. On LON-DC1, open a Windows PowerShell prompt, and run E:\Labfiles\Mod04\LabUsers.ps1.
2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt use the following command to verify that the users were created:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com"

3. On LON-CL1, sign in as Luka using a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have used Windows PowerShell to create user
accounts in bulk.
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Exercise 3: Using Windows PowerShell to Modify User Accounts in Bulk

Scenario
You have received a request to update all user accounts in the new branch office OU with the correct
address of the new building. You have also been asked to ensure that all of the new user accounts in the
branch office are configured to force users to change their passwords at their next logon.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Force all user accounts in LondonBranch to change their passwords at next logon.

2. Configure the address for user accounts in LondonBranch.

 Task 1: Force all user accounts in LondonBranch to change their passwords at next
logon
1. On LON-DC1, open a Windows PowerShell prompt.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, create a query for user accounts in the LondonBranch OU using
the following command:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com" | Format-Wide

DistinguishedName

3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, modify the previous command to force all user accounts to
change their password at the next logon using the following command:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com" | Set-ADUser

-ChangePasswordAtLogon $true

 Task 2: Configure the address for user accounts in LondonBranch

1. On LON-DC1, open Active Directory Administrative Center.

2. Open the properties for all user accounts in LondonBranch.

3. Set the address for multiple users as follows:

o Street: Branch Office

o City: London
o Country/Region: United Kingdom

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have modified user accounts in bulk.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert all virtual machines back to their initial state by performing the following
steps:
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-CL1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 to 3 for 20410B-LON-DC1.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: A colleague is creating a Windows PowerShell script that creates user accounts
from data in a .csv file. However, his script is experiencing errors when attempting to set a
default password. Why might this be happening?
Question: You are an administrator for a school district that creates 20,000 new user
accounts for students each year. The administration system for students can generate a list of
the new students and then export it as a .csv file. After the data has been exported to a .csv
file, what information do you need to work with the data in a script?

Question: The Research department in your organization has been renamed “Research and
Development.” You need to update the Department property of users in the Research
department to reflect this change.
You have created a query for user accounts with the department property set to Research,
by using the Get-ADUser cmdlet and the -Filter parameter. What is the next step to update
the department property to Research and Development?
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Module 5
Implementing IPv4
Contents:
Module Overview 5-1

Lesson 1: Overview of TCP/IP 5-2

Lesson 2: Understanding IPv4 Addressing 5-6

Lesson 3: Subnetting and Supernetting 5-11

Lesson 4: Configuring and Troubleshooting IPv4 5-16

Lab: Implementing IPv4 5-24
Module Review and Takeaways 5-28

Module Overview
IPv4 is the network protocol used on the Internet and local area networks. To ensure that you can you
understand and troubleshoot network communication, it is essential that you understand how IPv4 is
implemented. In this module, you will see how to implement an IPv4 addressing scheme, and determine
and troubleshoot network-related problems.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Describe the TCP/IP protocol suite.

• Describe IPv4 addressing.

• Determine a subnet mask necessary for subnetting or supernetting.

• Configure IPv4 and troubleshoot IPv4 communication.
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Lesson 1
Overview of TCP/IP
TCP/IP is an industry standard suite of protocols that provides communication in a heterogeneous
network. This lesson provides an overview of IPv4, and how it relates to other protocols to enable network
communication. It also covers the concept of sockets, which applications use to accept network
communications. Combined together this lesson provides a foundation for understanding and
troubleshooting network communication.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the elements of the TCP/IP suite of protocols.

• Describe the individual protocols that make up the TCP/IP suite.

• Describe TCP/IP application layer protocols.

• Describe a socket, and identify port numbers for specified protocols.

The TCP/IP Protocol Suite

The tasks performed by TCP/IP in the
communication process are distributed between
protocols. These protocols are organized into four
distinct layers within the TCP/IP stack:
• Application layer. Applications use the
application layer protocols to access network
resources.
• Transport layer. The transport layer protocols
control data transfer reliability on the
network.
• Internet layer. The internet layer protocols
control packet movement between networks.

• Network interface layer. The network interface layer protocols define how datagrams from the
Internet layer are transmitted on the media.

Benefits of Architecture Layers

Rather than creating a single protocol, dividing the network functions into a stack of separate protocols
provides several benefits:
• Separate protocols make it easier to support a variety of computing platforms.

• Creating or modifying protocols to support new standards does not require modification of the entire
protocol stack.

• Having multiple protocols operating at the same layer makes it possible for applications to select the
protocols that provide only the level of service required.

• Because the stack is split into layers, the development of the protocols can proceed simultaneously by
personnel who are uniquely qualified in the operations of the particular layers.
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Protocols in the TCP/IP Suite

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model
defines distinct layers related to packaging, and
sending and receiving data transmissions over a
network. The layered suite of protocols that form
the TCP/IP stack carry out these functions.

Application Layer
The application layer of the TCP/IP model
corresponds to the application, presentation,
and session layers of the OSI model. This layer
provides services and utilities that enable
applications to access network resources.

Transport Layer
The transport layer corresponds to the transport layer of the OSI model and is responsible for end-to-end
communication using TCP or User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The TCP/IP protocol suite offers application
programmers the choice of TCP or UDP as a transport layer protocol:

• TCP. Provides connection-oriented reliable communications for applications. Connection-oriented

communication confirms that the destination is ready to receive data before it sends the data. To
make communication reliable, TCP confirms that all packets are received. Reliable communication is
desired in most cases, and is used by most applications. Web servers, File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
clients, and other applications that move large amounts of data use TCP.
• UDP. Provides connectionless and unreliable communication. When using UDP, reliable delivery is the
responsibility of the application. Applications use UDP for faster communication with less overhead
than TCP. Applications such as streaming audio and video use UDP so that a single missing packet
will not delay playback. UDP is also used by applications that send small amounts of data, such as
Domain Name System (DNS) name lookups.
The transport layer protocol that an application uses is determined by the developer of an application,
and is based on the communication requirements of the application.

Internet Layer
The Internet layer corresponds to the network layer of the OSI model and consists of several separate
protocols, including: IP; Address Resolution Protocol (ARP); Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP);
and Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP). The protocols at the Internet layer encapsulate transport
layer data into units called packets, address them, and then route them to their destinations.
The Internet layer protocols are:

• IP. IP is responsible for routing and addressing. The Windows® 8 operating system and the Windows
Server® 2012 operating system implement a dual-layer IP protocol stack, including support for both
IPv4 and IPv6.

• ARP. ARP is used by IP to determine the media access control (MAC) address of local network
adapters—that is, adapters installed on computers on the local network—from the IP address of a
local host. ARP is broadcast-based, meaning that ARP frames cannot transit a router and are therefore
localized. Some implementations of TCP/IP provide support for Reverse ARP (RARP) in which the MAC
address of a network adapter is used to determine the corresponding IP address.

• IGMP. IGMP provides support for multitasking applications over routers in IPv4 networks.

• ICMP. ICMP sends error messages in an IP-based network.

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Network Interface Layer

The network interface layer (sometimes referred to as the link layer or data link layer) corresponds to the
data link and physical layers of the OSI model. The network interface layer specifies the requirements for
sending and receiving packets on the network media. This layer is often not formally considered part of
the TCP/IP protocol suite because the tasks are performed by the combination of the network adapter
driver and the network adapter.

TCP/IP Applications
Applications use application layer protocols to
communicate over the network. A client and
server must be using the same application layer
protocol to communicate. The following table lists
some common application layer protocols.

Protocol Description

HTTP Used for communication between web browsers and web

servers.

HTTP/Secure (HTTPS) A version of HTTP that encrypts communication between web

browsers and web servers.

FTP Used to transfer files between FTP clients and servers.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Used to remotely control a computer that is running Windows
operating systems over a network.

Server Message Block (SMB) Used by servers and client computers for file and printer sharing.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Used to transfer email messages over the Internet.
(SMTP)

Post Office Protocol version 3 Used to retrieve messages from some email servers.
(POP3)

Internet Message Application Used to retrieve messages from some email servers.
Protocol (IMAP)
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What Is a Socket?
When an application wants to establish
communication with an application on a
remote host, it creates a TCP or a UDP socket,
as appropriate. A socket identifies the following
as part of the communication process:

• The transport protocol that the application

uses, which could be TCP or UDP
• The TCP or UDP port numbers that the
applications are using

• The IPv4 or IPv6 address of the source and

destination hosts

This combination of transport protocol, IP address, and port creates a socket.

Well-Known Ports
Applications are assigned a port number between 0 and 65,535. The first 1,024 ports are known as
well-known ports and have been assigned to specific applications. Applications listening for connections
use consistent port numbers to make it easier for client applications to connect. If an application listens on
a non-standard port number, then you need to specify the port number when connecting to it. Client
applications typically use a random source port number above 1,024. The following table identifies some
of these well-known ports.

Port Protocol Application

80 TCP HTTP used by a web server

443 TCP HTTPS for a secure web server

110 TCP POP3 used for email retrieval

143 TCP IMAP used for email retrieval

25 TCP SMTP used for sending email messages

53 UDP DNS used for most name resolution requests

53 TCP DNS used for zone transfers

20, 21 TCP FTP used for file transfers

You need to know the port numbers that applications use so you can configure firewalls to allow
communication. Most applications have a default port number for this purpose, but it can be changed
when required. For example, some web-based applications run on a port other than port 80 or port 443.

Question: Are there other well-known ports that you can think of?
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Lesson 2
Understanding IPv4 Addressing
Understanding IPv4 network communication is critical to ensuring that you can implement, troubleshoot,
and maintain IPv4 networks. One of the core components of IPv4 is addressing. Understanding
addressing, subnet masks, and default gateways allows you to identify the proper communication
between hosts. To identify IPv4 communication errors, you need to understand how the communication
process is supposed to work.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe IPv4 Addressing.

• Identify public and private IPv4 addresses.

• Explain how dotted decimal notation relates to binary numbers.

• Describe a simple IPv4 network with classfull addressing.

• Describe a more complex IPv4 network with classless addressing.

IPv4 Addressing
To configure network connectivity, you must be
familiar with IPv4 addresses and how they work.
Network communication for a computer is
directed to the IPv4 address of that computer.
Therefore, each networked computer must be
assigned a unique IPv4 address.
Each IPv4 address is 32 bits long. To make IP
addresses more readable, they are displayed in
dotted decimal notation. Dotted decimal notation
divides a 32-bit IPv4 address into four groups of
8 bits, which are converted to a decimal number
between zero and 255. The decimal numbers are
separated by a period (dot). Each decimal number is called an octet.

Subnet Mask
Each IPv4 address is composed of a network ID and a host ID. The network ID identifies the network on
which the computer is located. The host ID uniquely identifies the computer on that specific network. A
subnet mask identifies which part of an IPv4 address is the network ID, and which part is the host ID.

In the simplest scenarios, each octet in a subnet mask is either 255 or 0. A 255 represents an octet that is
part of the network ID, while a 0 represents an octet that is part of the host ID. For example, a computer
with an IP address of 192.168.23.45 and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 has a network ID of 192.168.23.0
and a host ID of 0.0.0.45.

Note: The terms network, subnet, and VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network) are often used
interchangeably. A large network is often subdivided into subnets, and VLANs are configured on
switches to represent subnets.
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Default Gateway
A default gateway is a device (usually a router), on a TCP/IP network that forwards IP packets to other
networks. The multiple internal networks in an organization can be referred to as an intranet.

On an intranet, any given network might have several routers that connect it to other networks, both local
and remote. You must configure one of the routers as the default gateway for local hosts. This enables the
local hosts to communicate with hosts on remote networks.
Before a host sends an IPv4 packet, it uses its own subnet mask to determine whether the destination
host is on the same network, or on a remote network. If the destination host is on the same network, the
sending host transmits the packet directly to the destination host. If the destination host is on a different
network, the host transmits the packet to a router for delivery.

When a host transmits a packet to a remote network, IPv4 consults the internal routing table to determine
the appropriate router for the packet to reach the destination subnet. If the routing table does not
contain any routing information about the destination subnet, IPv4 forwards the packet to the default
gateway. The host assumes that the default gateway contains the required routing information. The
default gateway is used in most cases.
Client computers usually obtain their IP addressing information from a Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP) server. This is more straightforward than assigning a default gateway manually on each
host. Most servers have a static IP configuration that is assigned manually.
Question: How is network communication affected if a default gateway is configured
incorrectly?

Public and Private IPv4 Addresses

Devices and hosts that connect directly to the
Internet require a public IPv4 address. Hosts
and devices that do not connect directly to the
Internet do not require a public IPv4 address.

Public IPv4 Addresses

Public IPv4 addresses must be unique. Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns public
IPv4 addresses to regional Internet registries
(RIRs). RIRs then assign IPv4 addresses to Internet
service providers (ISPs). Usually your ISP allocates
you one or more public addresses from its address
pool. The number of addresses that your ISP
allocates to you depends upon how many devices and hosts that you have to connect to the Internet.

Private IPv4 Addresses

The pool of IPv4 addresses is becoming smaller, so RIRs are reluctant to allocate superfluous IPv4
addresses. Technologies such as network address translation (NAT) enable administrators to use a
relatively small number of public IPv4 addresses and at the same time, enable local hosts to connect to
remote hosts and services on the Internet.
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IANA defines the address ranges in the following table as private. Internet-based routers do not forward
packets originating from, or destined to, these ranges.

Network Range

10.0.0.0/8 10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255

172.16.0.0/12 172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255

192.168.0.0/16 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255

How Dotted Decimal Notation Relates to Binary Numbers

When you assign IP addresses, you use dotted
decimal notation. Dotted decimal notation is
based on the decimal number system. However,
in the background, computers use IP addresses
in binary. To understand how to choose a subnet
mask for complex networks, you must understand
IP addresses in binary.
Within an 8-bit octet, each bit position has a
decimal value. A bit that is set to 0 always has a
zero value. A bit that is set to 1 can be converted
to a decimal value. The low-order bit—the
rightmost bit in the octet—represents a decimal
value of 1. The high-order bit—the leftmost bit in the octet—represents a decimal value of 128. If all bits
in an octet are set to 1, then the octet’s decimal value is 255 (that is: 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1).
That is the highest possible value of an octet.

Most of the time, you can use a calculator to convert decimal numbers to binary and vice versa. The
Calculator application included in Windows operating systems can perform decimal-to-binary
conversions, as shown in the following example.

Binary Dotted decimal notation

10000011 01101011 00000011 00011000 131.107.3.24

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Simple IPv4 Implementations

IPv4 Address Classes

The IANA organizes IPv4 addresses into classes.
Each class of address has a different default
subnet mask that defines the number of valid
hosts on the network. IANA has named the IPv4
address classes from Class A through Class E.

Classes A, B, and C are IP networks that you can

assign to IP addresses on host computers. Class D
addresses are used by computers and applications
for multicasting. The IANA reserves Class E for
experimental use. The following table lists the
characteristics of each IP address class.

Default subnet Number of Number of hosts per

Class First octet
mask networks network

A 1-127 255.0.0.0 126 16,777,214

B 128-191 255.255.0.0 16,384 65,534

C 192-223 255.255.255.0 2,097,152 254

Note: The Internet no longer uses routing based on the default subnet mask of IPv4
address classes.

Simple IPv4 Networks

You can use subnetting to divide a large network into multiple smaller networks. In simple IPv4 networks,
the subnet mask defines full octets as part of the network ID and host ID. A 255 represents an octet that is
part of the network ID, and a 0 represents an octet that is part of the host ID. For example, you can use
the 10.0.0.0 network with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0 to create 256 smaller networks.

Note: The IPv4 address 127.0.0.1 is used as a loopback address; you can use this address to
test the local configuration of the IPv4 protocol stack. Consequently, the network address 127 is
not permitted for configuring IPv4 hosts.
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More Complex IPv4 Implementations

In complex networks, subnet masks might not be
simple combinations of 255 and 0. Rather, you
might subdivide one octet with some bits that are
for the network ID, and some that are for the host
ID. This allows you to have the specific number of
subnets and hosts that you require.

The following example shows a subnet mask that

can be used to divide a class B network into 16
subnets:

172.16.0.0/255.255.240.0
In many cases, rather than using a dotted decimal
representation of the subnet mask, the number of bits in the network ID is specified instead. This is called
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR). The following is an example of CIDR notation:

172.16.0.0/20

Variable Length Subnet Masks

Modern routers support the use of variable length subnet masks (VLSMs). VLSMs allow you to create
subnets of different sizes when you subdivide a larger network. For example, you could subdivide a small
network with 256 addresses into three smaller networks with 128 addresses, 64 addresses, and 64
addresses. This allows you to use IP addresses in a network more efficiently.
Question: Does your organization use simple or complex networking?
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Lesson 3
Subnetting and Supernetting
In most organizations, you need perform subnetting to divide your network into smaller subnets and
allocate those subnets for specific purposes or locations. To do this you need to understand how to select
the correct number of bits to include in the subnet masks. In some cases, you may also need to combine
multiple networks into a single larger network through supernetting.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe how bits are used in a subnet mask or prefix length.

• Identify when to use subnetting.

• Calculate a subnet mask that supports a specific number of subnet addresses.

• Calculate a subnet mask that supports a specific number of host addresses.

• Identify an appropriate subnet mask for a scenario.

• Describe supernetting.

How Bits Are Used in a Subnet Mask or Prefix Length

In simple networks, subnet masks are composed
of four octets, and each octet has a value of 255
or 0. If the octet is 255, that octet is part of the
network ID. If the octet is 0, that octet is part of
the host ID.

In complex networks, you can convert the subnet

mask to binary, and evaluate each bit in the
subnet mask. A subnet mask is composed of
contiguous 1s and 0s. The 1s start at the leftmost
bit and continue uninterrupted until the bits
change to all 0s.

Note: Windows PowerShell® cmdlets for

configuring IPv4 use a prefix length value rather than a subnet mask to define the number of
network bits. The prefix length is the same number of bits used by CIDR notation.

You can identify the network ID of a subnet mask by the 1s. You can identify the host ID by the 0s.
Any bits taken from the host ID and allocated to the network ID must be contiguous with the original
network ID.

• Each 1 bit is part of the network ID.

• Each 0 bit is part of the host ID.

The mathematical process that is used to compare an IP address and a subnet mask is called ANDing.

When you use more bits for the subnet mask, you can have more subnets, but fewer hosts on each
subnet. Using more bits than you need allows for subnet growth, but limits growth for hosts. Using fewer
bits than you need allows for growth in the number of hosts you can have, but limits growth in subnets.
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The Benefits of Using Subnetting

When you subdivide a network into subnets, you
must create a unique ID for each subnet. These
unique IDs are derived from the main network
ID—you allocate some of the bits in the host ID to
the network ID. This enables you to create more
networks.

By using subnets, you can:

• Use a single, large network across multiple
physical locations.

• Reduce network congestion by segmenting

traffic and reducing broadcasts on each
segment.

• Increase security by dividing the network and using firewalls to control communication.
• Overcome limitations of current technologies, such as exceeding the maximum number of hosts that
each segment can have.

Calculating Subnet Addresses

Before you define a subnet mask, estimate how
many subnets and hosts for each subnet you may
require. This enables you to use the appropriate
number of bits for the subnet mask.

You can calculate the number of subnet bits that

you need in the network. Use the formula 2n,
where n is the number of bits. The result is the
number of subnets that your network requires.
The following table indicates the number of
subnets that you can create by using a specific
number of bits.

Number of Number of
Number of bits (n) Number of bits (n)
subnets (2n) subnets (2n)

1 2 4 16

2 4 5 32

3 8 6 64

To determine the subnet addresses quickly, you can use the lowest value bit in the subnet mask. For
example, if you choose to subnet the network 172.16.0.0 by using 3 bits, this mean the subnet mask is
255.255.224.0. The decimal 224 is 11100000 in binary, and the lowest bit has a value of 32, so that is the
increment between each subnet address.
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The following table shows the subnet addresses for this example; the 3 bits that you have chosen to use to
subnet the network are shown in bold type.

Binary network number Decimal network number

172.16.00000000.00000000 172.16.0.0

172.16.00100000.00000000 172.16.32.0

172.16.01000000.00000000 172.16.64.0

172.16.01100000.00000000 172.16.96.0

172.16.10000000.00000000 172.16.128.0

172.16.10100000.00000000 172.16.160.0

172.16.11000000.00000000 172.16.192.0

172.16.11100000.00000000 172.16.224.0

Note: You can use a subnet calculator to determine the appropriate subnets for your
network, rather than calculating them manually. Subnet calculators are widely available on the
Internet.

Calculating Host Addresses

To determine host bits in the mask, determine the
required number of bits for the supporting hosts
on a subnet. Calculate the number of host bits
required by using the formula 2n-2, where n is the
number of bits. This result must be at least the
number of hosts that you need for your network,
and the maximum number of hosts that you can
configure on that subnet.

On each subnet, two host IDs are allocated

automatically and cannot be used by computers.
An address with the host ID of all 0s represents
the network. An address with the host ID of all 1s
is the broadcast address for that network.
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The following table shows how many hosts a class C network has available based on the number of host
bits.

Number of bits (n) Number of hosts (2n-2)

1 0

2 2

3 6

4 14

5 30

6 62

You can calculate each subnet’s range of host addresses by using the following process:

1. The first host is one binary digit higher than the current subnet ID.

2. The last host is two binary digits lower than the next subnet ID.
The following table shows examples of calculating host addresses.

Network Host range

172.16.64.0/19 172.16.64.1 – 172.16.95.254

172.16.96.0/19 172.16.96.1 – 172.16.127.254

172.16.128.0/19 172.16.128.1 – 172.16.159.254

To create an appropriate addressing scheme for your organization, you must know how many subnets
you need, and how many hosts you need on each subnet. Once you have that information, you can
calculate an appropriate subnet mask.

Discussion: Creating a Subnetting Scheme for a New Office

Read the following scenario and answer the
questions on the slide.

You are identifying an appropriate network

configuration for a new campus. You have been
allocated the 10.34.0.0/16 network that you can
subnet as required.

There are four buildings on the new campus, and

each should have its own subnet to allow for
routing between the buildings. Each building will
have up to 700 users. Each building will also have
printers. The typical ratio of users to printers is 50
to 1.

You also need to allocate a subnet for the server data center that will hold up to 100 servers.
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What Is Supernetting?
Supernetting combines multiple small networks
into a single large network. This may be
appropriate when you have a small network that
has grown and you need to expand the address
space. For example, a branch office that is using
the network 192.168.16.0/24 and that exhausts
all of its IP addresses could be allocated the
additional network 192.168.17.0/24. If you use the
default subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 for these
networks then you must perform routing between
them. You can use supernetting to combine them
into a single network.

To perform supernetting, the networks that you are combining must be contiguous. For example,
192.168.16.0/24 and 192.168.17.0/24 can be supernetted, but you cannot supernet 192.168.16.0/24 and
192.168.54.0/24.

Supernetting is the opposite of subnetting. When you perform supernetting, you allocate bits from the
network ID to the host ID. The following table shows how many networks that you can combine by using
a specific number of bits.

Number of bits Number of networks combined

1 2

2 4

3 8

4 16

The following table shows an example of supernetting two class C networks. The portion of the subnet
mask that you are using as part of the network ID is shown in bold type.

Network Range

192.168.00010000.00000000/24 192.168.16.0-192.168.16.255

192.168.00010001.00000000/24 192.168.17.0-192.168.17.255

192.168.00010000.00000000/23 192.168.16.0-192.168.17.255
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Lesson 4
Configuring and Troubleshooting IPv4
If IPv4 is configured incorrectly, then it affects the availability of services that are running on a server. To
ensure the availability of network services, you need to understand how to configure and troubleshoot
IPv4. Windows Server 2012 introduces the ability to configure IPv4 by using Windows PowerShell which is
useful for scripting.

The troubleshooting tools in Windows Server 2012 are similar to previous versions of Windows client
operating systems and server operating systems. However, you may not be familiar with Network Monitor,
which you can use to perform detailed analysis of your network communication.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Configure IPv4 manually to provide a static configuration for a server.
• Configure a server so that it obtains an IPv4 configuration automatically.
• Explain how to use IPv4 troubleshooting tools.
• Explain how to use Windows PowerShell cmdlets for troubleshooting IPv4.
• Describe the troubleshooting process used to resolve fundamental IPv4 problems.
• Describe the function of Network Monitor.
• Use Network Monitor to capture and analyze network traffic.

Configuring IPv4 Manually

You typically configure servers with a static IP
address. This is done to ensure that you know and
can document the IP addresses that you use for
various services on your network. For example, a
DNS server is accessed at a specific IP address that
should not change.

IPv4 configuration includes:

• IPv4 address
• Subnet mask
• Default gateway
• DNS servers
Static configuration requires that you visit each computer and input the IPv4 configuration manually.
This method of computer management is reasonable for servers, but it is very time consuming for client
computers. Manually entering a static configuration also increases the risk of configuration mistakes.

You can configure a static IP address either in the properties of the network connection or by using the
netsh command-line tool. For example, the following command configures the interface Local Area
Connection with the following parameters:
• Static IP address 10.10.0.10
• Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
• Default gateway 10.10.0.1
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Netsh interface ipv4 set address name="Local Area Connection" source=static

addr=10.10.0.10 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.10.0.1

Windows Server 2012 also has Windows PowerShell cmdlets that you can use to manage network
configuration. The following table describes some of the available Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are
available for configuring IPv4.

Cmdlet Description of IPv4 configuration uses

New-NetIPAddress Creates a new IP address and binds it to a network adapter.

You cannot modify an existing IP address; you must remove an
existing IP address and then create a new IP address.

Set-NetIPInterface Enables or disables DHCP for an interface.

New-NetRoute Creates routing table entries, including the default gateway

(0.0.0.0). You cannot modify the next hop of an existing route;
instead, you must remove an existing route and create a new
route with the correct next hop.

Set-DNSClientServerAddresses Configures the DNS server that is used for an interface.

The following code is an example of the Windows PowerShell cmdlets that you can use to configure the
interface Local Area Connection with the following parameters:
• Static IP address 10.10.0.10

• Subnet mask 255.255.255.0

• Default gateway 10.10.0.1
Local Area Connection is also configured to use DNS servers of 10.12.0.1 and 10.12.0.2.

New-NetIPAddress –InterfaceAlias "Local Area Connection" –IPAddress 10.10.0.10

-PrefixLength 24 –DefaultGateway 10.10.0.1
Set-DNSClientServerAddresses –InterfaceAlias "Local Area Connection" -ServerAddresses
10.12.0.1,10.12.0.2

Question: Do any computers or devices in your organization have static IP addresses?

Configuring IPv4 Automatically

DHCP for IPv4 enables you to assign automatic
IPv4 configurations for large numbers of
computers without having to assign each one
individually. The DHCP service receives requests
for IPv4 configuration from computers that you
configure to obtain an IPv4 address automatically.
It also assigns additional IPv4 settings from scopes
that you define for each of your network’s
subnets. The DHCP service identifies the subnet
from which the request originated and assigns IP
configuration from the relevant scope.
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DHCP helps simplify the IP configuration process; however, you must be aware that if you use DHCP to
assign IPv4 information and the service is business-critical, you must do the following:

• Include resilience in your DHCP service design so that the failure of a single server does not prevent
the service from functioning.
• Configure the scopes on the DHCP server carefully. If you make a mistake, it can affect the entire
network and prevent communication.

If you use a laptop to connect to multiple networks (such as at work and at home), each network might
require a different IP configuration. Windows operating systems support the use of Automatic Private IP
Addressing (APIPA) or an alternate static IP address for this situation.

When you configure Windows-based computers to obtain an IPv4 address from DHCP, use the Alternate
Configuration tab to control the behavior if a DHCP server is not available. By default, Windows uses
APIPA to assign itself an IP address automatically from the 169.254.0.0 to 169.254.255.255 address range,
but with no default gateway or DNS server; this enables limited functionality.

APIPA is useful for troubleshooting DHCP; if the computer has an address from the APIPA range, it is an
indication that the computer cannot communicate with a DHCP server.

Windows Server 2012 also has Windows PowerShell cmdlets that you can use to enable DHCP for an
interface. The following table describes some of the available Windows PowerShell cmdlets that are
available for configuring DHCP on an interface.

Cmdlet Description

Get-NetIPInterface Obtains a list of interfaces and their configuration. This does not include
IPv4 configuration of the interface.

Set-NetIPInterface Enables or disables DHCP for an interface.

Get-NetAdapter Obtains a list of network adapters in a computer.

Restart-NetAdapter Disables and re-enables a network adapter. This forces a DHCP client to
obtain a new DHCP lease.

The following code is an example of how you can enable DHCP for the adapter Local Area Connection,
and ensure that it receives an address:

Set-NetIPInterface –InterfaceAlias "Local Area Connection" –Dhcp Enabled

Restart-NetAdapter –Name "Local Area Connection"

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IPv4 Troubleshooting Tools

Most IPv4 connectivity troubleshooting is
performed at a command-line. Windows Server
2008 includes a number of command-line tools
that can help you diagnose network problems.

Ipconfig
Ipconfig is a command-line tool that displays
the current TCP/IP network configuration.
Additionally, you can use the ipconfig command
to refresh DHCP and DNS settings. The following
table describes the command-line options for
ipconfig.

Command Description

ipconfig /all View detailed configuration information

ipconfig /release Release the leased configuration back to the DHCP server

ipconfig /renew Renew the leased configuration

ipconfig /displaydns View the DNS resolver cache entries

ipconfig /flushdns Purge the DNS resolve cache

Ping
Ping is a command-line tool that verifies IP-level connectivity to another TCP/IP computer. It sends
ICMP echo request messages and displays the receipt of corresponding echo reply messages. Ping is the
primary TCP/IP command that you use to troubleshoot connectivity; however, firewalls might block the
ICMP messages.

Tracert
Tracert is a command-line tool that identifies the path taken to a destination computer by sending a
series of ICMP echo requests. Tracert then displays the list of router interfaces between a source and a
destination. This tool also determines which router has failed, and what the latency (or speed) is. These
results might not be accurate if the router is busy, because the ICMP packets are assigned a low priority
by the router.

Pathping
Pathping is a command-line tool that traces a route through the network in a manner similar to Tracert.
However, Pathping provides more detailed statistics on the individual steps, or hops, through the network.
Pathping can provide greater detail, because it sends 100 packets for each router, which enables it to
establish trends.

Route
Route is a command-line tool that allows you to view and modify the local routing table. You can use this
to verify the default gateway, which is listed as the route 0.0.0.0. In Windows Server 2012, you can also use
Windows PowerShell cmdlets to view and modify the routing table. The cmdlets for viewing and
modifying the local routing table include Get-NetRoute, New-NetRoute, and Remove-NetRoute.
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Telnet
You can use the Telnet Client feature to verify whether a server port is listening. For example, the
command telnet 10.10.0.10 25 attempts to open a connection with the destination server, 10.10.0.10, on
port 25, SMTP. If the port is active and listening, it returns a message to the Telnet client.

Netstat
Netstat is a command-line tool that enables you to view network connections and statistics. For example,
the command netstat –ab returns all listening ports and the executable that is listening.

Resource Monitor
Resource Monitor is a graphical tool that allows you to monitor system resource utilization. You can use
Resource Monitor to view TCP and UDP ports that are in use. You can also verify which applications are
using specific ports and the amount of data that they are transferring on those ports.

Network Diagnostics
Use Windows Network Diagnostics to diagnose and correct networking problems. In the event of a
Windows Server networking problem, the Diagnose Connection Problems option helps you diagnose
and repair the problem. Windows Network Diagnostics returns a possible description of the problem and
a potential remedy. However, the solution might require manual intervention from the user.

Event Viewer
Event logs are files that record significant events on a computer, such as when a process encounters an
error. When these events occur, the Windows operating system records the event in an appropriate event
log. You can use Event Viewer to read the event log. IP conflicts, which might prevent services from
starting, are listed in the System event log.

Using Windows PowerShell Cmdlets to Troubleshoot IPv4

Windows PowerShell in Windows Server 2012
has additional network configuration cmdlets,
which you can use to troubleshoot instead of
command-line tools. While you could use
Windows PowerShell in earlier versions of
Windows Server to perform network configuration
and troubleshooting, it required you to use
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
objects, which are more difficult to use than native
Windows PowerShell cmdlets.

The following table lists some of the new

Windows PowerShell cmdlets that you can use.

Cmdlet Purpose

Get-NetAdapter Obtains a list of network adapters in a computer.

Restart-NetAdapter Disables and re-enables a network adapter.

Get-NetIPInterface Obtains a list of interfaces and their configuration.

Get-NetIPAddress Obtains a list of IP addresses that are configured for interfaces.

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Cmdlet Purpose

Get-NetRoute Obtains the list of routes in the local routing table.

Get-NetConnectionProfile Obtains the type of network (public, private, domain) to which a

network adapter is connected.

Get-DNSClientCache Obtains the list of resolved DNS names that are stored in the DNS
client cache.

Get-DNSClientServerAddress Obtains the list of DNS servers that are used for each interface.

The IPv4 Troubleshooting Process

The first step in troubleshooting a network
problem is identifying the scope of the problem.
The causes of a problem that affects a single user
will most likely differ from a problem that affects
all users. If a problem affects only a single user,
then the problem is likely related to the
configuration of that one computer. If a problem
affects all users, then the problem is likely either
a server configuration issue or a network
configuration issue. If a problem affects only a
group of users, then you need to determine the
common denominator among that group of users.

To troubleshoot network communication problems, you need to understand the overall communication
process. You can identify where the process is breaking down and preventing communication only if you
understand how the overall communication process works. To understand the overall communication
process, you need to understand the routing and firewall configuration on your network. To help identify
the routing path through your network, you can use tracert.
Some of the steps that you can use to identify that cause of network communication problems are:

1. If you know what the correct network configuration for the host should be, then use ipconfig to
verify that it is configured that way. If ipconfig returns an address on the 169.254.0.0/16 network, it
indicates that the host failed to obtain an IP address from DHCP.

2. Use ping to see if the remote host responds. If you use ping to return the DNS name of the remote
host, you verify both name resolution and whether the host responds. Be aware that Windows
Firewall on member servers and client computers often blocks ping attempts. In such a case, lack of a
ping response may not indicate that the remote host is not functional. If you can ping other remote
hosts on the same network, it often indicates that the problem is on the remote host.

3. You can use an application to test the service you are connecting to on the remote host. For example,
use Windows Internet Explorer® to test connectivity to a web server. You can also use Telnet to
connect to the port of the remote application.
4. Use ping to see if the default gateway responds. Most routers respond to ping requests. If you do not
get a response when you ping the default gateway, then there is likely a configuration error on the
client computer, such as the default gateway being configured incorrectly. It is also possible that the
router is experiencing errors.
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Note: You can force ping to use IPv4 instead of IPv6 by using the -4 option.

Question: Are there any other steps that you use to troubleshoot network connectivity
problems?

What Is Network Monitor?

Network Monitor is a packet analyzer that enables
you to capture and examine network packets on
the network to which your computer is connected.
Capturing packets is an advanced troubleshooting
technique that helps you to identify unusual
network problems and work towards a resolution.
For example, by examining the packets
transmitted on a network you may be able to see
errors that are not reported by an application.
You can install Network Monitor on either
endpoint in the communication process, or on a
third computer. If you install Network Monitor on a third computer, then you must configure port
mirroring on the network switches. Ensure that you configure port mirroring to copy the network packets
that are destined for endpoints in the communication process, to the switch port where the computer
with Network Monitor is connected. Network Monitor can monitor the packets sent to other computers,
because it operates in promiscuous mode.
You can download Network Monitor from the Microsoft download website, and then install it on a
workstation that is running either Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012. Once installed, Network Monitor
binds to the local network adapters. When you launch Network Monitor, you can view existing captures,
or begin a new capture.

Using Network Monitor

Once you have captured network packets, you must be able to interpret what you see, and whether the
behavior is expected or not. To help you, Network Monitor displays the packets in a summarized list in the
Frame Summary pane.

The Frame Summary pane displays all captured packets, and provides the following information:
• Time and date: this enables you to determine in which order the packets were transmitted.

• Source and destination: this provides the source and destination IP addresses so that you can
determine which computers are involved in the dialog.
• Protocol name: the highest-level protocol that Network Monitor can identify is listed—for example,
ARP, ICMP, TCP, and SMB. Knowing the high-level protocol enables you to pinpoint which services
might be experiencing or causing the problem that you are troubleshooting.
When you select a frame in the Frame Summary pane, the Frame Details pane updates with the contents
of that particular frame. You can step through the frame’s details, examining the content of each element
as you proceed.

Each layer in the network architecture—from the application on down—encapsulates its data in the
container of the layer below. In other words, an HTTP request is encapsulated in an IPv4 packet, which in
turn is encapsulated in an Ethernet frame.
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When you have gathered a large amount of data, it can be difficult to determine which frames are
relevant to your specific problem. You can use filtering to show only those frames of interest. For example,
you can select to show only DNS–related packets.

Demonstration: How to Capture and Analyze Network Traffic by Using

Network Monitor
You can use Network Monitor to capture and view packets that are transmitted on the network. This
allows you to view detailed information that would not normally be possible to see. This type of
information can be useful for troubleshooting.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Capture network traffic with Network Monitor.

• Analyze the captured network traffic.

• Filter the network traffic.

Demonstration Steps
Capture network traffic with Network Monitor
Prepare to perform a packet capture
1. Sign in to LON-SVR2 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. Open a Windows PowerShell prompt and run the following command:

o ipconfig /flushdns

3. Open Network Monitor 3.4, and create a new capture tab.

Capture packets from a ping request

1. In Network Monitor, start a packet capture.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, ping LON-DC1.adatum.com.

3. In Network Monitor, stop the packet capture.

Analyze the captured network traffic

1. In Network Monitor, scroll down and select the first ICMP packet.

2. Expand the Icmp portion of the packet to view that it is an Echo Request. This is a ping request.
3. Expand the Ipv4 portion of the packet to view the source and destination IP addresses.

4. Expand the Ethernet portion of the packet to view the source and destination MAC addresses.

5. Select the second ICMP packet.

6. In the Icmp portion of the packet, verify that it is an Echo Reply. This is the response to the ping
request.

Filter the network traffic

1. In Network Monitor, in the Display Filter pane, load the standard DNS filter DNSQueryName.

2. Edit the filter to apply for DNS queries for LON-DC1.adatum.com.

3. Apply the filter.

4. Verify that the packets have been filtered to show only packets that match the filter.
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Lab: Implementing IPv4

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation has an IT office and data center in London, which supports the London location
and other locations. They have recently deployed a Windows 2012 Server infrastructure with Windows 8
clients. You have recently accepted a promotion to the server support team. One of your first assignments
is configuring the infrastructure service for a new branch office.

After a security review, your manager has asked you to calculate new subnets for the branch office to
support segmenting network traffic. You also need to troubleshoot a connectivity problem on a server in
the branch office.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Identify appropriate subnets for a given set of requirements.

• Troubleshoot IPv4 connectivity issues.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-RTR
20410B-LON-SVR2

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password: Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Adatum\Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

5. Repeat steps 2-4 for 20410B-LON-RTR, and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

Exercise 1: Identifying Appropriate Subnets

Scenario
The new branch office is configured with a single subnet. After a security review, all branch office network
configurations are being modified to place servers on a separate subnet from the client computers. You
need to calculate the new subnet mask and the default gateways for the subnets in your branch.
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The current network for your branch office is 192.168.98.0/24. This network needs to be subdivided into
three subnets as follows:

• One subnet with at least 100 IP addresses for clients

• One subnet with at least 10 IP addresses for servers

• One subnet with at least 40 IP addresses for future expansion

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Calculate the bits required to support the hosts on each subnet.

2. Calculate subnet masks and network IDs.

 Task 1: Calculate the bits required to support the hosts on each subnet
1. How many bits are required to support 100 hosts on the client subnet?

2. How many bits are required to support 10 hosts on the server subnet?
3. How many bits are required to support 40 hosts on the future expansion subnet?

4. If all subnets are the same size, can they be accommodated?

5. Which feature allows a single network to be divided into subnets of varying sizes?

6. How many host bits will you use for each subnet? Use the simplest allocation possible, which is one
large subnet and two equal sized smaller subnets.

 Task 2: Calculate subnet masks and network IDs

1. Given the number of host bits allocated, what is the subnet mask that you will use for the client
subnet? Calculate the subnet mask in binary and decimal.

o The client subnet is using 7 bits for the host ID. Therefore, you will use 25 bits for the subnet
mask.

Binary Decimal

2. Given the number of host bits allocated, what is the subnet mask that you will use for the server
subnet? Calculate the subnet mask in binary and decimal.

o The server subnet is using 6 bits for the host ID. Therefore, you will use 26 bits for the subnet
mask.

Binary Decimal

3. Given the number of host bits allocated, what is the subnet mask that you will use for the future
expansion subnet? Calculate the subnet mask in binary and decimal.
o The future expansion subnet is using 6 bits for the host ID. Therefore, you will use 26 bits for the
subnet mask.

Binary Decimal
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4. For the client subnet, define the network ID, first available host, last available host, and broadcast
address. Assume that the client subnet is the first subnet allocated from the available address pool.
Calculate the binary and decimal versions of each address.

Description Binary Decimal

Network ID

First host

Last host

Broadcast

5. For the server subnet, define the network ID, first available host, last available host, and broadcast
address. Assume that the server subnet is the second subnet allocated from the available address
pool. Calculate the binary and decimal versions of each address.

Description Binary Decimal

Network ID

First host

Last host

Broadcast

6. For the future allocation subnet, define the network ID, first available host, last available host, and
broadcast address. Assume that the future allocation subnet is the third subnet allocated from the
available address pool. Calculate the binary and decimal versions of each address.

Description Binary Decimal

Network ID

First host

Last host

Broadcast

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have identified the subnets required to meet the
requirements of the lab scenario.
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Exercise 2: Troubleshooting IPv4

Scenario
A server in the branch office is unable to communicate with the domain controller in the head office. You
need to resolve the network connectivity problem.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Prepare for troubleshooting.

2. Troubleshoot IPv4 connectivity between LON-SVR2 and LON-DC1.

 Task 1: Prepare for troubleshooting

1. On LON-SVR2, open Windows PowerShell.

2. In Windows PowerShell, ping LON-DC1 and verify that it is functional.

3. Run the Break.ps1 script that is located in \\LON-DC1\E$\Labfiles\Mod05. This script creates the
problem that you will troubleshoot and repair in the next task.

 Task 2: Troubleshoot IPv4 connectivity between LON-SVR2 and LON-DC1

1. Use your knowledge of IPv4 to troubleshoot and repair the connectivity problem between LON-SVR2
and LON-DC1. Consider using the following tools:

o Ipconfig

o Ping
o Tracert

o Route

o Network Monitor
2. When you have repaired the problem, ping LON-DC1 from LON-SVR2 to confirm that the problem is
resolved.

Note: If you have additional time, run an additional break script from
\\LON-DC1\E$\Labfiles\Mod05 and troubleshoot that problem.

Results: After completing this lab, you will have resolved an IPv4 connectivity problem.

 To prepare for the next module

When you are finished the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete
the following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-RTR and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

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Module Review and Takeaways

Best Practices
When implementing IPv4, use the following best practices:

• Allow for growth when planning IPv4 subnets. This ensures that you do not need to change you IPv4
configuration scheme.
• Define purposes for specific address ranges and subnets. This allows you to easily identify hosts based
on their IP address and use firewalls to increase security.

• Use dynamic IPv4 addresses for clients. It is much easier to manage the IPv4 configuration for client
computers by using DHCP than with manual configuration.

• Use static IPv4 addresses for servers. When servers have a static IPv4 address, it is easier to identify
where services are located on the network.

Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

IP conflicts

Multiple default gateways defined

Incorrect IPv4 configuration

Review Questions
Question: You have just started as a server administrator for a small organization with a
single location. The organization is using the 131.107.88.0/24 address range for the internal
network. Is this a concern?
Question: You are working for an organization that provides web hosting services to other
organizations. You have a single /24 network from your ISP for the web hosts. You are almost
out of IPv4 addresses and have asked ISP for an additional range of addresses. Ideally, you
would like to supernet the existing network with the new network. Are there any specific
requirements for supernetting?

Question: You have installed a new web-based application that runs on a non-standard port
number. A colleague is testing access to the new web-based application, and indicates that
he cannot connect to it. What are the most likely causes of his problem?
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Tools
Tool Use for Where to find it

Network Monitor Capture and analyze network traffic Download from Microsoft website

Ipconfig View network configuration Command prompt

Ping Verify network connectivity Command prompt

Tracert Verify network path between hosts Command prompt

Pathping Verify network path and reliability Command prompt

between hosts

Route View and configure the local routing Command prompt

table

Telnet Test connectivity to a specific port Command prompt

Netstat View network connectivity information Command Prompt

Resource monitor View network connectivity information Tools in Server Manager

Windows Network Diagnose problem with a network Properties of the network

Diagnostics connection connection

Event Viewer View network related system events Tools in Server Manager
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Module 6
Implementing Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Contents:
Module Overview 6-1

Lesson 1: Installing a DHCP Server Role 6-2

Lesson 2: Configuring DHCP Scopes 6-7

Lesson 3: Managing a DHCP Database 6-12

Lesson 4: Securing and Monitoring DHCP 6-16

Lab: Implementing DHCP 6-21
Module Review and Takeaways 6-26

Module Overview
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) plays an important role in the Windows Server® 2012
infrastructure. It is the primary means of distributing important network configuration information to
network clients, and it provides configuration information to other network-enabled services, including
Windows® Deployment Services (Windows DS) and Network Access Protection (NAP). To support and
troubleshoot a Windows Server–based network infrastructure, it is important that you understand how to
deploy, configure, and troubleshoot the DHCP server role.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Install the DHCP server role.

• Configure DHCP scopes.

• Manage a DHCP database.

• Secure and monitor the DHCP server role.

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Lesson 1
Installing a DHCP Server Role
Using DHCP can help simplify client computer configuration. This lesson describes the benefits of DHCP,
explains how the DHCP protocol works, and discusses how to control DHCP in a Windows Server 2012
network with Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS).

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using DHCP.

• Explain how DHCP allocates IP addresses to network clients.

• Explain how the DHCP lease generation process works.

• Explain how the DHCP lease renewal process works.

• Describe the purpose of a DHCP relay agent.

• Explain how a DHCP server role is authorized.

• Explain how to add and authorize the DHCP server role.

Benefits of Using DHCP

The DHCP protocol simplifies configuration of IP
clients in a network environment. Without using
DHCP, each time you add a client to a network,
you have to configure it with information about
the network on which you installed it, including
the IP address, the network’s subnet mask, and
the default gateway for access to other networks.
When you need to manage many computers in
a network, managing them manually can become
a time-consuming process. Many corporations
manage thousands of computer devices, including
handhelds, desktop computers, and laptops. It is
not feasible to manually manage the network IP configurations for organizations of this size.

With the DHCP server role, you can help to ensure that all clients have appropriate configuration
information, which helps to eliminate human error during configuration. When key configuration
information changes in the network, you can update it using the DHCP server role without having to
change the information directly on each computer.

DHCP is also a key service for mobile users who change networks often. DHCP enables network
administrators to offer complex network-configuration information to nontechnical users, without users
having to deal with their network-configuration details.

DHCP version 6 (v6) stateful and stateless configurations are supported for configuring clients in an IPv6
environment. Stateful configuration occurs when the DHCPv6 server assigns the IPv6 address to the client,
along with additional DHCP data. Stateless configuration occurs when the subnet router assigns the IPv6
address automatically, and the DHCPv6 server only assigns other IPv6 configuration settings.
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NAP is part of a new toolset that can prevent full access to the intranet for computers that do not comply
with system health requirements. NAP with DHCP helps isolate potentially malware-infected computers
from the corporate network. DHCP NAP enables administrators to ensure that DHCP clients are compliant
with internal security policies. For example, all network clients must be up-to-date and have a valid, up-
to-date antivirus program installed before they are assigned an IP configuration that allows full access to
the intranet.

You can install DHCP as a role on a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012. A Server Core
installation allows you to create a server with a reduced attack surface. To manage DHCP from the Server
Core, you must install and configure the role from the command-line interface. You also can manage the
DHCP role running on Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012 from a graphical user interface
(GUI)-based console where the DHCP role is installed already.

How DHCP Allocates IP Addresses

DHCP allocates IP addresses on a dynamic basis,
otherwise known as a lease. Although you can set
the lease duration to Unlimited, you typically set
the duration for not more than a few hours or
days. The default lease time for wired clients is
eight days, and for wireless clients it is three days.

DHCP uses IP broadcasts to initiate

communications. Therefore, DHCP servers are
limited to communication within their IP subnet.
This means that in many networks, there is a
DHCP server for each IP subnet.

For a computer to be considered a DHCP client, it

has to be configured to obtain an IP address automatically. By default, every computer is configured to
obtain an IP address automatically. In a network where a DHCP server is installed, a DHCP client will
respond to a DHCP broadcast.
If a computer is configured with an IP address by an administrator, than that computer has a static IP
address and is considered a non-DHCP client, and will not communicate with a DHCP server.

How DHCP Lease Generation Works

You use the four-step DHCP lease-generation
process to assign an IP address to clients.
Understanding how each step works helps you
troubleshoot problems when clients cannot obtain
an IP address. The four steps are as follows:
1. The DHCP client broadcasts a
DHCPDISCOVER packet to every computer
in the subnet. Only a computer that has the
DHCP server role or a computer or router that
is running a DHCP relay agent responds. In
the latter case, the DHCP relay agent forwards
the message to the DHCP server with which it
is configured.
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2. A DHCP Server responds with a DHCPOFFER packet. This packet contains a potential address for the
client.

3. The client receives the DHCPOFFER packet. It might receive packets from multiple servers; in that
case, it usually selects the server that made the fastest response to its DHCPDISCOVER. This typically
is the DHCP server closest to the client. The client then broadcasts a DHCPREQUEST that contains a
server identifier. This informs the DHCP servers that receive the broadcast which server’s DHCPOFFER
the client has chosen to accept.
4. The DHCP servers receive the DHCPREQUEST. Those servers that the client has not accepted use
the message as notification that the client declines that server’s offer. The chosen server stores the IP
address client information in the DHCP database and responds with a DHCPACK message. If for some
reason, the DHCP server cannot provide the address that was offered in the initial DHCPOFFER, the
DHCP server sends a DHCPNAK message.

How DHCP Lease Renewal Works

When the DHCP lease reaches 50 percent of the
lease time, the client attempts to renew the lease.
This automatic process occurs in the background.
Computers might have the same IP address that
was assigned by the DHCP server for a long time if
they operate continually on a network without
being shut down.
To renew the IP address lease, the client
broadcasts a DHCPREQUEST message. The
server that leased the IP address originally sends
a DHCPACK message back to the client; this
message contains any new parameters that have
changed since the original lease was created.
If the DHCP client cannot contact the DHCP server, then the client waits until 87.5 percent of the lease
time expires. If the renewal is unsuccessful, which means 100 percent of the lease time has expired, then
the client computer attempts to contact the configured default gateway. If the gateway does not respond,
the client assumes that it is on a new subnet and enters the Discovery phase, where it attempts to obtain
an IP configuration from any DHCP server.

Client computers also attempt renewal during the startup process. This is because client computers might
have been moved while they were offline; for example, a laptop computer might be plugged into a new
subnet. If renewal is successful, the lease period is reset. The DHCP role on Windows Server 2012 supports
a new feature, DHCP Server Failover protocol. This protocol enables synchronization of lease information
between DHCP servers and increases DHCP service availability. If one DHCP server is not available, the
other DHCP servers continue to service clients in the same subnet.
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What Is a DHCP Relay Agent

DHCP uses IP broadcasts to initiate
communications. Therefore, DHCP servers are
limited to communication within their IP subnet.
This means that in many networks, there is a
DHCP server for each IP subnet. If there are a
large number of subnets, it might be expensive to
deploy servers for every subnet. A single DHCP
server might service collections of smaller subnets.
For the DHCP server to respond to a DHCP client
request, it must be able to receive DHCP requests.
You can enable this by configuring a DHCP relay
agent on each subnet. A DHCP relay agent is a
computer or router that listens for DHCP broadcasts from DHCP clients and then relays them to DHCP
servers in different subnets

With the DHCP relay agent, the DHCP broadcast packets can be relayed into another IP subnet
across a router. Then, you can configure the DHCP relay agent in the subnet that requires IP addresses.
Additionally, you can configure the agent with the IP address of the DHCP server. The agent can then
capture the client broadcasts and forward them to the DHCP server in another subnet. You can also relay
DHCP packets into other subnets using a router that is compatible with RFC 1542.

DHCP Server Authorization

DHCP allows a client computer to acquire
configuration information about the network in
which it starts. DHCP communication typically
occurs before any authentication of the user or
computer; and because the DHCP protocol is based
on IP broadcasts, an incorrectly configured DHCP
server in a network can provide invalid information
to clients. To avoid this, the server must be
authorized. DHCP authorization is the process of
registering the DHCP Server service in the Active
Directory domain to support DHCP clients.

Active Directory Requirements

You must authorize the Windows Server 2012 DHCP server role in AD DS before it can begin leasing
IP addresses. It is possible to have a single DHCP server providing IP addresses for subnets that contain
multiple AD DS domains. Therefore, an Enterprise Administrator account must authorize the DHCP server.

Standalone DHCP Server Considerations

A standalone DHCP server is a computer that is running Windows Server 2012, that is not part of an
AD DS domain, and that has the DHCP server role installed and configured. If the standalone DHCP server
detects an authorized DHCP server in the domain, it does not lease IP addresses and shuts down
automatically.
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Unauthorized DHCP Servers

Many network devices have built-in DHCP server software. As such, many routers can act as a DHCP
server, but often these servers do not recognize DHCP-authorized servers, and might lease IP addresses to
clients. In this situation you must perform an investigation to detect unauthorized DHCP servers, whether
they are installed on devices or non-Microsoft servers. Once you detect them, you should disable DHCP
service on them. You can find the IP address of the DHCP server by issuing the ipconfig /all command on
the DHCP client computer.

Demonstration: Adding the DHCP Server Role

In this demonstration, you will see how to install and authorize the DHCP server role.

Demonstration Steps

Install the DHCP server role

1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. Open Server Manager and install the DHCP Server role.

3. In the Add Role Wizard, accept all default settings.

4. Close Server Manager.

Authorize the DHCP Server

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Open the DHCP console.

3. Authorize the lon-svr1.adatum.com server in AD DS.

Note: Leave all virtual machines in their current state for the next demonstration.
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Lesson 2
Configuring DHCP Scopes
After you install the DHCP role on a server, you must configure the DHCP scopes. A DHCP scope is the
primary method by which you can configure options for a group of IP addresses. A DHCP scope is based
on an IP subnet, and can have settings specific to hardware or custom groups of clients. This lesson
explains DHCP scopes, and how to manage them.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the purpose of a DHCP scope.

• Describe a DHCP reservation.

• Describe the DHCP Options.

• Explain how to apply DHCP Options.

• Create and configure a DHCP scope.

What Are DHCP Scopes?

A DHCP scope is a range of IP addresses that are
available for lease, and that are managed by a
DHCP server. A DHCP scope typically is confined
to the IP addresses in a given subnet.
For example, a DHCP scope for the network
192.168.1.0/24 (subnet mask of 255.255.255.0),
supports a range from 192.168.1.1 through
192.168.1.254. When a computer or device in the
192.168.1.0/24 subnet requests an IP address, the
scope that defined the range in this example
allocates an address between 192.168.1.1 and
192.168.1.254.

Note: Remember that the DHCP server, if deployed to the same subnet, consumes an IPv4
address. This address should be excluded from the IPv4 address range.

To configure a scope, you must define the following properties:

• Name and description. This property identifies the scope.

• IP address range. This property lists the range of addresses that can be offered for lease, and usually
lists the entire range of addresses for a given subnet.

• Subnet mask. This property is used by client computers to determine their location in the
organization’s network infrastructure.

• Exclusions. This property lists single addresses or blocks of addresses that fall within the IP address
range, but that will not be offered for lease.

• Delay. This property is the amount of time to delay before making DHCPOFFER.
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• Lease duration. This property lists the lease duration. Use shorter durations for scopes with limited IP
addresses, and longer durations for more static networks.

• Options. You can configure many optional properties on a scope, but typically you will configure:
o option 003 – Router (the default gateway for the subnet)

o option 006 – Domain Name System (DNS) servers

o option 015 – DNS suffix

IPv6 Scopes
You can configure the IPv6 scope options as a separate scope in the DHCP console’s IPv6 node. The IPv6
node contains several different options that you can modify, and an enhanced lease mechanism.

When configuring a DHCPv6 scope, you must define the following properties:
• Name and description. This property identifies the scope.

• Prefix. The IPv6 address prefix is analogous to the IPv4 address range; in essence, it defines the
network address.
• Exclusions. This property lists single addresses or blocks of addresses that fall within the IPv6 prefix
but will not be offered for lease.
• Preferred lifetimes. This property defines how long leased addresses are valid.

• Options. As with IPv4, you can configure many options.

What Is a DHCP Reservation?

As a best practice, you should consider providing
network devices—such as network printers—
with a predetermined IP address. Using a DHCP
reservation, you can ensure that the IP addresses
that you set aside from a configured scope are not
assigned to another device. A DHCP reservation is
a specific IP address from within a scope that is
reserved permanently for lease to a specific
DHCP client. A DHCP reservation also ensures
that devices with reservations are guaranteed
an IP address even if a scope is depleted of
addresses. Configuring reservations enables you
to centralize management of fixed IP addresses.

Configuring DHCP Reservations

To configure a reservation, you must know the device’s network interface media access control (MAC)
address or physical address. This address indicates to the DHCP server that the device should have a
reservation. You can acquire a network interface’s MAC address by using the ipconfig/all command.
Typically, MAC addresses for network printers and other network devices are printed on the device. Most
laptop computers also note this information on the bottom of their chassis.
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What Are DHCP Options?

DHCP servers can configure more than just an
IP address; they also provide information about
network resources, such as DNS servers and the
default gateway. DHCP options are values for
common configuration data that apply to the
server, scopes, reservations, and class options. You
can apply DHCP options at the server, scope, user,
and vendor levels. An option code identifies the
DHCP options, and most option codes come from
the RFC documentation found on the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) website.

Common DHCP Options

The following table lists the common option codes that Windows-based DHCP clients request.

Option
Name
code

1 Subnet mask

3 Router

6 DNS servers

15 DNS domain name

44 WINS/NBNS servers (Windows Internet Naming Service/NetBIOS Name Service)

46 WINS/NetBT node type (WINS/NetBIOS over TCP/IP)

47 NetBIOS scope ID

51 Lease time

58 Renewal (T1) time value

59 Rebinding (T2) time value

31 Perform router discovery

33 Static route

43 Vendor-specific information

249 Classless static routes

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How Are DHCP Options Applied?

DHCP applies options to client computers in the
following order:

1. Server level. A server-level option is assigned

to all DHCP clients of the DHCP server.
2. Scope level. A scope-level option is assigned
to all clients of a scope.

3. Class level. A class-level option is assigned to

all clients that identify themselves as
members of a class.

4. Reserved client level. A reservation-level

option is assigned to one DHCP client.
You need to understand these options when configuring DHCP, so you will know which level settings has
priority when you are configuring different settings on multiple levels.

If DHCP option settings are applied at each level and they conflict, then the option that is applied last
overrides the previously applied setting. For example, if the default gateway is configured at the scope
level, and a different default gateway is applied for a reserved client, then the reserved client setting
becomes the effective setting.
You can also configure address assignment policies at the server level or scope level. Address
assignment policy contains a set of conditions that you define in order to lease different DHCP IP
addresses and settings to different types of DHCP clients, such as computers, laptops, network printers,
or IP phones. The conditions defined in these policies differentiate various types of clients, and include
multiple criteria, such as MAC address or vendor information.

Demonstration: Creating and Configuring a DHCP Scope

You can create scopes using either the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) for the DHCP server role,
or the Netsh network configuration command-line tool. The Netsh command-line tool allows you to
manage scopes remotely if the DHCP server is running on a Server Core installation of Windows Server
2012. The Netsh command-line tool is also useful for scripting and automating server provisioning.

In this demonstration, you will see how to configure scope and scope options in DHCP.

Demonstration Steps

Configure scope and scope options in DHCP

1. In DHCP, in the navigation pane, expand lon-svr1.adatum.com, expand and right-click IPv4, and
then click New Scope.

2. Create a new scope with the following properties:

o Name: Branch Office

o IP Address Range: 172.16.0.100-172.16.0.200

o Length: 16

o Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

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o Exclusions: 172.16.0.190-172.16.0.200

o Other settings: use default values

o Configure options Router 172.16.0.1

3. Use default settings for all other pages, and then activate the scope.
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Lesson 3
Managing a DHCP Database
The DHCP database stores information about the IP address leases. If there is a problem, it is important
that you understand how to back up the database and resolve database issues. This lesson explains how to
manage the database and its data.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the DHCP database.

• Explain how to back up and restore a DHCP database.

• Explain how to reconcile a DHCP database.

• Explain how to move a DHCP database.

What Is a DHCP Database?

The DHCP database is a dynamic database
containing data that relates to scopes, address
leases, and reservations. The database also
contains the data file that stores both the DHCP
configuration information and the lease data for
clients that have leased an IP address from the
DHCP server. By default, the DHCP database files
are stored in the %systemroot%\System32\Dhcp
folder.

DHCP Service Database Files

The following table describes some of the DHCP
service database files.

File Description

Dhcp.mdb Dhcp.mdb is the DHCP server database file.

Dhcp.tmp Dhcp.tmp is a temporary file that the DHCP database uses as a swap file during
database index maintenance operations. Following a system failure, Dhcp.tmp
sometimes remains in the Systemroot\System32\Dhcp directory.

J50.log and J50.log and J50#####.log are logs of all database transactions. The DHCP
J50#####.log database uses this log to recover data when necessary.

J50.chk This is a checkpoint file.

Note: You should not remove or alter any of the DHCP service database files.
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The DHCP server database is dynamic. It updates as DHCP clients are assigned, or as they release their
TCP/IP configuration parameters. Because the DHCP database is not a distributed database like the
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server database, maintaining the DHCP server database is less
complex.

By default, the DHCP database and related registry entries are backed up automatically at 60-minute
intervals. You can change this default interval by changing the value of BackupInterval in the following
registry key:

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Parameters

You can also back up a DHCP database manually at any time.

Backing Up and Restoring a DHCP Database

You can back up a DHCP database manually, or
you can configure it to back up automatically. An
automatic backup is called a synchronous backup.
A manual backup is called an asynchronous
backup.

Automatic (Synchronous) Backup

The default backup path for the DHCP backup is
systemroot\System32\Dhcp\Backup. As a best
practice, you can modify this path in the server
properties to point to another volume.

Manual (Asynchronous) Backup

If you have an immediate need to create a backup, you can run the manual backup option in the DHCP
console. This action requires either administrative-level permissions, or that the user account be a member
of the DHCP administrators group.

What Is Backed Up?

When a synchronous or asynchronous backup occurs, the entire DHCP database is saved, including the
following:

• All scopes

• Reservations

• Leases
• All options, including server options, scope options, reservation options, and class options

• All registry keys and other configuration settings (for example, audit log settings and folder location
settings) that are set in DHCP server properties. These settings are stored in the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\Parameters

To back up this key, open Registry Editor and save the specified key to a text file.

Note: The DNS dynamic update credentials (user name, domain, and password) that the
DHCP server uses when registering DHCP client computers in DNS are not backed up with any
backup method.
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Restoring a Database
If you need to restore the database, use the Restore function in the DHCP server console. You will be
prompted for the backup’s location. Once you have selected the location, DHCP service stops, and the
database is restored. To restore the database, the user account must either have administrative-level
permissions, or be a member of the DHCP administrators group.

Backup Security
When the DHCP database file is backed up, it should be in a protected location that only the DHCP
administrators can access. This ensures that any network information in the backup files remains
protected.

Using Netsh
You also can use commands in the Netsh DHCP context to back up the database; this is useful for backing
up the database to a remote location using a script file.

The following command is a script that you can use from the Netsh DHCP prompt to back up the DHCP
data for all scopes:

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export "c:\My Folder\Dhcp Configuration" all

To restore the DHCP database, use the following command:

import "c:\My Folder\Dhcp Configuration" all

Note: The Netsh DHCP context does not exist on server computers that do not have the
DHCP server role installed.

Reconciling a DHCP Database

Reconciling scopes can fix inconsistencies that can
affect client computers.
The DHCP Server service stores scope IP address-
lease information in two forms:

• Detailed IP address lease information, which

the DHCP database stores
• Summary IP address lease information, which
the server’s Registry stores

When you are reconciling scopes, the detail and

summary entries are compared to find
inconsistencies.
To correct and repair these inconsistencies, you must reconcile any scope inconsistencies. After you select
and reconcile scope inconsistencies, the DHCP service either restores those IP addresses to the original
owner, or creates a temporary reservation for those addresses. These reservations are valid for the lease
time that is assigned to the scope. When the lease time expires, the addresses are then recovered for
future use.
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Moving a DHCP Database

In the event that you must move the DHCP
server role to another server, as a best practice
you should also move the DHCP database to the
same server. This ensures that client leases are
retained, and reduces the likelihood of client-
configuration issues.

You move the database initially by backing it up

on to the old DHCP server. Then, shut down the
DHCP service on the old DHCP server. Next, copy
the DHCP database to the new server, where you
can restore it using the normal database restore
procedure.
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Lesson 4
Securing and Monitoring DHCP
DHCP protocol has no built-in method for authenticating users. This means that if you do not take
precautions, IP leases could be granted to devices and users who are unauthorized.

DHCP is a core service in many organization’s network environments. If the DHCP service is not working
properly, or if there is a situation that is causing problems with the DHCP server, it is important that you
can identify the problem and determine potential causes to resolve the problem.

This lesson explains how to prevent unauthorized users from obtaining a lease, how to manage
unauthorized DHCP servers, and how to configure DHCP servers so that a specific group can manage
them.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Explain how to prevent an unauthorized computer from obtaining a lease.

• Explain how to restrict unauthorized, non-Microsoft DHCP servers from leasing IP addresses.

• Explain how to delegate administration of the DHCP server role.

• Describe DHCP statistics.

• Describe DHCP audit logging.

• Identify common issues that are possible with DHCP.

Preventing an Unauthorized Computer from Obtaining a Lease

DHCP by itself can be difficult to secure—it
is designed to work before the necessary
information is in place for a client computer to
authenticate with a domain controller. This is
why you should take precautions to prevent
unauthorized computers from obtaining a lease
with DHCP.

Basic precautions that you should take to limit

unauthorized access include:

• Ensuring that you reduce physical access: If

users can access an active network connection
to your network, their computers are likely to
be able to obtain an IP address. If a network port is not being used, you should disconnect it
physically from the switching infrastructure.

• Enabling audit logging on all DHCP servers: This can provide an historical view of activity, in addition
to allowing you to trace when an unauthorized user obtained an IP address in the network. Make sure
to schedule time at regular intervals to review the audit logs.

• Requiring authenticated Layer 2 connections to the network: Most enterprise hardware switches now
support Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) 802.1X authentication. This allows
for port-level user authentication. Secure wireless standards, such as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
Enterprise and WPA2 Enterprise, also use 802.1X authentication.
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• Implementing NAP: NAP allows administrators to validate that a client computer is compliant with
system health requirements, such as running all the latest Windows operating system updates, or
running an up-to-date antivirus client. If users who do not meet security requirements try to access
the network, they receive an IP address configuration to access a remediation network where they
can receive the necessary updates. The administrator can restrict access to the network by allowing
only healthy computers access to the internal local area network (LAN).

Restricting Unauthorized, Non-Microsoft DHCP Servers from Leasing IP

Addresses
Many devices and network operating systems
have multiple DHCP server implementations.
Networks are almost never homogeneous in
nature; therefore, it is possible that at some point
a DHCP server that does not check for Active
Directory–authenticated servers will be enabled
on the network. In this case, clients might obtain
incorrect configuration data.
To eliminate an unauthorized DHCP server, you
must first locate it. You must then prevent it from
communicating on the network by disabling it
physically, or by disabling the DHCP service.
If users complain that they do not have connectivity to the network, check the IP address of their DHCP
server. Use the ipconfig/all command to check the IP address of the DHCP Server field. If the IP address is
not the IP address of an authorized DHCP server, then there is probably an unauthorized server in the
network.

You can use the DHCP Server Locator utility (Dhcploc.exe) to locate the DHCP servers that are active on a
subnet.

Delegating DHCP Administration

Ensure that only authorized persons can
administer the DHCP server role. You can do this
by performing either of the following tasks:

• Limit the membership of the DHCP

Administrators group.

• Assign users that require read-only access to

DHCP membership of the DHCP Users group.
The DHCP Administrators local group is used to
restrict and grant access to administer DHCP
servers. Therefore, the DHCP Administrators group
is in the built-in groups on domain controllers, or
is on local servers.
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Permissions Required to Authorize and Administer DHCP

Only Enterprise administrators can authorize a DHCP service. If an administrator with lower credentials
than an Enterprise administrator needs to authorize the domain the administrator should use Active
Directory delegation. Any user in the DHCP Administrators group can manage the server’s DHCP service.
Any user in the DHCP Users group can have read-only access to the DHCP console.

What Are DHCP Statistics?

DHCP statistics provide information about DHCP
activity and use. You can use this console to
determine quickly whether there is a problem with
the DHCP service or with the network’s DHCP
clients. An example in which statistics might be
useful is if you notice an excessive amount of
negative acknowledgement (NAK) packets, which
might indicate that the server is not providing the
correct data to clients.

You can configure the refresh rate for the statistics

in the General tab of server’s Properties dialog
box.

DHCP Server Statistics

DHCP server statistics provide an overview of DHCP server usage. You can use this data to understand
quickly the state of the DHCP server. Information such as number of offers, number of requests, total
in-use addresses, and total available addresses can help to provide a picture of the server’s health.

DHCP Scope Statistics

DHCP scope statistics provide much fewer details—such as total addresses in the scope, how many
addresses are in use, and how many addresses are available. If you notice that there are a low number of
addresses available in the server statistics, it might be that only one scope is near its depletion point. By
using scope statistics, an administrator can quickly determine the status of the particular scope with
respect to the addresses available.

What Is DHCP Audit Logging?

The DHCP audit log is a log that provides a
traceable log of DHCP server activity. You can
use this log to track lease requests, grants,
and denials. This information allows you to
troubleshoot DHCP server performance. The log
files are stored in the %systemroot%\system32
\dhcp folder by default. You can configure the log
file settings in the server’s Properties dialog box.

The DHCP audit log files are named based on the

weekday that the file was created. For example, if
audit logging is enabled on a Monday, the file
name is DhcpSrvLog-Mon.log.
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DHCP Audit Log Fields

The following table describes the fields in a DHCP audit log.

Field Description

ID A DHCP server event ID code.

Date The date on which the entry was logged on the DHCP server.

Time The time at which the entry was logged on the DHCP server.

Description A description of the DHCP server event.

IP Address The IP address of the DHCP client.

Host Name The host name of the DHCP client.

MAC Address The MAC address used by the client’s network adapter hardware.

Common Event ID Codes

Common event ID codes are written as follows:

• ID,Date,Time,Description,IP Address,Host Name,MAC Address

Common event ID codes include:

• 00,06/22/99,22:35:10,Started,,,,

• 56,06/22/99,22:35:10,Authorization failure, stopped servicing,,domain1.local,,

• 55,06/22/99,22:45:38,Authorized(servicing),,domain1.local

Discussion: Common DHCP Issues

The following table describes some common
DHCP issues. Enter the possible solutions in the
Solution column, and then discuss your answers
with the class.
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Issue Description Example Solution

Address conflicts The same IP address is An administrator

offered to two different deletes a lease.
clients. However, the client
that had the lease is
still operating as if the
lease is valid. If the
DHCP server does not
verify the IP address, it
might lease the IP
address to another
machine, causing an
address conflict. This
can also occur if two
DHCP servers have
overlapping scopes.

Failure to obtain The client does not If a client’s network

a DHCP address receive a DHCP address card driver is
and instead receives an configured incorrectly,
Automatic Private IP it might cause a failure
Addressing (APIPA) to obtain a DHCP
self-assigned address. address. Additionally,
the DHCP server or
relay agent on the
client’s subnet might
be not online. Another
reason might be that
the DHCP server has
exhausted its scope, so
the scope should be
extended or modified.

Address obtained The client is obtaining an If the client is

from an incorrect IP address from the connected to the
scope wrong scope, causing it wrong network, or if
to experience the DHCP relay agent
communication is configured
problems. incorrectly, this error
could occur.

DHCP database The DHCP database A hardware failure can

suffers data becomes unreadable or cause the database to
corruption or loss is lost due to a hardware become corrupted.
failure.

DHCP server The DHCP server’s IP If all of the IP

exhausts its IP scopes have been addresses that are
address pool depleted. Any new clients assigned to a scope
requesting an IP address are leased, this error
are refused. occurs.
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Lab: Implementing DHCP

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation has an IT office and data center in London, which supports the London location
and other locations as well. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows 2012 Server infrastructure with
Windows 8 clients.

You have recently accepted a promotion to the server support team. One of your first assignments is to
configure the infrastructure service for a new branch office. As part of this assignment, you need to
configure a DHCP server that will provide IP addresses and configuration to client computers. Servers are
configured with static IP addresses and do not use DHCP.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Implement DHCP.
• Implement a DHCP relay agent (optional).

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-SVR1
20410B-LON-RTR
20410B-LON-CL1
20410B-LON-CL2

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before beginning the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
2. In Microsoft Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.

3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Domain: Adatum

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.

6. For the optional Exercise 2, you should repeat steps 2 to 4 for 20410B-LON-RTR and
20410B-LON-CL2.
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Exercise 1: Implementing DHCP

Scenario
As part of configuring the infrastructure for the new branch office, you need to configure a DHCP server
that will provide IP addresses and configuration to client computers. Servers are configured with static IP
addresses and usually do not use DHCP for obtaining IP addresses.

One of the client computers in the branch office needs to access an accounting application in the head
office. The network team uses firewalls based on IP addresses to restrict access to this application. The
network team has requested that you assign a static IP address to this client computer. Rather than
configuring a static IP address on the client computer manually, you decide to create a reservation in
DHCP for the client computer.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Install the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server role.

2. Configure the DHCP scope and options.

3. Configure client to use DHCP, and then test the configuration.

4. Configure a lease as a reservation.

 Task 1: Install the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server role
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Open Server Manager, and install the DHCP Server role.

3. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, accept all defaults.

 Task 2: Configure the DHCP scope and options

1. In Server Manager, open the DHCP console.

2. Authorize the lon-svr1.adatum.com server in AD DS.

3. In DHCP, in the navigation pane, browse to IPv4, right-click IPv4, and then click New Scope.

4. Create a new scope with the following properties:

o Name: Branch Office

o IP Address Range: 172.16.0.100-172.16.0.200

o Length: 16

o Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

o Exclusions: 172.16.0.190-172.16.0.200

o Configure options Router 172.16.0.1

o For all other settings use default values

5. Activate the scope.
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 Task 3: Configure client to use DHCP, and then test the configuration
1. Switch to LON-CL1.

2. Reconfigure the Local Area Connection using the following information:

o Configure Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)

o Obtain an IP address automatically

o Obtain DNS server address automatically

3. Open the Command Prompt window, and initiate the DHCP process using the ipconfig /renew
command.

4. To test the configuration, verify that LON-CL1 has received an IP address from the DHCP scope by
typing ipconfig /all in the Command Prompt window.

This command will return information such as IP address, subnet mask, and DHCP enabled status,
which should be Yes.

 Task 4: Configure a lease as a reservation

1. In the Command Prompt window, type ipconfig/all to display the physical address of the network
adapter.
2. Switch to LON-SVR1.

3. Open the DHCP console.

4. In the DHCP console, in the navigation pane, browse to Branch Office, right-click Reservations, and
then click New Reservation.

5. Create a new reservation for LON-CL1 using the physical address of the LON-CL1 network adapter,
and the IP address 172.16.0.155.
6. On LON-CL1, use the ipconfig command to renew and then verify the IP address.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have implemented DHCP, configured DHCP scope and
options, and configured a DHCP reservation.

 To prepare for the optional exercise

If you are going to complete the optional lab, revert the following virtual machine: 20410B-LON-CL1. To
do this, complete the following steps.

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-CL1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

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Exercise 2: Implementing a DHCP Relay Agent (Optional Exercise)

Scenario
To avoid configuring an addition DHCP server on the subnet, your manager has asked you to configure a
DHCP relay agent for another subnet in your branch office.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Install a DHCP relay agent.

2. Configure a DHCP relay agent.

3. Test the DHCP relay agent with a client.

 Task 1: Install a DHCP relay agent

1. Switch to LON-RTR.

2. In Server Manager, open Routing and Remote Access.

3. Use the following steps to add the DHCP relay agent to the router:

o In the navigation pane, expand IPv4, right-click General and then click New Routing Protocol.
o In the Routing protocols list, click DHCP Relay Agent, and then click OK.

 Task 2: Configure a DHCP relay agent

1. Open Routing and Remote Access.
2. Use the following steps to configure the DHCP relay agent:

o In the navigation pane, right-click DHCP Relay Agent, and then click New Interface.

o In the New Interface for DHCP Relay Agent dialog box, click Local Area Connection 2, and
then click OK.
o In the DHCP Relay Agent Properties – Local Area Connection 2 Properties dialog box,
click OK.
o Right-click DHCP Relay Agent, and then click Properties.

o In the DHCP Relay Agent Properties dialog box, in the Server address box, type 172.16.0.21,
click Add, and then click OK.

3. Close Routing and Remote Access.

 Task 3: Test the DHCP relay agent with a client

Note: To test how a client receives an IP address from the DHCP relay agent in another subnet, we
need to create another DHCP scope.

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Open the DHCP console.

3. In DHCP, in the navigation pane, expand lon-svr1.adatum.com, expand IPv4, right-click IPv4, and
then click New Scope.

4. Create a new scope with the following properties:

o Name: Branch Office 2

o IP Address Range: 10.10.0.100-10.10.0.200

o Length: 16
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o Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

o Exclusions: 10.10.0.190-10.10.0.200

o Other settings use default value

o Configure options Router 10.10.0.1. Other setting use default values.

5. Activate the scope.

6. To test the client, switch to LON-CL2.

7. Open the Network and Sharing Center window and configure Local Area Connection, Internet
Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) properties with following settings:

o Obtain IP address automatically

o Obtain DNS server address automatically

8. Open the Command Prompt window.

9. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type following command:

ipconfig /renew

10. Verify that IP address and DNS server settings on LON-CL2 are obtained from DHCP Server scope
installed on LON-SVR1.

Note: IP address should be from following range: 10.10.0.100/16 to 10.10.0.200/16.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have implemented a DHCP relay agent.

 To prepare for the next module

When you are finished the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete
the following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1, 20410B-LON-RTR, and 20410B-LON-CL2.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Best Practices
• Spend time designing your IP addressing scheme so that it will accommodate both your current IT
infrastructure and any potential future IT infrastructure needs.

• Determine which devices need DHCP reservations, such as network printers, network scanners, or IP-
based cameras.
• Secure your network from unauthorized DHCP servers.

• Configure the DHCP database on highly available disk drive configurations, such as redundant array
of independent disks (RAID)-5 or RAID-1, to provide DHCP service availability in case of single disk
failure.

• Back up the DHCP database regularly, and test the restore procedure in an isolated, non-production
environment.

• Monitor the system utilization of DHCP servers, and upgrade the DHCP server hardware if needed to
provide better service performance.

Review Questions
Question: You have two subnets in your organization and want to use DHCP to allocate
addresses to client computers in both subnets. You do not want to deploy two DHCP servers.
What factors must you consider?
Question: Your organization has grown, and your IPv4 scope is almost out of addresses.
What should you do?
Question: What information do you require to configure a DHCP reservation?

Question: Can you configure option 003 – Router as a Server-level DHCP scope option?

Tools
Tool Use for Where to find it

DHCP Graphical User Interface for managing DHCP Server Server Manager

PowerShell Command line interface for managing DHCP Server Windows Taskbar on
the Desktop

Ipconfig.exe Managing and troubleshooting client IP settings Command-line

Netsh.exe Configuring both client and server-side IP settings, Command-line

including those for DHCP server role

Regedit.exe Editing and fine-tuning settings, including those for Windows interface or
the DHCP server role Command-line
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Module 7
Implementing Domain Name System
Contents:
Module Overview 7-1

Lesson 1: Name Resolution for Windows Clients and Servers 7-2

Lesson 2: Installing and Managing a DNS Server 7-11

Lesson 3: Managing DNS Zones 7-17

Lab: Implementing DNS 7-21

Module Review and Takeaways 7-26

Module Overview
Name resolution is the process of software translating between names that users can read and
understand, and numerical IP addresses, which are necessary for TCP/IP communications. Because of
this, name resolution is one of the most important concepts of every network infrastructure. You can
think about DNS as being like the Internet’s phone book for computers. Client computers use the name
resolution process when locating hosts on the Internet and when locating other hosts and services in
an internal network. Doman Name System (DNS) is one of the most common technologies for name
resolution. Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) depends heavily on DNS, as does Internet traffic.
This module discusses some basic name resolution concepts, and installing and configuring a DNS Server
service and its components.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe name resolution for Windows® operating system clients and Windows Server® servers.
• Install and manage DNS Server service.

• Manage DNS zones.

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Lesson 1
Name Resolution for Windows Clients and Servers
You can configure a computer to communicate over a network by using a name in place of an IP address.
The computer then uses name resolution to find an IP address that corresponds to a name, such as a host
name. This lesson focuses on different types of computer names, the methods used to resolve them, and
how to troubleshoot problems with name resolution.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson you will be able to:

• Describe computer names.

• Describe DNS.

• Describe DNS zones and records.

• Describe how Internet DNS names are resolved.

• Describe Link Local Multicast Name Resolution.

• Describe how a client resolves a name.

• Troubleshoot name resolution.

What Are Computer Names?

The TCP/IP set of protocols identifies source
and destination computers by their IP addresses.
However, computer users are much better at
using and remembering names than numbers.
Because of this, administrators usually assign
names to computers. Administrators then link
these names to computer IP addresses in a name
resolution system such as DNS. These names are
in either host name format, for example
dc1.contoso.com (which is recognized by DNS), or
in NetBIOS name format, for example DC1, (which
is recognized by Windows Internet Name Service
(WINS)).

Name Type
The type of name (host name or NetBIOS name) that an application uses is determined by the application
developer. If the application developer designs an application to request network services through
Windows sockets, then host names are used. If, on the other hand, the application developer designs
an application to request services through NetBIOS, a NetBIOS name is used. Most current applications,
including Internet applications, use Windows sockets—and thus use host names—to access network
services. NetBIOS is used by many earlier Windows operating system applications.

Earlier versions of Windows operating systems, such as Microsoft® Windows 98 and Windows Millennium
Edition, require NetBIOS to support networking capabilities such as file sharing. However, since Microsoft
Windows 2000, all operating systems support NetBIOS for backward compatibility with earlier versions of
Windows, but do not require NetBIOS themselves.
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Note: You can use Windows sockets applications to specify the destination host either by IP
address or by host name. NetBIOS applications require the use of a NetBIOS name.

Host Names
A host name is a user-friendly name that is associated with a computer’s IP address to identify it as a
TCP/IP host. The host name can be up to 255 characters long, and can contain alphabetic and numeric
characters, periods, and hyphens.

You can use host names in various forms. The two most common forms are as an alias, and as a fully
qualified domain name (FQDN). An alias is a single name that is associated with an IP address, such as
payroll. You can combine an alias with a domain name to create an FQDN. An FQDN is structured for use
on the Internet, and includes periods as separators. An example of an FQDN is payroll.contoso.com.

NetBIOS Names
A NetBIOS name is a 16-character name that identifies a NetBIOS resource on the network. A NetBIOS
name can represent a single computer or a group of computers. The first 15 characters are used for the
name; the final character identifies the resource or service that is being referred to on the computer. The
15-character name may include the computer name, the domain name, and the name of the user who is
logged on. The sixteenth character is a 1-byte hexadecimal identifier.
The NetBIOS namespace is flat, meaning that names can be used only once within a network. You cannot
organize NetBIOS names into a hierarchical structure, as you can with FQDNs.

Additional Reading: For more information about NetBIOS name resolution, see NetBIOS
Name Resolution at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269710.

What Is DNS?
DNS is a service that resolves FQDNs and other
host names to IP addresses. All Windows Server
operating systems include a DNS Server service.

When you use DNS, users on your network can

locate network resources by typing in user-
friendly names (for example, www.microsoft.com),
which the computer then resolves to an IP
address. The benefit is that IPv4 addresses may be
difficult to remember (for example, 131.107.0.32),
while a domain name typically is easier to
remember. In addition, you can use host names
that do not change while the underlying IP
addresses can be changed to suit your organizational needs.

DNS uses a database (stored in a file or in AD DS) of names and IP addresses to provide this service.
DNS client software performs queries on and updates to the DNS database. For example, within an
organization, a user who is trying to locate a print server can use the DNS name printserver.contoso.com,
and the DNS client software will resolve the name to a printer’s IP address, such as 172.16.23.55. Even if
the printer’s IP address changes, the user-friendly name can remain the same.
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Originally, there was one file on the Internet that contained a list of all domain names and their
corresponding IP addresses. This list quickly became too long to manage and distribute. DNS was
developed to solve the problems associated with using a single internet file. With the adoption of IPv6,
DNS becomes even more important, because IPv6 addresses are even more complex than IPv4 addresses
(for example, 2001:db8:4136:e38c:384f:3764:b59c:3d97).

DNS groups information about network resources into a hierarchical structure of domains. The
hierarchical structure of domains is an inverted tree structure beginning with a root domain at its apex,
and descending into separate branches with common levels of parent domains, and descending
downward even further into individual child domains. The representation of the entire hierarchical
domain structure is known as a DNS namespace.
The Internet uses a single DNS namespace with multiple root servers. To participate in the Internet DNS
namespace, a domain name must be registered with a DNS registrar. This ensures that no two
organizations attempt to use the same domain name.
If hosts that are located on the Internet do not need to resolve names in your domain, you can host a
domain internally, without registering it. However, you must still ensure that the domain name is unique
from Internet domain names, or connectivity to Internet resources might be affected. A common way to
ensure uniqueness is to create an internal domain in the .local domain. The .local domain is reserved for
internal use in much the same way that private IP addresses are reserved for internal use.
In addition to resolving host names to IP addresses, DNS can be used to:

• Locate domain controllers and global catalog servers. This is used when logging on to AD DS.

• Resolve IP addresses to host names. This is useful when a log file contains only the IP address of a
host.

• Locate a mail server for email delivery. This is used for the delivery of all Internet email.

DNS Zones and Records

A DNS zone is a specific portion of DNS
namespace that contains DNS records. A DNS
zone is hosted on a DNS server that is responsible
for responding to queries for records in a specific
domain. For example, the DNS server that is
responsible for resolving www.contoso.com to an
IP address would contain the contoso.com zone.

Zone content can be stored in a file or in the

AD DS database. When the DNS server stores the
zone in a file, that file is located in a local folder
on the server. When the zone is not stored in AD
DS, only one copy of the zone can be writable
copy, while all others are read-only.

The most commonly used types of zones in Windows Server DNS are forward lookup zones and reverse
lookup zones.

Forward Lookup Zones

Forward lookup zones resolve host names to IP addresses, and host common resource records including
host (A), alias (CNAME), service (SRV), mail exchanger (MX), start of authority (SOA), and name server (NS)
resource records. The most common record type is the host (A) resource record.
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Reverse Lookup Zones

Reverse lookup zones resolve IP addresses to domain names. A reverse zone functions in the same
manner as a forward zone, but the IP address is part of the query and the host name is the returned
information. Reverse lookup zones host SOA, NS, and pointer (PTR) resource records. Reverse zones are
not always configured, but you should configure them to reduce warning and error messages.

Many standard Internet protocols rely on reverse zone lookup data to validate forward zone information.
For example, if the forward lookup indicates that training.contoso.com is resolved to 192.168.2.45, you
can use a reverse lookup to confirm that 192.168.2.45 is associated with training.contoso.com.

Note: In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, you can also use DNSSec
technology to perform similar type of verification.

Many email servers use a reverse lookup as one way of reducing spam. By performing a reverse lookup,
email servers try to detect open Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers (open relays).

Having a reverse zone is important if you have applications that rely on looking up hosts by their IP
addresses. Many applications record this information in security or event logs. If you see suspicious activity
from a particular IP address, you can look up the host name using the reverse zone information.

Resource Records
The DNS zone file stores resource records. Resource records specify a resource type, and the IP address to
locate the resource. The most common resource record is a host (A) resource record. This is a simple
record that resolves a host name to an IP address. The host can be a workstation, server, or another
network device, such as a router.
Resource records also help find resources for a particular domain. For instance, when a Microsoft
Exchange Server needs to find the server that is responsible for delivering mail for another domain, it
requests the mail exchanger (MX) resource record for that domain. This record points to the host (A)
resource record of the host that is running the SMTP mail service.

Resource records also can contain custom attributes. MX records, for instance, have a preference attribute,
which is useful if an organization has multiple mail servers. The MX record tells the sending server which
mail server the receiving organization prefers. SRV records also contain information regarding on which
port the service is listening, and the protocol that you should use to communicate with the service.

How Internet DNS Names Are Resolved

When resolving DNS names on the Internet, an
entire system of computers is used rather than just
a single server. There are hundreds of servers on
the Internet, called root servers, which manage the
overall practice of DNS resolution. These servers
are represented by 13 FQDNs; a list of these 13
servers is preloaded on each DNS server. When
you register a domain name on the Internet, you
are paying to become part of this system.
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To see how these servers work together to resolve a DNS name, look at the following name resolution
process for the name www.microsoft.com:

1. A workstation queries the local DNS server for the IP address www.microsoft.com.
2. If the local DNS server does not have the information, then it queries a root DNS server for the
location of the .com DNS servers.

3. The local DNS server queries a .com DNS server for the location of the microsoft.com DNS servers.

4. The local DNS server queries the microsoft.com DNS server for the IP address of www.microsoft.com.
5. The IP address of www.microsoft.com is returned to the workstation.

The name resolution process can be modified by caching or forwarding:

• Caching. After a local DNS server resolves a DNS name, it caches the results for approximately 24
hours. Subsequent resolution requests for the DNS name are given the cached information.

• Forwarding. Instead of querying root servers, you can configure a DNS server to forward DNS
requests to another DNS server. For example, requests for all Internet names can be forwarded to a
DNS server at an Internet service provider (ISP).

What Is Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution?

In Windows Server 2012, a new method for
resolving names to IP addresses is Link-local
Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR). Because of
various limitations (which are beyond the scope
of this lesson) LLMNR is usually used only on
localized networks. Although LLMNR is able to
resolve IPv4 addresses, it has been designed
specifically for IPv6; therefore, if you want to use
it, you must have IPv6 supported and enabled on
your hosts.

LLMNR is commonly used in networks where:

• There are no DNS or NetBIOS services for

name resolution.

• Implementation of these services is not practical for any reason.

• These services are not available.

For example, you might want to set up a temporary network for testing purposes without a server
infrastructure.

LLMNR is supported on Windows Vista®, Windows Server 2008, and all newer Windows operating
systems. It uses a simple system of request and reply messages to resolve computer names to IPv6 or IPv4
addresses. For a node to respond to a LLMNR request Network Discovery must be enabled, but Network
Discovery is not needed just to make a request for name resolution.
To use LLMNR, you need to turn on the Network Discovery feature for all nodes on the local subnet. This
feature is available in the Network and Sharing Center. Be aware that Network Discovery is usually
disabled for any network that you designate as Public.
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If you want to control the use of LLMNR on your network, you can configure it via Group Policy. To
disable LLMNR via Group Policy, set the following Group Policy value:

Group Policy = Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\DNS Client

\Turn off Multicast Name Resolution.
Set this value to Enabled if you do not want to use LLMNR, or to Disabled if you want to use LLMNR.

How a Client Resolves a Name

Windows operating systems support a number of
different methods for resolving computer names,
such as DNS, WINS, and the host name resolution
process.

DNS
As previously discussed, DNS is the Microsoft
standard for resolving host names to IP Addresses.
For more information on DNS, refer back to
second topic of this Lesson, What Is DNS.

WINS
WINS provides a centralized database for
registering dynamic mappings of a network’s NetBIOS names. Windows operating systems retain support
for WINS to provide backward compatibility.

You can resolve NetBIOS names by using:

• Broadcast messages. Broadcast messages, however, do not work well on large networks because
routers do not propagate broadcasts.

• Lmhosts file on all computers. Using an Lmhosts file for NetBIOS name resolution is a high
maintenance solution, because you must maintain the file manually on all computers.
• Hosts file on all computers. Similar to an Lmhosts file, you can also use a hosts file for NETBIOS name
resolution. This file is also stored locally on each machine, and it is used for fixed mappings of names
to IP addresses, on local network segment.

Note: The DNS server role in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 also
provides a new zone type, the GlobalNames zone. You can use GlobalNames zone to resolve
single-label names that are unique across an entire forest. This eliminates the need to use the
NetBIOS-based WINS to provide support for single-label names.

Host Name Resolution Process

When an application specifies a host name and uses Windows sockets, TCP/IP uses the DNS resolver cache
and DNS when attempting to resolve the host name. The hosts file is loaded into the DNS resolver cache.
If NetBIOS over TCP/IP is enabled, TCP/IP also uses NetBIOS name resolution methods when resolving
host names.
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Windows operating systems resolve host names by performing the following tasks in this specific order:

1. Checking whether the host name is the same as the local host name.

2. Searching the DNS resolver cache. In the DNS client resolver cache, entries from hosts file are
preloaded.

3. Sending a DNS request to its configured DNS servers.

4. Converting the host name to a NetBIOS name and checking the local NetBIOS name cache.
5. Contacting the host’s configured WINS servers.

6. Broadcasting as many as three NetBIOS name query request messages on the subnet that is attached
directly.

7. Searching the Lmhosts file.

Note: You can control the order used to resolve names. For example, if you disable
NetBIOS over TCP/IP, none of the NetBIOS name resolution methods are attempted.
Alternatively, you can modify the NetBIOS node type, which changes the order in which the
NetBIOS name resolution methods are attempted.

Troubleshooting Name Resolution

Like most of other technologies, name resolution
sometimes requires troubleshooting. Issues can
occur when the DNS server, its zones, and its
resource records are not configured properly.
When resource records are causing issues, it can
sometimes be more difficult to identify the issue
because configuration problems are not always
obvious.

Tools and Commands

The command-line tools and commands that you
use to troubleshoot these and other configuration
issues are as follows:

• Nslookup: Use this tool to query DNS information. The tool is flexible and can provide valuable
information about DNS server status. You also can use it to look up resource records and validate
their configuration. Additionally, you can test zone transfers, security options, and MX record
resolution.

• DNSCmd: Use this command-line tool to manage the DNS server role. This tool is useful in scripting
batch files to help automate routine DNS management tasks or to perform simple unattended setup
and configuration of new DNS servers on your network.

• Dnslint: Use this tool to diagnose common DNS issues. This tool diagnoses configuration issues in
DNS quickly, and can generate a report in HTML format regarding the status of the domain that you
are testing.
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• Ipconfig: Use this command to view and modify IP configuration details that the computer uses. This
tool includes additional command-line options that you can use to troubleshoot and support DNS
clients. You can view the client local DNS cache using the command ipconfig/displaydns, and you
can clear the local cache using ipconfig/flushdns. If you want to reregister a host in DNS, you can
use ipconfig /registerdns.

• Monitoring on DNS server: To test if the server can communicate with upstream servers, you can
perform simple local queries and recursive queries from the DNS server Monitoring tab. You also can
schedule these tests for regular intervals. The DNS server Monitoring tab is available only in
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 in the DNS Server Name Properties dialog box.

In Windows Server 2012 there is a new set of Windows PowerShell® cmdlets in that you can use for DNS
client and server management. Some of the most commonly used cmdlets are as follows:

• Clear-DNSClientCache. This cmdlet clears the client cache, similar to ipconfing /flushdns.
• Get-DNSClient. This cmdlet displays the details of the network interfaces.

• Get-DNSClientCache. This cmdlet displays the content of the local DNS client cache.

• Register-DNSClient. This cmdlet registers all of the IP addresses on the computer onto the
configured DNS server.
• Resolve-DNSName. This cmdlet performs a DNS name resolution for a specific name, similar to
Nslookup.
• Set-DNSClient. This cmdlet sets the interface-specific DNS client configurations on the computer.

These cmdlets also let you use several switches and options with them, thereby providing additional
options and functionalities.

The Troubleshooting Process

When you troubleshoot name resolution, you must understand what name resolution methods the
computer is using, and in what order the computer uses them. Be sure to clear the DNS resolver cache
between resolution attempts. If you cannot connect to a remote host and suspect a name resolution
problem, you can troubleshoot the name resolution as follows:

1. Open an elevated command prompt, and then clear the DNS resolver cache by typing ipconfig
/flushdns. Alternatively, you can open Windows PowerShell and use the equivalent cmdlet
Clear-DNSClientCache.

2. Attempt to ping the remote host by its IP address. This helps identify whether the issue is related to
name resolution. If the ping succeeds with the IP address but fails by its host name, then the problem
is related to name resolution.

3. Attempt to ping the remote host by its host name. For accuracy, use the FQDN with a trailing period.
For example, if you were working at Contoso, Ltd, you would enter the following command at the
command prompt: Ping LON-dc1.contoso.com.

4. If the ping is successful, then the problem is most likely not related to name resolution. If the ping is
unsuccessful, edit the C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts text file, and add the appropriate entry
to the end of the file. In the previous Contoso, Ltd example, you would add the following line and
save the file:

10.10.0.10 LON-dc1.contoso.com
5. Perform the Ping-by-host-name test once more. Name resolution should now be successful. Verify
that the name was resolved correctly by examining the DNS resolver cache. To display the DNS
resolver cache, at a command prompt type IPConfig /displaydns, or use the equivalent Windows
PowerShell cmdlet.
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6. Remove the entry that you added to the hosts file, and then clear the resolver cache once more.

7. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then examine the contents of the
filename.txt file to identify the failed stage in name resolution:

Nslookup.exe -d2 LON-dc1.contoso.com. > filename.txt

Note: You also should know how to interpret the DNS resolver cache output so that you
can identify whether the name resolution problem lies with the client computer’s configuration,
the name server, or the configuration of records within the name server zone database.
Interpreting the DNS resolver cache output is beyond the scope of this lesson.
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Lesson 2
Installing and Managing a DNS Server
To use a DNS Server service, you must first install it. Installing the DNS Server service on a DNS server is a
simple procedure. To manage your DNS Server service, it is important that you understand the DNS server
components and their purpose. In this lesson, you will learn about DNS components, and about how to
install and manage the DNS Server role.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the components of a DNS solution.

• Describe root hints.

• Describe DNS queries.

• Describe forwarding.

• Explain how DNS server caching works.

• Explain how to install the DNS server role.

What Are the Components of a DNS Solution?

The components of a DNS solution include DNS
servers, DNS servers on the Internet, and DNS
resolvers (or DNS clients).

DNS Server
A DNS server answers recursive and iterative
DNS queries. DNS servers also can host one or
more zones of a particular domain. Zones contain
different resource records. DNS servers also can
cache lookups to save time for common queries.

DNS Servers on the Internet

DNS servers on the Internet are accessible
publicly. These servers host information about public domains, such as common top-level domains (TLDs)
(for example .com, .net, and .edu).

DNS Resolver
The DNS resolver generates and sends iterative or recursive queries to the DNS Server. A DNS resolver can
be any computer that is performing a DNS lookup requiring interaction with the DNS server. DNS servers
also can issue DNS requests to other DNS servers.
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What Are Root Hints?

Root hints are a list of the 13 FQDNs on the
Internet that your DNS server uses if it cannot
resolve a DNS query by using either its own zone
data, a DNS forwarder, or its own cache. The root
hints list the highest servers in the DNS hierarchy,
and can provide the necessary information for a
DNS server to perform an iterative query to the
next lowest layer of the DNS namespace.

Root Servers are installed automatically when

you install the DNS role. They are copied from
the cache.dns file that is included in the DNS role
setup files. You also can add root hints to a DNS
server to support lookups for non-contiguous domains within a forest.

When a DNS server communicates with a root hint server, it uses only an iterative query. If you select the
Do Not Use Recursion For This Domain option (on the DNS server Properties dialog box), the server
will not be able to perform queries on the root hints. If you configure the server using a forwarder, it will
attempt to send a recursive query to its forwarding server; if the forwarding server does not answer this
query, the first server responds that the host could not be found.

It is important to understand that recursion on a DNS server and recursive queries are not the same thing.
Recursion on a DNS server means that the server uses its root hints to try to resolve a DNS query, whereas
a recursive query is a query that is made to a DNS server in which the requester asks the server to assume
the responsibility for providing a complete answer to the query. The next topics discuss recursive queries
in more detail.

What Are DNS Queries?

A DNS query is a name resolution query
that is sent to a DNS Server. The DNS server
then provides either an authoritative or a
non-authoritative response to the client query.

Note: It is important to note that DNS

servers also can act as DNS resolvers, and send
DNS queries to other DNS servers.

Authoritative or Non-Authoritative
Responses
The two types of responses are:

• Authoritative. An authoritative response is one in which the server returns an answer that it knows is
correct, because the request is directed to the authoritative server that manages the domain. A DNS
server is authoritative when it hosts a primary or secondary copy of a DNS zone.

• Non-authoritative. A non-authoritative response is one where the DNS server that contains the
requested domain in its cache answers a query by using forwarders or root hints. Because the answer
provided might not be accurate (because only the authoritative DNS server for the given domain can
issue that information), it is called a non-authoritative response.
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If the DNS server is authoritative for the query’s namespace, the DNS server checks the zone and then
does one of the following:

• Returns the requested address.

• Returns an authoritative “No, that name does not exist.”

Note: An authoritative answer can be given only by the server with direct authority for the
queried name.

If the local DNS server is non-authoritative for the query’s namespace, then the DNS server does one of
the following:

• Checks its cache and returns a cached response.

• Forwards the unresolvable query to a specific server, called a forwarder.

• Uses well-known addresses of multiple root servers to find an authoritative DNS server to resolve the
query. This process uses root hints.

Recursive Queries
In a recursive query, the requester asks the DNS server to obtain a fully resolved IP address of the
requested resource, before returning the answer to the requestor. The DNS server may have to perform
several queries to other DNS servers before it finds the answer. Recursive queries are generally made by a
DNS client to a DNS server, or by a DNS server that is configured to pass unresolved queries to another
DNS server, in the case of a DNS server configured to use a forwarder.

A recursive query has two possible results:

• The DNS server returns the IP address of the host requested.

• The DNS server cannot resolve an IP address.

For security reasons, it sometimes is necessary to disable recursive queries on a DNS server. In doing so,
the DNS server in question will not attempt to forward its DNS requests to another server. This is useful
when you do not want a particular DNS server to communicate outside its local network.

Iterative Queries
Iterative queries access domain name information that resides across the DNS system; by using iterative
queries, you can resolve names across many servers quickly and efficiently. When a DNS server receives a
request that it cannot answer using its local information or its cached lookups, it makes the same request
to another DNS server by using an iterative query. When a DNS server receives an iterative query, it might
answer with either the IP address for the domain name (if known), or with a referral to the DNS servers
that are responsible for the domain being queried. The DNS server continues this process until it locates a
DNS server that is authoritative for the queried name, or until an error or time-out condition is met.
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What Is Forwarding?
A forwarder is a network DNS server that forwards
queries for external names to DNS servers outside
of its network. You also can create and use
conditional forwarders to forward queries
according to specific domain names.

Once you designate a network DNS server as a

forwarder, then other DNS servers in the network
forward the queries that they cannot resolve
locally to that server. By using a forwarder, you
can manage name resolution for names outside of
your network, such as names on the Internet. This
improves the efficiency of name resolution for
your network’s computers.
The forwarder must be able to communicate with the DNS server that is located on the Internet. This
means either you configure it to forward requests to another DNS server, or you configure it to use root
hints to communicate.

Best Practice: Use a central forwarding DNS server for Internet name resolution. This can
improve security because you can isolate the forwarding DNS server in a perimeter network,
which ensures that no server within the network is communicating directly to the Internet.

Conditional Forwarder
A conditional forwarder is a DNS server on a network that forwards DNS queries according to the query’s
DNS domain name. For example, you can configure a DNS server to forward all queries that it receives for
names ending with corp.contoso.com to the IP address of a specific DNS server, or to the IP addresses of
multiple DNS servers. This can be useful when you have multiple DNS namespaces in a forest.

Conditional Forwarding in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012

In Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, the conditional forwarder configuration has been
moved to a node in the DNS console. You can replicate this information to other DNS servers through
Active Directory–integrated DNS.

Best Practice: Use conditional forwarders if you have multiple internal namespaces. This
provides for faster name resolution.
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How DNS Server Caching Works

DNS caching increases the performance of the
organization’s DNS system by decreasing the time
it takes to provide DNS lookups.

When a DNS server resolves a DNS name

successfully, it adds the name to its cache. Over
time, this builds a cache of domain names and
their associated IP addresses for most of the
domains that the organization uses or accesses.
The default time to keep a name in the cache is
one hour. The zone owner can change this by
modifying the SOA record for the appropriate
DNS zone.

A caching-only server is the ideal type of DNS server to use as a forwarder. It will not host any DNS zone
data; it only answers lookup requests for DNS clients.
In Windows Server 2012, you can access the content of the DNS server cache by selecting the Advanced
view in the DNS Manager console. When you enable this view, cached content displays as a node in DNS
Manager. You can also delete single entries (or the entire cache) from the DNS server cache. Alternatively,
you can use the Windows PowerShell Get-DNSServerCache cmdlet to view the cache content.

The DNS client cache is stored on the local computer by the DNS client service. To view client-side
caching, at a command prompt run the ipconfig /displaydns command. This will display the local DNS
client cache. If you need to clear the local cache, you can use ipconfig /flushdns. For this purpose you
can also use the Windows PowerShell Get-DNSClientCache and Clear-DNSClientCache cmdlets.
To prevent DNS client caches from being overwritten, use the DNS Cache Locking feature that is available
in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. When enabled, the cached records will not be
overwritten for the duration of the time-to-live (TTL) value. Cache locking provides improved security
against cache poisoning attacks.

How to Install the DNS Server Role

The DNS server role is not installed on Windows
Server 2012 by default. Instead, you must add it
in a role-based manner when you configure the
server to perform the role. You install the DNS
server role by using the Add Roles and Features
Wizard in Server Manager.

You can also add the DNS server role when you
promote your server to a domain controller. You
do this from the domain controller Options page
of the Active Directory Domain Services
Installation Wizard.

Once you install the DNS server role, the DNS

Manager snap-in becomes available to add to your administrative consoles. The snap-in is added
automatically to the Server Manager console and to the DNS Manager console. You can run the DNS
Manager from the Start box by typing dnsmgmt.msc.
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When you install the DNS server role, the dnscmd.exe command-line tool is also added. You can use the
DNSCmd tool to script and automate DNS configuration. For help with this tool, at the command prompt,
type: dnscmd.exe /?.
In Windows Server 2012, you can also use Windows PowerShell to manage a DNS server. It is
recommended that you use Windows PowerShell cmdlets for command-line-based management of the
DNS server. In addition, you can use the command-line tools Nslookup, DNSCmd, Dnslint, and Ipconfig in
the Windows PowerShell environment.

To administer a remote DNS server, add the Remote Server Administrative tools to your administrative
workstation, which must be running a Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) or newer Windows operating
system.

Demonstration: Installing the DNS Server Role

Many organizations now have or will want more than one DNS server on their network. You can install
additional DNS servers by using the Server Manager console. If you want to enable your DNS server to
resolve Internet names, you will most likely want to enable forwarding.
In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Install a second DNS server.

• Configure forwarding.

Demonstration Steps
Install a second DNS server
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 and LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. On LON-SVR1, open Server Manager.

3. Start the Add Roles and Features Wizard.

4. Add the DNS Server role.

Configure forwarding
• Configure the DNS Server with a forwarder on IP address 172.16.0.10.

Note: Leave all virtual machines in their current state for the next demonstration.
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Lesson 3
Managing DNS Zones
The DNS server hosts zone data in an Active Directory database or in the zone file. Also, the DNS server
can host several types of zones. In this lesson, you will learn about DNS zone types and about Active
Directory–integrated DNS zones.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe DNS zone types.

• Describe dynamic updates.

• Describe Active Directory–integrated zones.

• Explain how to create an Active Directory–integrated zone.

What Are DNS Zone Types?

There are four DNS zone types:
• Primary

• Secondary
• Stub
• Active Directory–integrated

Primary Zone
A primary zone is a zone for which the DNS
server is both the host and the primary source for
information about this zone. In addition, the DNS
server stores the master copy of zone data either
in a local file or in AD DS. When the DNS server stores the zone in a file, the primary zone file by default is
named zone_name.dns, and is located on the server in the %windir%\System32\Dns folder. When the
zone is not stored in AD DS, this is the only DNS server that has a writable copy of the database.

Secondary Zone
A secondary zone is a zone for which the DNS server is the host, but is the secondary source for zone
information. The information about the zone at this server must be obtained from another remote DNS
server that also hosts the zone. This DNS server must have network access to the remote DNS server to
receive updated zone information. Because a secondary zone is a copy of a primary zone that another
server hosts, the secondary zone cannot be stored in AD DS. Secondary zones can be useful if you are
replicating data from non-Windows DNS zones.

Stub Zone
A stub zone is a replicated copy of a zone that contains only those resource records that are necessary to
identify that zone’s authoritative DNS servers. A stub zone resolves names between separate DNS
namespaces, which might be necessary when a corporate merger requires that the DNS servers for two
separate DNS namespaces resolve names for clients in both namespaces.
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A stub zone consists of the following:

• The delegated zone’s SOA resource record, NS resource records, and A resource records.

• The IP address of one or more master servers that you can use to update the stub zone.

The master servers for a stub zone are one or more DNS servers that are authoritative for the child zone.
Usually this is the DNS server that is hosting the primary zone for the delegated domain name.

Active Directory–Integrated Zone

If AD DS stores the zone data, then DNS can use the multimaster replication model to replicate the
primary zone data. This enables you to edit zone data on more than one DNS server simultaneously.

What Are Dynamic Updates?

A dynamic update is an update to DNS in real
time. Dynamic updates are important for DNS
clients that change locations, because they can
dynamically register and update their resource
records without manual intervention.
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
client service performs the registration, regardless
of whether the client’s IP address is obtained from
a DHCP server, or is fixed. The registration occurs
during the following events:

• When the client starts and the DHCP client

service is started

• When an IP address is configured, added, or changed on any network connection

• When an administrator runs the command-line command ipconfig /registerdns or executes the
Windows PowerShell cmdlet Register-DNSClient
The process of dynamic updates is as follows:

1. The client identifies a name server and sends an update. If the name server hosts only a secondary
zone, then the name server refuses the client’s update. If the zone is not an Active Directory–
integrated zone, the client may have to do this several times.

2. If the zone supports dynamic updates, the client eventually reaches a DNS server that can write to the
zone. This DNS server is the primary server for a standard, file-based zone, or any domain controller
that is a name server for an Active Directory–integrated zone.

3. If the zone is configured for secure dynamic updates, the DNS server refuses the change. The client
then authenticates and resends the update.
In some configurations, you may not want clients to update their records even in a dynamic update zone.
In this case, you can configure the DHCP server to register the records on the clients’ behalf. By default, a
client registers that it is a (host/address) record, and the DHCP server registers the PTR (pointer/reverse
lookup) record.

By default, Windows operating systems attempt to register their records with their DNS server. You can
modify this behavior in the client IP configuration, or through Group Policy. Domain Controllers also
register their SRV records in DNS, in addition to their host records. SRV records are registered each time
the NETLOGON service starts.
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What Are Active Directory–Integrated Zones?

A DNS server can store zone data in the AD DS
database provided that the DNS server is an
AD DS domain controller. When the DNS server
stores zone data in this way, this creates an Active
Directory–integrated zone.

The benefits of an Active Directory–integrated

zone are significant:
• Multimaster updates. Unlike standard primary
zones —which can only be modified by a
single primary server—Active Directory–
integrated zones can be written to by any
writable domain controller to which the zone
is replicated. This builds redundancy into the DNS infrastructure. In addition, Multimaster updates are
particularly important in geographically distributed organizations that use dynamic update zones,
because clients can update their DNS records without having to connect to a potentially
geographically distant primary server.
• Replication of DNS zone data by using AD DS replication. One of the characteristics of Active
Directory replication is attribute-level replication in which only changed attributes are replicated. An
Active Directory–integrated zone can leverage these benefits of Active Directory replication, rather
than replicating the entire zone file as in traditional DNS zone transfer models.
• Secure dynamic updates. An Active Directory–integrated zone can enforce secure dynamic updates.

• Granular security. As with other Active Directory objects, an Active Directory-integrated zone allows
you to delegate administration of zones, domains, and resource records by modifying the access
control list (ACL) on the zone.

Question: Can you think of any disadvantages to storing DNS information in AD DS?

Demonstration: Creating an Active Directory–Integrated Zone

To create an Active Directory integrated zone, you must install a DNS server on a domain controller. All
changes in an Active Directory–integrated zone replicate to the other DNS servers that are on domain
controllers through the AD DS multimaster replication model.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Promote a server as a domain controller.

• Create an Active Directory–integrated zone.

• Create a record.

• Verify replication to a second DNS server.

Demonstration Steps
Promote LON-SVR1 as an additional domain controller
1. Install the AD DS server role.
2. Start the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard.

3. Install the DNS Server service.

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Create an Active Directory–integrated zone

1. On LON-DC1, open the DNS Manager console.

2. Start the New Zone Wizard.

3. Create new Active Directory–integrated forward lookup zone.

4. Name the zone Contoso.com.

5. Allow only secure dynamic updates.

6. Review records in the new zone.

Create a record
• Create a New Host record in Contoso.com zone named www, and have it point to 172.16.0.100.

Verify replication to a second DNS server

• Verify that new record is replicating to the LON-SVR1 DNS server.
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Lab: Implementing DNS

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation has an IT office and data center in London, which supports the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows 2012 Server infrastructure with Windows
8 clients. You need to configure the infrastructure service for a new branch office.

Your manager has asked you to configure the domain controller in the branch office as a DNS server. You
have also been asked to create some new host records to support a new application that is being
installed. Finally, you need to configure forwarding on the DNS server in the branch office to support
Internet name resolution.

Objectives
After completing this lab you will be able to:

• Install and configure DNS.

• Create host records in DNS.

• Manage the DNS server cache.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 40 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-SVR1
20410B-LON-CL1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before beginning the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.

3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Domain: Adatum

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Exercise 1: Installing and Configuring DNS

Scenario
As part of configuring the infrastructure for the new branch office, you need to configure a DNS server
that will provide name resolution for the branch office. The DNS server in the branch office will also be a
domain controller. The Active Directory–integrated zones that are required to support logons will be
replicated automatically to the branch office.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Configure LON-SVR1 as a domain controller without installing the Domain Name System (DNS) server
role.

2. Create and configure nwtraders.msft zone on LON-DC1.

3. Review configuration settings on the existing DNS server to confirm root hints.
4. Add the DNS server role for the branch office on the domain controller.

5. Verify replication of the Adatum.com Active Directory®–integrated zone.

6. Use Nslookup to test non-local resolution.

7. Configure Internet name resolution to forward to the head office.

8. Use Nslookup to confirm name resolution.

 Task 1: Configure LON-SVR1 as a domain controller without installing the Domain

Name System (DNS) server role
1. Use Add roles and features in Server Manager to add the Active Directory Domain Services role
to LON-SVR1.
2. Start the Add Roles and Features Wizard to promote LON-SVR1 to domain controller.

3. Choose to add LON-SVR1 as an additional domain controller in Adatum.com domain.

4. Do not install the DNS server.

 Task 2: Create and configure nwtraders.msft zone on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1 machine, open DNS Manager console.

2. Create new Forward Lookup Zone with following parameters:

a. Zone name: nwtraders.msft

b. Zone type: Primary Zone

c. Do not store zone in Active Directory

 Task 3: Review configuration settings on the existing DNS server to confirm

root hints
1. In DNS Manager on LON-DC1, open the Properties dialog box for LON-DC1.
2. Review root hints and forwarder configuration.

 Task 4: Add the DNS server role for the branch office on the domain controller
• Use Server Manager to add the DNS Server role to LON-SVR1.
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 Task 5: Verify replication of the Adatum.com Active Directory–integrated zone

1. On LON-SVR1, open the DNS Manager console.

2. Expand Forward Lookup Zones, and verify that both the Adatum.com and _msdcs.Adatum.com
zones are replicated.
If you do not see these zones, open Active Directory Sites and Services, force replication between
LON-DC1 and LON-SVR1, and then try again.

 Task 6: Use Nslookup to test non-local resolution

1. On LON-SVR1, on Local Area Connection Network Adapter, in the preferred DNS server field,
remove the IP address 172.16.0.10.

2. Make 127.0.0.1 the preferred DNS server for LON-SVR1.

3. Open a Windows PowerShell window on LON-SVR1, and try to resolve www.nwtraders.msft with
the Resolve-DNSName cmdlet.

4. You will receive a negative reply (this is expected).

 Task 7: Configure Internet name resolution to forward to the head office

1. On LON-SVR1, open the DNS Manager console.
2. Configure a forwarder for LON-SVR1 to be 172.16.0.10.

3. Restart DNS Server service on LON-SVR1.

 Task 8: Use Nslookup to confirm name resolution

• On LON-SVR1, in a Command Prompt window, start the nslookup tool and try to resolve
www.nwraders.msft. You should get a reply and an IP address.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have installed and configured DNS on LON-SVR1.

Exercise 2: Creating Host Records in DNS

Scenario
Several new web-based applications are being implemented in the A. Datum head office. Each application
requires that you configure a host record in DNS. You have been asked to create the new host records for
these applications.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Configure a client to use LON-SVR1 as a DNS server.

2. Create several host records in the Adatum.com domain for web apps.

3. Verify replication of new records to LON-SVR1.

4. Use the ping command to locate new records from LON-CL1.

 Task 1: Configure a client to use LON-SVR1 as a DNS server

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator using the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open Control Panel.

3. Open the Properties dialog box for the Local Area Network Connection adapter.
4. Configure the preferred DNS server to be 172.16.0.21.
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 Task 2: Create several host records in the Adatum.com domain for web apps
1. On LON-DC1, open DNS Manager.

2. Navigate to the Adatum.com forward lookup zone.

3. Create new record named www with the IP address 172.16.0.200.

4. Create new record named ftp with IP address 172.16.0.201.

 Task 3: Verify replication of new records to LON-SVR1

1. On LON-SVR1, open DNS Manager.

2. Navigate to the Adatum.com forward lookup zone.

3. Ensure that records www and ftp display. (You might have to refresh the Adatum.com zone, and wait
for a few minutes for these records to appear on LON-SVR1.)

 Task 4: Use the ping command to locate new records from LON-CL1
1. On LON-CL1, open a Command Prompt window.
2. Ping www.adatum.com. Ensure that ping resolves this name to 172.16.0.100.

3. Ping ftp.adatum.com. Make sure that ping resolves this name to 172.16.0.200.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have configured DNS records.

Exercise 3: Managing the DNS Server Cache

Scenario
After you changed some host records in zones configured on LON-DC1, you noticed that clients that use
LON-SVR1 as their DNS server are still receiving old IP addresses during the name resolving process. You
want to determine which component is caching this data.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Use the ping command to locate an Internet record from LON-CL1.

2. Update an Internet record to point to the LON-DC1 IP address.

3. Examine the content of the DNS cache.

4. Clear the cache, and retry the ping command.

 Task 1: Use the ping command to locate an Internet record from LON-CL1
1. On LON-CL1, in the Command Prompt window use ping to locate www.nwtraders.msft.

2. Ensure that the name resolves to an IP address, and document the IP address.

 Task 2: Update an Internet record to point to the LON-DC1 IP address

1. On LON-DC1, open the DNS Manager console.

2. Navigate to the nwtraders.msft forward lookup zone.

3. Change the IP address for the record www to 172.16.0.10.

4. From LON-CL1, ping www.nwtraders.msft.

5. Note that you will still have this record resolved with the old IP.
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 Task 3: Examine the content of the DNS cache

1. On LON-SVR1, in the DNS Manager console, enable Advanced View.

2. Browse the content of the Cached Lookups container for msft namespace.

3. On LON-CL1, at a command prompt, type ipconfig /displaydns.

4. Examine the cached content.

 Task 4: Clear the cache, and retry the ping command

1. Clear the cache on the LON-SVR1 DNS server, by using the Clear-DNSServerCache cmdlet.

2. Retry the ping to www.nwtraders.msft on LON-CL1 (The result will still return the old IP address.)
3. Clear the client resolver cache on LON-CL1 by typing ipconfig /flushdns in a Command Prompt
window.

4. On LON-CL1, retry ping to www.nwtraders.msft. (The result should work.)

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have examined the DNS server cache.

 To prepare for the next module

When you are finished the lab, revert the virtual machines to their initial state.

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: You are troubleshooting DNS name resolution from a client computer. What must you
remember to do before each test?

Question: You are deploying DNS servers into an Active Directory domain, and your customer
requires that the infrastructure is resistant to single points of failure. What must you consider
when planning the DNS configuration?

Question: What benefits do you realize by using forwarders?

Tools
Name of tool Used for Where to find it

DNS Manager console Manage DNS server role Administrative Tools

Nslookup Troubleshoot DNS Command-line tool

Ipconfig Troubleshoot DNS Command-line tool

Windows PowerShell cmdlets Manage and troubleshoot DNS Windows PowerShell

Best Practices
When implementing DNS, use the following best practices:

• Always use host names instead of NetBIOS names.

• Use forwarders rather than root hints.

• Be aware of potential caching issues when troubleshooting name resolution.

• Use Active Directory–integrated zones instead of primary and secondary zones.

Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

Clients sometimes cache invalid DNS records.

DNS Server performs slowly.

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Module 8
Implementing IPv6
Contents:
Module Overview 8-1

Lesson 1: Overview of IPv6 8-2

Lesson 2: IPv6 Addressing 8-7

Lesson 3: Coexistence with IPv4 8-13

Lesson 4: IPv6 Transition Technologies 8-17

Lab: Implementing IPv6 8-22
Module Review and Takeaways 8-27

Module Overview
IPv6 is a technology that helps the Internet support a growing user base and an increasingly large
number of IP-enabled devices. IPv4 has been the underlying Internet protocol for almost thirty years.
Its robustness, scalability, and limited feature set is now challenged by the growing need for new IP
addresses. This is due in large part to the rapid growth of new network-aware devices.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Describe the features and benefits of IPv6.

• Describe IPv6 addressing.

• Describe IPv6 coexistence with IPv4.

• Describe IPv6 transition technologies.
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Lesson 1
Overview of IPv6
IPv6 has been included with Windows® client operating systems and servers beginning with Windows
Server® 2008 and Windows Vista®. The use of IPv6 is becoming more common on corporate networks
and parts of the Internet.

It is important for you to understand how this technology affects current networks, and how to integrate
IPv6 into those networks. This lesson discusses the benefits of IPv6, and how it differs from IPv4.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of IPv6.

• Describe the differences between IPv4 and IPv6.

• Describe the IPv6 address format.

Benefits of IPv6
IPv6 support is included in Windows Server 2012
and Windows 8. The following list of benefits
describes why IPv6 is being implemented.

Larger Address Space

The IPv6 address space is 128-bit, which is much
larger than the 32-bit address space in IPv4. A
32-bit address space has 232 or 4,294,967,296
possible addresses; a 128-bit address space has
2128 or
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,
456 (or 3.4x1038 or 340 undecillion) possible
addresses. As the Internet continues to grow, IPv6
provides for the required larger address space.

Hierarchical Addressing and Routing Infrastructure

The public IPv6 address space is allocated more efficiently than it is for IPv4. IPv4 addresses are not all
allocated in geographical blocks, but IPv6 public addresses are. This means that even though there are
many more addresses, Internet routers can process data much more efficiently because of address
optimization.

Stateless and Stateful Address Configuration

IPv6 has auto-configure capability without Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and it can
discover router information so that hosts can access the Internet. This is referred to as a stateless address
configuration. A stateful address configuration is when you use the DHCPv6 protocol. This provides
network administrators with flexibility in how IPv6 addresses and configuration information is distributed
to clients.
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Required Support for IPsec

The IPv6 standards require support for the Authentication Header (AH) and encapsulating security
payload (ESP) headers that are defined by Internet Protocol security (IPsec). Although support for specific
IPsec authentication methods and cryptographic algorithms are not specified, IPsec is defined from the
start as the way to protect IPv6 packets. This guarantees the availability of IPsec on all IPv6 hosts. IPsec
support was not required for IPv4 hosts, but was commonly implemented.

End-to-End Communication
One of the design goals for IPv6 is to provide sufficient address space so that you do not have to use
translation mechanisms such as network address translation (NAT). This simplifies communication because
IPv6 hosts can communicate directly with each other over the Internet. This also simplifies support for
applications such as video conferencing and other peer-to-peer applications. However, many
organizations may choose to continue using translation mechanisms as a security measure.

Required Support for QoS

An IPv6 packet contains a Quality of Service (QoS) field that specifies how fast the packet should be
processed. This enables IPv6 packet traffic to be assigned a priority. For example, when you are streaming
video traffic, it is critical that the packets arrive in a timely manner. You can set the QoS field to ensure
that network devices recognize that the packet delivery is time-sensitive. Support for QoS was optional for
IPv4 hosts.

Improved Support for Single-Subnet Environments

All IPv6 hosts are configured automatically with a link-local address that allows the host to communicate
on the local subnet. However, like Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA), which was optionally
implemented in IPv4 environments, computers are not configured automatically with a default gateway or
Domain Name System (DNS) server.

Extensibility
IPv6 has been designed so that developers can extend it with much fewer constraints than IPv4. As a
network administrator, you will not be extending IPv6, but applications that you purchase may take
advantage of this to enhance IPv6 functionality.

Differences Between IPv4 and IPv6

When the IPv4 address space was designed, it was
unimaginable that it could ever be exhausted.
However, because of changes in technology and
an allocation practice that did not anticipate the
explosion of Internet hosts, it was clear by 1992
that a replacement would be necessary.

When the IPv6 address space was designed, the

addresses were made 128 bits long so that the
address space can be subdivided into hierarchical
routing domains that reflect modern-day Internet
topology. With 128 bits, there are enough bits to
create multiple levels of hierarchy, and there is
flexibility for designing hierarchical addressing and routing. These features are currently lacking on the
IPv4-based Internet.
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IPv4 and IPv6 Comparison

The following table highlights additional differences between IPv4 and IPv6.

IPv4 IPv6

Fragmentation is performed by both routers Fragmentation is not performed by routers, only

and the sending host. by the sending host.

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) uses ARP Request frames are replaced with multicast
broadcast ARP Request frames to resolve an Neighbor Solicitation messages.
IPv4 address to a link-layer address.

Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) IGMP is replaced with Multicast Listener Discovery
manages local subnet group membership. (MLD) messages.

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) ICMP Router Discovery is replaced with required
Router Discovery—which is optional— ICMP version 6 (v6) Router Solicitation and Router
determines the IPv4 address of the best default Advertisement messages.
gateway.

Uses host (A) resource records in the DNS to Uses IPv6 host (AAAA) resource records in DNS to
map host names to IPv4 addresses. map host names to IPv6 addresses.

Uses pointer (PTR) resource records in the Uses pointer (PTR) resource records in the
IN-ADDR.ARPA DNS domain to map IPv4 IP6.ARPA DNS domain to map IPv6 addresses to
addresses to host names. host names.

Must support a 576-byte packet size (possibly Must support a 1280-byte packet size (without
fragmented). fragmentation).

IPv6 Address Format

The most distinguishing feature of IPv6 is its use
of much larger addresses. IPv4 addresses are
expressed in four groups of decimal numbers,
such as 192.168.1.1. Each grouping of numbers
represents a binary octet. In binary, 192.168.1.1 is
as follows:
11000000.10101000.00000001.00000001 (4
octets = 32 Bits)

However, an IPv6 address is four times larger than

an IPv4 address. Because of this, IPv6 addresses
are expressed in hexadecimal (hex). For example:

2001:DB8:0:2F3B:2AA:FF:FE28:9C5A
This might seem complex for end users, but the assumption is that users will rely on DNS names to resolve
hosts and will rarely type IPv6 addresses manually. The IPv6 address in hexadecimal is also easier to
convert between binary and hexadecimal than it is to convert between binary and decimal. This simplifies
working with subnets, and calculating hosts and networks.
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Hexadecimal Numbering System (Base 16)

In the hexadecimal numbering system, some letters represent numbers; this is because there must be 16
unique symbols for each position. Because 10 symbols (0 through 9) already exist, there must be six new
symbols for the hexadecimal system; hence, the letters A through F are used. The hexadecimal number 10
is equal to the decimal number 16.

Note: You can use the Calculator application included with Windows Server 2012 to
convert between binary, decimal, and hexadecimal numbers.

To convert an IPv6 binary address that is 128 bits long, you break it into eight blocks of 16 bits. You then
convert each of these eight blocks of 16 bits into four hexadecimal characters. For each of the blocks, you
evaluate four bits at a time. You should number each section of four binary numbers 1, 2, 4, and 8,
starting from the right and moving left. That is:

• The first bit [0010] is assigned the value of 1.

• The second bit [0010] is assigned the value of 2.

• The third bit [0010] is assigned the valued of 4.

• The fourth bit [0010] bit is assigned the value of 8.

To calculate the hexadecimal value for this section of four bits, add up the value of each bit that is set to
1. In the example of 0010, the only bit that is set to 1 is the bit assigned the value 2. The rest are set to
zero. Therefore, the hexadecimal value of this section of four bits is 2.

Converting from Binary to Hexadecimal

The following table describes converting 8-bits of binary into hexadecimal for the binary number
[0010][1111]:

Binary 0010 1111

Values of each binary position 8421 8421

Adding values where the bit is 1 0+0+2+0=2 8+4+2+1=15 or hexadecimal F

The following example is a single IPv6 address in binary form. Note that the binary representation of the
IP address is quite long. The following two lines of binary numbers represents one IP address:
0010000000000001000011011011100000000000000000000010111100111011
0000001010101010000000001111111111111110001010001001110001011010

The 128-bit address is now divided along 16-bit boundaries (eight blocks of 16 bits):

0010000000000001 0000110110111000 0000000000000000 0010111100111011

0000001010101010 0000000011111111 1111111000101000 1001110001011010

Each block is further broken into sections of four bits. The following table shows the binary and
corresponding hexadecimal values for each section of four bits:

Binary Hexadecimal

[0010][0000][0000][0001] [2][0][0][1]

[0000][1101][1011][1000] [0][D][B][8]

[0000][0000][0000][0000] [0][0][0][0]
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Binary Hexadecimal

[0010][1111][0011][1011] [2][F][3][B]

[0000][0010][1010][1010] [0][2][A][A]

[0000][0000][1111][1111] [0][0][F][F]

[1111][1110][0010][1000] [F][E][2][8]

[1001][1100][0101][1010] [9][C][5][A]

Each 16-bit block is expressed as four hexadecimal characters, and is then delimited with colons. The
result is as follows:

2001:0DB8:0000:2F3B:02AA:00FF:FE28:9C5A
You can simplify IPv6 representation further by removing the leading zeros within each 16-bit block.
However, each block must have at least a single digit. With leading zero suppression, the address
representation becomes the following:

2001:DB8:0:2F3B:2AA:FF:FE28:9C5A

Compressing Zeros
When multiple contiguous zero blocks occur, you can compress these and represent them in the address
as a double-colon (::); this further simplifies the IPV6 notation. The computer recognizes "::" and
substitutes it with the number of blocks necessary to make the appropriate IPv6 address.
In the following example, the address is expressed using zero compression:

2001:DB8::2F3B:2AA:FF:FE28:9C5A

To determine how many 0 bits are represented by the "::", you can count the number of blocks in the
compressed address, subtract this number from eight, and then multiply the result by 16. Using the
previous example, there are seven blocks. Subtract seven from eight, and then multiply the result (one)
by 16. Thus, there are 16 bits or 16 zeros in the address where the double colon is located.

You can use zero compression only once in a given address. If you use it twice or more, then there is no
way to show how many 0 bits are represented by each instance of the double-colon (::).

To convert an address into binary, use the reverse of the method described previously:

1. Add in zeros using zero compression.

2. Add leading zeros.

3. Convert each l number into its binary equivalent.

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Lesson 2
IPv6 Addressing
An essential part of working with IPv6 is understanding the different address types and when they are
used. This allows you to understand the overall communication process between IPv6 hosts and perform
troubleshooting. You also need to understand the processes available for configuring a host with an IPv6
address to ensure that hosts are configured properly.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the structure of IPv6 addresses.

• Describe the structure of global unicast addresses.

• Describe unique local unicast addresses.

• Describe link-local unicast addresses and zone IDs.

• Describe address autoconfiguration for IPv6.

• Explain how to configure IPv6 client settings on a network host.

IPv6 Address Structure

Each IPv6 address is 128 bits long. The prefix is
the part of the address that indicates the bits that
have fixed values, or that are the subnet prefix’s
bits. This is equivalent to the network ID for IPv4
addresses.

Prefixes for IPv6 subnets, routes, and address

ranges are expressed in the same way as IPv4
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) notations.
An IPv6 prefix is written in address/prefix-length
notation. For example, 2001:DB8::/48 and
2001:DB8:0:2F3B::/64 are IPv6 address prefixes.

Note: IPv6 uses prefixes instead of a subnet

mask.

When a unicast IPv6 address is assigned to a host, the prefix is 64 bits. The remaining 64-bits are allocated
to the interface identifier, which uniquely identifies the host on that network. The interface identifier can
be either randomly generated, assigned by DHCPv6, or based on the media access control (MAC) address
of the network. By default, the host bits are generated randomly unless assigned by DHCPv6.

Note: The routes on an IPv6 router have varying prefix sizes that are determined by the
size of the network.
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IPv6 Equivalents to IPv4 Special Addresses

The following table shows IPv6 equivalents to some common IPv4 addresses.

IPv4 Address IPv6 Address

Unspecified address 0.0.0.0 ::

Loopback address 127.0.0.1 ::1

Autoconfigured addresses 169.254.0.0/16 FE80::/64

Broadcast address 255.255.255.255 Uses multicasts instead

Multicast addresses 224.0.0.0/4 FF00::/8

Global Unicast Addresses

Global unicast addresses are equivalent to public
IPv4 addresses that are available from an Internet
Service Provider (ISP). They are routable and
reachable globally on the IPv6 portion of the
Internet. Unlike the limited number of internet-
addressable IPv4 addresses that remain, there are
many global unicast addresses available for use.
The global unicast address space is designed to
allow each ISP customer to obtain a large number
of IPv6 addresses. The first 48 bits are used to
identify the customer site. The next 16 bits are
allocated for the customer to perform subnetting
within their own network.

Note: The network 2001:0db8::/32 is reserved for documentation and is not routable.

The structure of a global unicast address is as follows:

• Fixed portion set to 001. The three high-order bits are set to 001. The address prefix for currently
assigned global addresses is 2000::/3. Therefore, all global unicast addresses begin with either 2 or 3.

• Global routing prefix. This field identifies the global routing prefix for a specific organization’s site.
The combination of the three fixed bits and the 45-bit global routing prefix is used to create a 48-bit
site prefix, which is assigned to an organization’s individual site. Once the assignment occurs, routers
on the IPv6 Internet then forward IPv6 traffic that matches the 48-bit prefix to the routers of the
organization’s site.

• Subnet ID. The Subnet ID is used within an organization’s site to identify subnets. This field’s size is 16
bits. The organization’s site can use these 16 bits within its site to create 65,536 subnets, or multiple
levels of addressing hierarchy, and an efficient routing infrastructure.

• Interface ID. The Interface ID identifies the interface on a specific subnet within the site. This field’s
size is 64 bits. This is either randomly generated or assigned by DHCPv6. In the past, the Interface ID
was based on the MAC address of the network interface card to which the address was bound.
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Unique Local Unicast Addresses

Unique local addresses are the IPv6 equivalent
of IPv4 private addresses. These addresses are
routable within an organization, but not on the
Internet.

IPv4 private IP addresses were a relatively small

part of the overall IPv4 address space, and many
companies used the same address space. This
caused problems when separate organizations
tried to communicate directly. It also caused
problems when merging the networks of two
organizations—possibly following a merger or a
buyout.

To avoid the duplication problems experienced with IPv4 private addresses, the IPv6 unique local address
structure allocates 40 bits to an organization identifier. The 40-bit organization identifier is randomly
generated. The likelihood of two randomly generated 40-bit identifiers being the same is very small. This
ensures that each organization has a unique address space.
The first seven bits of the organization identifier have the fixed binary value of 1111110. All unique local
addresses have the address pref0ix of FC00::/7. The Local (L) flag is set 1 to indicate a local address. An L
flag value set to 0 has not yet been defined. Therefore, unique local addresses with the L flag set to 1 have
the address prefix of FD::/8.

Link-Local Unicast Addresses

All IPv6 hosts have a link-local address that is used
for communication only on the local subnet. The
link-local address is generated automatically, and
is non-routable. In this way, link-local addresses
are similar to IPv4 APIPA addresses. However, a
link-local address is an essential part of IPv6
communication.
Link-local addresses are used for communication
in many scenarios where IPv4 would have used
broadcasts. For example, link-local addresses are
used when communicating with a DHCPv6 server.
Link-local addresses are also used for neighbor
discovery, which is the IPv6 equivalent of ARP in IPv4.

The prefix for link-local addresses is always FE80::/64. The final 64-bits are the interface identifier.

Zone ID
Regardless of the number of network interfaces in the host, each IPv6 host has a single link-local address.
If the host has multiple network interfaces, the same link-local address is reused on each network
interface. To allow hosts to identify link-local communication on each unique network interface, a zone ID
is added to the link-local address.
A zone ID is used in the following format:

Address%zone_ID
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Each sending host determines the zone ID that it will associate with each interface. There is no negotiation
of zone ID between hosts. For example, on the same network, host A might use 3 for the zone ID on its
interface, and host B might use 6 for the zone ID on its interface.

Each interface in a Windows-based host is assigned a unique interface index, which is an integer. In
addition to physical network cards, interfaces also include loopback and tunnel interfaces. Windows-based
IPv6 hosts use the interface index of an interface as the zone ID for that interface.
In the following example, the interface ID for the network interface is 3.

fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee9:4143%3

Autoconfiguring IPv6 Addresses

In most cases, you will use autoconfiguration to
provide IPv6 hosts with an IPv6 address. Unlike
IPv4 which uses primarily DHCP servers to provide
addressing information, IPv6 also uses routers as
part of the autoconfiguration process. The routers
can provide the network address and a default
gateway to clients in Router Advertisement
messages.

Types of Autoconfiguration
Types of autoconfiguration include:

• Stateless. With stateless autoconfiguration,

address configuration is based on the receipt of Router Advertisement messages only. Stateless
autoconfiguration includes a router prefix, but does not include additional configuration options such
as DNS servers.
• Stateful. With stateful autoconfiguration, address configuration is based on the use of a stateful
address configuration protocol such as DHCPv6 to obtain addresses and other configuration options.
A host uses stateful address configuration when:
o It receives instructions to do so in router advertisement messages.

o There are no routers present on the local link.

• Both. With both, configuration is based on both receipt of router advertisement messages, and on
DHCPv6.

Stateful Configuration
With stateful configuration, organizations can control how IPv6 addresses are assigned using DHCPv6. If
there are any specific scope options that you need to configure—such as the IPv6 addresses of DNS
servers—then a DHCPv6 server is necessary.

When IPv6 attempts to communicate with a DHCPv6 server, it uses multicast IPv6 addresses. This is
different from with IPv4, which uses broadcast IPv4 addresses.
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Autoconfigured Address States

During autoconfiguration, the IPv6 address of a host goes through several states that define the life cycle
of the IPv6 address. Autoconfigured addresses are in one or more of the following states:

• Tentative. In the tentative state, verification is occurring to determine if the address is unique.
Duplicate address detection performs verification. When an address is in the tentative state, a node
cannot receive unicast traffic.
• Valid. In the valid state, the address has been verified as unique, and can send and receive unicast
traffic.

• Preferred. In the preferred state, the address enables a node to send and receive unicast traffic to and
from it.

• Deprecated. In a deprecated state, the address is valid, but its use is discouraged for new
communication.
• Invalid. In the invalid state, the address no longer allows a node to send or receive unicast traffic.

Demonstration: Configuring IPv6 Client Settings

In most cases, IPv6 is configured dynamically by using DHCPv6 or router advertisements. However, you
can also configure IPv6 manually with a static IPv6 address. The process for configuring IPv6 is similar to
the process for configuring IPv4.
In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• View IPv6 configuration by using IPconfig.

• Configure IPv6 on a domain controller and a server.

• Verify IPv6 communication is functional.

Demonstration Steps
View IPv6 configuration by using IPconfig
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 and LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator using the password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. On LON-DC1, open a Windows PowerShell® prompt.

3. Use ipconfig to view the link-local IPv6 address on Local Area Connection.
4. Use the Get-NetIPAddress cmdlet to view network configuration.

Configure IPv6 on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1, use Server Manager to open the Local Server Properties dialog box, and then click
Local Area Connection.
2. Open the Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) Properties dialog box, and enter the following
information:

o Use the following IPv6 address

o IPv6 address: FD00:AAAA:BBBB:CCCC::A

o Subnet prefix length: 64

o Use the following DNS server addresses

o Preferred DNS server: ::1

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Configure IPv6 on LON-SVR1

1. On LON-DC1, use Server Manager to open the Local Server Properties dialog box, and then click
Local Area Connection.

2. Open the Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) Properties dialog box, and enter the following:
o Use the following IPv6 address

o IPv6 address: FD00:AAAA:BBBB:CCCC::15

o Subnet prefix length: 64

o Use the following DNS server addresses

o Preferred DNS server: FD00:AAAA:BBBB:CCCC::A

Verify that IPv6 communication is functional

1. On LON-SVR1, open a Windows PowerShell prompt.

2. Use ipconfig to view the IPv6 address for Local Area Connection.
3. Use ping -6 to test IPv6 communication with LON-DC1.

4. Use ping -4 to test IPv4 communication with LON-DC1

Note: Leave all virtual machines in their current state for the subsequent demonstration.
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Lesson 3
Coexistence with IPv4
From its inception, IPv6 was designed for long-term coexistence with IPv4; in most cases your network will
use both IPv4 and IPv6 for many years. Consequently, you need to understand how they coexist.

This lesson provides an overview of the technologies that support the two IP protocols’ coexistence. This
lesson also describes the different node types and IP stack implementations of IPv6. Finally, this lesson
explains how DNS resolves names to IPv6 addresses and the various types of IPv6 transition technologies.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe IP node types.

• Describe methods to provide coexistence for IPv4 and IPv6.

• Configure DNS to support IPv6.

• Explain IPv6 over IPv6 tunneling.

What Are Node Types?

When planning an IPv6 network, you should
know what types of nodes or hosts are on the
network. Describing the nodes in a specific way
helps to define their capabilities on the network.
Understanding the capabilities of each type of
node is important if you use tunneling, because
certain kinds of tunnels require specific node
types. The descriptions for the various types of
nodes are as follows:

• IPv4-only node. This is a node that

implements only IPv4 (and has only IPv4
addresses) and does not support IPv6.

• IPv6-only node. This is a node that implements only IPv6 (and has only IPv6 addresses) and does not
support IPv4. This node is able to communicate only with IPv6 nodes and applications, and is not
common today. However, it might become more prevalent as smaller devices (such as cellular phones
and handheld computers), use the IPv6 protocol exclusively.
• IPv6/IPv4 node. This is a node that implements both IPv4 and IPv6. Windows Server 2008 and newer
Windows Server operating systems, and Windows Vista and newer Windows client operating systems
use IPv4 and IPv6 by default.

• IPv4 node. This is a node that implements IPv4. It can be an IPv4-only node or an IPv6/IPv4 node.

• IPv6 node. This is a node that implements IPv6. It can be an IPv6-only node or an IPv6/IPv4 node.

Coexistence occurs when the largest number of nodes (IPv4 or IPv6 nodes) can communicate using an
IPv4 infrastructure, an IPv6 infrastructure, or an infrastructure that is a combination of IPv4 and IPv6.
You will achieve true migration when all IPv4 nodes are converted to IPv6-only nodes. However, for the
foreseeable future, you can achieve practical migration when as many IPv4-only nodes as possible are
converted to IPv6/IPv4 nodes. IPv4-only nodes can communicate with IPv6-only nodes only when you
are using an IPv4-to-IPv6 proxy or translation gateway.
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IPv4 and IPv6 Coexistence

Rather than replacing IPv4, most organizations
add IPv6 to their existing IPv4 network. Starting
with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista,
Windows operating systems support the
simultaneous use of IPv4 and IPv6 through a
dual IP layer architecture. The Windows XP and
Windows Server 2003 operating systems use less
efficient dual-stack architecture.

Dual IP Layer Architecture

A dual IP layer architecture was implemented
beginning with Windows Vista, and continuing
through Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
This architecture contains both IPv4 and IPv6 Internet layers with a single implementation of transport
layer protocols such as TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Dual stack allows for easier migration to
IPv6, and there are fewer files to maintain to provide IPv6 connectivity. IPv6 is also available without
adding any new protocols in the network-card configuration.

Dual Stack Architecture

Dual stack architecture contains both IPv4 and IPv6 Internet layers, and has separate protocol stacks that
contain separate implementations of transport layer protocols, such as TCP and UDP. Tcpip6.sys, the IPv6
protocol driver in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, contains a separate implementation of TCP and
UDP.

DNS Infrastructure Requirements

Just as DNS is used as a supporting service on an IPv4 network, it is also required on an IPv6 network.
When you add IPv6 to the network, you need to ensure that you add the records that are necessary to
support IPv6 name-to-address and address-to-name resolution. The DNS records that are required for
coexistence are:
• Host (A) resource records for IPv4 nodes

• IPv6 host (AAAA) resource records

• Reverse lookup pointer (PTR) resource records for IPv4 and IPv6 nodes

Note: In most cases, the IPv6 host (AAAA) resource records that IPv6 nodes require are
registered in DNS dynamically.
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When a name can be resolved to both an IPv4 and IPv6 address, both addresses are returned to the client.
The client then chooses which address to use based on prefix polices. In these prefix policies each prefix
has a precedence level assigned to it. A higher precedence is preferred over a lower precedence. The
following table displays typical prefix policies for Windows Server 2012.

Prefix Precedence Label Description

::1/128 50 0 IPv6 loopback

::/0 40 1 Default gateway

::ffff:0:0/96 10 4 IPv4 compatible address

2002::/16 7 2 6to4

2001::/32 5 5 Teredo

FC00::/7 3 13 Unique local

::/96 1 3 IPv4 compatible address (depreciated)

fec0::/10 1 11 Site local (depreciated)

3ffe::/16 1 12 6Bone (depreciated)

Note: You can view the prefix policies in Windows Server 2012 by using the Windows
PowerShell Get-NetPrefixPolicy cmdlet.

Additional Reading: For more information about prefix policies, see Source and
Destination Address Selection for IPv6 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269711.

Demonstration: Configuring DNS to Support IPv6

Similar to IPv4 nodes, IPv6 nodes use dynamic DNS automatically created host records. You can also
manually create host records for IPv6 addresses. An IPv6 host (AAAA) resource record is a unique record
type and different from an IPv4 host (A) resource record.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Configure an IPv6 host (AAAA) resource record for an IPv6 address.

• Verify name resolution for an IPv6 host (AAAA) resource record.

Demonstration Steps
Configure an IPv6 host (AAAA) resource record
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, open the DNS tool and browse to the Adatum.com forward
lookup zone.

2. In DNS Manager, verify that IPv6 addresses have been registered dynamically for LON-DC1 and
LON-SVR1.
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3. Create a new host record in Adatum.com with the following settings:

o Name: WebApp

o IP address: FD00:AAAA:BBBB:CCCC::A

Verify name resolution for an IPv6 host (AAAA) resource record

1. On LON-SVR1, if necessary, open a Windows PowerShell prompt.

2. Use ping to test communication with WebApp.adatum.com.

What Is IPv6 Over IPv4 Tunneling?

IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling is the encapsulation
of IPv6 packets with an IPv4 header so that
IPv6 packets can be sent over an IPv4-only
infrastructure. Within the IPv4 header:
• The IPv4 Protocol field is set to 41 to
indicate an encapsulated IPv6 packet.

• The Source and Destination fields are set to

IPv4 addresses of the tunnel endpoints. You
can configure tunnel endpoints manually as
part of the tunnel interface, or they can be
derived automatically.
Unlike tunneling for the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) and Layer Two Tunneling Protocol
(L2TP), there is no exchange of messages for tunnel setup, maintenance, or termination. Additionally, IPv6
over IPv4 tunneling does not provide security for tunneled IPv6 packets. This means that when you use
IPv6 tunneling, it does not need to establish a protected connection first.

You can manually configure IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling, or use automated technologies such as ISATAP,
6to4, or Teredo that implement IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling.
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Lesson 4
IPv6 Transition Technologies
Transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 requires coexistence between the two protocols. Too many applications
and services rely on IPv4 for it to be removed quickly. However, several technologies exist that aid
transition by allowing communication between IPv4-only and IPv6-only hosts. There are also technologies
that allow IPv6 communication over IPv4 networks.

This lesson provides information about Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP), 6to4,
and Teredo, which help provide connectivity between IPv4 and IPv6 technology. This lesson also
addresses PortProxy, which provides compatibility for applications.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe ISATAP.

• Describe 6to4.

• Describe Teredo.
• Describe PortProxy.

• Describe the transition process from IPv4 to IPv6.

What Is ISATAP?
ISATAP is an address-assignment technology that
you can use to provide unicast IPv6 connectivity
between IPv6/IPv4 hosts over an IPv4 intranet.
IPv6 packets are tunneled in IPv4 packets for
transmission over the network. Communication
can occur directly between two ISATAP hosts
on an IPv4 network, or communication can go
through an ISATAP router if one network has only
IPv6-only hosts.

ISATAP hosts do not require any manual

configuration, and can create ISATAP addresses
using standard address autoconfiguration
mechanisms. Although the ISATAP component is enabled by default, it only assigns ISATAP-based
addresses if it can resolve the name ISATAP on your network.
An ISATAP address that is based on a private IPv4 address is formatted like the following example:

[64-bit unicast prefix]:0:5EFE:w.x.y.z

An ISATAP address that is based on a public IPv4 address is formatted like the following example:

[64-bit unicast prefix]:200:5EFE:w.x.y.z

For example, FD00::5EFE:192.168.137.133 is an example of a private IPv4 address, and

2001:db8::200:5EFE:131.107.137.133 is an example of a public IPv4 address.
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What Is an ISATAP Router?

If there are no IPv6-only hosts, then the ISATAP router advertises the IPv6 prefix that is used by ISATAP
clients. The ISATAP interface on client computers is configured to use this prefix. When applications use
the ISATAP interface to deliver data, the IPV6 packet is encapsulated in an IPv4 packet for delivery to the
IPv4 address of the destination ISATAP host.

If there are IPv6-only hosts, then the ISATAP router also unpacks IPv6 packets. ISATAP hosts send packets
to the IPv4 address of the ISATAP router. The ISATAP router then unpacks the IPv6 packets and sends
them on to the IPv6-only network.

How to Enable ISATAP Tunneling

You can initiate ISATAP tunneling in many ways, but the simplest way is to configure an ISATAP host
record in DNS that resolves to the IPv4 address of the ISATAP router. Windows hosts that can resolve this
name automatically begin using the specified ISATAP router. By using this method, you can configure
ISATAP for several computers simultaneously.

You can also define ISATAP name resolution in a hosts file, but this is not recommended because it is
difficult to manage.

Note: By default, DNS servers on Windows Server 2008 or newer Windows Server operating
systems have a global query block list that prevents ISATAP resolution, even if the host record is
created and properly configured. You need to remove ISATAP from the global query block list in
DNS if you are using an ISATAP host record to configure ISATAP clients.

Other ways you can configure hosts with an ISATAP router are:
• Use the Windows PowerShell cmdlet Set-NetIsatapConfiguration -Router x.x.x.x.
• Use Netsh Interface IPv6 ISATAP Set Router x.x.x.x.

• Configure the ISATAP Router Name Group Policy setting.

Note: All ISATAP nodes are connected to a single IPv6 subnet. This means that all ISATAP
nodes are part of the same Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) site, which may not be
desirable.
As such, you should use ISATAP only for limited testing. For intranet-wide deployment, you
should instead deploy native IPv6 support.

What Is 6to4?
6to4 is a technology that you use to provide
unicast IPv6 connectivity over the IPv4 Internet.
You can use 6to4 to provide IPv6 connectivity
between two IPv6 sites or between an IPv6 host
and an IPv6 site. However, 6to4 is not suitable for
scenarios that require NAT.

A 6to4 router provides a site with IPv6

connectivity over the IPv4 Internet. The 6to4
router has a public IPv4 address that is configured
on the external interface, and a 6to4 IPv6 address
that is configured on the internal interface. To
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configure client computers, the internal interface advertises the 6to4 network. Any client computer that
begins to use the 6to4 network address is a 6to4 host. The 6to4 hosts in the site send 6to4 packets to the
6to4 router for delivery to other sites over the IPv4 Internet.

The IPv6 network address that is used for 6to4 is based on the IPv4 address of the external interface on an
IPv6 router. The format of the IPv6 is 2002:WWXX:YYZZ:Subnet_ID:Interface_ID, where WWXX:YYZZ is the
colon-hexadecimal representation of w.x.y.z, a public IPv4 address.
When a single host on the IPv4 Internet participates in 6to4, it is configured as a host/router. A 6to4
host/router does not perform routing for other hosts, but does generate its own Ipv6 network used
for 6to4.

Enabling 6to4 Router Functionality in Windows Operating Systems

In most cases, you use existing network infrastructure components to act as a 6to4 router. However, you
can configure Windows Server 2012 as a 6to4 router in the following ways:

• Enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). When you enable ICS, Windows Server 2012 is configured
automatically as a 6to4 router.

• Use Windows PowerShell. You can use the Set-Net6to4Configuration cmdlet to configure 6to4.

What Is Teredo?
Teredo is similar to 6to4 in that it allows you
to tunnel IPv6 packets over the IPv4 Internet.
However, Teredo functions correctly even when
NAT is used for Internet connectivity. Teredo is
required because many organizations use private
IP addresses, which require NAT to access the
Internet. If a NAT device can be configured as a
6to4 router, then Teredo is not required.

Note: Teredo is only used if native IPv6,

6to4, or ISATAP do not provide connectivity.

IPv6 communication between two Teredo clients over the IPv4 Internet requires a Teredo server that is
hosted on the IPv4 Internet. The Teredo server facilitates communication between the two Teredo clients
by acting as a known central point for initiating communication. Typically, hosts behind a NAT device are
allowed to initiate outbound communication, but are not allowed to accept inbound communication. To
work around this problem, both Teredo clients initiate communication with the Teredo server. After
connection is initiated with the Teredo server, and after the NAT device has allowed outbound
communication, any further communication occurs directly between the two Teredo clients.

Note: Several public Teredo servers are available for use on the Internet. Windows
operating systems use the Microsoft-provided Teredo server at teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com by
default.

Teredo can also facilitate communication with IPv6-only hosts on the IPv6 Internet by using a Teredo
relay. The Teredo relay forwards packets from a Teredo client to the IPv6 Internet.
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You can configure Windows Server 2012 as a Teredo client, Teredo relay, or Teredo server. To configure
Teredo use the Windows PowerShell cmdlet Set-NetTeredoConfiguration. The default configuration for
Teredo is as a client. When configured as a client, Teredo is disabled when attached to a domain network.
To enable Teredo on a domain network, you must configure it as an enterprise client.

Teredo Address Structure

A Teredo address is a 128-bit IPv6 address, but it uses a different structure than typical unicast IPv6
addresses. The structure is as follows:

• 2001::/32 (32 bits). This is the Teredo-specific prefix that is used by all Teredo addresses.

• Teredo server IPv4 address (32 bits). This identifies the Teredo server.

• Options (16 bits). There are a number of options that describe the communication configuration, such
as whether the client is behind NAT.

• Obscured external port (16 bits). This is the external port used for communication by the NAT device
for this communication. It is obscured to prevent the NAT device from translating it.
• Obscured external IP address (32 bits). This is the external IP address of the NAT device. It is obscured
to prevent the NAT device from translating it.

What Is PortProxy?
Application developers use specific network
application programmer interfaces (APIs) to
access network resources when they are writing
applications. Modern APIs are able to use either
IPv4 or IPv6, and leave the responsibility of
choosing the IP version to the operating system.
However, some older applications use APIs that
can only use IPv4.
You use the PortProxy service to allow
applications that do not support IPv6 to
communicate with IPv6 hosts. You enable
PortProxy on the server where the application is
running. Incoming IPv6 packets for the application are translated to IPv4, and then passed on to the
application.
You can also use PortProxy as a proxy between IPv4-only and IPv6-only hosts. To do this, you must
configure DNS to resolve the name of the remote host as the address of the PortProxy computer. For
example, an IPv4-only host would resolve the name of an IPv6-only host as the IPv4 address of the
PortProxy computer. Packets would then be sent to the PortProxy computer, which would then proxy
them to the IPv6-only computer.

PortProxy has the following limitations:

• It is limited to TCP connections only. It cannot be used for applications that use UDP.

• It cannot change address information that is embedded in the data portion of the packet. If the
application (such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP)) embeds address information in the data portion,
then it will not work.

You can configure PortProxy on Windows Server 2012 by using netsh interface portproxy. However, it is
generally preferred to use a tunneling technology instead of PortProxy.
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Process for Transitioning to IPv6

The industry-wide migration from IPv4 to IPv6 is
expected to take considerable time. This was
taken into consideration when designing IPv6 and
as a result, the transition plan for IPv6 is a
multistep process that allows for extended
coexistence.

To achieve the goal of an IPv6-only environment,

use the following general guidelines:

• Upgrade your applications to be independent

of either IPv6 or IPv4. For example, you can
change applications to use new Windows
Sockets APIs so that name resolution, socket
creation, and other functions are independent regardless of whether you are using IPv4 or IPv6.
• Upgrade routing infrastructure for native IPv6 routing. You must upgrade routers to support both
native IPv6 routing and IPv6 routing protocols.

• Upgrade devices to support IPv6. The majority of current networking hardware supports IPv6, but
many other types of devices do not. You need to verify that all network attached devices—such as
printers and scanners—also support IPv6.

• Update the DNS infrastructure to support IPv6 address and pointer (PTR) resource records. You
might have to upgrade the DNS infrastructure to support the new IPv6 host address (AAAA) resource
records (required) and pointer (PTR) resource records in the IP6.ARPA reverse domain, but this is
optional. Additionally, ensure that the DNS servers support both DNS traffic over IPv6, and DNS
dynamic update for IPv6 host address (AAAA) resource records so that IPv6 hosts can register their
names and IPv6 addresses automatically.

• Upgrade hosts to IPv6/IPv4 nodes. You must upgrade hosts to use both IPv4 and IPv6. This allows
hosts to access both IPv4 and IPv6 resources during the migration process.
Most organizations will probably add IPv6 to an existing IPv4 environment and continue to have
coexistence for an extended time. Many legacy applications and devices that do not support IPv6 are still
in existence, and coexistence is much simpler than using transition technologies such as ISATAP. You
should only remove IPv4 after resources that depend on it are either removed or updated to use IPv6.

IPv6 is enabled by default for Windows Vista and newer Windows client operating systems, and Windows
Server 2008 and newer Windows Server operating systems. As a best practice, you should not disable IPv6
unless there is a technical reason to do so. Some features in Windows operating systems rely on IPv6.
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Lab: Implementing IPv6

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation has an IT office and data center in London, which support the London location and
other locations. They have recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with Windows 8
clients. You now need to configure the infrastructure service for a new branch office.

The IT manager at A. Datum has been briefed by several application vendors about newly added support
for IPv6 in their products. A. Datum does not have IPv6 support in place at this time. The IT manager
would like you to configure a test lab that uses IPv6. As part of the test lab configuration, you also need to
configure ISATAP to allow communication between an IPv4 network and an IPv6 network.
This is the layout of the completed test environment.

FIGURE 8.1: END RESULT OF THE LAB

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Configure an IPv6 network.

• Configure an ISATAP router.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-RTR
20410B-LON-SVR2

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before beginning the lab, you must
complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.
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4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Domain: Adatum

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for 20410B-LON-RTR and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

Exercise 1: Configuring an IPv6 Network

Scenario
For the first step in configuring the test lab, you need to configure LON-DC1 as an IPv4–only node, and
LON-SVR2 as an IPv6–only node. You also need to configure LON-RTR to support IPv6 routing by adding
a network to an interface on the IPv6 network, and by enabling router advertisements. The router
advertisements allow the IPv6 clients on the IPv6 network to obtain the correct IPv6 network
automatically through stateless configuration.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Verify IPv4 routing.

2. Disable IPv6 on LON-DC1.

3. Disable IPv4 on LON-SVR2.

4. Configure an IPv6 network on LON-RTR.

5. Verify IPv6 on LON-SVR2.

 Task 1: Verify IPv4 routing

1. On LON-SVR2, open a Windows PowerShell prompt.

2. Ping LON-DC1 to verify that IPv4 is routing through LON-RTR.

3. Use ipconfig to verify that LON-SVR2 has only a link-local IPv6 address that cannot be routed.

 Task 2: Disable IPv6 on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, on the Local Server, open the Local Area Connection properties.

2. Disable IPv6 for Local Area Connection to make LON-DC1 an IPv4-only host.

 Task 3: Disable IPv4 on LON-SVR2

1. On LON-SVR2, in Server Manager, on the Local Server, open the properties of Local Area
Connection.

2. Disable IPv4 for Local Area Connection, to make LON-SVR2 an IPv6-only host.

 Task 4: Configure an IPv6 network on LON-RTR

1. On LON-RTR, open Windows PowerShell.
2. Configure a network address that will be used on the IPv6 network by using the following Windows
PowerShell New-NetRoute cmdlet to add an IPv6 network on Local Area Connection 2 to the local
routing table:

New-NetRoute -InterfaceAlias "Local Area Connection 2" -DestinationPrefix

2001:db8:0:1::/64 -Publish Yes
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3. Allow clients to obtain the IPv6 network address automatically from LON-RTR by using the following
Set-NetIPInterface cmdlet to enable router advertisements on Local Area Connection 2:

Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceAlias "Local Area Connection 2" -AddressFamily IPv6

-Advertising Enabled

4. Use ipconfig to verify that Local Area Connection 2 has an IPv6 address on the 2001:db8:0:1::/64
network. This address is used for communication on the IPv6-only network.

 Task 5: Verify IPv6 on LON-SVR2

• On LON-SVR2, use ipconfig to verify that Local Area Connection has an IPv6 address on the
2001:db8:0:1::/64 network. The network address was obtained from the router through stateless
configuration.

Results: After completing the exercise, students will have configured an IPv6–only network.

Exercise 2: Configuring an ISATAP Router

Scenario
After configuring the infrastructure for an IPv4–only network and an IPv6–only network, you need to
configure LON-RTR as an ISATAP router to support communication between the IPv4–only nodes and the
IPv6–only nodes.
To configure LON-RTR as an ISATAP router, you need to enable the IPv4 interface as the ISATAP router.
Then you configure an IPv6 network on the ISATAP interface and enable advertising of the network route
that includes that network. ISATAP clients will obtain the IPv6 network automatically from the
advertisements.

To enable ISATAP automatically on clients, you need to create an ISATAP host record in DNS. Clients that
can resolve this name automatically become ISATAP clients. To allow clients to resolve this name, you
must remove ISATAP from the global query block list on the DNS server.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Add an ISATAP host record to DNS.

2. Enable the ISATAP router on LON-RTR.

3. Remove ISATAP from the Global Query Block List.

4. Enable LON-DC1 as an ISATAP client.

5. Test connectivity.

 Task 1: Add an ISATAP host record to DNS

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, open the DNS tool.

2. Add an ISATAP host record in the Adatum.com domain that resolves to 172.16.0.1. ISATAP clients
resolve this host name to find the ISATAP router.
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 Task 2: Enable the ISATAP router on LON-RTR

1. On LON-RTR, configure the IP address of Local Area Connection as the ISATAP router. Use the
following Set-NetIsatapConfiguration cmdlet to enable ISATAP:

Set-NetIsatapConfiguration -Router 172.16.0.1

2. Use the following Get-NetIPAddress cmdlet to identify the interface index of the ISATAP interface
with 172.16.0.1 in the link-local address.

Get-NetIPAddress | Format-Table InterfaceAlias,InterfaceIndex,IPv6Address

Record the Interface index here:

3. Use the Get-NetIPInterface cmdlet to verify the following on the ISATAP interface:

o Forwarding is enabled

o Advertising is disabled

Get-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded -PolicyStore ActiveStore |

Format-List

4. The ISATAP interface for an ISATAP router must have forwarding enabled and advertising enabled.
Use the following Set-NetIPInterface cmdlet to enable router advertisements on the ISATAP
interface:

Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded -Advertising Enabled

5. Create a new IPv6 network that will be used for the ISATAP network. Use the following
New-NetRoute cmdlet to configure a network route for the ISATAP interface:

New-NetRoute -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded -DestinationPrefix 2001:db8:0:2::/64

-Publish Yes

6. Use the following Get-NetIPAddress cmdlet to verify that the ISATAP interface has an IPv6 address
on the 2001:db8:0:2::/64 network:

Get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded

 Task 3: Remove ISATAP from the Global Query Block List

1. On LON-DC1, open Regedit and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet
\Services\DNS\Parameters.

2. Modify GlobalQueryBlockList to remove isatap from the list.

3. Restart the DNS service.

4. Ping isatap to verify it can be resolved. The name should resolve and you should receive four replies
from 172.16.0.1.

 Task 4: Enable LON-DC1 as an ISATAP client

1. On LON-DC1, use the following Set-NetIsatapConfiguration cmdlet to enable ISATAP:

Set-NetIsatapConfiguration -State Enabled

2. Use ipconfig to verify that the Tunnel adapter for ISATAP has an IPv6 address on the 2001:db8:0:2/64
network. Notice that this address includes the IPv4 address of NYC-DC1.
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 Task 5: Test connectivity

1. On LON-SVR2, use the following ping command to test connectivity to the ISATAP address for
LON-DC1:

ping 2001:db8:0:2:0:5efe:172.16.0.10

2. User Server Manager to modify the properties of TCP/IPv6 on the Local Area Connection, and add
2001:db8:0:2:0:5efe:172.16.0.10 as the preferred DNS server.

3. Use the ping command to test connectivity to LON-DC1.

Note: A ping from LON-DC1 to LON-SVR2 does not respond because the firewall
configuration on LON-SVR2 blocks ping requests.

Results: After completing this exercise, students will have configured an ISATAP router on LON-RTR to
allow communication between an IPv6–only network and an IPv4–only network.

 To prepare for the next module

After you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines to their initial state. To do this, complete the following
steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-RTR and 20410B-LON-SVR2.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: What is the main difference between 6to4 and Teredo?

Question: How can you provide a DNS server to an IPv6 host dynamically?

Question: Your organization is planning to implement IPv6 internally. After some research, you
have identified unique local IPv6 addresses as the correct type of IPv6 addresses to use for
private networking. To use unique local IPv6 addresses, you must select a 40-bit identifier that is
part of the network. A colleague suggests using all zeros for the 40 bits. Why is this not a good
idea?

Question: How many IPv6 addresses should an IPv6 node be configured with?

Best Practices
Use the following best practices when implementing IPv6:
• Do not disable IPv6 on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012.

• Enable coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 in your organization rather than using transition technologies.

• Use unique local IPv6 addresses on your internal network.

• Use Teredo to implement IPv6 connectivity over the IPv4 Internet.
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Module 9
Implementing Local Storage
Contents:
Module Overview 9-1

Lesson 1: Overview of Storage 9-2

Lesson 2: Managing Disks and Volumes 9-11

Lesson 3: Implementing Storage Spaces 9-20

Lab: Implementing Local Storage 9-25

Module Review and Takeaways 9-30

Module Overview
Storage is one of the key components that you must consider when planning and deploying a Windows
Server® 2012 operating system. Most organizations require a great deal of storage because users work
regularly with applications that create new files requiring storage in a central location. When users keep
their files for longer periods of time, storage demands increase. Every time a user logs on to a server, an
audit trail is created in an event log; this also uses storage. Even as files are created, copied, and moved,
storage is required.
This module introduces you to different storage technologies. It discusses how to implement the storage
solutions in Windows Server 2012, and how to use Storage Spaces, a new feature that you can use to
combine disks into pools that are then managed automatically.

Objectives
After completing this module you will be able to:

• Describe the various storage technologies.

• Explain how to manage disks and volumes.

• Explain how to implement Storage Spaces.

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Lesson 1
Overview of Storage
When you plan a server deployment, one of the key components that you will require is storage. There
are various types of storage that you can utilize, from locally attached storage, to storage that is remotely
accessed via Ethernet, or even connected with optical fiber. You should be aware of each solution’s
benefits and its limitations.

As you prepare to deploy storage for your environment, you will need to make some important decisions.
This lesson addresses questions you might consider, such as the following:
• Does the storage need to be fast?

• Does the storage need to be highly available?

• How much storage does your deployment actually require?

• How much resilience do you need to add to the initial storage requirement to ensure that your
investment remains secure in the future?

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe disk types and performance.

• Describe direct-attached storage.

• Describe network-attached storage.
• Describe storage area network (SAN).

• Describe Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID).

• Describe RAID levels.

Disk Types and Performance

There are various types of disks available that
you can use to provide storage to server and
client systems. The speed of disks is measured in
Input Outputs per second (IOPS).The most
common types of disks are:

• Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE).

EIDE is based on standards that were created
in 1986. The Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE)
interface supports both the Advanced
Technology Attachment 2 (ATA-2) and
Advanced Technology Attachment Packet
Interface (ATAPI) standards. Enhanced refers
to the ATA-2 (Fast ATA) standard. Due to the addressing standards of this technology, there is a 128
gigabyte (GB) limitation on storage using EIDE. Further, the speeds of EIDE are limited to a maximum
of 133 megabytes (MB) per second. EIDE drives are almost never used on servers today.

• Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA). SATA is a computer bus interface, or channel, for
connecting the motherboard or device adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives
and optical drives. SATA was designed to replace EIDE. It is able to use the same low-level commands,
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but SATA host adapters and devices communicate via a high-speed serial cable over two pairs of
conductors. SATA was introduced in 2003. It can operate at speeds of 1.5, 3.0, and 6.0 GB per second,
depending on the SATA revision (1, 2 or 3 respectively). SATA drives are less expensive than other
drive options, but also provide less performance. Organizations may choose to deploy SATA drives
when they require large amounts of storage but not high performance. SATA disks are generally low-
cost disks that provide mass storage. However, for the lower cost they are also less reliable compared
to serial attached SCSI (SAS) disks.

A variation on the SATA interface is eSATA, which is designed to enable high-speed access to
externally-attached SATA drives.
• Small computer system interface (SCSI). SCSI is a set of standards for physically connecting and
transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. SCSI was originally introduced in
1978 and was designed as an interface on a lower-level communication, subsequently allowing it
to take less processing power and perform transactions at higher speeds. SCSI became a standard in
1986. Similar to EIDE, SCSI was designed to run over parallel cables; however, recently the usage has
been expanded to run over other mediums. The 1986 parallel specification of SCSI had initial speed
transfers of 5 MB per second. The more recent 2003 implementation, Ultra 640 SCSI, also known as
Ultra 5, can transfer data at speeds of 640 MB per second. SCSI disks provide higher performance
than SATA disks, but are also more expensive.
• SAS. SAS is a further implementation of the SCSI standard. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial
protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology, and uses the standard SCSI command set. SAS
offers backward-compatibility with second generation SATA drives. SAS drives are reliable and made
for 24 hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week (24/7) operation in data centers. With up to 15,000 rotations
per minute (RPM), these disks are also the fastest traditional hard disks.

• Solid State Drives (SSDs). SSDs are data storage devices that use solid-state memory to store data
rather than using the spinning disks and movable read/write heads that are used in other disks. SSDs
use microchips to store the data and do not contain any moving parts. SSDs provide fast disk access,
use less power, and are less susceptible to failure from being dropped than traditional hard disks
(such as SAS drives), but are also much more expensive per GB of storage. SSDs typically use a SATA
interface, so you can usually replace hard disk drives with SSDs without any modifications.

Note: Fibre Channel, fire-wire, or USB-attached disks are also available storage options.
They define either the transport bus or the disk type. For example, USB-attached disks use mostly
with SATA or SSD drives to store data.

What Is Direct Attached Storage?

Almost all servers provide some built-in storage.
This type of storage is referred to as direct
attached storage (DAS). DAS can include disks
that are physically located inside the server or
connect directly with an external array, or disks
that connect to the server with a USB cable or
an alternative communications methodology.
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Primarily, DAS storage is physically connected to the server. Because of this, if the server suffers a power
failure, the storage is unavailable. DAS comes in various disk types such as SATA, SAS or SSD, which affect
the speed and the performance of the storage, and has both advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of Using DAS

A typical DAS system is made up of a data storage device that includes a number of hard disk drives that
connect directly to a computer through a host bus adapter (HBA). Between the DAS and the computer,
there are no network devices such as hubs, switches, or routers. Instead, the storage is connected directly
to the server that utilizes it, making DAS the easiest storage system to deploy and maintain.

DAS is also usually the least expensive storage available today, and is widely available in various speeds
and sizes to accommodate various installations. In addition to being inexpensive, DAS is very easy to
configure. In most instances, you would simply plug in the device, ensure that the running Windows®
operating system recognizes it, and then use Disk Management to configure the disks.

Disadvantages of Using DAS

Storing data locally on DAS makes data centralization more difficult because the data is located on
multiple servers. This can make it more complex to back up the data and for users, to locate the data for
which they are looking. Furthermore, if any one device that has DAS connected to it suffers a power
outage, the storage on that computer becomes unavailable.

DAS also has drawbacks in its access methodologies. Due to the way reads and writes are handled by the
server operating system, DAS can be slower than other storage technologies. Another drawback is that
DAS shares the processing power and server memory to which it is connected. This means that on very
busy servers, disk access may slow when the operating system is overloaded.

What Is Network Attached Storage?

Network attached storage (NAS) is storage that is
connected to a dedicated storage device and then
accessed over the network. NAS is different from
DAS in that the storage is not directly attached
to each individual server, but rather is accessible
across the network to many servers. NAS has two
distinct solutions: a low-end appliance (NAS only),
and an enterprise-class NAS that integrates with
SAN.

Each NAS device has a dedicated operating

system that solely controls the access to the data
on the device, which reduces the overhead
associated with sharing the storage device with other server services. An example of NAS software is
Windows Storage Server, a feature of Windows Server 2012.
To enable NAS storage, you need a storage device. Frequently, these devices are appliances that do not
have any server interfaces such as keyboards, mice and monitors. Instead, to configure the device, you
provide a network configuration, and then you access the device across the network. You can then create
network shares on the device by using the name of the NAS and the share created. These shares are then
accessible to users on the network.

Today, most SAN solutions offer SAN and NAS together. The backend head units, disks, and technologies
are identical; the access method is the only thing that changes. Enterprises often provision storage from
the SAN to the servers using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) or Internet Small Computer System
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Interface (iSCSI), while NAS services are made available via CIFS and NFS; the disk drives (aggregates) are
the same, the methods for writing are the same, and the overhead and reliability are the same.

Advantages of Using NAS

NAS is an ideal choice for organizations that are looking for a simple and cost-effective way to
achieve fast data access for multiple clients at the file level. Users of NAS benefit from performance and
productivity gains because the processing power of the NAS device is dedicated solely to the distribution
of the files.

NAS also fits nicely into the market as a mid-priced solution; it is not expensive, but it suits more needs
than DAS in the following ways:
• NAS storage is usually much larger than DAS.

• NAS offers a single location for all critical files, rather than inter-dispersing them on various servers or
devices with DAS.

• NAS offers centralized storage at an affordable price.

• NAS units are accessible from any operating system. They often have multi-protocol support and can
serve up data via CIFS and NFS simultaneously. For example, Windows and Linux hosts can
simultaneously access a NAS unit.
NAS can also be considered a Plug and Play solution that is easy to install, deploy, and manage, with or
without IT staff onsite.

Disadvantages of Using NAS

NAS is slower than SAN technologies. NAS is frequently accessed via Ethernet protocols. Because of this, it
relies heavily on the network supporting the NAS solution. For this reason, NAS is commonly used as a file
sharing/storage solution and cannot (and should not) be used with data-intensive applications such as
Microsoft® Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server®.

NAS is affordable for small to mid-size businesses, and similar to DAS, has overheads of an operating
system that reads and writes data differently than a SAN solution. As such, NAS systems are more
frequently prone to the possibility of data loss depending on the size of the data being copied.

Additional Reading: For more information about Windows Storage Server 2012, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=199647.

What Is a SAN?
The third type of storage is a SAN. A SAN is a
specialized high ‐speed network that connects
computer systems or host servers to high-
performance storage subsystems. A SAN usually
includes various components such as host bus-
adapters (HBAs), special switches to help route
traffic, and storage disk arrays with logical unit
numbers (LUNs) for storage.
A SAN enables multiple servers to access a pool of
storage in which any server can potentially access
any storage unit. A SAN uses a network like any
other network, such as a local area network (LAN).
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Therefore, you can use a SAN to connect many different devices and hosts to provide access to any device
from anywhere.

Unlike DAS or NAS, a SAN is controlled by a hardware device, offers the fastest access to the storage, and
offers methods to minimize overhead (such as using raw disks).

Advantages of Using SAN

SAN technologies read and write at block levels, making data access much faster. For example, with most
DAS and NAS solutions, if you write a file of 8 GB, the entire file has to be read/written and its checksum
calculated. With SAN, the file is written to the disk based on the block size for which the SAN is set up.
This speed is accomplished by fiber access methodologies and block level writing, instead of having to
read/write an entire file by using a checksum.

SANs also provide:

• Centralization of storage into a single pool, which enables storage resources and server resources to
grow independently. They also enable storage to be dynamically assigned from the pool when it is
required. Storage on a given server can be increased or decreased as needed without complex
reconfiguring or re-cabling of devices.
• Common infrastructure for attaching storage, which enables a single common management model
for configuration and deployment.

• Storage devices that are inherently shared by multiple systems.

• Data transfer directly from device to device without server intervention.

• A high level of redundancy. Most SANs are deployed with multiple network devices and paths
through the network. As well, the storage device contains redundant components such as power
supplies and hard disks.

Disadvantages of Using SAN

The main drawback to SAN technology is that due to the complexities in the configuration, SAN often
requires management tools and expert skills. It is also considerably more expensive than DAS or NAS; an
entry level SAN can often cost as much as a fully loaded server with a DAS or an NAS device, and that is
without any SAN disks or configuration.
To manage a SAN, you often use command-line tools. You must have a firm understanding of the
underlying technology, including the LUN setup, the Fibre Channel network, the block sizing, and other
factors. In addition, each storage vendor often implements SANs using different tools and features.
Because of this, organizations often have dedicated personnel whose only job is to manage the SAN
deployment.

Note: You can implement SANs using a variety of technologies. The most common options
are Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
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What Is RAID?
RAID is a technology that you can use to
configure storage systems that provide high
reliability and (potentially) high performance.
RAID implements storage systems by combining
multiple disks into a single logical unit called a
RAID array. Depending on the configuration, a
RAID array can withstand the failure of one or
more of the physical hard disks, or provide higher
performance than is available by using a single
disk.

RAID provides an important component—

redundancy—that you can use when planning
and deploying Windows Server 2012 servers. In most organizations, it is important that the servers are
available all of the time. Most servers provide highly redundant components such as redundant power
supplies and redundant network adapters. The goal of this redundancy is to ensure that the server
remains available even when a single component on the server fails. By implementing RAID, you can
provide the same level of redundancy for the storage system.

How RAID Works

RAID enables fault tolerance by using additional disks to ensure that the disk subsystem can continue to
function even if one or more disks in the subsystem fail. RAID uses two options for enabling fault
tolerance:

• Disk mirroring. With disk mirroring, all of the information that is written to one disk is also written to
another disk. If one of the disks fails, the other disk is still available.

• Parity information. Parity information is used in the event of a disk failure to calculate the information
that was stored on a disk. If you use this option, the server or RAID controller calculates the parity
information for each block of data that is written to the disks, and then stores this information on
another disk or across multiple disks. If one of the disks in the RAID array fails, the server can use the
data that is still available on the functional disks along with the parity information to recreate the
data that was stored on the failed disk.
RAID subsystems can also provide potentially better performance than single disks by distributing disk
reads and writes across multiple disks. For example, when implementing disk striping, the server can read
information from all hard disks in the stripe set. When combined with multiple disk controllers, this can
provide significant improvements in disk performance.

Note: Although RAID can provide a greater level of tolerance for disk failure, you should
not use RAID to replace traditional backups. If a server has a power surge or catastrophic failure
and all of the disks fail, then you would still need to rely on standard backups.

Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID

You implement hardware RAID by installing a RAID controller in the server, and then configuring RAID by
using the RAID controller configuration tool. With this implementation, the RAID configuration is hidden
from the operating system, but the RAID arrays are exposed to the operating system as single disks. The
only configuration you need to perform in the operating system is to create volumes on the disks.
Software RAID is implemented by exposing all of the disks that are available on the server to the
operating system, and then configuring RAID from within the operating system. Windows Server 2012
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supports the use of software RAID, and you can use Disk Management to configure several different levels
of RAID.

When choosing to implement hardware or software RAID, consider the following:

• Hardware RAID requires disk controllers that are RAID–capable. Most disk controllers shipped with
new servers have this functionality.

• To configure hardware RAID, you need to access the disk controller management program. Normally,
you can access this during the server boot process or by using a webpage that runs management
software.

• Implementing disk mirroring for the disk containing the system and boot volume with software RAID
can require additional configuration when a disk fails. Because the RAID configuration is managed by
the operating system, you must configure one of the disks in the mirror as the boot disk. If that disk
fails, you may need to modify the boot configuration for the server to start the server. This is not an
issue with hardware RAID, because the disk controller accesses the available disk and exposes it to the
operating system.

• In older servers, you may get better performance with software RAID when using parity, because the
server processor can calculate parity more quickly than the disk controller can. This is no longer an
issue with newer servers, where you may get better performance on the server because you can
offload the parity calculations to the disk controller.

RAID Levels
When implementing RAID, you need to decide
what level of RAID to implement.
The table below lists the features for each
different RAID level.

Level Description Performance Space utilization Redundancy Comments

RAID 0 Striped set High read and All space on the A single disk Use only in
without parity or write disks is available failure situations
mirroring performance results in the where you
Data is written loss of all require high
sequentially to data performance
each disk and can
tolerate data
loss

RAID 1 Mirrored set Good Can only use the Can tolerate Frequently used
without parity or performance amount of space a single disk for system and
striping that is available failure boot volumes
Data is written on the smallest with hardware
to both disks disk RAID
simultaneously
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Level Description Performance Space utilization Redundancy Comments

RAID 2 Data is written in Extremely high Uses one or Can tolerate Requires that
bits to each disk performance more disks for a single disk all disks be
with parity parity failure synchronized
written to Not currently
separate disk or used
disks

RAID 3 Data is written in Very high Uses one disk for Can tolerate Requires that
bytes to each performance parity a single disk all disks be
disk with parity failure synchronized
written to Rarely used
separate disk or
disks

RAID 4 Data is written in Good read Uses one disk for Can tolerate Rarely used
blocks to each performance, parity a single disk
disk with parity poor write failure
written to a performance
dedicated disk

RAID 5 Striped set with Good read Uses the Can tolerate Commonly
distributed performance, equivalent of a single disk used for data
parity poor write one disk for failure storage where
Data is written in performance parity performance
blocks to each is not critical,
disk with parity but maximizing
spread across all disk usage is
disks important

RAID 6 Striped set with Good read Uses the Can tolerate Commonly
dual distributed performance, equivalent of two disk used for data
parity poor write two disks for failures storage where
Data is written in performance parity performance is
blocks to each not critical but
disk with double maximizing disk
parity written usage and
across all disks availability are
important

RAID Striped sets in a Very good Only half the Can tolerate Not commonly
0+1 mirrored set read and write disk space is the failure used
A set of drives is performance available due to of two or
striped, and then mirroring more disks
the strip set is as long as all
mirrored failed disks
are in the
same striped
set
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Level Description Performance Space utilization Redundancy Comments

RAID Mirrored set in a Very good Only half the Can tolerate Frequently used
1+0 stripe set read and write disk space is the failure in scenarios
(or 10) Several drives performance available due to of two or where
are mirrored to a mirroring more disks performance
second set of as long as and
drives, and then both disks in redundancy are
one drive from a mirror do critical, and the
each mirror is not fail cost of the
striped required
additional disks
is acceptable

RAID Striped set with Good read The equivalent Provides This level is
5+0 distributed performance, of at least two better fault recommended
(or 50) parity in a stripe better write disks is used for tolerance for applications
set performance parity than a single that require
Drives are than RAID 5 RAID level high fault
striped with tolerance,
RAID 5, and then capacity, and
striped without random
parity positioning
performance
Requires at
least six drives

Note: The most common RAID levels are RAID 1 (also known as mirroring), RAID 5 (also
known as striped set with distributed parity), and RAID 1+0 (also known as mirrored set in a
stripe set).

Question: Should all disks be configured with the same amount of fault tolerance?
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Lesson 2
Managing Disks and Volumes
Identifying which storage technology that you want to deploy is the first critical step in making sure that
your environment is prepared for data storage requirements. This, however, is only the first step. There are
other steps that you need to take to prepare for data storage requirements.

For example, once you have identified the best storage solution, or have chosen a mix of storage
solutions, you need to figure out the best way to manage that storage. Ask yourself the following
questions:
• What disks will you allocate to a storage pool?

• Will the type of file systems be the same for all disks?

This lesson addresses these and similar questions, including why it is important to manage disks and what
tools you need to manage disks.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Explain how to select a partition table format.

• Describe the difference between basic and dynamic disk types.

• Explain how to select a file system.

• Describe a resilient file system.

• Describe mount points and links.

• Explain how to create mount points and links.

• Describe the process of extending and shrinking volumes.

Selecting a Partition Table Format

A partition table format, or partition style, refers
to the method that an operating system such as
Windows Server 2012 uses to organize partitions
or volumes on a disk. For Windows operating
systems, you can decide between master boot
record (MBR) and GUID partition table (GPT).

MBR
The MBR partition table format is the standard
partitioning scheme that has been used on hard
disks since the first personal computers came out
in the 1980s. The MBR partition table format has
the following characteristics:

• A partition supports a maximum of four primary partitions per drive.

• A partition can have maximum of 2 terabytes (TB) (2.19 x 10^12 bytes).

• If you initialize a disk larger than 2 TB using MBR, the disks are only able to store volumes up to 2 TB
and the rest of the storage will not be used. You must convert the disk to GPT if you want to use all of
its space.
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Note: You can use the MBR partition table format for disk drives that never surpass 2 TB in
size. This provides you with a bit more space because GPT requires more disk space than MBR.
However, Microsoft recommends always using GPT as a best practice.

GPT
The GPT was introduced with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP 64-bit Edition to overcome the
limitations of MBR, and to address larger disks. GPT has the following characteristics:

• GPT is the successor of MBR partition table format.

• GPT supports a maximum of 128 partitions per drive.

• A partition can have up to 8 zettabytes (ZB).

• A hard disk can have up to 18 exabytes (EB), with 512 kilobytes (KB) logical block addressing (LBA).
• To boot from a GPT partition table, your BIOS must support GPT.

Note: If your hard disk is larger than 2 TB, you must use the GPT partition table format.

Additional Reading: For frequently asked questions about the GUID partitioning table disk
architecture, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266748.

Selecting a Disk Type

When selecting a type of disk for use in Windows
Server 2012, you can choose between basic disks
and dynamic disks.

Basic Disk
Basic storage uses normal partition tables that
are used by all versions of the Windows operating
system. A disk that is initialized for basic storage
is called a basic disk. A basic disk contains basic
partitions, such as primary partitions and
extended partitions. You can subdivide extended
partitions into logical drives.

By default, when you initialize a disk in the Windows operating system, the disk is configured as a basic
disk. You can easily convert basic disks to dynamic disks without any loss of data; however, when
converting a dynamic disk to basic disk, all data on the disk is lost.
There is no performance gain by converting basic disks to dynamic disks, and some applications cannot
address data that is stored on dynamic disks.. For these reasons, most administrators do not convert basic
disks to dynamic disks unless they need to use some of the additional volume configuration options that
are available with dynamic disks.

Dynamic Disk
Dynamic storage was introduced in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating system. A disk that is
initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk contains dynamic volumes. With
dynamic storage, you can perform disk and volume management without the need to restart computers
running Windows operating systems.
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When you configure dynamic disks, you create volumes rather than partitions. A volume is a storage unit
that is made from free space on one or more disks. You can format the volume with a file system, and can
assign it a drive letter or configure it with a mount point.

The following is a list of the dynamic volumes that are available:

• Simple volumes. A simple volume uses free space from a single disk. It can be a single region on a
disk, or consist of multiple, concatenated regions. A simple volume can be extended within the same
disk or on to additional disks. If a simple volume is extended across multiple disks, it becomes a
spanned volume.

• Spanned volumes. A spanned volume is created from free disk space that is linked together from
multiple disks. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 disks. A spanned volume
cannot be mirrored, and is not fault-tolerant; therefore, if you lose one disk, you will lose the entire
spanned volume.
• Striped volumes. A striped volume has data that is spread across two or more physical disks. The data
on this type of volume is allocated alternately and evenly to each of the physical disks. A striped
volume cannot be mirrored or extended, and is not fault-tolerant. This means that the loss of one disk
causes the immediate loss of all the data. Striping is also known as RAID-0.
• Mirrored volumes. A mirrored volume is a fault-tolerant volume that has all data duplicated onto two
physical disks. All of the data on one volume is copied to another disk to provide data redundancy. If
one of the disks fails, the data can still be accessed from the remaining disk. A mirrored volume
cannot be extended. Mirroring is also known as RAID-1.

• RAID-5 volumes. A RAID-5 volume is a fault-tolerant volume that has data striped across a minimum
of three or more disks. Parity is also striped across the disk array. If a physical disk fails, the portion of
the RAID-5 volume that was on that failed disk can be re-created from the remaining data and the
parity. A RAID-5 volume cannot be mirrored or extended.

Required Disk Volumes

Regardless of which type of disk you use, you must configure both a system volume and a boot volume
on one of the hard disks in the server:
• System volumes. The system volume contains the hardware-specific files that are needed to load
Windows operating system (for example, Bootmgr and BOOTSECT.bak). The system volume can—but
does not have to—be the same as the boot volume.
• Boot volumes. The boot volume contains the Windows operating system files that are located in the
%Systemroot% and %Systemroot%’System32 folders. The boot volume can—but does not have to—
be the same as the system volume.

Note: When you install the Windows 8 operating system or the Windows Server 2012
operating system in a clean installation, a separate system volume is created to enable encrypting
the boot volume by using Windows BitLocker® drive encryption.

Additional Reading:

• For more information about how basic disks and volumes work, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=199648.
• For more information about dynamic disks and volumes, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=199649.
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Selecting a File System

When you configure your disks in Windows Server
2012, you can choose between file allocation table
(FAT), the NTFS file system, and Resilient File
System (ReFS) file systems.

FAT
The FAT file system is the most simplistic of the
file systems that Windows operating systems
support. The FAT file system is characterized by a
table that resides at the very top of the volume.
To protect the volume, two copies of the FAT file
system are maintained in case one becomes
damaged. In addition, the file allocation tables
and the root directory must be stored in a fixed location so that the system’s boot files can be correctly
located.

A disk formatted with the FAT file system is allocated in clusters, whose sizes are determined by the size
of the volume. When a file is created, an entry is created in the directory, and the first cluster number
containing data is established. This entry in the table indicates either that this is the last cluster of the file,
or points to the next cluster. There is no organization to the FAT directory structure, and files are given the
first open location on the drive.
Because of the size limitation with the file allocation table, the original release of FAT could only access
partitions that were less than 2 GB in size. To enable larger disks, Microsoft developed FAT32. FAT32
supports partitions of up to 2 TB.

FAT does not provide any security for files on the partition. You should never use FAT or FAT32 as the file
system for disks attached to Windows Server 2012 servers. You might consider using FAT or FAT32 to
format external media such as USB flash media.
The file system designed especially for flash drives is Extended FAT (exFAT). It can be used where FAT32 is
not suitable, such as when you need a disk format that works with a television, which requires a disk that
is larger than 2 TB. A number of media devices support exFAT, such as modern flat panel TVs, media
centers, and portable media players.

NTFS
NTFS is the standard file system for all Windows operating systems beginning with Windows NT® Server
4.0. Unlike FAT, there are no special objects on the disk, and there is no dependence on the underlying
hardware, such as 512-byte sectors. In addition, in NTFS there are no special locations on the disk, such as
the tables.

NTFS is an improvement over FAT in several ways, such as better support for metadata, and the use of
advanced data structures to improve performance, reliability, and disk space utilization. NTFS also has
additional extensions such as security access control lists (ACLs), which you can use for auditing, file
system journaling, and encryption.
NTFS is required for a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 roles and features such as Active Directory®
Domain Services (AD DS), Volume Shadow Services (VSS), Distributed File System (DFS) and File
Replication Services (FRS). NTFS also provides a much higher level of security than FAT or FAT 32.

Resilient File System (ReFS)

ReFS was introduced with Windows Server 2012 to enhance the capabilities of NTFS. ReFS was developed
to improve upon NTFS by offering larger maximum sizes for individual files, directories, disk volumes, and
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other items. Additionally, ReFS offers greater resiliency, meaning better data verification, error correction,
and scalability.

ReFS uses features from NTFS, and is designed to maintain backward compatibility with its older Windows
operating system versions. Windows 8 clients and older Windows client operating systems can read and
write to ReFS disk drive partitions and to shares on a server, just as they can with those running NTFS.

You should use ReFS with very large volumes and very large file shares to overcome the NTFS limitation
of error checking and correction. Because ReFS was not available prior to Windows Server 2012 (the only
choice was NTFS), it makes sense to use ReFS with Windows Server 2012 instead of NTFS to achieve better
error checking, better reliability, and less corruption.

Additional Reading:
• For more information on how FAT works, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=199652.

• For more information on how NTFS works, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=199654.

Question: What file system do you currently use on your file server? Will you continue to use it?

What Is ReFS?
ReFS is a new feature in Windows Server 2012.
ReFS is based on the NTFS file system, and
provides the following advantages:
• Metadata integrity with checksums
• Expanded protection against data corruption
• Maximizes reliability, especially during a loss
of power (while NTFS has been known to
experience corruption in similar
circumstances)
• Large volume, file, and directory sizes
• Storage pooling and virtualization, which
makes creating and managing file systems easier
• Data striping for performance (bandwidth can be managed)
• Redundancy for fault tolerance
• Disk scrubbing for protection against latent disk errors
• Resiliency to corruptions with recovery for maximum volume availability
• Shared storage pools across machines for additional failure tolerance and load balancing

ReFS inherits some features from NTFS, including the following:

• BitLocker drive encryption
• ACLs for security
• Update sequence number (USN) journal
• Change notifications
• Symbolic links, junction points, mount points and reparse points
• Volume snapshots
• File IDs
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Because ReFS uses a subset of features from NTFS, it is designed to maintain backward compatibility with
NTFS. Therefore, applications that run on Windows Server 2012 can access files on ReFS just as they would
on NTFS. However, an ReFS–formatted drive is not recognized when placed in computers that are running
Windows Server operating systems previous to Windows Server 2012.

With NTFS, you can change the size of a cluster; however, with ReFS, each cluster has a fixed size of 64 KB,
which you cannot change. Encrypted File System (EFS) for files is not supported in ReFS.
As its name implies, the new file system offers greater resiliency, meaning better data verification, error
correction, and scalability.

Beyond its greater resiliency, ReFS also surpasses NTFS by offering larger maximum sizes for individual
files, directories, disk volumes, and other items, as listed in the following table.

Attribute Limit

Maximum size of a single file Approximately 16 EB

(18.446.744.073.709.551.616 bytes)

Maximum size of a single volume 2^78 bytes with 16 KB cluster size (2^64 * 16 * 2^10)
Windows stack addressing allows 2^64 bytes

Maximum number of files in a directory 2^64

Maximum number of directories in a 2^64

volume

Maximum file name length 32,000 Unicode characters

Maximum path length 32,000

Maximum size of any storage pool 4 petabytes (PB)

Maximum number of storage pools in a No limit

system

Maximum number of spaces in a storage No limit

pool

What Are Mount Points and Links?

With NTFS and ReFS file systems, you can create
mount points and links to refer to files, directories,
and volumes.

Mount Points
Mount points are used in Windows operating
systems to make a portion of a disk or the entire
disk useable by the operating system. Most
commonly, mount points are associated with
drive-letter mappings so that the operating
system can gain access to the disk through the
drive letter.
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Since the Windows 2000 Server was first introduced, you have been able to enable volume mount points,
which you can then use to mount a hard disk to an empty folder that is located on another drive. For
example, if you add a new hard disk to a server, rather than mounting the drive using a drive letter, you
can assign a folder name such as C:\datadrive to the drive. When you do this, any time you access the
C:\datadrive folder, you are actually accessing the new hard disk.

Volume mount points can be useful in the following scenarios:

• If you are running out of drive space on a server and you want to add disk space without modifying
the folder structure. You can add the hard disk, and configure a folder to point to the hard disk.

• If you are running out of available letters to assign to partitions or volumes. If you have several hard
disks that are attached to the server, you may run out of available letters in the alphabet to which to
assign drive letters. By using a volume mount point, you can add additional partitions or volumes
without using more drive letters.
• If you need to separate disk input/output (I/O) within a folder structure. For example, if you are using
an application that requires a specific file structure, but which uses the hard disks extensively, you can
separate the disk I/O by creating a volume mount point within the folder structure.

Note: You can assign volume mount points only to empty folders on an NTFS partition.
This means that if you want to use an existing folder name, you must first rename the folder,
create and mount the hard disk using the required folder name, and then copy the data to the
mounted folder.

Links
A link is a special type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an
absolute or relative path. Windows supports the following two types of links:

• A symbolic file link (also known as a soft link)

• A symbolic directory link (also known as a directory junction)

A link that is stored on a server share could refer back to a directory on a client that is not actually
accessible from the server where the link is stored. Because the link processing is done from the client, the
link would work correctly to access the client, even though the server cannot access the client.
Links operate transparently. Applications that read or write to files that are named by a link behave as if
they are operating directly on the target file. For example, you can use a symbolic link to link to a Hyper-
V® parent virtual hard disk file (.vhd) from another location. Hyper-V uses the link to work with the parent
virtual hard disk (VHD) as it would the original file. The benefit of using symbolic links is that you do not
need to modify the properties of your differencing VHD.

Note: In Hyper-V, you can use a differencing virtual hard disk (VHD) to save space by
making changes only to the child VHD, when the child VHD is part of a parent/child VHD
relationship.

Links are sometimes easier to manage than mount points. Mount points force you to place the files on the
root of the volumes, whereas with links you can be more flexible with where you save files.

You can create links by using the mklink.exe command-line tool.

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Demonstration: Creating Mount Points and Links

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a mount point.

• Create a directory junction for a folder.

• Create a hard link for a file.

Demonstration Steps
Create a mount point
1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 with the username Adatum\Administrator and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open Computer Management, and then expand Disk Management.

3. In Disk Management, initialize Disk2 with GPT (GUID Partition Table).

4. On Disk 2, create a Simple Volume with the following parameters:

o Size: 4000 MB

o Do not assign a drive letter or drive path

o File system: NTFS

o Volume label: MountPoint
5. Wait until the volume is created, right-click MountPoint, and then click Change Drive Letter and
Paths.

6. Change the drive letter as follows:

o Mount in the following empty NTFS folder

o Create new Folder C:\MountPointFolder and use it as mount point.

7. On the taskbar, open a Windows Explorer window, and then click Local Disk (C:). You should now
see the MountPoint folder with a size of 4,095,996 KB assigned to it. Notice the icon that is assigned
to the mount point.

Create a directory junction for a folder

1. Open a Command Prompt window.

2. Create a folder in C:\ called CustomApp, and run the following: copy C:\windows\system32
\notepad.exe C:\CustomApp.

3. At the command prompt, type mklink /j AppLink CustomApp, and then press Enter.

4. In a Windows Explorer window, browse to C:\AppLink. Notice that because it is a link, the directory
path in the address bar is not updated to C:\CustomApp.

Create a hard link for a file

1. At a command prompt, type mklink /h C:\AppLink\Notepad2.exe C:\AppLink\Notepad.exe.

2. In Windows Explorer, notice that Notepad2.exe appears exactly the same as Notepad.exe. Both file
names point to the same file.
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Extending and Shrinking Volumes

In versions of Windows prior to Windows Server
2003 or Windows Vista®, you required additional
software to shrink or extend a volume on your
disk. Since Windows Server 2003 and Windows
Vista, this functionality is included in the Windows
operating system so you can use the Disk
Management snap-in to resize NTFS volumes.

When you want to resize a volume, you must be

aware of the following:

• You only have the ability to shrink or extend

NTFS volumes. FAT, FAT32 or exFAT volumes
cannot be resized.

• You can only extend ReFS volumes, not shrink them.

• To extend a volume, the available disk space must be adjacent to the volume that is extended. If free
space is not adjacent to the volume, you cannot extend the disk.

• You can extend a volume using free space on the same disk and on other disks. When you extend a
volume with other disks, you create a dynamic disk with a striped volume. In a striped volume, if one
disk fails, all data on the volume is lost. In addition, a striped volume cannot contain boot or system
partitions, thus you cannot extend your boot partitions by using another disk.
• If bad clusters exist on the partition, you cannot shrink it.

• When you want to shrink a partition, immovable files such as page files are not relocated. This means
that you cannot reclaim space beyond the location where these files are on the volume. If you have
the requirement to shrink a partition further, you need to delete or move the immovable files. For
example, you can remove the page file, shrink the volume, and then add the page file back again.

Note: As a best practice for shrinking volumes, you should defragment the files on the
volume before you shrink it. This method returns the maximum amount of free disk space.
During the defragment process, you can identify any immoveable files.

To modify a volume, you can use Disk Management, the Diskpart.exe tool, or the Resize-Partition cmdlet
in Windows PowerShell®.

Additional Reading:

• For more information about how to extend a basic volume, see

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266749.

• For more information about how to shrink a basic volume, see

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266750.
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Lesson 3
Implementing Storage Spaces
Managing physical disks that are attached directly to a server has proven to be a tedious task for
administrators. To overcome this problem, many organizations use SANs that essentially group physical
disks together.

SANs require specialized configuration and sometimes specialized hardware, which makes them
expensive. To overcome these issues, you can use Storage Spaces, which is a Windows Server 2012 feature
that pools disks together and presents them to the operating system as a single disk. This lesson explains
how to configure and implement the Storage Spaces feature.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the Storage Spaces feature.

• Describe various options for configuring virtual disks.

• Describe advanced management options for Storage Spaces.

• Configure Storage Spaces.

What Is the Storage Spaces Feature?

Storage Spaces is a storage virtualization
capability that is built into Windows Server 2012
and Windows 8. It is a feature that is available for
both NTFS and ReFS volumes, providing
redundancy and pooled storage for numerous
internal and external drives of differing sizes and
interfaces. You can use Storage Spaces to add
physical disks of any type and size to a storage
pool, and then create highly available virtual disks
from the storage pool. The primary advantage of
Storage Spaces is that you do not manage single
disks, but can manage multiple disks as one unit.

To create a highly-available virtual disk, you need the following:

• Disk drive. This is a volume that you can access from your Windows operating system, for example, by
using a drive letter.
• Virtual disk (or storage space). This is similar to a physical disk from the perspective of users and
applications. However, virtual disks are more flexible because they include thin provisioning or just-
in-time (JIT) allocations, and they include resiliency to physical disk failures with built-in functionality
such as mirroring.

• Storage pool. A storage pool is a collection of one or more physical disks that you can use to create
virtual disks. You can add to a storage pool any available physical disk that is not formatted or
attached to another storage pool.
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• Physical disk. Physical disks are disks such as SATA or SAS disks. If you want to add physical disks to a
storage pool, the disks need to satisfy the following requirements:

o One physical disk is required to create a storage pool; a minimum of two physical disks is
required to create a resilient mirror virtual disk.
o A minimum of three physical disks are required to create a virtual disk with resiliency through
parity.

o Three-way mirroring requires at least five physical disks.

o Disks must be blank and unformatted; no volume must exist on them.

o Disks can be attached using a variety of bus interfaces including iSCSI, SAS, SATA, SCSI, and USB.
If you want to use failover clustering with storage pools, you cannot use SATA, USB or SCSI disks.

Virtual Disk Configuration Options

You can create virtual disks from storage pools.
If your storage pool contains more than one disk,
you can also create redundant virtual disks. To
configure virtual disks or Storage Spaces in Server
Manager or Windows PowerShell, you need to
consider the following features and their
redundancy functionalities.

Storage Layout
This feature defines the number of disks from the
storage pool that are allocated. Valid options
include:

• Simple. A simple space has data striping but no redundancy. In data striping, logically sequential
data is segmented across all disks in a way that access to these sequential segments can be made
to different physical storage drives. Striping makes it possible to access multiple segments of data
concurrently. Do not host important data on a simple volume, because it provides no failover
capabilities when the disk that is storing the data fails.

• Two-way and three-way mirrors. Mirror spaces maintain two or three copies of the data that they
host (two data copies for two-way mirrors and three data copies for three-way mirrors). Duplication
happens with every write to ensure that all data copies are always current. Mirror spaces also stripe
the data across multiple physical drives. Mirror spaces provide the benefit of greater data throughput
and lower access latency. They also do not introduce a risk of corrupting at-rest data, and do not
require the extra journaling stage when writing data.

• Parity. A parity space is similar to RAID 5. Data, along with parity information, is striped across
multiple physical drives. Parity enables Storage Spaces to continue to service read and write requests
even when a drive has failed. Parity is always rotated across available disks to enable I/O optimization.
Storage spaces require a minimum of three physical drives for parity spaces. Parity spaces have
increased resiliency through journaling.
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Disk Sector Size

A storage pool’s sector size is set when it is created. If the list of drives being used contains only 512
and/or 512e drives, then the pool is defaulted to 512e. A 512 disk uses 512 byte sectors. A 512e drive is a
hard disk with 4,096 byte sectors that emulates 512 byte sectors. If the list contains at least one 4 KB drive,
then the pool sector size is defaulted to 4 KB. Optionally, an administrator can explicitly define the sector
size that is inherited by all contained spaces in the pool. After an administrator defines this, the Windows
operating system only permits you to add drives that have a compliant sector size, that is: 512 or 512e for
a 512e storage pool, and 512, 512e, or 4 KB for a 4 KB pool.

Drive Allocation
This defines how the drive is allocated to the pool. Options are:

• Data Store. This is the default allocation when any drive is added to a pool. Storage Spaces can
automatically select available capacity on data-store drives for both storage space creation and JIT
allocation.
• Manual. Administrators can choose to specify Manual as the usage type for drives that are added
to a pool. A manual drive is not used automatically as part of a storage space unless it is specifically
selected at the creation of that storage space. This usage property makes it possible for administrators
to specify particular types of drives for use by only certain Storage Spaces.

• Hot Spare. Drives added as Hot-Spares to a pool are reserve drives that are not used in the creation of
a storage space. If a failure occurs on a drive that is hosting columns of a storage space, a reserve
drive is called upon to replace the failed drive.

Provisioning Schemes
You can provision a virtual disk by using two different schemes:
• Thin provisioning space. Thin provisioning is a mechanism that allows storage to be easily allocated
on a just-enough and JIT basis. Storage capacity in the pool is organized into provisioning slabs that
are not allocated until the point in time when datasets grow to require the storage. As opposed to
the traditional fixed storage allocation method—where large pools of storage capacity are allocated
but may remain unused—thin provisioning optimizes utilization of available storage. Organizations
are also able to save on operating costs such as electricity and floor space that are associated with
keeping unused drives operating. The downside of using thin provisioning is lower disk performance.

• Fixed provisioning space. With Storage Spaces, fixed provisioned spaces also employ the flexible
provisioning slabs. The difference between thin provisioning and a fixed provisioning space is that the
storage capacity in the fixed provisioning space is allocated at the same time that the space is
created.

Cluster Disk Requirement

Failover clustering prevents interruption to workloads or data in the event of a machine failure. For a pool
to support failover, clustering all assigned drives must support a multi-initiator protocol, such as SAS.

Note: You can use Storage Spaces to create both thin and fixed provisioning virtual
disks within the same storage pool. Having both provisioned types in the same storage pool
is convenient, particularly when they are related to the same workload. For example, you can
choose to have a thin provisioning space to host a database and a fixed provisioning space to
host its log.

Question: What is the name for a virtual disk that is larger than the amount of disk space
available on the physical disks portion of the storage pool?
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Advanced Management Options for Storage Spaces

Server Manager provides you with basic
management of virtual disks and storage pools. In
Server Manager, you can create storage pools,
add and remove physical disks from pools, and
create, manage, and delete virtual disks. For
example, in Server Manager you can view the
physical disks that are attached to a virtual disk. If
any of these disks are unhealthy, you will see an
unhealthy disk icon next to the disk name.

To correct a failed disk in a virtual disk or storage

pool, you must remove the disk that is causing the
problem. Tools such as defragmenting, scan disk,
or chkdsk cannot repair a storage pool. To replace a failed disk, you add a new disk to the pool. The new
disk resynchronizes automatically when disk maintenance occurs during daily maintenance. Alternatively,
you can trigger disk maintenance manually.

Windows PowerShell provides advanced management options for virtual disks and storage pools. Some
examples of management cmdlets are listed in the following table.

Windows PowerShell cmdlet Description

Get-StoragePool Lists storage pools

Get-VirtualDisk Lists virtual disks

Repair-VirtualDisk Repairs a virtual disk

Get-PhysicalDisk | Where{$_.HealthStatus –ne “Healthy”} Lists unhealthy physical disks

Reset-PhysicalDisk Removes a physical disk from a

storage pool

Get-VirtualDisk | Get-PhysicalDisk Lists physical disks that are used for a

virtual disk

Additional Reading: To learn more about storage cmdlets in Windows PowerShell, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266751.

Demonstration: Configuring Storage Spaces

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a storage pool.

• Create a virtual disk and a volume.
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Demonstration Steps
Create a storage pool
1. Sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. On LON-SVR1, in Server Manager, access File and Storage Services and Storage Pools.
3. In the STORAGE POOLS pane, create a New Storage Pool named StoragePool1, and add all of the
available disks.

Create a virtual disk and a volume

1. In the VIRTUAL DISKS pane, create a New Virtual Disk with the following settings:

o Storage pool: StoragePool1

o Disk name: Simple vDisk

o Storage layout: Simple

o Provisioning type: Thin

o Size: 2 GB

2. On the View results page, wait until the task completes, make sure the Create a volume when this
wizard closes check box is selected.

3. In the New Volume Wizard, create a volume with these settings:

o Virtual disk: Simple vDisk

o File system: ReFS

o Volume label: Simple Volume

4. Wait until the task completes, and then click Close.

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Lab: Implementing Local Storage

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with
Windows 8 clients.

You have been working for A. Datum for several years as a desktop support specialist. In this role, you
visited desktop computers to troubleshoot application and network problems. You have recently accepted
a promotion to the server support team. One of your first assignments is configuring the infrastructure
service for a new branch office.

Your manager has asked to add disk space to a file server. After creating volumes, your manager has also
asked you to resize those volumes based on updated information he has been given. Finally, you need to
make data storage redundant by creating a three-way mirrored virtual disk.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
• Install and configure a new disk.

• Resize volumes.
• Configure a redundant storage space.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 30 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-SVR1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before beginning the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
1. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410A-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
2. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

3. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

o Domain: Adatum

4. Repeat steps 1 - 3 for 20410A-LON-SVR1.

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Exercise 1: Installing and Configuring a New Disk

Scenario
The file server in your branch office is low on disk space. You need to add a new disk to the server and
create volumes based on specifications provided by your manager.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Initialize a new disk.

2. Create and format two simple volumes on the disk.

3. Verify the drive letter in a Windows® Explorer window.

 Task 1: Initialize a new disk

1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 with username of Adatum\Administrator and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, open Computer Management, and then access Disk Management.

3. Initialize Disk2 and configure it to use GPT (GUID Partition Table).

 Task 2: Create and format two simple volumes on the disk

1. In the Computer Management console, on Disk 2, create a Simple Volume with the following
attributes:

o Volume size: 4000 MB

o Drive Letter: F
o File system: NTFS

o Volume label: Volume1

2. In the Computer Management console, on Disk 2, create a Simple Volume with the following
attributes:

o Volume size: 5000 MB

o Drive Letter: G
o File system: ReFS

o Volume label: Volume2

 Task 3: Verify the drive letter in a Windows® Explorer window

1. Use Windows Explorer to make sure you can access the following volumes:
o Volume1 (F:)

o Volume2 (G:)

2. On Volume2 (G:), create a folder named Folder1.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have initialized a new disk, and then created two
simple volumes and formatted them. You should also have verified that the drive letters are available in
Windows Explorer.
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Exercise 2: Resizing Volumes

Scenario
After installing the new disk in your file server, you are contacted by your manager who indicates that the
information he gave you was incorrect. He now needs you to resize the volumes without losing any data.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Shrink Volume1.

2. Extend Volume2.

 Task 1: Shrink Volume1

• Use Disk Management to shrink Volume1 (F:) to 3000 MB.

 Task 2: Extend Volume2

1. Use Disk Management to extend Volume2 (G:) by 1000 MB.
2. Use Windows Explorer to verify that the folder Folder1 is still on drive G.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have made one volume smaller, and extended
another.

Exercise 3: Configuring a Redundant Storage Space

Scenario
Your server does not have a hardware-based RAID card, but you have been asked to configure redundant
storage. To support this feature, you need to create a storage pool.
After creating the storage pool, you also need to create a redundant virtual disk. As the data is critical, the
request for redundant storage specifies that you need to use a three-way mirrored volume. Shortly after
the volume is in use, a disk fails and you have to add another disk to the storage pool to replace it.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a storage pool from five disks that are attached to the server.

2. Create a three-way mirrored virtual disk.

3. Copy a file to the volume, and verify that it is visible in Windows Explorer.

4. Remove a physical drive.

5. Verify that the write.exe file is still accessible.

6. Add a new disk to the storage pool and remove a broken disk.

 Task 1: Create a storage pool from five disks that are attached to the server
1. On LON-SVR1, open Server Manager.

2. In the left pane, click File and Storage Services, and then in the Servers pane, click Storage Pools.
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3. Create a storage pool with the following settings:

o Name: StoragePool1

o Physical disks:

o PhysicalDisk3

o PhysicalDisk4

o PhysicalDisk5

o PhysicalDisk6

o PhysicalDisk7

 Task 2: Create a three-way mirrored virtual disk

1. On LON-SVR1, in Server Manager, in the VIRTUAL DISKS pane, create a virtual disk with the following
settings:
o Storage pool: StoragePool1

o Name: Mirrored Disk

o Storage Layout: Mirror
o Resiliency settings: Three-way mirror

o Provisioning type: Thin

o Virtual disk size: 10 GB

2. In the New Volume Wizard, create a volume with the following settings:

o Virtual disk: Mirrored Disk

o Drive letter: H
o File system: ReFS

o Volume label: Mirrored Volume

 Task 3: Copy a file to the volume, and verify that it is visible in Windows Explorer
1. Open a Command Prompt window.
2. Type the following command:

Copy C:\windows\system32\write.exe H:\

3. Open Windows Explorer from the taskbar, and access Mirrored Volume (H:). You should now see
write.exe in the file list.

 Task 4: Remove a physical drive

• On Host machine, in Hyper-V Manager, in the Virtual Machines pane, change 20410B-LON-SVR1
settings to the following:

o Remove Hard Drive that begins with 20410B-LON-SVR1-Disk5.

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 Task 5: Verify that the write.exe file is still accessible

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Open Windows Explorer and browse to H:\write.exe to ensure access to the file is still available.

3. In Server Manager, in the STORAGE POOLS pane, on the menu bar, click the Refresh “Storage
Pools” button. Notice the warning that displays next to Mirrored Disk.

4. Open the Mirrored Disk Properties dialog box, and access the Health pane. Notice that the Health
Status indicates a Warning. The Operational Status should indicate Incomplete or Degraded.

 Task 6: Add a new disk to the storage pool and remove a broken disk
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In Server Manager, in the STORAGE POOLS pane, on the menu bar, click the Refresh “Storage
Pools” button.
3. In the STORAGE POOLS pane, right-click StoragePool1, click Add Physical Disk, and then click
PhysicalDisk8 (LON-SVR1).

4. In the PHYSICAL DISKS pane, right-click the disk that displays a warning next to it, and then select
Remove Disk.
5. Click the Refresh “Storage Pools” button to see the warnings disappear.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have created a storage pool and added five disks to
it. Then you should have created a three-way mirrored, thinly provisioned virtual disk from the storage
pool. You should have also copied a file to the new volume and verified that it is accessible. Next, after
removing a physical drive, you should have verified that the virtual disk was still available and could be
accessed. Finally, you should have added another physical disk to the storage pool.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.
2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: Your current volume runs out of disk space. You have another disk available in the
same server. What actions in the Windows operating system can you perform to help you
add disk space?

Question: What are the two different types of disks in Disk Management?
Question: What are the most important implementations of RAID?

Question: You attach five 2 TB disks to your Windows Server 2012 computer. You want to
manage them almost automatically, and if one disk fails, you want to make sure the data is
not lost. What feature can you implement to accomplish this?

Tools
Tool Use Where to find it

Disk Management • Initialize disks In Server Manager on the

Tools menu (part of
• Create and modify volumes
Computer Management)

Diskpart.exe • Initialize disks Command prompt

• Create and modify volumes from a command
prompt

Mklink.exe • Create a symbolic link to a file or folder Command prompt

Chkdsk.exe • Check a disk for a NTFS–formatted volume Command prompt

• Cannot be used for ReFS or virtual disks

Defrag.exe • Disk defragmentation tool for NTFS– Command prompt

formatted volumes.
• Cannot be used for ReFS or virtual disks

Best Practices
The following are recommended best practices:

• If you want to shrink a volume, defragment the volume first so you can reclaim more space from the
volume.

• Use the GPT partition table format for disks larger than 2 TB.

• For very large volumes, use ReFS.

• Do not use FAT or FAT32 on Windows Server operating system disks.

• Use the Storage Spaces feature to have the Windows operating system manage your disks.
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Module 10
Implementing File and Print Services
Contents:
Module Overview 10-1

Lesson 1: Securing Files and Folders 10-2

Lesson 2: Protecting Shared Files and Folders by Using Shadow Copies 10-15
Lesson 3: Configuring Network Printing 10-18

Lab: Implementing File and Print Services 10-24

Module Review and Takeaways 10-30

Module Overview
Accessing files and printers on the network is one of the most common activities in the Windows Server®
environment. Reliable, secure access to files and folders and print resources is often the first requirement
of a Windows Server 2012-based network. To provide access to file and print resources on your network,
you must understand how to configure these resources within Windows Server 2012 server, and how to
configure appropriate access to the resources for users in your environment.

This module discusses how to provide these important file and print resources with Windows Server 2012.
You will learn how to enable and configure file and print services in Windows Server 2012, and you will
learn important considerations and best practices for working with file and print services.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Secure shared files and folders.

• Protect shared files and folders by using shadow copies.

• Configure network printing.

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Lesson 1
Securing Files and Folders
The files and folders that your servers store typically contain your organization’s business and functional
data. Providing appropriate access to these files and folders, usually over the network, is an important part
of managing file and print services in Windows Server 2012.

This lesson gives you information necessary to secure files and folders on your Windows Server 2012
servers, so that your organization’s data is available yet protected.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe NTFS file system permissions.

• Describe a shared folder.

• Describe permissions inheritance.

• Explain how effective permissions work when you access shared folders.

• Describe access-based enumeration.

• Describe Offline files.

• Explain how to create and configure a shared folder.

What Are NTFS Permissions?

NTFS permissions are assigned to files or folders
on a storage drive that is formatted with NTFS.
The permissions that you assign to NTFS files and
folders govern user access to these files and
folders.
The following points describe the key aspects of
NTFS permissions:

• NTFS permissions can be configured for an

individual file or folder, or sets of files or
folders.

• NTFS permissions can be assigned individually

to objects that include users, groups, and computers.

• NTFS permissions are controlled by denying or granting specific types of NTFS file and folder access,
such as Read or Write.
• NTFS permissions can be inherited from parent folders. By default, the NTFS permissions that are
assigned to a folder are also assigned to newly created folders or files within that parent folder.

NTFS Permission Types

There are two assignable NTFS permissions types: standard, and advanced.

Standard Permissions
Standard permissions provide the most commonly used permission settings for files and folders. You
assign standard permissions in the NTFS Permissions Assignment window.
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The following table details the standard permissions options for NTFS files and folders.

File permissions Description

Full Control Grants the user complete control of the file or folder, including control of
permissions.

Modify Grants the user permission to read, write, or delete a file or folder, including
creating a file or folder. It also grants permission to execute files.

Read and Execute Grants the user permission to read a file and start programs.

Read Grants the user permission to view file or folder content.

Write Grants the user permission to write to a file.

List folder contents Grants the user permission to view a list of the folder’s contents.
(folders only)

Note: Granting users Full Control permissions on a file or a folder gives them the ability to
perform any file system operation on the object, and the ability to change permissions on the
object. They can also remove permissions on the resource for any or all users, including you.

Advanced Permissions
Advanced permissions can provide a much greater level of control over NTFS files and folders. Advanced
permissions are accessible by clicking the Advanced button from the Security tab of a file or folder’s
Properties dialog box.
The following table details the Advanced permissions for NTFS files and folders.

File permissions Description

Traverse Folder/Execute The Traverse Folder permission applies only to folders. This permission
File grants or denies users the right to browse through folders to reach other
files or folders, even if the user has no permissions for the traversed folders.
The Traverse Folder permission takes effect only when the group or user is
not granted the Bypass Traverse Checking user right. By default, the
Everyone group is given the Bypass Traverse Checking user right.
The Execute File permission grants or denies access to run program files.
If you set the Traverse Folder permission on a folder, the Execute File
permission is not automatically set on all files in that folder.

List Folder/Read Data The List Folder permission grants the user permission to view file names
and subfolder names. The List Folder permission applies only to folders and
affects only the contents of that folder—it does not affect whether the
folder itself will be listed. In addition, this setting has no effect on viewing
the file structure from a command-line interface.
The Read Data permission grants or denies the user permission to view
data in files. The Read Data permission applies only to files.

Read Attributes The Read Attributes permission grants the user permission to view the
basic attributes of a file or a folder such as Read-only and Hidden
attributes. Attributes are defined by NTFS.
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File permissions Description

Read Extended The Read Extended Attributes permission grants the user permission to view
Attributes the extended attributes of a file or folder. Extended attributes are defined by
applications, and can vary by application.

Create Files/Write Data The Create Files permission applies only to folders, and grants the user
permission to create files in the folder.
The Write Data permission grants the user permission to make changes to
the file and overwrite existing content by NTFS. The Write Data permission
applies only to files.

Create Folders/Append The Create Folders permission grants the user permission to create folders
Data within the folder. The Create Folders permission applies only to folders.
The Append Data permission grants the user permission to make changes to
the end of the file, but not to delete or overwrite existing data. The Append
Data permission applies only to files.

Write Attributes The Write Attributes permission grants the user permission to change the
basic attributes of a file or folder, such as Read-only or Hidden. Attributes
are defined by NTFS.
The Write Attributes permission does not imply that you can create or
delete files or folders; it includes only the permission to make changes to
the attributes of a file or folder. To grant Create or Delete permissions, see
the Create Files/Write Data, Create Folders/Append Data, Delete Subfolders
and Files, and Delete entries in this table.

Write Extended The Write Extended Attributes permission grants the user permission to
Attributes change the extended attributes of a file or folder. Extended attributes are
defined by programs, and can vary by program.
The Write Extended Attributes permission does not imply that the user can
create or delete files or folders; it includes only the permission to make
changes to the attributes of a file or folder. To grant Create or Delete
permissions, see the Create Files/Write Data, Create Folders/Append Data,
Delete Subfolders and Files, and Delete entries in this table.

Delete Subfolders and The Delete Subfolders and Files permission grants the user permission to
Files delete subfolders and files, even if the Delete permission is not granted on
the subfolder or file. The Delete Subfolders and Files permission applies only
to folders.

Delete The Delete permission grants the user permission to delete the file or folder.
If you have not been assigned Delete permission on a file or folder, you can
still delete the file or folder if you are granted Delete Subfolders and Files
permissions on the parent folder.

Read Permissions Read Permissions grants the user permission to read permissions about the
file or folder, such as Full Control, Read, and Write.

Change Permissions Change Permissions grants the user permission to change permissions on
the file or folder, such as Full Control, Read, and Write.

Take Ownership The Take Ownership permission grants the user permission to take
ownership of the file or folder. The owner of a file or folder can change
permissions on it, regardless of any existing permissions that protect the file
or folder.
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File permissions Description

Synchronize The Synchronize permission assigns different threads to wait on the handle
for the file or folder, and then synchronize with another thread that may
signal it. This permission applies only to multiple-threaded, multiple-process
programs.

Note: Standard permissions are combinations of several permissions, individual Advanced

permissions that are grouped into commonly file and folder usage scenarios.

NTFS Permissions Examples

The following are basic examples of assigning NTFS permissions:

• For the Marketing Pictures folder, an administrator has chosen to assign Adam Carter Allow
permissions for the Read permission type. Under default NTFS permissions behavior, Adam Carter will
have Read access to the files and folders that are contained in the Marketing Pictures folder.

• When applying NTFS permissions, the results are cumulative. For example, in the previous example,
say that Adam Carter is also a part of the Marketing group. The Marketing group has been given
Write permissions on the Marketing Pictures folder. When we combine the permissions assigned to
Adam Carter’s user account with the permissions assigned to the Marketing group, Adam would have
both Read and Write permissions for the Marketing Pictures folder.

Important Rules for NTFS Permissions

There are two important groups of NTFS permissions:

• Explicit vs. Inherited. When you apply NTFS permissions, permissions that are explicitly applied to a
file or a folder take precedence over those that are inherited from a parent folder.

• Deny vs. Allow. After NTFS permissions have been divided into explicit and inherited permissions, any
existing Deny permissions will override conflicting Allow permissions within the group.

Therefore, taking these rules into account, NTFS permissions will apply in the following order:
1. Explicit Deny

2. Explicit Allow

3. Inherited Deny

4. Inherited Allow

It is important to remember that NTFS permissions are cumulative, and these rules apply only when two
NTFS permission settings conflict with each other.

How to Configure NTFS Permissions

You can view and configure NTFS permissions by following these steps:

1. Right-click the file or folder for which you want to assign permissions, and then click Properties.
2. In the Properties dialog box, click the Security tab. In this tab, you can select the current users or
groups that have been assigned permissions to view the specific permissions assigned to each
principal.

3. To open an editable permissions dialog box so that you can modify existing permissions or add new
users or groups, click the Edit button.
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What Are Shared Folders?

Shared folders are a key component to granting
access to files on your server from the network.
When you share a folder, the folder and all of its
contents are made available to multiple users
simultaneously over the network. Shared folders
maintain a separate set of permissions from the
NTFS permissions, which apply to the folder’s
contents. These permissions are used to provide
an extra level of security for files and folders that
are made available on the network.

Most organizations deploy dedicated file servers

to host shared folders. You can store files in
shared folders according to categories or functions. For example, you can put shared files for the Sales
department in one shared folder, and shared files for the Marketing department in another.

Note: The sharing process applies only to the folder level. You cannot share an individual
file or a group of files.

Accessing a Shared Folder

Users typically access a shared folder over the network by using its Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
address. The UNC address contains the name of the server on which the folder is hosted, and the actual
shared folder name, separated by a backward slash (\) and preceded by two backward slashes (\\). For
example, the UNC path for the Sales shared folder on the LON-SVR1 server would be \\LON-SVR1\Sales.

Sharing a Folder on the Network

Windows Server 2012 provides different ways to share a folder:
• Click the appropriate drive, and then in the Files and Storage Services section in Server Manager, click
the New Share task.

• Use the File Sharing Wizard, either from the folder’s right-click menu, or by clicking the Share button
on the Sharing tab of the folder’s Properties dialog box.
• Use Advanced Sharing by clicking the Advanced Sharing button on the Sharing tab of the folder’s
Properties dialog box.

• Use the Net use command-line tool from a command–line window.

• Use the New-SMBShare cmdlet in Windows PowerShell®.

Note: When sharing a folder, you will be asked to give the shared folder a name. This name
does not have to be the same name as the actual folder; it can be a descriptive name that better
describes the folder contents to network users.

Administrative Shares
You can create administrative (or hidden) shared folders that need to be available from the network,
but should be hidden from users browsing the network. You can access an administrative shared folder
by typing in its UNC path, but the folder will not display if you browse the server by using a Windows®
Explorer window. Administrative shared folders also typically have a more restrictive set of permissions
assigned to the shared folder to reflect the administrative nature of the folder’s contents.
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To hide a shared folder, append the dollar symbol ($) to the folder’s name. For example, a shared folder
on LON-SVR1 named Sales can be made into a hidden shared folder by naming it Sales$. The shared
folder is accessible over the network by using the UNC path \\LON-SVR1\Sales$.

Note: Shared folder permissions apply only to users who access the folder over the
network. They do not affect users who access the folder locally on the computer where the folder
is stored.

Shared Folder Permissions

Just like NTFS permissions, you can assign shared folder permissions to users, groups, or computers.
However, unlike NTFS permissions, shared folder permissions are not configurable for individual files or
folders within the shared folder. Shared folder permissions are set once for the shared folder itself, and
apply universally to the entire contents of the shared folder for users who access the folder over the
network.
When you create a shared folder, the default assigned shared permission for the Everyone group is set to
Read.

The following table lists the permissions that you can grant to a shared folder.

Shared folder
Description
permission

Read Users can view folder and file names, view file data and attributes, run program
files and scripts, and navigate the folder structure within the shared folder.

Change Users can create folders, add files to folders, change data in files, append data
to files, change file attributes, delete folders and files, and perform all tasks
permitted by the Read permission.

Full Control Users can change file permissions, take ownership of files, and perform all tasks
permitted by the Change permission.

Note: When you assign Full Control permissions on a shared folder to a user, that user can
modify permissions on the shared folder, which includes removing all users (including
administrators), from the shared folder’s permissions list. In most cases, you should grant Change
Permission instead of Full Control permission.

Permissions Inheritance
By default, NTFS and shared folders use
inheritance to propagate permissions throughout
a folder structure. When you create a file or a
folder, it is automatically assigned the permissions
that are set on any folders that exist above it
(parent folders) in the hierarchy of the folder
structure.
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How Inheritance Is Applied

Consider the following example. Adam Carter is a member of the Marketing group and the New York
Editors group. The following table is a summary of the permissions for this example:

Folder or File Assigned Permissions Adam’s Permissions

Marketing (folder) Read – Marketing Read

Marketing Pictures (folder) None set Read (inherited)
New York (folder) Write – New York Editors Read(i) + Write
Fall_Composite.jpg (file) None set Read(i) + Write(i)

In this example, Adam is a member of two groups that are assigned permissions for files or folders within
the folder structure. They are as follows:

• The top-level folder, Marketing, has an assigned permission for the Marketing Group giving them
Read access.

• In the next level, the Marketing Pictures folder has no explicit permissions set, but because of
permissions inheritance Adam has Read access to this folder and its contents from the permissions
that are set on the Marketing folder.

• In the third level, the New York folder has Write permissions assigned to one of Adam’s groups—New
York Editors. In addition to this explicitly assigned Write permission, the New York folder also inherits
the Read permission from the Marketing folder. These permissions pass down to file and folder
objects, cumulating with any explicit Read and Write permissions set on those files.

• The fourth and last level is the Fall_Composite.jpg file. Even though no explicit permissions have been
set for this file, Adam has both Read and Write access to the file due to the inherited permissions
from both the Marketing folder and the New York folder.

Permission Conflicts
Sometimes, explicitly set permissions on a file or folder will conflict with permissions inherited from a
parent folder. In these cases, the explicitly assigned permissions always override the inherited permissions.
In the given example, if Adam Carter was denied Write access to the parent Marketing folder, but then
explicitly granted Write access to the New York folder, the granted Write access permissions would take
precedence over the inherited deny Write access permission.

Blocking Inheritance
You can also disable the inheritance behavior for a file or a folder (and its contents) on an NTFS drive to
explicitly define permissions for a set of objects without including any of the inherited permissions from
any parent folders. Windows Server 2012 provides an option for blocking inheritance on a file or a folder.
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To block inheritance on a file or folder, complete the following steps:

• Right-click the file or folder where you want to block inheritance, and then click Properties.

• In the Properties window, click the Security tab, and then click the Advanced button.

• In the Advanced Security Settings window, click the Change Permissions button.

• In the next Advanced Security Settings window, click the Disable inheritance button.

At this point, you are prompted to either convert the inherited permissions into explicit permissions or
remove all inherited permissions from the object to start with a blank permissions slate.

Resetting Default Inheritance Behavior

After you block inheritance, changes made to permissions on the parent folder structure no longer have
an effect on the permissions for the child object (and its contents) that has blocked inheritance, unless
you reset that behavior from one of the parent folders by selecting the Replace all child objects with
inheritable permissions from this object check box. When you select this check box, the existing set
of permissions on the current folder are propagated down to all child objects in the tree structure, and
override all explicitly assigned permissions for those files and folders. This check box is located directly
under the Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent check box.

Effective Permissions
Access to a file or folder in Windows Server 2012
is granted based on a combination of permissions.
When a user attempts to access a file or folder,
the permission that applies is dependent on
various factors, including:

• Explicitly defined and inherited permissions

that apply to the user.
• Explicitly defined and inherited permissions
that apply to the groups to which the user
belongs.
• How the user is accessing the file or folders:
locally, or over the network.

Effective NTFS permissions are the cumulative permissions that are assigned to a user for a file of folder
based on the factors listed above. The following principles determine effective NTFS permissions:

• Cumulative permissions are the combination of the highest NTFS permissions granted to the user and
to all the groups of which the user is a member. For example, if a user is a member of a group that
has Read permission and is a member of a group that has Modify permission, the user is assigned
cumulative Modify permissions.

• Deny permissions override equivalent Allow permissions. However, an explicit Allow permission can
override an inherited Deny permission. For example, if a user is denied Write access to a folder via an
inherited Deny permission, but is explicitly granted Write access to a subfolder or a particular file, the
explicit Allow overrides the inherited Deny for the particular subfolder or file.

• You can apply permissions to a user or to a group. Assigning permissions to groups is preferred
because they are more efficient than managing permissions that are set for many individuals.
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• NTFS file permissions take priority over folder permissions. For example, if a user has Read permission
to a folder, but has been granted Modify permission to certain files in that folder, the effective
permission for those files will be set to Modify.

• Every object in an NTFS drive or in Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) is owned. The owner
controls how permissions are set on the object and to whom permissions are granted. For example, a
user who creates a file in a folder where they have Modify permissions can change the permissions on
the file to Full Control.

Effective Permissions Tool

Windows Server 2012 provides an Effective Permissions tool that shows the effective NTFS permissions on
a file or folder for a user, based on permissions assigned to the user account and groups to which the user
account belongs. You can access Effective Permissions tool by the following steps:

1. Right-click the file or folder for which you want to analyze permissions, and then click Properties.
2. In the Properties dialog box, click the Advanced button.

3. In the Advanced Security Settings window, click the Effective Permissions tab.

4. Choose a user or group to evaluate by using the Select button.

Combining NTFS Permissions and Shared Folder Permissions

NTFS permissions and shared folder permissions work together to control access to file and folder
resources that are accessed from a network. When you configure access to network resources on an NTFS
drive, use the most restrictive NTFS permissions to control access to folders and files, and combine them
with the most restrictive shared folder permissions to control access to the network.

How Combining NTFS and Shared Folder Permissions Works

When you apply both NTFS and shared folder permissions, remember that the more restrictive of the two
permissions dictates the access that a user will have to a file or folder. The following two examples explain
this further:
• If you set the NTFS permissions on a folder to Full Control, but you set the shared folder permissions
to Read, then that user has only Read permission when accessing the folder over the network. Access
is restricted at the shared folder level, and any greater access at the NTFS permissions level does not
apply.

• Likewise, if you set the shared folder permission to Full Control, and you set the NTFS permissions to
Write, then the user will have no restrictions at the shared folder level, but the NTFS permissions on
the folder will grant only Write permissions to that folder.
The user must have appropriate permissions on both the NTFS file or folder and the shared folder. If no
permissions exist for the user (either as an individual or as the member of a group) on either resource,
access is denied.

Considerations for Combined NTFS and Shared Folder Permissions

The following are several considerations that make administering permissions more manageable:

• Grant permissions to groups instead of users. Groups can always have individuals added or deleted,
while permissions on a case-by-case basis are difficult to track and cumbersome to manage.

• Use Deny permissions only when necessary. Because Deny permissions are inherited, assigning deny
permissions to a folder can result in users not being able to access files further down in the folder
structure tree. You should assign Deny permissions only in the following situations:

• To exclude a subset of a group that has Allow permissions

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• To exclude one specific permission when you have granted Full Control permissions to a user or a
group

• Never deny the Everyone group access to an object. If you deny the Everyone group access to an
object, you deny Administrators access—including yourself. Instead, remove the Everyone group from
the permissions list, as long as you grant permissions for the object to other users, groups, or
computers.
• Grant permissions to an object that is as high in the folder structure as possible, so that the security
settings are propagated throughout the tree. For example, instead of bringing groups representing all
departments of the company together into a Read folder, assign Domain Users (which is a default
group for all user accounts on the domain) to the share. In this manner, you eliminate the need to
update department groups before new users receive the shared folder.

• Use NTFS permissions instead of shared permissions for fine-grained access. Configuring both NTFS
and shared folder permissions can be difficult. Consider assigning the most restrictive permissions for
a group that contains many users at the shared folder level, and then use NTFS permissions to assign
permissions that are more specific.

What Is Access-Based Enumeration?

With access-based enumeration, users see only
the files and folders which they have permission
to access. Access-based enumeration provides a
better user experience because it displays a less
complex view of the contents of a shared folder,
making it easier for users to find the files that they
need. Windows Server 2012 allows access-based
enumeration of folders that a server shares over
the network.

Enabling Access-Based Enumeration

To enable access-based enumeration for a shared
folder:

1. Open Server Manager.

2. In the navigation pane, click File and Storage Services.

3. In the navigation pane, click Shares.

4. In the Shares pane, right-click the shared folder for which you want to enable access-based
enumeration, and then click Properties.

5. In the Properties dialog box, click Settings, and then select the Enable access-based enumeration
check box.

When the Enable access-based enumeration check box is selected, access-based enumeration is
enabled on the shared folder. This setting is unique to each shared folder on the server.

Note: The File and Storage Services console is the only place in the Windows Server 2012
interface where you can configure access-based enumeration for a shared folder. Access-based
enumeration is not available in any of the properties dialog boxes that are accessible by
right-clicking the shared folder in Windows Explorer.
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What Are Offline Files?

An offline file is a copy of a network file that is
stored on a client computer. By using offline files,
users can access network-based files when their
client computer is disconnected from the network.

Offline files and folders are edited or modified

by the client, and the changes are synchronized
with the network copy of the files the next time
the client reconnects to the network. The
synchronization schedule and behavior of offline
files is controlled by the Windows client operating
system.

Offline files are available with the following

operating systems:
• Windows 8

• Windows Server 2012

• Windows 7

• Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server 2008

• Windows Vista®
• Windows Server 2003

• Windows XP

With Windows Server 2012, you view the Offline Settings window for a shared folder by clicking the
Caching button in the Advanced Sharing window. The following options are available within the Offline
Settings window:

• Only the files and programs that users specify are available offline. This is the default option when
you set up a shared folder. When you use this option, no files or programs are available offline by
default, and users control which files and programs they want to access when they are not connected
to the network. Alternatively, you can choose the Enable BranchCache option. This option enables
computers that are accessing the files to cache files downloaded from the folder using Windows
BranchCache®. You must install and configure BranchCache on the Windows Server 2012 server to
select this option.

• No files or programs from the shared folder are available offline. This option blocks client computers
from making copies of the files and programs on the shared folder.

• All files and programs that users open from the shared folder are automatically available offline.
Whenever a user accesses the shared folder or drive and opens a file or program in it, that file or
program is made automatically available offline to that user. Files and programs that are made
automatically available offline remain in the offline files cache and synchronize with the version on
the server until the cache is full or the user deletes the files. Files and programs that are not opened
are not available offline.

• Optimized for performance. If you select the Optimized for performance check box, executable
files (.exe, .dll) that are run from the shared folder by a client computer are cached on that client
computer automatically. The next time the client computer runs the executable files, it will access its
local cache instead of the shared folder on the server.
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Note: The Offline Files feature must be enabled on the client computer for files and
programs to be cached automatically. In addition, the Optimized for performance option does
not have any effect on client computers that use Windows Vista or older Windows operating
systems, because these operating systems perform the program-level caching automatically, as
specified by this option.

Configuring the Always Offline Setting

You can configure Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 computers to use the Always available offline
mode when accessing shared folders. When you configure this option, client computers always use the
locally cached version of the files from a network share, even if they are connected to the file server by a
high-speed network connection.

This configuration typically results in faster access to files for client computers, especially when
connectivity or speed of a network connection is intermittent. Synchronization with the files on the server
occurs according to the offline files configuration of the client computer.

How to Enable the Always Offline Mode

To enable Always Offline mode, you use Group Policy to enable the Configure slow-link mode setting,
and you set the latency value to 1. The Configure slow-link mode setting is located in Group Policy
under the Computer Configuration\Administrative Policies\Network\Offline Files node.

Demonstration: Creating and Configuring a Shared Folder

Creating and configuring a shared folder is typically done within Windows Explorer, from the file or
folder’s Properties dialog box on the Sharing tab. When creating a shared folder, always ensure that you
set permissions that are appropriate for all of the files and folders within the shared folder location.
In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a shared folder.

• Assign permissions for the shared folder.

• Configure access-based enumeration.

• Configure offline files.

Demonstration Steps
Create a shared folder

1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. On drive E, create a folder named Data.

3. Share the Data folder.

Assign permissions for the shared folder

• Grant the Authenticated Users Change permissions for \\LON-SVR1\Data.

Configure access-based enumeration

1. Open Server Manager.

2. Navigate to the Share pane in the File and Storage Services management console.
3. Open the Data Properties dialog box for \\LON-SVR1\Data, and enable access-based enumeration.
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Configure offline files

1. Open the Data Properties dialog box for E:\Data.

2. Navigate to the Sharing tab, and open the Advanced Sharing settings.

3. Open the Caching settings, and then disable offline files.

Note: Leave all virtual machines in their current state for the subsequent demonstration.
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Lesson 2
Protecting Shared Files and Folders by Using Shadow
Copies
You use shadow copies to restore previous versions of files and folders. It is much faster to restore a
previous version of a file from a shadow copy than from a traditional backup copy, which might be stored
offsite. Files and folders can be recovered by administrators, or directly by end users.

This lesson introduces you to shadow copies, and shows you how to configure a schedule of shadow
copies in Windows Server 2012.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe shadow copies.

• Describe considerations for scheduling shadow copies.

• Identify methods for restoring data from shadow copies.

• Restore data from a shadow copy.

What Are Shadow Copies?

A shadow copy is a static image (or a snapshot)
of a set of data, such as a file or folder. Shadow
copies provide the capability to recover files and
folders based on snapshots that are taken of
storage drives. After a snapshot is taken, you can
view and potentially restore previous versions of
files and folders that existed at the time that the
snapshot was taken.

A shadow copy does not make a complete copy

of all files for each snapshot. Instead, after a
snapshot is taken, Windows Server 2012 tracks
changes to the drive. A specific amount of disk
space is allocated for tracking the changed disk blocks. When you access a previous version of a file, some
of the content might be in the current version of the file, and some might be in the snapshot.

By default, the changed disk blocks are stored on the same drive as the original file, but you can modify
this behavior. You can also define how much disk space is allocated for shadow copies. Multiple snapshots
are retained until the allocated disk space is full, after which, older snapshots are removed to make room
for new snapshots. The amount of disk space that is used by a snapshot is based on the size of disk
changes between snapshots.

Because a snapshot is not a complete copy of files, you cannot use shadow copies as a replacement for
traditional backups. If the disk containing a drive is lost or damaged, then the snapshots of that drive are
also lost.

Shadow copies are suitable for recovering data files, but not for more complex data (such as databases),
that need to be logically consistent before a backup is performed. A database that is restored from
previous versions is likely to be corrupt and require database repairs.
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Considerations for Scheduling Shadow Copies

The default schedule for creating shadow copies is
Monday through Friday at 07:00 A.M., and again
at noon. You can modify the default schedule as
desired for your organization.

When scheduling shadow copies:

• Consider that increasing the frequency of

shadow copies increases the load on the
server. As a best practice, you should not
schedule drive shadow copies more than once
each hour.
• Increase the frequency of shadow copies for
frequently changing data. This increases the likelihood that recent file changes are captured.

• Increase the frequency of shadow copies for important data. This increases the likelihood that recent
file changes are captured.

Restoring Data from a Shadow Copy

Previous versions of files can be restored by
either users or administrators. Most users are
unaware that they can do this, and they will need
instructions on how to restore a previous version
of a file.

Administrators can access previous versions of

files directly on the server that stores the files.
Users can access previous versions of files over the
network from a file share. In both cases, previous
versions are accessed from the Properties dialog
box of the file or folder. Administrators can
restore previous versions of files directly on the
server, while users can restore previous versions for shared files and folders that they can access over the
network.

When viewing previous versions of a folder, you can browse the available files and select only the file that
you need. If multiple versions of files are available, you can review each version before deciding which one
to restore. Finally, you can copy a previous version of a file to an alternate location instead of restoring it
to its previous location. This prevents overwriting the current file version.

Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or newer, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 operating system clients
are capable of accessing previous file versions without installing any additional software. The ability to
access previous file versions is no longer supported in Windows operating systems prior to Windows XP
with SP2.
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Demonstration: Restoring Data from a Shadow Copy

You can create shadow copies using the default schedule, or you can modify the schedule to provide
more frequent snapshots. In either case, you will only see the versions of the file as it has changed. Taking
a shadow copy of a file that has not changed has no actual effect on the shadow copy. No additional
versions are available, and no space is used in the snapshot for that particular file.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Configure shadow copies.

• Create a new file.

• Create a shadow copy.

• Modify the file.

• Restore the previous version.

Demonstration Steps
Configure shadow copies

1. On LON-SVR1, open Windows Explorer.

2. Enable Shadow Copies for Local Disk (C:).

Create a new file

1. Open Windows Explorer.

2. Create a folder on drive C named Data.

3. Create a text file named TestFile.txt in the Data folder.

4. Change the contents of TestFile.txt by adding and saving the text Version 1.
Create a shadow copy

1. In Windows Explorer, right-click Local Disk (C:), and then click Configure Shadow Copies.

2. In the Shadow Copies window, click Create Now.

3. When the shadow copy is complete, click OK.

Modify the file

1. In Windows Explorer, double-click TestFile.txt to open the document.

2. In Notepad, type Version 2.

3. Close Notepad, and click Save to save the changes.

Restore the previous version

1. In Windows Explorer, right-click TestFile.txt, and then click Restore previous versions.
2. Restore the most recent version.

3. In the warning window, click Restore.

4. Open TestFile.txt to open the document, and verify that the previous version is restored.

Note: Leave all virtual machines in their current state for the subsequent demonstration.
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Lesson 3
Configuring Network Printing
By using the Print and Document Services role in Windows Server 2012, you can share printers on a
network and centralize print server and network printer management. By using the Print Management
console, you can monitor print queues, and receive important notifications regarding print server activity.

Windows Server 2012 introduces new features and important changes to the Print and Document Services
role that you can use to manage your network printing environment better. This lesson explains the
important aspects of network printing, and introduces new network printing features that are available in
Windows Server 2012.

Lesson Objectives
After completing the lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify the benefits of network printing.

• Describe Enhanced Point and Print.

• Identify security options for network printing.

• Create multiple configurations for a print device.

• Describe printer pooling.

• Describe Branch Office Direct Printing.

• Identify methods for deploying printers to clients.

Benefits of Network Printing

You can configure network printing by using
Windows Server 2012 as a print server for users.
In this configuration, client computers submit
print jobs to the print server for delivery to a
printer that is connected to the network.

Benefits of Network Printing

• Centralized management. The biggest benefit
of using Windows Server 2012 as a print
server is centralized management of printing.
Instead of managing client connections to
many individual devices, you manage their
connection to the server. You install printer
drivers centrally on the server, and then distribute them to workstations.
• Simplified troubleshooting. By installing printer drivers centrally on a server, you also simplify
troubleshooting. It is relatively easy to determine whether printing problems are caused by the
printer, server, or client computer.

• Lower costs. A network printer is more expensive than those typically used for local printing, but it
also has significantly lower consumables costs and better quality printing. Therefore, the cost of
printing is still minimized, because the initial cost of the printer is spread over all the computers that
connect to that printer. For example, a single network printer could service 100 users or more.
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• Users can search for printers easily. You can also publish network printers in AD DS, which allows
users to search for printers in their domain.

What Is Enhanced Point and Print?

Enhanced Point and Print is a new feature in
Windows Server 2012 that makes it easier to
install drivers for network printers. Enhanced Point
and Print uses the new version 4 (v4) driver type
that is introduced in Windows Server 2012 and
Windows 8.

Understanding V3 Drivers and V4

Drivers
The Windows printer driver standard that is used
in previous versions of Windows Server has existed
in relatively the same form since the introduction
of version 3 (v3) drivers in the Microsoft Windows
2000 operating systems. With v3 drivers, printer manufacturers create customized print drivers for each
specific device that they produce, to ensure that Windows applications can use all of their printer’s
features. With the v3 model, printer infrastructure management requires administrators to maintain
drivers for each print device in the environment, and separate 32-bit and 64-bit drivers for a single print
device, to support both platforms.

Introducing the V4 Printer Driver

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 include support for v4 print drivers, which enables improved print
device driver management and installation. Under the v4 model, print device manufacturers can create
Print Class Drivers that support similar printing features and printing language that may be common to a
large set of devices. Common printing languages may include Printer Control Language (PCL), .ps, or XML
Paper Specification (XPS).
V4 drivers are typically delivered by using Windows Update or Windows Software Update Services. Unlike
v3 drivers, v4 drivers are not delivered from a printer store that is hosted on the print server.

The V4 driver model provides the following benefits:

• Sharing a printer does not require provisioning drivers that match the client architecture.

• Driver files are isolated on a per-driver basis, preventing driver file naming conflicts.

• A single driver can support multiple devices.

• Driver packages are smaller and more streamlined than v3 drivers, resulting in faster driver installation
times.

• The printer driver and the printer user interface can be deployed independently.

Using Enhanced Point and Print for Driver Installation

Under the v4 model, printer sharing and driver installation operates automatically under Enhanced Point
and Print. When a network printer is installed on a client computer, the server and client work together to
identify the print device. The driver then installs directly from the driver store on the client machine, or
from Windows Update or Windows Software Update Services.
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With Enhanced Point and Print, the print device drivers no longer need to be maintained on the print
server. Driver installation for network print devices becomes faster because printer drivers no longer need
to be transferred over the network from server to client.

If the driver store on the client machine does not contain a driver for the network printer that is being
installed, and if an appropriate driver cannot be obtained from Windows Update or Windows Server
Update Services, Windows uses a fallback mechanism to enable cross-platform printing using the print
driver from the print server.

Security Options for Network Printing

When a printer is shared over a network, in
many cases no security is required. The printer
is considered open-access, meaning everyone
is allowed to print on it. This is the default
configuration for a printer that is shared on a
Windows server.

The permissions that are available for shared

printing include:

• Print: This permission allows users to print

documents on the printer. By default, the
Everyone group is assigned this permission.

• Manage this printer: This permission allows users to modify printer settings, including updating
drivers. By default, this permission is given to Administrators, Server Operators, and Print Operators.

• Manage documents: This permission allows users to modify and delete print jobs in the queue. This
permission is assigned to CREATOR OWNER, which means that the user who creates a print job
manages that job. Administrators, Server Operators, and Print Operators also have this permission
for all print jobs.

Demonstration: Creating Multiple Configurations for a Print Device

Creating multiple configurations for a print device enables you to assign print queues to specific users or
groups so that they can print high priority jobs to a printer that is being used by other users. When a print
job is sent to the high priority print queue, the print server will process the job before any jobs coming
from the normal priority queue.

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a shared printer.

• Create a second shared printer using the same port.

• Increase printing priority for a high priority print queue.

Demonstration Steps
Create a shared printer

1. Open the Devices and Printer window.

2. Add a printer using the LPT1 local port, and the Brother Color Leg Type1 Class driver.
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3. Name the printer AllUsers.

4. Share the printer using the default settings.

Create a second shared printer using the same port

1. Open the Devices and Printer window.

2. Add a printer using the LPT1 local port, and the Brother Color Leg Type1 Class driver.

3. Name the printer Executives.

4. Share the printer using the default settings.

Increase printing priority for a high priority print queue

1. Open the Executives Printer properties window.

2. Increase the Priority to 10.

What Is Printer Pooling?

Printer pooling is a way to combine multiple
physical printers into a single logical unit. To client
computers, the printer pool appears to be a single
printer. When jobs are submitted to the printer
pool, any available printer in the printer pool can
process them.
Printer pooling increases the scalability and
availability of network printing by using a printer
pool. If one printer in the pool is unavailable (for
example, from a large print job, a paper jam, or
being offline), all jobs are distributed to the
remaining printers. If a printer pool does not have
sufficient capacity, you can add another printer to the printer pool without performing any client
configuration.

A printer pool is configured on a server by specifying multiple ports for a printer. Each port is the location
of one physical printer. In most cases, the ports are an IP address on the network, instead of a local LPT or
USB connection.

The requirements for a printer pool are as follows:

• Printers must use the same driver: Clients use a single printer driver for generating print jobs. All
printers must accept print jobs in the same format. In many cases, this means that a single printer
model is used.

• Printers should be in the same location: The printers in a printer pool should be located physically
close together. When users retrieve their print jobs, they must check all printers in the printer pool to
find their document. There is no way for users to know which printer has printed their document.
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What Is Branch Office Direct Printing?

Branch Office Direct Printing reduces network
costs for organizations that have centralized their
Windows Server roles. When Branch Office Direct
Printing is enabled, Windows clients obtain printer
information from the print server, but send the
print jobs directly to the printer. The print data no
longer travels to the central server and then back
to the branch office printer. This configuration
reduces traffic between the client computer, the
print server, and the branch office printer, and
results in increased network efficiency.

Branch Office Direct Printing is transparent to the

user. In addition, the user can print even if the print server is unavailable for some reason (for example if
the wide area network (WAN) link to the data center is down). This is because the printer information is
cached on the client computer in the branch office.

Configuring Branch Office Direct Printing

Branch Office Direct Printing is configured by an administrator using the Print Management console or a
Windows PowerShell command-line interface.

To configure Branch Office Direct Printing from the Print Management console, use the following steps:
1. In Server Manager, open the Print Management console.

2. In the navigation pane, expand Print Servers, and then expand the print server that is hosting the
network printer for which Branch Office Direct Printing will be enabled.
3. Click the Printers node, right-click on the desired printer, and then click Enable Branch Office
Direct Printing.

To configure Branch Office Direct Printing using Windows PowerShell, type the following cmdlet at a
Windows PowerShell prompt:

Set-Printer -name "<Printer Name Here>" -ComputerName <Print Server Name Here>
-RenderingMode BranchOffice

Deploying Printers to Clients

Deploying printers to clients is a critical part of
managing printing services on the network. A
well-designed system for deploying printers is
scalable and can be used to manage hundreds
or thousands of computers.

The options for deploying printers are:

• Group Policy preferences. You can use Group
Policy preferences to deploy shared printers
to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7,
and Windows 8 clients. The printer can be
associated with either the user account or
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computer account, and can be targeted by group. For Windows XP computers, you must install the
Group Policy Preference Client Extension.

• GPO created by Print Management. The Print Management administrative tool can add printers to a
GPO for distribution to client computers based on either a user account or a computer account.
Windows XP computers must be configured to run PushPrinterConnections.exe.

• Manual installation. Each user can add printers manually by either browsing the network or using the
Add Printer Wizard. It is important to note that network printers that are installed manually are
available only to the user that installed them. If multiple users share a computer, they must each
install the printer manually.
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Lab: Implementing File and Print Services

Scenario
Your manager has recently asked you to configure file and print services for the branch office. This
requires you to configure a new shared folder that will be used by multiple departments, configure
shadow copies on the file servers, and configure a printer pool.

Objectives
After performing this lab you will be able to:

• Create and configure a file share.

• Configure shadow copies.

• Create and configure a printer pool.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-CL1

20410B-LON-DC1
20410B-LON-SVR1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before beginning the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1 and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

• User name: Administrator

• Password: Pa$$w0rd

• Domain: Adatum

5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for 20410B-LON-SVR1. Repeat steps 2-3 for 20410B-LON-CL1. Do not sign in
to LON-CL1 until directed to do so.

Exercise 1: Creating and Configuring a File Share

Scenario
Your manager has asked you to create a new shared folder for use by all departments. There will be a
single file share with separate folders for each department. To ensure that users only see files to which
they have access, you need to enable access-based enumeration on the share.

There have been problems in other branch offices with conflicts when offline files are used for shared data
structures. To avoid conflicts, you need to disable Offline Files for this share.
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The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create the folder structure for the new share.

2. Configure NTFS permissions on the folder structure.

3. Create the shared folder.

4. Test access to the shared folder.

5. Enable access-based enumeration.

6. Test access to the share.

7. Disable Offline Files for the share.

 Task 1: Create the folder structure for the new share

• On LON-SVR1, open a Windows Explorer window and create the following folders:

• E:\Data
• E:\Data\Development

• E:\Data\Marketing
• E:\Data\Research

• E:\Data\Sales

 Task 2: Configure NTFS permissions on the folder structure

1. In Windows Explorer, block the NTFS permissions inheritance for E:\Data, and when prompted,
convert inherited permissions into explicit permissions.
2. In Windows Explorer, remove permissions for LON-SVR1\Users on subdirectories in E:\Data.

3. In Windows Explorer, add the following NTFS permissions for the folder structure:

Folder Permissions

E:\Data No change

E:\Data\Development Modify: Adatum\Development

E:\Data\Marketing Modify: Adatum\Marketing

E:\Data\Research Modify: Adatum\Research

E:\Data\Sales Modify: Adatum\Sales

 Task 3: Create the shared folder

1. In Windows Explorer, share the E:\Data folder.
2. Assign the following permissions to the shared folder:

• Change: Adatum\Authenticated Users

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 Task 4: Test access to the shared folder

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Bernard with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Note: Bernard is a member of the Development group.

2. Open Windows Explorer.

3. Navigate to \\LON-SVR1\Data.

4. Attempt to open the Development, Marketing, Research, and Sales folders.

Note: Bernard should have access to the Development folder. However, although Bernard can still
see the other folders, he does not have access to their contents.

5. Sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 5: Enable access-based enumeration

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Open Server Manager.

3. Click File and Storage Management.

4. Click Shares.
5. Open the Properties window for the Data share, and from the Settings page, enable Access-based
enumeration.

 Task 6: Test access to the share

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Bernard with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. Open a Windows Explorer window, and navigate to \\LON-SVR1\Data.

Note: Bernard can now view only the Development folder, the folder for which he has been
assigned permissions.

3. Open the Development folder to confirm access.

4. Sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 7: Disable Offline Files for the share

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Open Windows Explorer.

3. Navigate to drive E.

4. Open the Properties window for the Data folder, and disable Offline file caching.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have created a new shared folder for use by multiple
departments.
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Exercise 2: Configuring Shadow Copies

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation stores daily backups offsite for disaster recovery. Every morning the backup from
the previous night is taken offsite. To recover a file from backup requires the backup tapes to be shipped
back onsite. The overall time to recover a file from backup can be a day or more.

Your manager has asked you to ensure that shadow copies are enabled on the file server so you can
restore recently modified or deleted files without using a backup tape. Because the data in this branch
office changes frequently, you have been asked to configure a shadow copy to be created once per hour.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Configure shadow copies for the file share.

2. Create multiple shadow copies of a file.

3. Recover a deleted file from a shadow copy.

 Task 1: Configure shadow copies for the file share

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Open Windows Explorer.

3. Navigate to drive E, right-click Allfiles (E:), and then click Configure Shadow Copies.

4. Enable Shadow Copies for drive E.

5. Configure the settings to schedule hourly shadow copies for drive E.

 Task 2: Create multiple shadow copies of a file

1. On LON-SVR1, switch to Windows Explorer, and navigate to the E:\Data\Development folder.
2. Create a new text file named Report.txt.

3. Switch back to the Allfiles (E:) Properties dialog box; it should still be opened on the Shadow Copies
tab. Click Create Now.

 Task 3: Recover a deleted file from a shadow copy

1. On LON-SVR1, switch back to the Windows Explorer window.

2. Delete the Report.txt file.

3. Open the Properties dialog box for E:\Data\Development, and then click the Previous Versions
tab.

4. Open the most recent version of the Development folder, and then copy the Report.txt file.
5. Paste the file back into the Development folder.

6. Close Windows Explorer and all open windows.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have enabled shadow copies on the file server.
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Exercise 3: Creating and Configuring a Printer Pool

Scenario
Your manager has asked you to create a new shared printer for your branch office. However, instead of
creating the shared printer on the local server in the branch office, he has asked you to create the shared
printer in the head office and use Branch Office Direct Printing. This allows the printer to be managed in
the head office, but prevents print jobs from traversing WAN links.

To ensure high availability of this printer, you need to format it as a pooled printer. Two physical print
devices of the same model have been installed in the branch office for this purpose.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Install the Print and Document Services server role.

2. Install a printer.
3. Configure printer pooling.

4. Install a printer on a client computer.

5. To prepare for the next module.

 Task 1: Install the Print and Document Services server role

1. On LON-SVR1, open Server Manager.
2. Install the Print and Document Services role, and accept the default settings.

 Task 2: Install a printer

1. On LON-SVR1, use the Print Management console to install a printer with following parameters:
• IP Address: 172.16.0.200

• Driver: Microsoft XPS Class Driver

• Name: Branch Office Printer

2. Share the printer.

3. List the printer in AD DS.

4. Enable Branch Office Direct Printing.

 Task 3: Configure printer pooling

1. On LON-SVR1, in the Print Management console, create a new port with the following configuration:
• Type: Standard TCP/IP port

• IP Address: 172.16.0.201

• Connection: Generic Network Card

2. Open the Branch Office Printer Properties page, and on the Ports tab, enable printer pooling.

3. Select port 172.16.0.201 as the second port.

 Task 4: Install a printer on a client computer

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. Add a printer, selecting the Branch Office Printer on LON-SVR1 printer.
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 To prepare for the next module

After you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines to their initial state. To do this, complete the following
steps.

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-SVR1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CL1 and 20410B-LON-DC1.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have installed the Print and Document Services server role
and installed a printer with printer pooling.

Question: How does implementing access-based enumeration benefit the users of the Data
shared folder in this lab?
Question: Is there another way you could recover the file in the shadow copy exercise? What
benefit do shadow copies provide in comparison?

Question: In Exercise 3, how could you configure Branch Office Direct Printing if you were in
a remote location and did not have access to the Windows Server 2012 GUI for the print
server?
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: How does inheritance affect explicitly assigned permissions on a file?

Question: Why should you not use shadow copies as a means for data backup?

Question: In which scenarios could Branch Office Direct Printing be beneficial?

Tools
Name of tool Used for Where to find it

Effective Permissions Assessing combined permissions Under Advanced, on the Security tab
Tool for a file, folder, or shared folder. of the Properties dialog box of a file,
folder or shared folder.

Net use Configuring Windows Server 2012 Command Prompt window.

command-line tool networking components.

Print Management Managing the print environment The Tools menu in Server Manager.
console in Windows Server 2012.
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Module 11
Implementing Group Policy
Contents:
Module Overview 11-1

Lesson 1: Overview of Group Policy 11-2

Lesson 2: Group Policy Processing 11-10

Lesson 3: Implementing a Central Store for Administrative Templates 11-16

Lab: Implementing Group Policy 11-20

Module Review and Takeaways 11-24

Module Overview
Maintaining a consistent computing environment across an organization is challenging. Administrators
need a mechanism to configure and enforce user and computer settings and restrictions. Group Policy can
provide that consistency by enabling administrators to centrally manage and apply configuration settings.
This module provides an overview of Group Policy and provides details about how to implement GPOs.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Create and manage Group Policy Objects.

• Describe Group Policy processing.

• Implement a central store for administrative templates.

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Lesson 1
Overview of Group Policy
Group Policy allows you to control the computing environment. It is important to understand how Group
Policy functions, so you can apply Group Policy correctly. This lesson provides an overview of Group Policy
structure, and defines local and domain-based Group Policy Objects (GPOs). It also describes the types of
settings available for users and groups.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the components of Group Policy.

• Describe multiple local GPOs.

• Describe storage options for domain GPOs.

• Describe GPO policies and preferences.

• Describe starter GPOs.

• Describe the process of delegating GPO management.

• Describe the process of creating and managing GPOs.

Components of Group Policy

Group Policy settings are configuration settings
that allow administrators to enforce settings by
modifying the computer-specific and user-specific
registry settings on domain-based computers. You
can group together Group Policy settings to make
GPOs, which you can then apply to security
principles (users, groups or computers).

GPOs
A GPO is an object that contains one or more
policy settings that apply configuration setting
for users, computers, or both. GPOs are stored in
SYSVOL, and can be managed by using the Group
Policy Management Console (GPMC). Within the GPMC, you can open and edit a GPO by using the Group
Policy Management Editor. GPOs are logically linked to Active Directory® containers to apply settings to
the objects in those containers.

Group Policy Settings

A Group Policy setting is the most granular component of Group Policy. It defines a specific configuration
change to apply to an object (a computer or a user, or both) within Active Directory Domain Services
(AD DS). Group Policy has thousands of configurable settings. These settings can affect nearly every area
of the computing environment. Not all settings can be applied to all older versions of Windows Server®
and Windows® operating systems. Each new version introduces new settings and capabilities that only
apply to that specific version. If a computer has a Group Policy setting applied that it cannot process, it
simply ignores it.
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Most policy settings have three states:

• Not Configured. The GPO will not modify the existing configuration of the particular setting for the
user or computer.
• Enabled. The policy setting will be applied.

• Disabled. The policy setting is specifically reversed.

By default, most settings are set to Not Configured.

Note: Some settings are multi-valued or have text string values. These are typically used
to provide specific configuration details to applications or operating system components. For
example, a setting might provide the URL of the home page for Windows Internet Explorer® or
for blocked applications.

The effects of the configuration change depends on the policy setting. For example, if you enable
the Prohibit Access to Control Panel policy setting, users will be unable to open Control Panel. If you
disable the policy setting, you ensure that users can open Control Panel. Notice the double negative in
this policy setting: You disable a policy that prevents an action, thereby allowing the action.

Group Policy Settings Structure

There are two distinct areas of Group Policy settings:

• User settings. These are settings that modify the HKey Current User hive of the registry.
• Computer settings. These are settings that modify the HKEY Local Machine hive of the registry.

User and computer settings each have three areas of configuration, as described in the following table.

Section Description

Software settings Contain software settings that can be deployed to either the user or the
computer. Software that is deployed to a user is specific to that user.
Software that is deployed to the computer is available to all users of
that computer.

Windows operating system Contain script settings and security settings for both user and computer,
settings and Internet Explorer maintenance for the user configuration.

Administrative templates Contain hundreds of settings that modify the registry to control various
aspects of the user and computer environment. New administrative
templates might be created by Microsoft or other vendors. You can add
these new templates to the GPMC. For example, Microsoft has Office
2010 templates that are available for download, and that you can add
to the GPMC.

Group Policy Management Editor

The Group Policy Management Editor displays the individual Group Policy settings that are available in a
GPO. These are displayed in an organized hierarchy that begins with the division between computer
settings and user settings, and then expands to show the Computer Configuration node and the User
Configuration node. The Group Policy Management Editor is where all Group Policy settings and
preferences are configured.
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Group Policy Preferences

In addition to the Group Policy sections shown in the previous table, a Preferences node is present under
both the Computer Configuration and User Configuration nodes in the Group Policy Management Editor.
Preferences provide even more capabilities with which to configure the environment, and are discussed
later in this module.

Local Group Policy

All systems that are running the Microsoft® Windows 2000 client or server operating systems or newer
also have local GPOs that are available. Local policy settings only apply to the local machine, but you can
export and import them to other computers.

What Are Multiple Local GPOs?

In Windows operating systems prior to
Windows Vista®, there was only one available
user configuration in the local Group Policy. That
configuration was applied to all users who logged
on from that local computer. This is still true, but
Windows Vista® and newer Windows client
operating systems, and Windows Server 2008 and
newer Windows Server operating systems have an
added feature—multiple local GPOs. In Windows
8 and Windows Server 2012, you can also now
have different user settings for different local
users, but this is only available for the users’
configurations that are in Group Policy. In fact, there is only one set of computer configurations available
in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 that affects all users of the computer.

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 provide this ability with the following three layers of local GPOs:

• Local Group Policy (contains the computer configuration settings)

• Administrator and Non-Administrator Group Policy

• User-specific Local Group Policy

Note: The exception to this feature is domain controllers. Due to the nature of their role,
domain controllers cannot have local GPOs.

How the Layers Are Processed

The layers of local GPOs are processed in the following order:

1. Local Group Policy

2. Administrators and Non-Administrators Group Policy

3. User-specific Local Group Policy

With the exception of the categories of Administrator or Non-Administrator, it is not possible to apply
local GPOs to groups, but only to individual local user accounts. Domain users are subject to the local
Group Policy, or the Administrator or Non-Administrator settings, as appropriate.
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Note: Domain administrators can disable processing local GPOs on clients that are running
Windows client operating systems and Windows Server operating systems by enabling the Turn
Off Local Group Policy Objects Processing policy setting in a domain GPO.

Storage of Domain GPOs

Group Policy settings are presented as GPOs in
the GPMC, but a GPO is actually two components:
a Group Policy template, and a Group Policy
container.

Group Policy Template

Group Policy templates are the actual
collection of settings that you can change.
Group Policy templates are stored in the
%SystemRoot%\PolicyDefinitions folder. Windows
Server 2012 contains Group Policy templates with
thousands of configurable settings. When you
create a new Group Policy, the Group Policy
Management Editor presents the templates in a new GPO. When you edit and save the GPO, a new Group
Policy container is created.

Group Policy Container

The Group Policy container is an Active Directory object that is stored in the Active Directory database.
Each Group Policy container includes a globally unique identifier (GUID) attribute that uniquely identifies
the object within AD DS. The Group Policy container defines basic attributes of the GPO such as links and
version numbers, but it does not contain any of the settings. Instead, the settings are contained in the
Group Policy template, which is a collection of files stored in the SYSVOL of each domain controller.
SYSVOL is located in the %SystemRoot% \SYSVOL\Domain\Policies\GPOGUID path, where GPOGUID is
the GUID of the Group Policy container. When you make changes to the settings of a GPO, the changes
are saved to the Group Policy template of the server from which the GPO was opened.
By default, when Group Policy refresh occurs, the Group Policy client-side extensions (CSEs) apply settings
in a GPO only if the GPO has been updated.

The Group Policy Client can identify an updated GPO by its version number. Each GPO has a version
number that is incremented each time a change is made. The version number is stored as an attribute
of the Group Policy container, and in a text file, GPT.ini, in the Group Policy Template folder. The Group
Policy Client knows the version number of each GPO that it has previously applied. If, during Group Policy
refresh, the Group Policy Client discovers that the version number of the Group Policy container has been
changed, the CSEs will be informed that the GPO is updated.

When editing a Group Policy, the version on the computer that has the primary domain controller (PDC)
emulator Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) role is the version being edited. It does not matter
what computer you are using to perform the editing, the GPMC is focused on the PDC emulator by
default. It is possible to change the focus of the GPMC to edit a version on a different domain controller.
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What Are Group Policy Preferences?

Group Policy preferences are a feature in
the Windows Server 2012 operating system.
Preferences include more than 20 Group Policy
extensions that expand the range of configurable
settings within a GPO. Preferences help to reduce
the need for logon scripts.

Note: The Windows XP operating systems

need to have the Group Policy client-side
extensions installed to process Group Policy
preferences. These can be downloaded from the
Microsoft download website.

Characteristics of Preferences
Preferences have the following characteristics:

• Preferences exist for both computers and users.

• Unlike Group Policy settings, preferences are not enforced, and users can change the configurations
that are established by preferences.

• Preferences can be managed through the Remote Server Administration Tool (RSAT).
• Preferences can be applied only once at startup or logon, or refreshed at intervals.

• Unlike Group Policy settings, preferences are not removed when the GPO is no longer applied, but
you can change this behavior.
• Preferences can easily be targeted to certain users or computers through a variety of ways, such as
security group membership or operating system version.

• Preferences are not available for local GPOs.

• Unlike Group Policy, the user interface of the setting is not disabled.

Common Uses for Group Policy Preferences

Although you can configure many settings through Group Policy preferences, some of the more common
uses are as follows:

• Map network drives for users

• Configure desktop shortcuts for users or computers

• Set environment variables

• Map printers

• Set power options

• Configure Start menus

• Configure data sources

• Configure Internet options

• Schedule tasks
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What Are Starter GPOs?

Starter GPOs are templates that assist in the
creation of GPOs. When creating new GPOs, you
can choose to use a starter GPO as the source.
This makes it easier and faster to create multiple
GPOs with the same baseline configuration.

Available Settings
Starter GPOs can only contain settings from
the Administrative Templates node of either
the User Configuration section or the Computer
Configuration section. The Software Settings and
Windows Settings nodes of Group Policy are not
available, because these nodes involve interaction
of services and are more complex and domain-dependent.

Exporting Starter GPOs

You can export starter GPOs to a Cabinet file (.cab) and then load that .cab file into another environment
that is completely independent of the source domain/forest. Exporting a starter GPO allows you to send
the .cab file to other administrators, who can then use it in other areas. For example, you might create a
GPO that defines Internet Explorer security settings. If you want all sites and domains to employ the same
settings, then you could export the starter GPO to a .cab file, and then distribute it.

When to Use Starter GPOs

The most common situation in which you would use a starter GPO is when you want a group of settings
for a type of computer role. For example, you might want all corporate laptops to have the same desktop
restrictions, or all file servers to have the same baseline Group Policy settings, but enable variations for
different departments.

Included Starter GPOs

The GPMC includes a link to create a Starter GPO folder, which contains a number of predefined starter
GPOs. These policies provide preconfigured, security-oriented settings for Enterprise Clients (EC) and
Specialized Security – Limited Functionality (SSLF) clients for both user and computer settings on Windows
Vista and Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) operating systems. You can use these policies as starting
points when you design security policies.

Delegating Management of GPOs

Administrators can delegate some of the Group
Policy administrative tasks to other users. These
users do not have to be domain administrators;
they can be users that are granted certain rights
to GPOs. For example, a user who manages a
particular Organizational Unit (OU) could be
tasked with performing reporting and analysis
duties, while the help desk group is allowed to edit
GPOs for that OU. A third group of developers
might be put in charge of creating Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters.
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The following Group Policy tasks can be delegated independently:

• Creating GPOs

• Editing GPOs

• Managing Group Policy links for a site, domain, or OU

• Performing Group Policy modeling analysis

• Reading Group Policy results data

• Creating WMI filters

The Group Policy Creator Owners group lets its members create new GPOs, and edit or delete GPOs that
they have created.

Group Policy Default Permissions

By default, the following users and groups have full access to manage Group Policy:

• Domain Admins
• Enterprise Admins

• Creator Owner

• Local System
The Authenticated User group has Read and Apply Group Policy permissions only.

Permissions for Creating GPOs

By default, only Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, and Group Policy Creator Owners can create new
GPOs. You can use two methods to grant a group or user this right:
• Add the user to the Group Policy Creator Owners group

• Explicitly grant the group or user permission to create GPOs by using GPMC

Permissions for Editing GPOs

To edit a GPO, the user must have both Read and Write access to the GPO. You can grant this permission
by using the GPMC.

Managing GPO Links

The ability to link GPOs to a container is a permission that is specific to that container. In GPMC, you can
manage this permission by using the Delegation tab on the container. You can also delegate it through
the Delegation of Control Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers.

Group Policy Modeling and Group Policy Results

You can delegate the ability to use the reporting tools either through GPMC or through the Delegation of
Control Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers.

Creating WMI Filters

You can delegate the ability to create and manage WMI filters either through GPMC or through the
Delegation of Control Wizard in Active Directory Users and Computers.
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Demonstration: Creating and Managing GPOs

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a GPO by using the GPMC.

• Edit a GPO with the Group Policy Management Editor.

• Use Windows PowerShell to create a GPO.

Demonstration Steps
Create a GPO by using the GPMC
• Sign in to LON-DC1 as Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd, and create a policy named
Prohibit Windows Messenger.

Edit a GPO with the Group Policy Management Editor

1. Edit the policy to prohibit the use of Windows Messenger.
2. Link the Prohibit Windows Messenger GPO to the domain.

Use Windows PowerShell to create a GPO named Desktop Lockdown

• In Windows PowerShell, import the grouppolicy module and use the New-GPO cmdlet as follows:

New-GPO –Name "Desktop Lockdown"

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Lesson 2
Group Policy Processing
Understanding how Group Policy is applied is the key to being able to develop a Group Policy strategy.
This lesson shows you how Group Policy is associated with Active Directory objects, how it is processed,
and how to control the application of Group Policy. After creating the GPOs and configuring the settings
you want to apply, they must be linked to containers. GPOs are applied in a specific order. This order
might determine what settings are applied to objects. There are two default policies that are automatically
created. These policies are used to deliver password and security settings for the domain and for domain
controllers. The application of policies can also be controlled through security filtering.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe a GPO link.

• Explain how to apply GPOs to containers and objects.

• Describe the Group Policy processing order.

• Describe the default GPOs.

• Describe GPO security filtering.

GPO Links
Once you have created a GPO and defined all the
settings that you want it to deliver, the next step is
to link the policy to an Active Directory container.
A GPO link is the logical connection of the policy
to a container. You can link a single GPO to
multiple containers by using the GPMC. You can
link GPOs to the following types of containers:

• Sites
• Domains

• OUs

Once a GPO is linked to a container, by default

the policy is applied to all the objects in the container, and subsequently all the child containers under
that parent object. This is because the default permissions of the GPO are such that Authenticated Users
have Read and Apply Group Policy permission. You can modify this behavior by managing permissions on
the GPO.

You can disable links to containers, which removes the configuration settings. You can also delete links.
Deleting links does not delete the actual GPO, only the logical connection to the container.

GPOs cannot be linked directly to users, groups, or computers. In addition, GPOs cannot be linked to the
system containers in AD DS, including Builtin, Computers, Users, or Managed Service Accounts. The AD DS
system containers receive Group Policy settings from GPOs that are linked to the domain level only.
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Applying GPOs
Computer configuration settings are applied at
startup, and then are refreshed at regular
intervals. Any startup scripts are run at computer
startup. The default interval is every 90 minutes,
but this is configurable. The exception to the set
interval is domain controllers, which have their
settings refreshed every five minutes.

User settings are applied at logon and are

refreshed at regular, configurable intervals; the
default is also 90 minutes. Any logon scripts are
run at logon.

Note: A number of user settings require two

logons before the user sees the effect of the GPO. This is because users logging on to the
same computer use cached credentials to speed up logons. This means that, although the policy
settings are being delivered to the computer, the user is already logged on and thus the settings
will not take effect until the next logon. The folder redirection setting is an example of this.

You can change the refresh interval by configuring a Group Policy setting. For computer settings,
the refresh interval setting is found in the Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates
\System\Group Policy node. For user settings, the refresh interval is found at the corresponding settings
under User Configuration. An exception to the refresh interval is security settings. The security settings
section of the Group Policy will be refreshed at least every 16 hours, regardless of the interval that you set
for the refresh interval.

You can also refresh Group Policy manually. The command line utility Gpupdate refreshes and delivers
any new Group Policy configurations. The Gpupdate /force command refreshes all the Group Policy
settings. There is also a new Windows PowerShell Invoke-Gpupdate cmdlet, which performs the same
function.
A new feature in Windows Server 2012 is Remote Policy Refresh. This feature allows administrators to
use the GPMC to target an OU and force Group Policy refresh on all of its computers and their currently
logged-on users. To do this, you right-click any OU, and then click Group Policy Update. The update
occurs within 10 minutes.

Group Policy Processing Order

GPOs are not applied simultaneously; rather,
they are applied in a logical order. GPOs that
are applied later in the process of applying GPOs
overwrite any conflicting policy settings that were
applied earlier.

GPOs are applied in the following order:

1. Local GPOs. Each operating system that is
running Windows 2000 or newer potentially
already has a local Group Policy configured.
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2. Site GPOs. Policies that are linked to sites are processed next.

3. Domain GPOs. Policies that are linked to the domain are processed next. There are often multiple
polices at the domain level. These policies are processed in order of preference.
4. OU GPOs. Policies linked to OUs are processed next. These policies contain settings that are unique to
the objects in that OU. For example, the Sales users might have special required settings. You can link
a policy to the Sales OU to deliver those settings.

5. Child OU policies. Any policies that are linked to child OUs are processed last.

Objects in the containers receive the cumulative effect of all polices in their processing order. In the case
of a conflict between settings, the last policy applied takes effect. For example, a domain-level policy
might restrict access to registry editing tools, but you could configure an OU-level policy and link it to the
IT OU to reverse that policy. Because the OU-level policy is applied later in the process, access to registry
tools would be available.

Note: Other methods such as Enforcement and Inheritance Blocking can change the effect
of policies on containers.

If multiple policies are applied at the same level, the administrator can assign a preference value to
control the order of processing. The default preference order is the order in which the policies were
linked.
You can also disable the user or computer configuration of a particular GPO. If one section of a policy is
known to be empty, then you should disable the empty section to speed up policy processing. For
example, if you have a policy that only delivers user desktop configuration, you could disable the
computer-side of the policy.

What Are the Default GPOs?

During the installation of the AD DS role, two
default GPOs are created: Default Domain Policy,
and Default Domain Controller Policy.

Default Domain Policy

The Default Domain Policy is linked to the domain
and affects all security principles in the domain. It
contains the password policy settings, the account
lockout settings, and the Kerberos protocol. As a
best practice, this policy should not have other
settings configured. If you need to configure
other settings to apply to the entire domain, then
you should create new policies to deliver the
settings, and then link the policies to the domain.

Default Domain Controllers Policy

The Default Domain Controllers Policy is linked to the domain controllers’ OU, and should only affect
domain controllers. This policy is designed to provide auditing settings and user rights, and should not be
used for other purposes.
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GPO Security Filtering

By nature, a GPO applies to all the security
principles in the container, and all child containers
below the parent. However, you might want to
change that behavior and have certain GPOs
apply only to particular security principles. For
example, you might want to exempt certain users
in an OU from a restrictive desktop policy. You
can accomplish this through security filtering.

Each GPO has an Access Control List (ACL) that

defines permissions to that GPO. The default
permission is for Authenticated Users to have the
Read and Apply Group Policy permission applied.
By adjusting the permissions in the ACL, you can control which security principles receive permission to
have the GPO settings applied. There are two approaches you might take to do this: deny access to the
Group Policy, or limit permissions to Group Policy.

Note: The Authenticated Users group includes all user and computer accounts that have
been authenticated to AD DS.

Deny Access to Group Policy

If most security principles in the container should receive the policy settings but some should not, then
you can exempt particular security principles by denying them access to the Group Policy. For example,
you might have a Group Policy that all the users in the Sales OU should receive except the Sales Managers
group. You can exempt that group (or user) by adding that group to the ACL of the GPO, and then setting
the permission to Deny.

Limit Permissions to Group Policy

Alternatively, if you have created a GPO that should only be applied to a few security principles in a
container, you can remove the Authenticated Users group from the ACL, add the security principles that
should receive the GPO settings, and then grant them the Read and Apply Group Policy permissions. For
example, you might have a GPO with computer configuration settings that should only apply to laptop
computers. You could remove the Authenticated Users group from the ACL, add the computer accounts
of the laptops, and then grant them the Read and Apply Group Policy permission.

Note: As a best practice, you should never deny access to the Authenticated User group. If
you do, then security principles would never receive the GPO settings.

The ACL of a GPO is accessed in the GPMC by selecting the GPO in the Group Policy Object folder, and
then clicking the Delegation>Advanced tab.
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Discussion: Identifying Group Policy Application

For this discussion, review the AD DS structure in

the graphic, read the scenario, and then answer
the questions on the slide.

Scenario
The following illustration represents a portion
of the A. Datum Corporation’s AD DS structure,
which contains the Sales OU with its child OUs and
the Servers OU.

• GPO1 is linked to the Adatum domain

container. The GPO configures power options
that turn off the monitors and disks after
30 minutes of inactivity, and
restricts access to registry
editing tools.

• GPO2 has settings to

lock down the desktops
of the Sales Users OU, and
configure printers for Sales
Users.
• GPO3 configures power
options for laptops in the
Sales Laptops OU.
• GPO4 configures a different
set of power options to
ensure that the servers never
go into power save mode.

Some users in the Sales OU have administrative rights on their computers, and have created local policies
to specifically grant access to Control Panel.

Discussion Questions
Based on this scenario, answer the following questions:
Question: What power options will the servers in the Servers OU receive?

Question: What power options will the laptops in the Sales Laptops OU receive?

Question: What power options will all other computers in the domain receive?
Question: Will users in the Sales Users OU who have created local policies to grant access to
Control Panel be able to access Control Panel?

Question: If you needed to grant access to Control Panel to some users, how would you do
it?
Question: Can GPO2 be applied to other department OUs?
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Demonstration: Using Group Policy Diagnostic Tools

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Use Gpupdate to refresh Group Policy.

• Use the Gpresult cmdlet to output the results to an HTML file.

• Use the Group Policy Modeling Wizard to test the policy.

Demonstration Steps
Use Gpupdate to refresh Group Policy
• On LON-DC1, use Gpupdate to refresh the GPOs.

Use the Gpresult cmdlet to output the results to an HTML file

1. Use Gpresult /H to create an HTML file that displays the current GPO settings.

2. Open the HTML report and review the results.

Use the Group Policy Modeling Wizard to test the policy

• Use the Group Policy Modeling Wizard to simulate a policy application for users in the Managers OU
who sign in to any computer.
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Lesson 3
Implementing a Central Store for Administrative
Templates
Larger organizations might have many GPOs with multiple administrators managing them. When an
administrator edits a GPO, the template files are pulled from the local workstation. The central store
provides a single folder in SYSVOL that contains all of the templates required to create and edit GPOs.
This lesson discusses the files that make up the templates, and discusses how to create a central store
location to provide consistency in the templates that administrators use.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the central store.

• Describe administrative templates.

• Describe how administrative templates work.

• Describe managed and unmanaged policy settings.

What Is the Central Store?

If your organization has multiple administration
workstations, there could be potential issues when
editing GPOs. If you do not have a Central Store
in which to contain the template files, then the
workstation you are editing from will use the
.admx (ADMX) and .adml (ADML) files that are
stored in the local PolicyDefinitions folder. If
different administration workstations have
different operating systems or are at different
service pack levels, there might be differences
in the ADMX and ADML files. For example, the
ADMX and ADML files that are stored on a
Windows 7 workstation with no service pack installed might not be the same as the files that are stored
on a Windows Server 2012 domain controller.

The Central Store addresses this issue. The Central Store provides a single point from which administration
workstations can download the same ADMX and ADML files when editing a GPO. The Central Store is
detected automatically by Windows operating systems that are the Windows Vista version or newer, and
Windows Server 2008 operating systems. As such, the local workstation that the administrator uses to
perform administration always checks to see if a Central Store exists before loading the local ADMX and
ADML files in the Group Policy Object Editor. When the local workstation detects a Central Store, it then
downloads the template files from there. In this way, there is a consistent administration experience
among multiple workstations.

You must create and provision the Central Store manually. First you must create a folder on a domain
controller, name the folder PolicyDefinitions, and store the folder at C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol
\{Domain Name}\Policies\. This folder will now be your Central Store. You must then copy all the contents
of the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder to the Central Store. The ADML files in this folder are also in a
language-specific folder (such as en-US).
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What Are Administrative Templates?

An administrative template is made up of two
XML files types:

• ADMX files specify the registry setting to

change. AMDX files are language-neutral.
• ADML files generate the user interface to
configure the Administrative Templates policy
settings in the Group Policy Management
Editor. ADML files are language-specific.

ADMX and ADML files are stored in the

%SystemRoot%\PolicyDefinitions folder. You
can also create your own custom administrative
templates in XML format. Administrative templates that control Microsoft Office products (such as Office
Word, Office Excel® and Office PowerPoint®) are also available from the Microsoft download website.
Administrative templates have the following characteristics:

• They are organized into subfolders that house configuration options for specific areas of the
environment, such as network, system, and Windows components.
• The settings in the Computer section edit the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive, and settings in
the User section edit the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive.

• Some settings exist for both User and Computer. For example, there is a setting to prevent Windows
Messenger from running in both the User and the Computer templates. In case of conflicting settings,
the Computer setting prevails.

• Some settings are available only to certain versions of Windows operating systems, such as several
new settings that can be applied only to the Windows 7 and newer operating systems versions.
Double-clicking the settings will display the supported versions for that setting. Any setting that
cannot be processed by an older Windows operating system is simply ignored by that system.

ADM Files
Prior to Windows Vista, administrative templates had an .adm file extension (ADM). ADM files were
language-specific, and were difficult to customize. ADM files are stored in SYSVOL as part of the Group
Policy template. If an ADM file is used in multiple GPOs, then the file is stored multiple times. This
increases the size of SYSVOL, and therefore increases the size of Active Directory replication traffic.

How Administrative Templates Work

Administrative Templates have settings for almost
every aspect of the computing environment. Each
setting in the template corresponds to a registry
setting that controls an aspect of the computing
environment. For example, when you enable the
setting that prevents access to Control Panel, this
changes the value in the registry key that controls
that aspect.
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The Administrative Templates node is organized as shown in the following table.

Section Nodes

Computer settings • Control Panel

• Network
• Printers
• System
• Windows Components
• All Settings

User settings • Control Panel

• Desktop
• Network
• Shared Folders
• Start Menu and Taskbar
• System
• Windows Components
• All Settings

Most of the nodes contain multiple subfolders to further organize settings into logical groupings. Even
with this organization, finding the setting that you need might be a daunting task. To help you locate
settings, in the All Settings folder you can filter the entire list of settings in either the computer or the user
section. The following filter options are available:
• Managed or unmanaged

• Configured or not configured

• Commented
• By keyword

• By platform
You can also combine multiple criteria. For example, you could filter to find all the configured settings
that apply to Internet Explorer 10 by using the keyword ActiveX.
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Managed and Unmanaged Policy Settings

There are two types of policy settings: managed,
and unmanaged. All policy settings in a GPO’s
Administrative Templates are managed policies.
The Group Policy service controls the managed
policy settings and removes a policy setting
when it is no longer within scope of the user or
computer. The Group Policy service does not
control unmanaged policy settings. These policy
settings are persistent. The Group Policy service
does not remove unmanaged policy settings.

Managed Policy Settings

A managed policy setting has the following
characteristics:
• The UI is locked so that a user cannot change the setting. Managed policy settings result in the
appropriate UI being disabled. For example, if you configure the desktop wallpaper through a Group
Policy setting, then the user will see those settings grayed out in his or her local UI.
• Changes are made in restricted areas of the registry, to which only administrators have access. These
reserved registry keys are:

o HKLM\Software\Policies (computer settings)

o HKCU\Software\Policies (user settings)
o HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies (computer settings)

o HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Policies (user settings)

• Changes made by a Group Policy setting and the UI lockout are released if the user or computer falls
out of scope of the GPO. For example, if you delete a GPO, managed policy settings that had been
applied to a user will be released. This means that, generally, the setting resets to its previous state.
Additionally, the UI interface for the setting is enabled.

Unmanaged Policy Settings

In contrast, an unmanaged policy setting makes a change that is persistent in the registry. If the GPO no
longer applies, the setting remains. This is often called tattooing the registry—in other words, making a
permanent change. To reverse the effect of the policy setting, you must deploy a change that reverts the
configuration to the desired state. Additionally, an unmanaged policy setting does not lock the UI for that
setting.

By default, the Group Policy Management Editor hides unmanaged policy settings to discourage you from
implementing a configuration that is difficult to revert. Many of the settings that are available in Group
Policy preferences are unmanaged settings.
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Lab: Implementing Group Policy

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with Windows
8 clients.

In your role as a member of the server support team, you help to deploy and configure new servers and
services into the existing infrastructure based on the instructions given to you by your IT manager.
Your manager has asked you to create a central store for ADMX files to ensure that everyone can edit
GPOs that have been created with customized ADMX files. You also need to create a starter GPO that
includes Internet Explorer settings, and then configure a GPO that applies GPO settings for the Marketing
department and the IT department.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:
• Configure a Central Store.

• Create GPOs.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 40 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-CL1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

Lab Setup Instructions

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V®
Manager.

2. In Hyper-V Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Adatum\Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

5. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CL1. Do not sign in until directed to do so.
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Exercise 1: Configuring a Central Store

Scenario
A. Datum recently implemented a customized ADMX template to configure an application. A colleague
obtained the ADMX files from the vendor before creating the GPO with the configurations settings. The
settings were applied to the application as expected.

After implementation, you noticed that you are unable to modify the application settings in the GPO from
any location other than the workstation that was originally used by your colleague. To resolve this issue,
your manager has asked you to create a Central Store for administrative templates. After you create the
Central Store, your colleague will copy the vendor ADMX template from the workstation into the Central
Store.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. View the location of administrative templates in a Group Policy Object (GPO).

2. Create a central store.

3. Copy administrative templates to the central store.

4. Verify the administrative template location in GPMC.

 Task 1: View the location of administrative templates in a Group Policy Object (GPO)
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Start the GPMC.

3. In the Group Policy Object folder, open the Default Domain Policy and view the location of the
administrative templates.

 Task 2: Create a central store

1. Open Windows Explorer, and browse to C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\Adatum.com\Policies.
2. Create a folder named PolicyDefinitions, which will be used for the Central Store.

 Task 3: Copy administrative templates to the central store

• Copy the contents of the default PolicyDefinitions folder located at C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
to the new PolicyDefinitions folder located at C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\Adatum.com\Policies.

 Task 4: Verify the administrative template location in GPMC

• Verify that the Group Policy Object Editor is using the ADMX files from the central PolicyDefinitions
folder by viewing the location information text of the Administrative templates folder.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have configured a Central Store.

Exercise 2: Creating GPOs

Scenario
After a recent meeting of the IT Policy committee, management has decided that A. Datum will use Group
Policy to restrict user access to the General page of Internet Explorer.

Your manager has asked you to create a starter GPO that can be used for all departments with default
restriction settings for Internet Explorer. You then need to create the GPOs that will deliver the settings for
members of all departments except for the IT department.
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The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a Windows Internet Explorer® Restriction default starter GPO.

2. Configure the Internet Explorer Restriction starter GPO.

3. Create an Internet Explorer Restrictions GPO from the Internet Explorer Restrictions starter GPO.

4. Test the GPO for Domain Users.

5. Use security filtering to exempt the IT Department from the Internet Explorer Restrictions policy.
6. Test the GPO application for IT department users.

7. Test Application of the GPO for other domain users.

 Task 1: Create a Windows Internet Explorer® Restriction default starter GPO

1. Open the GPMC and create a starter GPO named Internet Explorer Restrictions.

2. Type a comment that states This GPO disables the General page in Internet Options.

 Task 2: Configure the Internet Explorer Restriction starter GPO

• Configure the starter GPO named Internet Explorer Restrictions to disable the General page of
Internet Options.

Hint: Select All Settings in Administrative Templates and filter for an exact match by the
keywords General Page.

 Task 3: Create an Internet Explorer Restrictions GPO from the Internet Explorer
Restrictions starter GPO
• Create a new GPO named IE Restrictions that is based on the Internet Explorer Restrictions starter
GPO, and link it to the Adatum.com domain.

 Task 4: Test the GPO for Domain Users

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Brad, with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. Open Control Panel.

3. Attempt to change your home page.

4. Open Internet Options to verify that the General tab has been restricted.

5. Sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 5: Use security filtering to exempt the IT Department from the Internet Explorer
Restrictions policy
1. On LON-DC1, open GPMC.

2. Configure security filtering on the Internet Explorer Restrictions policy to deny access to the IT
department.
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 Task 6: Test the GPO application for IT department users

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Brad, with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open Control Panel.

3. Attempt to change your home page. Verify that the Internet Properties dialog box opens to the
General tab, and all settings are available.

4. Sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 7: Test Application of the GPO for other domain users

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Boris, with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open Control Panel.

3. Attempt to change your home page.

4. Open Internet Options to verify that the General tab has been restricted.
5. Sign out of LON-CL1.

Results: After completing this lab, you should have created a GPO.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps:
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CL1.
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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using site-level GPOs?

Question: You have a number of logon scripts that map network drives for users. Not all
users need these drive mappings, so you must ensure that only the desired users receive the
mappings. You want to move away from using scripts. What is the best way to map network
drives without using scripts for selected users?

Tools
Tool Use Where to find it

Group Policy Management Controls all aspects of Group In Server Manager, on the Tools
Console (GPMC) Policy menu

Group Policy Object Editor Configure settings in GPOs Accessed by editing any GPO

Resulting Set of Policies Determine what settings are In the GPMC

(RSoP) applying to a user or
computer

Group Policy Modeling Test what would occur if In the GPMC

Wizard settings were applied to users
or computers, prior to
actually applying the settings

Local Group Policy Editor Configure Group Policy Accessed by creating a new Microsoft
settings that apply only to the Management Console (MMC) on
local computer the local computer, and adding the
Group Policy Object Editor snap-in

Best Practices
The following are recommended best practices:
• Do not use the Default Domain and Default Domain Controllers policies for other uses. Instead, create
new policies.

• Limit the use of security filtering and other mechanisms that make diagnostics more complex.
• Disable the User or Computer sections of policies if they have no settings configured.

• If you have multiple administration workstations, create a Central Store.

• Add comments to your GPOs to explain what the policies are doing.
• Design your OU structure to support Group Policy application.
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Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

A user is experiencing abnormal behavior

on their workstation.

All users in a particular OU are having

issues, and the OU has multiple GPOs
applied.
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Module 12
Securing Windows Servers Using Group Policy Objects
Contents:
Module Overview 12-1

Lesson 1: Windows Operating Systems Security Overview 12-2

Lesson 2: Configuring Security Settings 12-6

Lab A: Increasing Security for Server Resources 12-15

Lesson 3: Restricting Software 12-22

Lesson 4: Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security 12-26
Lab B: Configuring AppLocker and Windows Firewall 12-30

Module Review and Takeaways 12-36

Module Overview
Protecting IT infrastructure has always been a priority for organizations. Many security risks threaten
companies and their critical data. When companies fail to have adequate security policies, they can lose
data, experience server unavailability, and lose credibility.

To protect against security threats, companies must have well-designed security policies that include
many organizational and IT-related components. Security policies must be evaluated on a regular basis
because as security threats evolve, so must IT evolve.

Before you begin designing security policies to help protect your organization’s data, services, and IT
infrastructure, you must learn how to identify security threats, plan your strategy to mitigate security
threats, and secure your Windows Server® 2012 infrastructure.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
• Describe Windows Server operating system security.

• Configure security settings by using Group Policy.

• Restrict unauthorized software from running on servers and clients.

• Configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
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Lesson 1
Windows Operating Systems Security Overview
As organizations expand their availability of network data, applications, and systems, ensuring the security
of network infrastructure becomes more challenging. Security technologies in Windows Server 2012
enable organizations to provide better protection for their network resources and organizational assets in
increasingly complex environments and business scenarios. This lesson reviews the tools and concepts that
are available for implementing security within a Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 infrastructure.

Windows Server 2012 includes numerous features that provide different methods for implementing
security. These features combine to form the core of the security functionality of Windows Server 2012.
Understanding these features and their associated concepts and being familiar with their basic
implementation are critical to maintaining a secure environment.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Identify security risks for Windows Server 2012 and the costs associated with them.
• Apply the defense-in-depth model to increase security.

• Describe best practices for increasing Windows Server 2012 security.

Discussion: Identifying Security Risks and Costs

The first step in defending your systems is
identifying the potential security risks and their
associated costs. Once you do that, you can begin
to make accurate decisions about how to allocate
resources to mitigate those risks.
Review the question on the slide and participate
in the discussion to identify some of the security
risks in Windows-based networks, and their
associated costs.

Applying Defense-In-Depth to
Increase Security
You can mitigate risks to your organization’s
computer network by providing security at various
infrastructure layers. The term defense-in-depth is
often used to describe the use of multiple security
technologies at different points throughout your
organization.

Defense-in-depth technologies include layers of

security that extend from user policies to the
application and to the data itself.
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Policies, Procedures, and Awareness

Security policy measures need to operate within the context of organizational policies regarding security
best practices. For example, enforcing a strong user password policy is not helpful if users write down
their passwords and place them next to their computer screens; users must be educated about how to
protect their passwords. Another example of a security best practice is ensuring that users do not
leave their desktop computer without first locking the desktop or signing off of the computer. When
establishing a security foundation for your organization’s network, it is a good idea to start by establishing
appropriate policies and procedures and then make users aware of them. You can then progress to the
other aspects of the defense-in-depth model.

Physical Security
If any unauthorized person can gain physical access to a computer on your network, then most other
security measures are not useful. You must ensure that computers containing the most sensitive data
(such as servers) are physically secure, and that access is granted only to authorized personnel.

Perimeter
These days, no organization is an isolated enterprise. Organizations operate within the Internet, and
many organizational network resources are available from the Internet. This might include a website that
describes your organization’s services, or internal services that you make available externally—such as web
conferencing and email—so that users can work from home or from branch offices.
Perimeter networks mark the boundary between public and private networks. Providing reverse proxy
servers in the perimeter network enables you to provide more secure corporate services across the public
network.
Many organizations implement network access quarantine control, where computers that connect to the
corporate network are checked for different security criteria, such as whether the computer has the latest
security updates, antivirus updates, and other company-recommended security settings. If these criteria
are met, the computer is allowed to connect to corporate network. If not, the computer is placed in an
isolated network, called a quarantine, with no access to corporate resources. Once the computer has its
security settings remediated, it is removed from the quarantine network and is allowed to connect to
corporate resources.

Note: A reverse proxy, such as Microsoft® Forefront® Threat Management Gateway 2010
(Forefront TMG), enables you to publish services such as email or web services, from the
corporate intranet without placing the email or web servers in the perimeter or exposing them
to external users. Forefront TMG acts as both reverse proxy and as a firewall solution.

Networks
Once you connect your computers to a network (either internal or public), they are susceptible to
a number of threats including eavesdropping, spoofing, denial of service, and replay attacks. By
implementing Internet Protocol Security (IPsec), you can encrypt network traffic and protect data while in
transfer between computers.

When communication takes place over public networks, such as by employees who are working from
home or from remote offices, as a best practice they should connect to a firewall solution such as
Forefront TMG 2010 to protect from different types of network threats.
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Host Computer Security Hardening

The next layer of defense is the layer that is used for the host computer. Together, the following steps
form a process that is referred to as host computer security hardening. On your host computer, you must:

• Keep computers secure with the latest security updates.

• Configure security policies, such as password complexity.

• Configure the host firewall.

• Install antivirus software.

Application Security Hardening

Applications are only as secure as your latest security update. Together, the following steps form a process
that is called application security hardening:

• Consistently use the Windows Update feature in Windows operating systems to keep your
applications up-to-date.
• Test applications to determine if they have any security vulnerabilities that might allow an external
attacker to compromise applications or other network components.

Data Security
The final layer of security is data security. To help ensure the protection of your network, you should:
• Ensure the proper use of file user permissions by using Access Control Lists (ACLs).

• Implement the encryption of confidential data with Encryption File System (EFS).
• Perform regular data backups.

Additional Reading:

• For the latest Microsoft security bulletin and advisory information, see Security for IT Pros at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266741.

• For more information about common types of network attacks, see

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266742.

Question: How many layers of the defense-in-depth model should you implement in your
organization?
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Best Practices for Increasing Security

Consider the following best practices for
increasing security:

• Apply all available security updates as quickly

as possible following their release. You should
strive to implement security updates as soon
as possible to ensure that your systems
are protected from known vulnerabilities.
Microsoft publicly releases the details of any
known vulnerabilities after an update has
been released, which can lead to an increased
volume of malware attempting to exploit the
vulnerability. However, you must still ensure
that you adequately test updates before they are applied widely within your organization.
• Follow the principle of least privilege. Provide users and service accounts with the lowest permission
levels required to complete their necessary tasks. This ensures that any malware using those
credentials is limited in its impact. It also ensures that users are limited in their ability to accidentally
delete data or modify critical operating system settings.
• Restrict administrator console logon. Logging on locally at a console is a greater risk to a server than
accessing data remotely. This is because some malware can only infect a computer by using a user
session at the desktop. If you allow administrators to use Remote Desktop Connection for server
administration, ensure that enhanced security features such as User Account Control are enabled.

• Restrict physical access. If someone has physical access to your servers, that person has virtually
unlimited access to the data on that server. An unauthorized person could use a wide variety of tools
to quickly reset the password on local administrator accounts and allow local access, or use a USB
drive to introduce malware.

Additional Reading: For more information about best practices for enterprise security, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266743.
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Lesson 2
Configuring Security Settings
Once you have learned about security threats, risks, and best practices for increasing security, you can
start configuring security for your Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 environment. This lesson explains
how to configure security settings.

To apply those security settings to multiple users and computers in your organization, you can use Group
Policy. For example, you can configure password policy settings by using Group Policy, and then deploy
them to multiple users.
Group Policy has a large security component that you can use to configure security for both users and
computers. You can apply security consistently across the organization in Active Directory® Domain
Services (AD DS) by defining security settings in a Group Policy Object (GPO) that is associated with a site,
domain, or Organizational Unit (OU).

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Describe how to configure security templates.

• Describe what user rights are, and how to configure them.

• Describe how to configure Security Options.

• Describe how to configure User Account Control.

• Describe how to configure Security Auditing.

• Describe how to configure Restricted Groups.

• Describe how to configure Account Policy Settings.

Additional Reading: Click the following link to search for a detailed list of Group Policy
settings: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266744.

Configuring Security Templates

Security templates are files that you can use
to manage and configure security settings on
Windows-based computers. Depending on the
various categories of security settings, security
templates are divided into logical sections. You
can configure each of the following sections
according to a company’s needs and requests:

• Account Policies. Password Policy, Account

Lockout Policy, and Kerberos Policy
• Local Policies. Audit Policy, User Rights
Assignment, and Security Options

• Event Log. Application, system, and security event log settings

• Restricted Groups. Membership of groups that have special rights and permissions

• System Services. Startup and permissions for system services

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• Registry. Permissions for registry keys

• File System. Permissions for folders and files

When you configure a security template, you can use it to configure a single computer or to configure
multiple computers on the network. The following are a few ways that you can configure and distribute
security templates:

• Secedit.exe. The secedit.exe command-line tool configures and analyzes system security by
comparing the current configuration of a computer running Windows Server 2012 to specified
security templates.

• Security Templates snap-in. The Security Templates snap-in is a snap-in that you can use to create a
security policy by using security templates.

• Security Configuration and Analysis Wizard. This wizard is a tool you can use to analyze and configure
computer security.

• Group Policy. Group Policy is a technology you can use to analyze and configure computer settings,
including distribution of specific security settings.

• Security Compliance Manager. The Security Compliance Manager is a tool that provides centralized
security baseline management features and security baseline export functionality.

Configuring User Rights

User rights assignment refers to the ability to
perform actions on the operating system. Each
computer has its own set of user rights, such as
the right to change the system time. Most rights
are granted either to the Local System or to the
Administrator.
Privileges and Logon rights are two types of user
rights:

• Privileges define access to computer and

domain resources. For example, rights to back
up files and directories.

• Logon rights define who is authorized to log on to a computer, and how they can log on. For
example, logon rights may define the right to log on to a system locally.
You can configure rights through Group Policy. Initially, the default domain policy has no user rights
defined.

You can configure settings for User Rights by accessing Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows
Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment from the Group Policy Management
Console (GPMC).

Some examples of commonly used user rights (and policies configured by them) are:
• Add workstations to domain. Determines which users or groups can add workstations to the
domain.
• Allow log on locally. Determines which users can log on the computer.

• Allow log on through Remote Desktop Services. Determines which users or groups have
permission to log on as Remote Desktop Services Client.
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• Back up files and directories. Determines which users have permissions to back up files and folders
on a computer.

• Change the system time. Determines which users or groups have the rights to change the time and
date on the internal clock of the computer.
• Force shutdown from a remote system. Determines which users are allowed to shut down a
computer from a remote location on the network.

• Shut down the system. Determines which of the users who are locally logged on to a computer are
allowed to shut down the computer.

Configuring Security Options

You can also use Group Policy to access and
configure Security Options. The computer security
settings that you can configure in Security Options
include the following:

• Administrator and Guest account names

• Access to CD/DVD drives

• Digital data signatures

• Driver installation behavior

• Logon prompts

• User account control

You can also configure settings for Security Options by accessing the following location from the GPMC:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options.
The following are examples of commonly used Security Options:

• Prompt user to change password before expiration. Determines how many days prior to a user’s
password expiring that the operating system provides a warning.

• Interactive logon: Do not display last user name. Determines whether the name of the last user to
log on to the computer displays in the Windows logon window.

• Accounts: Rename administrator account. Determines whether a different account name is

associated with the security identifier (SID) for the account Administrator.

• Devices: Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on user only. Determines whether a CD-ROM
is accessible to both local and remote users simultaneously.
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Configuring User Account Control

Administrative accounts carry with them a higher
degree of security risk. When an administrative
account is logged on, its privileges allow access to
the entire Windows operating system, including
the registry, system files, and configuration
settings. As long as an administrative account is
logged on, the system is vulnerable to attack and
has the potential to be compromised.

User Account Control (UAC) is a security feature

that helps prevent unauthorized changes to a
computer. It does this by asking the user for
permission or for administrator credentials before
performing actions that could potentially affect the computer’s operation or that could change settings
that would affect multiple users.
By default, both standard users and administrators run applications and access resources in the security
context of a standard user. The UAC prompt provides a way for a user to elevate his or her status from a
standard user account to an administrator account without logging off, switching users, or using Run As.
Because of this, UAC creates a more secure environment in which to run and install applications.

When an application requires administrator-level permission, UAC notifies the user as follows:
• If the user is an administrator, the user confirms to elevate his or her permission level and continue.
This process of requesting approval is known as Admin Approval Mode.

Note: In Windows Server 2012, the built-in Administrator account does not run in Admin
Approval Mode. The result is that no UAC prompts display when using the local Administrator
account.

• If the user is not an administrator, then a username and password for an account that has
administrative permissions needs to be entered. Providing administrative credentials temporarily
gives the user administrative privileges, but only to complete the current task. After the task is
complete, permissions change back to those of a standard user.

When using this process of notification and elevation to administrator account privileges, changes cannot
be made to the computer without the user knowing, because a prompt asks the user for permission or for
administrator credentials. This can help prevent malicious software (malware) and spyware from being
installed on or making changes to a computer.
UAC allows the following system-level changes to occur without prompting, even when a user is logged
on as a local user:

• Install updates from Windows Update

• Install drivers from Windows Update or those that are packaged with the operating system

• View Windows operating system settings

• Pair Bluetooth devices with the computer

• Reset the network adapter, and perform other network diagnostic and repair tasks
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Modifying UAC Behavior

You can modify the UAC notification experience to adjust the frequency and behavior of UAC prompts. To
modify UAC behavior on a single computer, access the Windows Server 2012 control panel in System and
Security.

You can also configure UAC settings by accessing the following location from the GPMC: Computer
Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options.
The following are examples of some GPO settings that you can configure for UAC:

• User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode. Controls the behavior of
all UAC policy settings for the computer. If this setting is disabled, UAC will not run on this computer.
• User Account Control: Administrator Approval Mode for the built-in Administrator account.
When you enable this setting, the built-in Administrator account uses Admin Approval Mode.

• User Account Control: Detect application installations and prompt for elevation. This setting
controls the behavior of application installation detection for the computer.
• User Account Control: Only elevate executables that are signed and validated. When you enable
this setting, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) check is performed on the executable file to verify that it
originates from a trusted source. If the file is verified, then the file is permitted to run.

Note: By default, UAC is not configured or enabled in Server Core installations of

Windows Server 2012.

Configuring Security Auditing

Typically, one of the components of an
organization’s security strategy is recording user
activities behavior. This behavior may include
successful or unsuccessful attempts to access
business-critical data that is stored in different
folders, or successful or unsuccessful logon
attempts on different servers. Recording these
security-related events is called Security Auditing.
Security auditing produces security event logs that
administrators can then view in the Security Event
Log in Event Viewer.

After configuring auditing, information in security

event logs can help your organization audit their compliance with important business-related and
security-related data by tracking precisely defined activities such as:
• A group administrator who has modified settings or data on servers that contain highly confidential
information.

• An employee within a defined group that has accessed an important folder containing data from
different departments.

• A user who is trying to log on to his or her account repeatedly without success from an internal
company computer. You might find that the employee who owns that user account was on a vacation
that week, which means some other employee was trying to log on with a different user account.
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You can configure Security Auditing settings by accessing the following location from the GPMC:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Audit Policy.

The following are examples of some GPO settings that you can configure for auditing:
• Audit account logon events. Determines whether the operating system audits each time the
computer validates an account’s credentials.

• Audit accounting management. Determines whether to audit each event of account management,
such as creating, changing, renaming, or deleting a user account, changing a password, or enabling
or disabling a user account.

• Audit object access. Determines whether operating system audits have access to non-Active
Directory objects, such as folders or files. Before configuring audit settings with Group Policy, you
must configure system access control lists (SACLs) on folders or files to allow auditing for a specific
type of action, such as write, read, or modify.
• Audit system events. Determines whether the operating system audits system-related events, such
as attempting to change the system time, attempting a system startup or shutdown, or the security
log size exceeding a configurable threshold warning.

Additional Reading: For more information about security auditing, see What’s New in
Security Auditing at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266747.

Configuring Restricted Groups

In some cases, you may want to control the
membership of certain groups in a domain—such
as the local administrators group—to prevent the
addition of other user accounts to those groups.
You can use the Restricted Groups policy to
control group membership by specifying what
members are placed in a group. If you define a
Restricted Groups policy and then refresh Group
Policy, any current member of a group that is not
on the Restricted Groups policy members list will
be removed, including default members such as
domain administrators.

Although you can control domain groups by assigning Restricted Groups policies to domain controllers,
you should use this setting primarily to configure membership of critical groups such as Enterprise Admins
and Schema Admins. You can also use this setting to control the membership of built-in local groups on
workstations and member servers. For example, you can place the Helpdesk group into the local
Administrators group on all workstations.

You cannot specify local users in a domain GPO. Local users who currently are in the local group that the
Restricted Groups policy controls will be removed. The only exception to this is that the local
Administrators account is always in the local Administrators group.

You can configure the settings for Restricted Groups by accessing the following location from the GPMC:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Restricted Groups.
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Configuring Account Policy Settings

Account policies protect your organization’s
accounts and data by mitigating the threat of
attacks that try to guess account username
and password (these are sometimes referred to
as brute force attacks). Securing your network
environment requires that all users utilize strong
passwords. You use password policy settings
to control the complexity and lifetime of user
passwords. You configure password policy settings
through Group Policy.

Account Policies
Account policy components include password
policies, account lockout policies, and Kerberos Policy.
The policy settings under Account policies are implemented at the domain level. A Windows Server 2012
domain can have multiple password and account lockout policies, which are called fine-grained password
policies. You can apply these multiple policies to a user or to a global security group in a domain, but not
to an OU.

Note: If you need to apply a fine-grained password policy to users of an OU, you can use a
shadow group, which is a global security group that is logically mapped to an OU.

You can configure Account policy settings by accessing the following location from the GPMC: Computer
Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account Policies.

Password Policy
Password policies that you can configure are listed in the following table.

Policy Function Best practice

Password must • Requires passwords to: Enable this setting. These complexity
meet complexity requirements can help ensure a strong
o Be at least six characters long.
requirements password. Strong passwords are more
o Contain a combination of at difficult to decrypt than those
least three of the following containing simple letters or numbers.
types of characters:
uppercase letters, lowercase
letters, numbers, and symbols
(punctuation marks).
o Must not contain the user’s
user name or screen name.
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Policy Function Best practice

Enforce password Prevents users from creating a new The greater number ensures better
history password that is the same as their security. The default value is 24.
current password or a recently used Enforcing password history ensures
password. that passwords that have been
To specify how many passwords are compromised are not used repeatedly.
remembered, provide a value. For
example, a value of 1 means that
only the last password will be
remembered, and a value of 5
means that the previous five
passwords will be remembered.

Maximum Sets the maximum number of days The default value is 42 days, but it
password age that a password is valid. After this but best practice is to set it at 90 days.
number of days, the user will have Setting the number of days too high
to change the password. provides hackers with an extended
window of opportunity to determine the
password. Setting the number of days
too low frustrates users who have to
change their passwords too frequently,
and could result in more frequent calls
to the IT help desk.

Minimum Sets the minimum number of days Set the minimum password age to at
password age that must pass before a password least 1 day. By doing so, you require that
can be changed. the user can only change their password
once a day. This will help enforce other
settings.
For example, if the past five passwords
are remembered, this will ensure that
at least five days must pass before the
user can reuse the original password. If
the minimum password age is set to 0,
the user can change their password
six times on the same day and begin
reusing the original password on the
same day.

Minimum Specifies the fewest number of Set the length to between 8 and 12
password length characters that a password can have. characters (provided that they also meet
complexity requirements). A longer
password is more difficult to crack than
a shorter password, assuming the
password is not a word or a common
phrase.

Store passwords Provides support for applications Do not use this setting unless you use a
by using that require knowledge of a user program that requires it. Enabling this
reversible password for authentication setting decreases the security of stored
encryption purposes. passwords.
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Account Lockout Policy

Account Lockout Policies that you can configure are listed in the following table.

Policy Function Best practice

Account lockout Specifies the number of failed login A setting of 5 allows for reasonable
threshold attempts that are allowed before the user error, and limits repeated login
account is locked. attempts for malicious purposes.
For example, if the threshold is set to 3,
the account will be locked out after a
user enters incorrect login information
three times.

Account lockout Allows you to specify a timeframe, in After the threshold has been reached
duration minutes, after which the account and the account is locked out, the
automatically unlocks and resumes account should remain locked long
normal operation. If you specify 0, then enough to block or deter any
the account will be locked indefinitely potential attacks, but short enough
until an administrator manually unlocks not to interfere with productivity of
it. legitimate users. A duration of 30 to
90 minutes should work well in most
situations.

Reset account Defines a timeframe for counting the Using a timeframe between 30 and
lockout counter incorrect login attempts. If the policy 60 minutes is usually sufficient to
after is set for one hour, and the account deter automated attacks and manual
lockout threshold is set for three attempts by an attacker to guess a
attempts, a user can enter the incorrect password.
login information three times within
one hour. If they enter incorrect
information twice, but get it correct
the third time, the counter will reset
after one hour has elapsed (from the
first incorrect entry) so that future
failed attempts will again start counting
at one.

Kerberos Policy
This policy is for domain user accounts, and determines Kerberos-related settings such as ticket lifetimes
and enforcement. Kerberos policies do not exist in Local Computer Policy.
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Lab A: Increasing Security for Server Resources

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with Windows
8 clients.

You have been working for A. Datum for several years as a desktop support specialist. In this role, you
visited desktop computers to troubleshoot application and network problems. You have recently accepted
a promotion to the server support team. As a new member of the team you help to deploy and configure
new servers and services into the existing infrastructure based on the instructions given to you by your
IT manager.

Your manager has given you some security-related settings that need to be implemented on all member
servers. You also need to implement file system auditing for a file share used by the Marketing
department. Finally, you need to implement auditing for domain logons.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Use Group Policy to secure member servers.

• Audit file system access.

• Audit domain logons.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-SVR1
20410B-LON-CL1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V® Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Start.
3. In the Actions pane, click Connect. Wait until the virtual machine starts.

4. Sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Adatum\Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd

5. Repeat steps 2-4 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and steps 2-3 for 20410B-LON-CL1. Do not sign in to
LON-CL1 until directed to do so.
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Exercise 1: Using Group Policy to Secure Member Servers

Scenario
A. Datum uses the Computer Administrators group to provide administrators with permissions
to administer member servers. As part of the installation process for a new server, the Computer
Administrators group from the domain is added to the local Administrators group on the new server.
Recently, this important step was missed when configuring several new member servers.

To ensure that the Computer Administrators group is always given permission to manage member servers,
your manager has asked you to create a GPO that sets the membership of the local Administrators group
on member servers to include Computer Server Administrators. This GPO also needs to enable Admin
Approval Mode for UAC.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a Member Servers organizational unit (OU) and move servers into it.

2. Create a Server Administrators group.

3. Create a Member Server Security Settings Group Policy Object (GPO) and link it to the Member
Servers OU.

4. Configure group membership for local administrators to include Server Administrators and Domain
Admins.
5. Verify that Computer Administrators has been added to the local Administrators group.
6. Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to remove Users from Allow log on locally.

7. Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to enable User Account Control: Admin Approval
Mode for the Built-in Administrator account.

8. Verify that a non-administrative user cannot log on to a member server.

 Task 1: Create a Member Servers organizational unit (OU) and move servers into it
1. On LON-DC1, open Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. Create a new OU named Member Servers OU.

3. Move servers LON-SVR1 and LON-SVR2 to Member Servers OU.

 Task 2: Create a Server Administrators group

• On LON-DC1, in Member Servers OU, create a new global security group called Server
Administrators.

 Task 3: Create a Member Server Security Settings Group Policy Object (GPO) and link
it to the Member Servers OU
1. On LON-DC1, open the Group Policy Management Console.

2. In the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), in the Group Policy Objects container, create a
new GPO with a name Member Server Security Settings.
3. In the Group Policy Management Console, link the Member Server Security Settings to Member
Servers OU.
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 Task 4: Configure group membership for local administrators to include Server

Administrators and Domain Admins
1. On LON-DC1, open the Group Policy Management Console.

2. Edit the Default Domain Policy.

3. Navigate to Computer Configuration, click Policies, click Windows Settings, click Security
Settings, and then click Restricted Groups.

4. Add the Server Administrators and Domain Admins groups to the Administrators group.

5. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 5: Verify that Computer Administrators has been added to the local
Administrators group
1. Switch to LON-SVR1, and sign in as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Open a Windows PowerShell® window, and at the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type
following command:

Gpupdate /force

3. Open Server Manager, open the Computer Management console, and then expand Local Users
and Groups.

4. Confirm that the Administrators group contains both ADATUM\Domain Admins and
ADATUM\Server Administrators as members.

5. Close the Computer Management console.

 Task 6: Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to remove Users from
Allow log on locally
1. Switch to LON-DC1.
2. On LON-DC1, in the GPMC, edit the Member Server Security Settings GPO.

3. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration

\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment, and
configure Allow log on locally for Domain Admins and Administrators security groups.

 Task 7: Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to enable User Account
Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account
1. On LON-DC1, in the Group Policy Management Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration
\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options.

2. Enable User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account.
3. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 8: Verify that a non-administrative user cannot log on to a member server

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Open a Windows PowerShell window, and at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type following
command:

Gpupdate /force

3. Sign out from LON-SVR1.

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4. Try to sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Adam with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

5. Verify that you cannot sign in to LON-SVR1.

6. To prepare for the next exercise, log off of LON-SVR1, and log back on to LON-SVR1 as
Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have used Group Policy to secure Member servers.

Exercise 2: Auditing File System Access

Scenario
The manager of the Marketing department has concerns that there is no way to track who is accessing
files that are on the departmental file share. Your manager has explained that only users with permissions
are allowed to access the files. However, the manager of the Marketing department would like to try
logging access to the files that are in the file share to see which users are accessing specific files.
Your manager has asked you to enable auditing for the file system that is on the Marketing department
file share, and to review the results with the manager of the Marketing department.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to enable object access auditing.
2. Create and share a folder.

3. Enable auditing on the Marketing folder for Domain Users.

4. Create a new file in the file share from LON-CL1.

5. View the results in the security log on the domain controller.

 Task 1: Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to enable object access
auditing
1. Switch to LON-DC1.
2. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. In the GPMC, edit the Member Server Security Settings GPO.

4. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration

\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Audit Policy.
5. Enable Audit object access with both Success and Failure settings.

6. Sign out of LON-DC1.

 Task 2: Create and share a folder

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. On LON-SVR1, on drive C, create a new folder with the name Marketing.

4. Configure the Marketing folder with Read/Write sharing permissions for user Adam.
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 Task 3: Enable auditing on the Marketing folder for Domain Users

1. On LON-SVR1, in the Local Disk (C:) window, configure auditing on the Marketing folder, with
following settings:

o Select a principal: Domain Users

o Type: All

o Permission: Read & execute, List folder content, Read, Write

o Leave other settings with their default values.

2. Refresh Group Policy by typing the following command in a PowerShell window:

gpupdate /force

 Task 4: Create a new file in the file share from LON-CL1

1. Switch to LON-CL1.

2. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. Open a Command Prompt window and type the following command:

gpupdate /force

4. Close the Command Prompt window.

5. Sign out from LON-CL1, and then sign in again as Adatum\Adam with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
6. Open the Marketing folder on LON-SVR1, by using following Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
path: \\LON-SVR1\Marketing.

7. Create a text document with a name Employees.

8. Sign out from LON-CL1.

 Task 5: View the results in the security log on the domain controller
1. Switch to LON-SVR1, and start Event Viewer.

2. In the Event Viewer window, expand Windows Logs, and then open Security.
3. Verify that following event and information displays:

o Source: Microsoft Windows Security Auditing

o Event ID: 4663

o Task category: File System

o An attempt was made to access an object.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have enabled file system access auditing.
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Exercise 3: Auditing Domain Logons

Scenario
After a security review, the IT policy committee has decided to begin tracking all user logons to the
domain. Your manager has asked you to enable auditing of domain logons and verify that they are
working.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Modify the Default Domain Policy GPO.

2. Run GPUpdate.

3. Sign in to LON-CL1 with an incorrect password.

4. Review event logs on LON-DC1.

5. Sign in to LON-CL1 with the correct password.

6. Review event logs on LON-DC1.

 Task 1: Modify the Default Domain Policy GPO

1. Switch to LON-DC1.

2. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

3. On LON-DC1, start Server Manager, and then from Server Manager, start GPMC.

4. On LON-DC1, in the GPMC, edit the Default Domain Policy GPO.

5. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration

\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Audit Policy.

6. Enable Audit account logon events with both Success and Failure settings.

7. Update Group Policy by using the gpupdate /force command.

 Task 2: Run GPUpdate

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. Open a Command Prompt window and type the following command:

gpupdate /force

4. Close the Command Prompt window, and sign out from LON-CL1.

 Task 3: Sign in to LON-CL1 with an incorrect password

• Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Adam with a password of password.

Note: This password is intentionally incorrect to generate a security log entry that shows
that that an unsuccessful login attempt has been made.
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 Task 4: Review event logs on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1, start Event Viewer.

2. In the Event Viewer window, expand Windows Logs, and then click Security.

3. Review the event logs for the following message: “Event ID 4771 Kerberos pre-authentication
failed. Account Information: Security ID: ADATUM\Adam.”

 Task 5: Sign in to LON-CL1 with the correct password

• Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Adam with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Note: This password is correct, and you should be able to sign in successfully as Adam.

 Task 6: Review event logs on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1, start Event Viewer.

2. In the Event Viewer window, expand Windows Logs, and then click Security.
3. Review the event logs for the following message: “Event ID 4624 An account was successfully
logged on. New Logon: Security ID: ADATUM\Adam.”

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have enabled domain logon auditing.

 To prepare for the next lab

• To prepare for the next lab, leave the virtual machines running.
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Lesson 3
Restricting Software
Users need to have access to the applications that help them do their jobs. However, unnecessary or
unwanted applications often get installed on client computers, whether unintentionally or for malicious
or non-business purposes. Unsupported or unused software is not maintained or secured by the
administrators, and could be used as an entry point for attackers to gain unauthorized access or spread
computer viruses. Consequently, it is of the utmost importance for you to ensure that only necessary
software is installed on all the computers in your organization. It is also vital that you prevent software
from running that is not allowed or is no longer used or supported.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Explain how to use software restriction policies to restrict unauthorized software from running on
servers and clients.

• Describe the purpose of AppLocker®.

• Describe AppLocker rules and how to use them to restrict unauthorized software from running on
servers and clients.

• Describe how to create AppLocker rules.

What Are Software Restriction Policies?

Introduced in the Windows XP operating
system and the Windows Server 2003 operating
system, software restriction policies (SRPs) give
administrators tools that they can use to identify
and specify which applications are permitted to
run on client computers. You configure and
deploy SRP settings to clients by using Group
Policy.
SRPs are used in Windows Server 2012 to provide
Windows XP and Windows Vista® compatibility.
An SRP set is made up of rules and security levels.

Rules
Rules govern how SRP responds to an application that is being run or installed. Rules are the key
constructs within an SRP, and a group of rules together determines how an SRP responds to applications
that are being run. Rules can be based on one of the following criteria that apply to the primary
executable file for the application in question:

• Hash. A cryptographic fingerprint of the file.

• Certificate. A software publisher certificate that is used to digitally sign a file.

• Path. The local or UNC path to where the file is stored.

• Zone. The Internet zone.

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Security Levels
Each applied SRP is assigned a security level that governs the way that the operating system reacts when
the application that is defined in the rule is run. The three available security level settings are as follows:

• Disallowed. The software identified in the rule will not run, regardless of the access rights of the user.
• Basic User. Allows the software identified in the rule to run as a standard, non-administrative user.

• Unrestricted. Allows the software identified in the rule to run unrestricted by SRP.

Using these three settings, there are two primary ways to use SRPs:
• If an administrator has a comprehensive list of all the software that should be allowed to run on
clients, the Default Security Level can be set to Disallowed. All applications that should be allowed to
run can be identified in SRP rules that would apply either the Basic User or Unrestricted security
level to each individual application, depending on the security requirements.

• If an administrator does not have a comprehensive list of the software that should be allowed to run
on clients, the Default Security Level can be set to Unrestricted or Basic User, depending on security
requirements. Any applications that should not be allowed to run can then be identified by using SRP
rules, which would use a security level setting of Disallowed.

Software Restriction Policy settings can be found in Group Policy at the following location:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Software Restriction Policies.

What Is AppLocker?
AppLocker, which was introduced in the
Windows 7 operating system and Windows
Server 2008 R2, is a security setting feature that
controls which applications users are allowed
to run.
AppLocker provides administrators a variety of
methods for determining quickly and concisely
the identity of applications that they may want
to restrict, or to which they may want to permit
access. You apply AppLocker through Group
Policy to computer objects within an OU. You can
also apply Individual AppLocker rules to individual
AD DS users or groups.

AppLocker also contains options for monitoring or auditing the application of rules. AppLocker can
help organizations prevent unlicensed or malicious software from executing, and can selectively restrict
ActiveX® controls from being installed. It can also reduce the total cost of ownership by ensuring that
workstations are standardized across the enterprise, and that users are running only the software and
applications that are approved by the enterprise.

Using AppLocker technology, companies can reduce administrative overhead and help administrators
control how users can access and use files, such as .exe files, scripts, Windows Installer files (.msi and .msp
files), and DLLs.
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You can use AppLocker to restrict software that:

• Is not allowed to be used in the company. For example, software that can disrupt employees’ business
productivity, such as social networking software, or software that streams video files or pictures that
can use a large amounts of network bandwidth and disk space.
• Is no longer used or it has been replaced with a newer version. For example, software that is no
longer maintained, or for which licenses have expired.

• Is no longer supported in the company. Software that is not updated with security updates might
pose a security risk.

• Should be used only by specific departments.

You can configure AppLocker settings by browsing in GPMC to: Computer Configuration
\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Application Control Policies.

Note: AppLocker uses the Application Identity service to verify the attributes of a file. This
service must be configured to start automatically on each computer where AppLocker should be
applied. If the Application Identity service is not running, then AppLocker policies are not be
enforced.

Additional Reading: For more information about AppLocker, see AppLocker overview at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=266745.

AppLocker Rules
AppLocker defines rules based on file attributes
that are derived from the digital signature of the
file. File attributes in the digital signature include:
• Publisher name

• Product name

• File name

• File version

Default Configuration
The default configuration for AppLocker contains
a set of default rules for each rule collection. This
set of rules ensures that files that are allowed to run are necessary for Windows operating systems to run
and operate normally.

Allow and Deny Rule Actions

Allow and Deny are rule actions that allow or deny execution of applications based on a list of
applications that you configure. The Allow action on rules limits execution of applications to an allowed
list of applications, and blocks everything else. The Deny action on rules takes the opposite approach and
allows the execution of any application except those on a list of denied applications. These actions also
provide a means to identify exceptions to those actions.
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Enforce or Audit Only

When AppLocker policy is set to Enforce, rules are enforced and all events are audited. When AppLocker
policy is set to Audit Only, rules are evaluated and events are written in to the AppLocker Log, but no
enforcement takes place.

Demonstration: Creating AppLocker Rules

In this demonstration, you will see how to:

• Create a GPO to enforce the default AppLocker Executable rules.

• Apply the GPO to the domain.

• Test the AppLocker rule.

Demonstration Steps
Create a GPO to enforce the default AppLocker Executable rules
1. Sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. On LON-DC1, open the GPMC.

3. Create a new GPO named WordPad Restriction Policy.

4. Edit the WordPad Restriction Policy’s Security Settings by using AppLocker to create a new
Executable Rule.

5. Set the permission of the new rule to Deny, the condition to Publisher, and then select
wordpad.exe. If prompted, click OK to create default rules.

6. In the Group Policy Management Editor, browse to Computer Configuration\ Policies

\Windows Settings\Security Settings\ Application Control Policies\ AppLocker.
7. In AppLocker, configure enforcement with Enforce rules.
8. In the Group Policy Management Editor, browse to Computer Configuration\Policies
\Windows Settings\Security Settings\System Services.

9. Configure Application Identity Properties with Define this policy setting, and Select service
startup mode with Automatic.

Apply the GPO to the domain

1. In the Group Policy Management window, apply the WordPad Restriction Policy GPO to the
Adatum.com domain.

2. Open a Command Prompt window, type gpupdate /force, and then press Enter.

3. Start and then sign in to 20410B-LON-CL1 as Adatum\Alan, with the password, Pa$$w0rd.
4. In the Command Prompt window, type gpupdate /force, and then press Enter. Wait for the policy to
update.

Test the AppLocker rule

• On LON-CL1, sign in as Adatum\Alan attempt to start WordPad, and then verify that WordPad does
not start.
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Lesson 4
Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security is an important tool for enhancing the security of Windows
Server 2012. This snap-in helps to prevent several different security issues such as port scanning or
malware. Windows Firewall with Advanced Security has multiple firewall profiles, each of which applies
unique settings to different types of networks. You can manually configure Windows Firewall rules on
each server, or configure them centrally by using Group Policy.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the features of Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

• Explain why a host-based firewall is important.

• Describe Firewall Profiles.

• Describe connection security rules.

• Explain how to deploy Windows Firewall rules.

What Is Windows Firewall with Advanced Security?

Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
is a host-based firewall that is included in
Windows Server 2012. This snap-in runs on the
local computer and restricts network access to and
from that computer.

Unlike a perimeter firewall, which provides

protection only from threats on the Internet, a
host-based firewall provides protection from
threats wherever they originate. For example,
Windows Firewall protects a host from a threat
within the local area network (LAN).

Inbound and Outbound Rules

Inbound rules control communication that is initiated by another device or computer on the network,
with the host computer. By default, all inbound communication is blocked except the traffic that is
explicitly allowed by an inbound rule.

Outbound rules control communication that is initiated by the host computer, and is destined for a device
or computer on the network. By default, all outbound communication is allowed except the traffic that is
explicitly blocked by an outbound rule. If you choose to block all outbound communication except the
traffic that is explicitly allowed, you must carefully catalog the software that is allowed to run on that
computer and the network communication required by that software.
You can create inbound and outbound rules based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission
Control Protocol (TCP) ports. You can also create inbound and outbound rules that allow a specific
executable network access, regardless of the port number that is being used.
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Connection Security Rules

You use Connection Security Rules to configure IPsec for Windows Server 2012. When these rules are
configured, you can authenticate communication between computers, and then use that information to
create firewall rules based on specific user and computer accounts.

Additional Enhancements
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security is a Microsoft Management Consoles (MMC) snap-in that allows
you to perform advanced configuration of Windows Firewall.

Windows Firewall in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 has the following enhancements:

• Supports filtering for both incoming and outgoing traffic.

• Integrates firewall filtering and IPsec protection settings.

• Enables you to configure rules to control network traffic.

• Provides network location-aware profiles.

• Enables you to import or export policies.

You can configure Windows Firewall settings on each computer individually, or with Group Policy at:
Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security.

Note: Windows Server 2012 introduces the additional option for administering Windows
Firewall by using the Windows PowerShell command-line interface.

Discussion: Why Is a Host-Based Firewall Important?

Review the discussion question and participate in
a discussion to identify the benefits of using a
host-based firewall such as Windows Firewall with
Advanced Security.

Question: Why is it important to use a host-based

firewall such as Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security?

Firewall Profiles
Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
uses firewall profiles to provide a consistent
configuration for networks of a specific type, and
allows you to define a network as either a domain
network, a public network, or a private network.
With Windows Firewall with Advanced Security,
you can define a configuration set for each type
of network; each configuration set is referred to as
a firewall profile. Firewall rules are activated only
for specific firewall profiles.
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Windows Firewall with Advanced security includes the profiles in the following table.

Profile Description

Public Use when you are connected to an untrusted public network.

Other than domain networks, all networks are categorized as Public. By default, the
Public profile (which is the most restrictive) is used in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and
Windows 8.

Private Use when you are connected behind a firewall.

A network is categorized as private only if an administrator or an application identifies
the network as private. This profile is referred to as the Home profile in Windows Vista,
Windows 7, and Windows 8.

Domain Use when your computer is part of a Windows operating system domain.
Windows operating systems automatically identify networks on which it can
authenticate access to the domain controller. No other networks can be placed in this
category. This profile is referred to as the Work profile in Windows Vista, Windows 7,
and Windows 8.

Windows Server 2012 allows multiple firewall profiles to be active on a server simultaneously. This means
that a multi-homed server that is connected to both the internal network and the perimeter network can
apply the domain firewall profile to the internal network, and the public or private firewall profile to the
perimeter network.

Connection Security Rules

A connection security rule forces authentication
between two peer computers before they can
establish a connection and transmit secure
information. They also secure that traffic by
encrypting the data that is transmitted between
computers. Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security uses IPsec to enforce these rules.

The configurable connection security rules are:

• Isolation. An isolation rule isolates computers

by restricting connections that are based on
credentials such as domain membership or
health status. Isolation rules allow you to
implement an isolation strategy for servers or domains.

• Authentication Exemption. You can use an authentication exemption to designate connections that
do not require authentication. You can designate computers by a specific IP address, an IP address
range, a subnet, or a predefined group such as a gateway.

• Server-to-Server. A server-to-server rule protects connections between specific computers. This type
of rule usually protects connections between servers. When creating the rule, specify the network
endpoints between which communications are protected. Then designate requirements and the
authentication that you want to use.
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• Tunnel. With a tunnel rule, you can protect connections between gateway computers. Typically, you
would use a tunnel rule when connecting across the Internet between two security gateways.

• Custom. Use a custom rule to authenticate connections between two endpoints when you cannot set
up authentication rules that you need by using the other rules available in the new Connection
Security Rule Wizard.

How Firewall Rules and Connection Security Rules Work Together

Firewall rules allow traffic through the firewall, but do not secure that traffic. To secure traffic with IPsec,
you can create connection security rules. However, connection security rules do not allow traffic through a
firewall. You must create a firewall rule to do this. Connection security rules are not applied to programs
and services; instead, they are applied between the computers that make up the two endpoints.

Deploying Firewall Rules

How you deploy Windows Firewall rules is
an important consideration. Choosing the
appropriate method ensures that rules are
deployed accurately and with minimum effort.
You can deploy Windows Firewall rules in the
following ways:
• Manually. You can individually configure
firewall rules on each server. However, in an
environment with more than a few servers,
this is labor-intensive and prone to error. This
method is typically used only during testing
and troubleshooting.
• Using Group Policy. The preferred way to distribute firewall rules is by using Group Policy. After
creating and testing a GPO with the required firewall rules, you can deploy the firewall rules quickly
and accurately to a large number of computers.
• Exporting and importing firewall rules. Windows Firewall with Advanced Security also gives you the
option to import and export firewall rules. You can export firewall rules to create a backup before you
manually configure firewall rules during troubleshooting.

Note: When you import firewall rules, they are treated as a complete set, and replace all
currently-configured firewall rules.
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Lab B: Configuring AppLocker and Windows Firewall

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation is a global engineering and manufacturing company with a head office based in
London, England. An IT office and a data center are located in London to support the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with
Windows 8 clients.

You have been working for A. Datum for several years as a desktop support specialist. In this role, you
visited desktop computers to troubleshoot application and network problems. You have recently accepted
a promotion to the server support team. As a new member of the team, you help to deploy and configure
new servers and services into the existing infrastructure based on the instructions given to you by your IT
manager.

Your manager has asked you to implement AppLocker to restrict non-standard applications from running.
He also has asked you to create new Windows Firewall rules for any member servers running web-based
applications.

Objectives
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Configure AppLocker Policies.

• Configure Windows Firewall.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 60 minutes

Virtual machines 20410B-LON-DC1

20410B-LON-SVR1
20410B-LON-CL1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

For this lab, you will use the available virtual machine environment. Before you begin the lab, you must
complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

2. In Hyper-V Manager, click 20410B-LON-DC1, and in the Actions pane, click Connect.

3. If needed, sign in using the following credentials:

o User name: Adatum\Administrator

o Password: Pa$$w0rd
4. Repeat steps 2-4 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.
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Exercise 1: Configuring AppLocker Policies

Scenario
Your manager has asked you to configure new AppLocker policies to control the use of applications on
user desktops. The new configuration should allow programs to be run only from approved locations. All
users must be able to run applications from the C:\Windows directory and from C:\Program Files.

You also need to add an exception to run a custom-developed application that resides in a non-standard
location. The first stage of the implementation will log compliance with rules. The second stage of
implementation will prevent unauthorized programs from running.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create an OU for client computers.

2. Move LON-CL1 to the Client Computers OU.

3. Create a Software Control GPO and link it to the Client Computers OU.

4. Run GPUpdate.

5. Run app1.bat in the C:\CustomApp folder.

6. View AppLocker® events in an event log.

7. Create a rule that allows software to run from a specific location.

8. Modify the Software Control GPO to enforce rules.

9. Verify that an application can still be run.
10. Verify that an application cannot be run.

 Task 1: Create an OU for client computers

1. Switch to LON-DC1.
2. Open Active Directory Users and Computers.

3. Create new OU called Client Computers OU.

 Task 2: Move LON-CL1 to the Client Computers OU

• On LON-DC1, in the Active Directory Users and Computers console, move LON-CL1 to Client
Computers OU.

 Task 3: Create a Software Control GPO and link it to the Client Computers OU
1. On LON-DC1, open the GPMC.

2. In the GPMC, in the Group Policy Objects container, create a new GPO with a name Software
Control GPO.
3. Edit the Software Control GPO.

4. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration/Policies

/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Application Control Policies/AppLocker.

5. Create default rules for the following:

o Executable Rules

o Windows Installer Rules

o Script Rules

o Packaged app Rules

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6. Configure rule enforcement with the Audit only option for the following:

o Executable Rules

o Windows Installer Rules

o Script Rules

o Packaged app Rules

7. In the Group Policy Management Editor, browse to Computer Configuration\Windows Settings

\Security Settings, click System Services, and then double-click Application Identity.

8. In the Application Identity Properties dialog box, click Define this policy setting and under Select
service startup mode, click Automatic, and then click OK.

9. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

10. In the GPMC, link the Software Control GPO to Client Computers OU.

 Task 4: Run GPUpdate

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. Open a Command Prompt window, and type the following command:

gpupdate /force

3. Close the Command Prompt window, and restart LON-CL1.

 Task 5: Run app1.bat in the C:\CustomApp folder

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. At a command prompt, type the following command and then press Enter:

gpresult /R

Review the result of the command and ensure that Software Control GPO is displayed under
Computer Settings, Applied Group Policy Objects. If Software Control GPO is not displayed, restart
LON-CL1 and repeat steps from 1 to 2.

3. At a command prompt, type following command, and then press Enter:

C:\CustomApp\app1.bat

 Task 6: View AppLocker® events in an event log

1. On LON-CL1, start Event Viewer.

2. In the Event Viewer window, browse to Application and Services Logs/Microsoft

/Windows/AppLocker, and review the events.

3. Click MSI and Scripts and review event log 8005 that contains the following text:
%OSDRIVE%\CUSTOMAPP\APP1.BAT was allowed to run.

Note: If no events display, ensure that the Application Identity service has started, and try again.
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 Task 7: Create a rule that allows software to run from a specific location
1. On LON-DC1, edit the Software Control GPO.

2. Browse to the following setting location: Computer Configuration/ Policies/ Windows Settings/
Security Settings/ Application Control Policies/ AppLocker.
3. Create a new script rule with the following configuration:

o Permissions: Allow

o Conditions: Path
o Path: %OSDRIVE%\CustomApp\app1.bat

o Name and Description: Custom App Rule

 Task 8: Modify the Software Control GPO to enforce rules

1. Use the Enforce rules option to configure rule enforcement for the following:
o Executable Rules

o Windows Installer Rules

o Script Rules
o Packaged app Rules

2. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 9: Verify that an application can still be run

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. Open a Command Prompt window, and type the following command:

gpupdate /force

3. Close the Command Prompt window and restart LON-CL1.

4. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Tony with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

5. Open a command prompt and verify that you can run the app1.bat application, which is located in
the C:\CustomApp folder.

 Task 10: Verify that an application cannot be run

1. On LON-CL1, from CustomApp folder, copy app1.bat to the Documents folder.

2. Verify that application cannot be run from Documents folder, and that the following message
appears: “This program is blocked by Group Policy. For more information, contact your system
administrator.”

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have configured AppLocker policies for all users
whose computer accounts are located in the Client Computers OU organizational unit. The policies you
configured should allow these users to run applications that are located in the folders C:\Windows and
C:\Program Files, and run the custom-developed application app1.bat in the C:\CustomApp folder.
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Exercise 2: Configuring Windows Firewall

Scenario
Your manager has asked you to configure Windows Firewall rules for a set of new application servers.
These application servers have a web-based application that is listening on a nonstandard port. You need
to configure Windows Firewall to allow network communication through this port. You will use security
filtering to ensure that the new Windows Firewall rules apply only to the application servers.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create a group named Application Servers.

2. Add LON-SVR1 as a group member.

3. Create a new Application Servers GPO.

4. Link the Application Servers GPO to the Member Servers OU.

5. Use security filtering to limit the Application Server GPO to members of Application Server group.

6. Run GPUpdate on LON-SVR1.

7. View the firewall rules on LON-SVR1.

 Task 1: Create a group named Application Servers

• On LON-DC1, in Active Directory Users and Computers, in the Member Servers OU, create a new
global security group named Application Servers.

 Task 2: Add LON-SVR1 as a group member

• In the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the Member Servers OU, open Application
Servers Properties, and then add LON-SVR1 as a group member.

 Task 3: Create a new Application Servers GPO

1. On LON-DC1, open the GPMC.

2. In the GPMC, in the Group Policy Objects container, create a new GPO with a name Application
Servers GPO.

3. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, browse to Computer Configuration

/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
/Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - LDAP://CN={GUID}.

4. Configure an inbound rule with the following settings:

o Rule Type: Custom

o Protocol type: TCP

o Specific Ports: 8080

o Scope: Any IP address

o Action: Allow the connection

o Profile: Domain (clear both the Private and Public check boxes)

o Name: Application Server Department Firewall Rule

5. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

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 Task 4: Link the Application Servers GPO to the Member Servers OU

• In the GPMC, link the Application Servers GPO to the Member Servers OU.

 Task 5: Use security filtering to limit the Application Server GPO to members of
Application Server group
1. On LON-DC1, open the GPMC.

2. Expand the Member Servers OU, and then click Application Servers GPO.
3. In the right-hand pane, under Security Filtering, remove Authenticated Users, and configure
Application Servers GPO to apply only to the Application Servers security group.

 Task 6: Run GPUpdate on LON-SVR1

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Open a Command Prompt window, and type the following command:

gpupdate /force

3. Close the Command Prompt window.

4. Restart LON-SVR1 and then log back on as Adatum\Administrator with the password of
Pa$$w0rd.

 Task 7: View the firewall rules on LON-SVR1

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Start Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

3. In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window, in Inbound rules, verify that the
Application Server Department Firewall Rule that you created earlier using Group Policy is
configured.

4. Verify that you cannot edit Application Server Department Firewall Rule, because it is configured
through Group Policy.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have used Group Policy to configure Windows Firewall
with Advanced Security to create rules for application servers.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines to their initial state by performing the following steps:

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Module Review and Takeaways

Review Questions
Question: Does the defense-in-depth model prescribe specific technologies that you should
use to protect Windows Server operating system servers?

Question: What setting must you configure to ensure that users are allowed only three
invalid logon attempts?
Question: You are creating a GPO with standardized firewall rules for the servers in your
organization. You tested the rules on a standalone server in your test lab. The rules appear
on the servers after the GPO is applied, but they are not taking effect. What is the most likely
cause of this problem?

Question: Last year, your organization developed a security strategy that included all aspects
of a defense-in-depth model. Based on that strategy, your organization implemented
security settings and policies on the entire IT infrastructure environment. Yesterday, you read
in an article that new security threats were detected on the Internet, but now you realize that
your company strategy does not include a risk analysis and mitigation plan for those new
threats. What should you do?

Tools
Tool Use for Where to find it

Group Policy A graphical tool that you use to Server Manager/Tools

Management Console create, edit, and apply GPOs

AppLocker Applies security settings that GPO Editor in GPMC

control which applications are
allowed to be run by users

Windows Firewall with A host-based firewall that is Server Manager/Tools if configured

Advanced Security included as a feature in Windows individually, or GPO Editor in
Server 2012 and Windows Server GPMC for deploying with Group
2008 Policy

Security Compliance Deploying security policies based Download from the Microsoft
Manager on Microsoft Security Guide website at http://go.microsoft.com
recommendations and industry /fwlink/?LinkID=266746.
best practices
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Best Practices
The following are best practices:

• Always make a detailed security risk assessment before planning which security features your
organization should deploy.
• Create a separate GPO for security settings that apply to different type of users in your organization,
because each department might have differing security needs.

• Ensure that the security settings that you configure are reasonably easy to use so that employees
accept them. Frequently, very strong security policies are too complex or difficult for employees to
adopt.
• Always test security configurations that you plan to implement with a GPO in an isolated, non-
production environment. Only deploy policies in your production environment after you complete
this testing successfully.

Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips

Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

The user cannot log on locally to a server.

After configuring auditing, there are too

many events logged in the Security Event
Log in Event Viewer.

Some users complain that their business

applications can no longer access
resources on the server.
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Module 13
Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V
Contents:
Module Overview 13-1

Lesson 1: Overview of Virtualization Technologies 13-2

Lesson 2: Implementing Hyper-V 13-8

Lesson 3: Managing Virtual Machine Storage 13-15

Lesson 4: Managing Virtual Networks 13-22

Lab: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V 13-27
Module Review and Takeaways 13-33

Module Overview
Server virtualization has only been a part of the Windows Server® operating system since the release
of Windows Server 2008 and the introduction of the Hyper-V® role. By using Server virtualization, your
organization can save money through server consolidation. However, to use Server Virtualization more
efficiently server administrators need to be able to decide which server workloads will run effectively in
virtual machines, and which server workloads must remain deployed in a more traditional server
environment.

This module introduces you to the Hyper-V role in Windows Server 2012, the components of the role,
how best to deploy the role, and the new features of the Hyper-V role that are introduced with Windows
Server 2012.

Objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe virtualization technologies.

• Implement Hyper-V.

• Manage virtual machine storage.

• Manage virtual networks.

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Lesson 1
Overview of Virtualization Technologies
You can deploy many different types of virtualization technologies on networks where Windows®
operating systems are deployed. The types of virtualization technologies that you select depends on what
your organization needs to accomplish. Although this module is focused primarily on server virtualization,
in this lesson you will learn about other types of virtualization technologies, and the situations in which it
is appropriate to deploy them.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe server virtualization using Hyper-V.

• Describe Windows Azure™.

• Explain when you would use desktop virtualization.
• Determine the components required to implement presentation virtualization.

• Explain the benefits of Microsoft Application Virtualization over traditional application deployment.

Server Virtualization with Hyper-V

With server virtualization, you can create separate
virtual machines and run them concurrently on a
single server that is running Hyper-V. These virtual
machines are known as guests. The computer that
is running Hyper-V is known as the virtualization
server or the management operating system.

Virtual machine guests function as normal

computers. When users are signed into a guest
virtual machine remotely using Remote Desktop
Connection (RDC) or a Windows PowerShell®
remote session, you would have to examine
closely the properties of the computer on which
the user is working to determine whether it is a virtual machine or a traditionally deployed physical
machine. Virtual machines that are hosted on the same virtualization server are independent of one
another. You can run multiple virtual machines that are using different operating systems on a
virtualization server simultaneously, provided the virtualization server has enough resources.

Virtual Machines and Hardware Usage

By implementing virtual machines, you use hardware more efficiently. In most cases, a service or
application does not consume more than a fraction of the virtualization server's resources. This means
that you can install multiple services and applications on to the same virtualization server and then deploy
them to multiple virtual machines. This ensures that the resources of that virtualization server are used
more effectively. For example, assume that you have four separate services and applications, each of
which consumes from 10 to 15 percent of a virtualization server's hardware resources. You can install
these services and applications in virtual machines, and then place them on the same hardware where,
on average, they consume a total of 40 to 60 percent of the virtualization server's hardware.
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This is a simplified example. In real-world environments, you must make adequate preparations before
co-locating virtual machines. You have to ensure that the hardware resource needs of all the virtual
machines that are hosted on the virtualization server do not exceed the server's hardware resources.

Service and Application Isolation in Virtual Machines

Keeping one particular service or application functioning reliably can be challenging and it becomes even
more complicated when you deploy multiple services and applications on the same server. For example,
you might need to deploy two separate operating systems at a branch office, but these operating systems
conflict when running on the same computer. If you can afford only one server then you can solve this
problem by running these applications within virtual machines on the same server.

Server Consolidation
With server virtualization, you can consolidate servers that would otherwise need to run on separate
hardware onto a single virtualization server. Because each virtual machine on a virtualization server
is isolated from the other virtual machines on the same server, it is possible to deploy services and
applications that are incompatible with one another on the same physical computer, provided that
you host them within virtual machines. Examples of such services and applications include Microsoft®
Exchange Server 2010, SQL Server® 2012, and Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS). This means that
an organization only needs to deploy one physical server in place of the three servers that they would
have needed in the past.

Best Practice: We recommend that you do not deploy a Microsoft Exchange mailbox
server on the same computer that contains a domain controller role. We also recommend that
you do not deploy a SQL Server 2012 database engine instance on the same computer that
contains the domain controller role. Instead, deploy each of these workloads on separate virtual
machines and then run those virtual machines as guests on the same virtualization server; this is a
supported configuration.

Simplifying Server Deployment

You can also use virtualization to simplify the process of server deployment:

• Virtual machine templates for common server configurations are included with products such as
Microsoft System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). In these templates, many of the
parameters have been preconfigured with common settings so you do not have to configure the
setting of every parameter yourself.

• You can also create virtual machine self-service portals that enable end users to provision approved
servers and applications automatically. This lessens the workload of the systems administration team.
You create these virtual machine self-service portals with VMM and Microsoft System Center 2012 -
Service Manager.
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What Is Windows Azure?

Windows Azure is cloud-based platform on
which you can purchase capacity, either for virtual
machines, for applications, or for services such as
SQL Server databases on SQL Azure™. One of the
advantages of using Windows Azure is that you
pay only for the capacity you use, rather than
paying a fixed rate. For example, rather than
paying a monthly flat rate to rent a server on a
rack at a hosting provider, you pay less when the
server is less busy and you pay more when the
server gets busier.

Cloud-based capacity is elastic, meaning it can

grow or shrink quickly as required. For example, in a traditionally hosted solution, you might choose a
specific server chassis, but then if your need for capacity or performance grows you have to switch to a
bigger class of server hardware. All of this takes time and planning. Similarly, if your need for capacity
or performance decreases, you need to decide whether migrating to a lower class of hardware is worth
the cost, or if your organization should continue to pay for a class of hardware that you do not need
right now—and may or may not need in the future. By using a hosting provider, capacity is scaled
automatically and you do not have to spend the time or money that it takes to switch from one server to
another.
Cloud-based virtual machines, applications, and services can be useful when you have to provide proof-
of-concept solutions for proposed projects. Rather than purchase test hardware and then deploy a proof-
of-concept solution to it, you can deploy a cloud-based virtual machine quickly, and then deploy the
proof-of-concept solution to that. Then, once the proof-of-concept solution is validated, you can discard
the virtual machine—or keep it, depending on operational concerns. In addition to being faster, this
solution is less expensive than buying the hardware for the proof-of-concept solution, which you may opt
to discard if the project is not approved.

Hosting Websites or Production Applications

On cloud-based platforms such as Windows Azure you can deploy applications without having to deploy
the underlying server infrastructure. For example, if you need a database, instead of deploying both
Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012, and then deploying the specific database, you can rent the
cloud-based database server, and host the database there.
For a successful cloud-based strategy, you must determine which services and applications are more
economical to deploy on a cloud-based platform, and which services and applications are more
economical to host in a more traditional server environment on your own premises. Many factors that are
unique to your organization are involved in making this determination, and a strategy that is best for one
organization may not be appropriate for another.
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Desktop Virtualization

Client Hyper-V
You can install the Hyper-V role on computers
that are running the Windows 8 Pro and Windows
8 Enterprise operating systems. This allows you to
run virtual machine guests on client computers.
Client Hyper-V, the Hyper-V feature in Windows 8
Pro and Windows 8 Enterprise operating systems,
has slightly different processor requirements than
Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012. Specifically,
with the Windows 8 client operating systems,
the computer must have an x64 platform that
supports Second-Level Address Translation (SLAT), and have a minimum of 4 gigabytes (GB) of random
access memory (RAM). This differs from Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 which does not require SLAT.

Client Hyper-V on Windows 8

The Client Hyper-V role on Windows 8 supports many of the features that are available with Hyper-V
on Windows Server 2012, but does not support Windows Server 2012 features such as virtual machine
migration. Client Hyper-V also does not support publishing applications that are installed on the virtual
machine guest to the management operating system’s Start menu. This was a feature of Windows XP
Mode on Windows 7, which uses Virtual PC. (Virtual PC is the client virtualization feature available to
some computers running specific editions of Windows 7.)

Client Hyper-V in Enterprise Environments

In enterprise environments, Client Hyper-V is often used for development purposes, or to allow specific
users to run previous versions of the Windows operating system, thereby allowing them to access
applications that are incompatible with Windows 8.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

In Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) client operating systems are hosted centrally as virtual machines
and clients connect to these virtual machines using client software such as RDC. You can configure a
server to support VDI by selecting a Remote Desktop Services installation in the Add Roles and Features
Wizard. When you configure a virtualization server to function as a VDI server you can install the Remote
Desktop Virtualization Host role feature in addition to the Hyper-V role.

VDI can simplify the management of client operating systems by:

• Ensuring that all client computers that are hosted on a single server are backed up regularly.

• Hosting the client virtual machines on a highly available virtualization server.

• If a client computer fails, ensuring that users can still access their virtual machine using other RDC
methods.

You can also use VDI to implement a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy. In this scenario, workers bring
their own computer to the office and use RDC software to connect to the virtual machine to which they
are assigned.
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Presentation Virtualization
Presentation virtualization differs from desktop
virtualization in the following ways:

• In desktop virtualization, each user is assigned

their own virtual machine that is running a
client operating system. In presentation
virtualization, users sign in and run separate
sessions on a server or servers. For example,
users Alex and Brad might be signed in
simultaneously to the same remote desktop
server, yet be running different sessions using
RDC.

• With desktop virtualization, the applications

run within virtual machines. With presentation virtualization, the desktop and the applications run on
the virtualization server.
On networks that use Windows Server 2012, presentation virtualization is provided by the Remote
Desktop Services server role. Clients can access presentation virtualization in the following ways:

• Full Desktop. Clients can use a remote desktop client such as RDC to access a full desktop session and
run applications on the Windows Server 2012 virtualization server.

• RemoteApp applications. Rather than use a full desktop client such as RDC, the Windows Server
feature RemoteApp makes it possible for applications that run on the Windows Server 2012 server to
display on the client computer. You can deploy RemoteApp applications as Windows Installer (.msi)
files using traditional software deployment methods. This allows you to associate file types with
RemoteApp applications.
• Remote Desktop Web Access. Using Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access), clients can access
a website on a specially configured server, and then launch RemoteApp applications and Remote
Desktop sessions from their browser.

Remote Desktop Gateway

Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) makes it possible for external clients to access Remote Desktop
and RemoteApp without using virtual private network (VPN), or DirectAccess, a feature of the Windows 7
and Windows 8 operating systems. RD Gateway is a role service that you can install on a computer
running Windows Server 2012. You deploy RD Gateway servers on perimeter networks. You then
configure the RDC client with the address of RD Gateway servers. When you do this, the client checks to
see if the target remote desktop server is on the organizational network. If the remote desktop server is
on the network, the client makes a direct connection to it. If the remote desktop server is not on the
network, the client routes the connection to it through the RD Gateway server.
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What is Microsoft Application Virtualization?

With application virtualization, applications are
not installed permanently on client computers
but are deployed from a server to the clients
when the end users want to use the application.
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) uses
the Microsoft Application Virtualization Desktop
Client (which is installed on the client). App-V
is available as part of the Microsoft Desktop
Optimization Pack, and is not a native Windows
Server 2012 role or feature.

App-V Features and Benefits

There are three main benefits of App-V:
application isolation, application streaming, and, application portability.

Application Isolation
App-V isolates the application from the operating system and runs it in a separate virtual environment.
This means that applications that you cannot install and run directly on a host operating system because
of compatibility problems can run on a server that is running Hyper-V, as App-V applications. For
example, applications written for Windows XP that cannot run on the Windows 8 operating system can
run on Windows 8 if deployed through App-V. With App-V, you can also run applications that might
be compatible with the management operating system when they are run by themselves, but may be
problematic when run together. For example, you can use App-V to deploy and run different versions of
Microsoft Office Word simultaneously.

Application Streaming
Another useful feature of App-V is application streaming. When an application is streamed, only those
parts of the application that are being used are transmitted to the client computer. This speeds up
application deployment because only part of the application must be transmitted across the network
to the client computer.

Application Portability
When App-V is deployed with Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, users can use the
same applications on multiple client computers, without requiring a traditional installation on those client
computers. For example, a user can sign in to a colleague's computer and then have App-V stream an
application to them so that they can use it on that computer. The application is not installed locally, and
when the user signs out, the application is no longer available to other users on that computer.

User Experience Virtualization

Just as App-V allows users to access their applications from different client computers, Microsoft User
Experience Virtualization (UE-V) allows users to have the same operating system and application settings
on multiple devices that are running Windows 7 and Windows 8. For example, when a user configures a
setting for an application that is delivered through App-V on one computer (such as configuring a custom
tab on a ribbon in a Microsoft Office product), that setting is available automatically when that
application is delivered through App-V to another computer.
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Lesson 2
Implementing Hyper-V
Understanding how Hyper-V works and how virtual machines function is critical to deploying server
virtualization effectively in a Windows Server 2012 network environment. This lesson discusses Hyper-V,
and the hardware requirements for deploying Hyper-V on a computer running Windows Server 2012. This
lesson also discusses the components of a virtual machine (with an emphasis on Dynamic Memory), and
the benefits of virtual machine integration services. Finally, it discusses how to measure virtual machine
resource use with Windows PowerShell cmdlets.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Install the Hyper-V role onto a server.

• Describe the appropriate hardware for Hyper-V deployment.

• Describe the virtual machine hardware components.

• Configure Dynamic Memory.

• Configure virtual machine integration services.

• Configure virtual machine start and stop actions.

• Perform Hyper-V resource metering tasks.

What is Hyper-V?
Hyper-V is the hardware virtualization role that
is available in Windows Server 2012. Hardware
virtualization provides virtual machines with direct
access to the virtualization server's hardware. This
is in contrast to software virtualization products
such as Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, that
use the virtualization server's operating system to
provide indirect access to the server's hardware.
You can deploy Hyper-V to a computer that is
running Windows Server 2012 by using the Add
Roles and Features Wizard. You can configure
Windows Server 2012 as a virtualization server by
using the Hyper-V role. Windows Server 2012 can then host virtual machine guests that are running
supported operating systems. You can manage virtual machine administration locally through Windows
PowerShell, or you can manage it remotely through the Hyper-V Manager console.

You can install the Hyper-V role on both the Server Core installation of Windows Server 2012, and
Windows Server 2012 in the non-server core configuration. There is also a Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
edition, which includes only the components necessary to host virtual machines.

Note: In some documentation, the virtualization server (for example, the Windows Server
2012 computer that is running Hyper-V) is called the parent partition, and a virtual machine that
is running on the server is called the child partition.
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Hardware Requirements for Hyper-V

The server on which you plan to install the
Hyper-V role must meet the following hardware
requirements:

• The server must have an x64 platform that

supports hardware assisted virtualization and
Data Execution Prevention.

• The server must have enough CPU capacity to

meet the requirements of the guest virtual
machines.

A virtual machine hosted on Hyper-V in

Windows Server 2012 can support up to 64
virtual processors.

• The server must have enough memory to support all of the virtual machines that must run
concurrently, plus enough memory to run the host Windows Server 2012 operating system.
The server must have at least 4 GB of RAM.

A virtual machine hosted on Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 can support a maximum of 2 terabytes
(TB) of RAM.

• The storage subsystem performance must meet the input/output (I/O) needs of the guest virtual
machines. Whether deployed locally or on storage area networks (SANs), you may have to place
different virtual machines on separate physical disks, or you may have to deploy a high performance
redundant array of independent disks (RAID), solid-state drives (SSD), hybrid-SSD, or a combination of
all three.

• The virtualization server's network adapters must be able to support the network throughput needs
of the guest virtual machines. You can improve network performance by installing multiple network
adapters and using multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs).

Virtual Machine Hardware

Virtual machines use virtual (or simulated)
hardware. The management operating system,
Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V, uses the
virtual hardware to mediate access to actual
hardware. For example, you can map a virtual
network adapter to a virtual network that you
map in turn to an actual network interface.

Virtual machines have the following simulated

hardware by default:

• BIOS. Simulates the computer's BIOS. On a

standalone computer you can configure
various BIOS-related parameters, and
similarly, on a virtual machine you can configure some of the same parameters. These include:
o The boot order for the virtual machine's virtual hardware
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o From which device the virtual machine boots (for example, from a DVD drive, Integrated Drive
Electronics (IDE), legacy network adapter, or floppy disk)

o Whether Num Lock is enabled at boot

• Memory. You can allocate up 2 TB of memory resources to an individual virtual machine.

• Processor. You can allocate up to 32 virtual processors to a single virtual machine.

• IDE controller 0. A virtual machine can support only two IDE controllers and, by default, two are
allocated to each virtual machine. Each IDE controller can support two devices.
You can connect virtual hard drives (VHDs) or virtual DVD drives to an IDE controller. If the virtual
machine boots from a VHD or a virtual DVD drive, the boot device must be connected to an IDE
controller. You can use IDE controllers to connect VHDs and DVD drives to virtual machines that use
any operating system that does not support integration services.

• IDE controller 1. Allows additional virtual hard drives and DVD drives to be deployed to the virtual
machine.

• SCSI controller. You can use a small computer system interface (SCSI) controller only on virtual
machines that have operating systems that support integration services.
• Synthetic network adapter. Synthetic network adapters represent computer network adapters. You
can only use synthetic network adapters with supported virtual machine guest operating systems.

• COM 1. Allows you to configure a connection through a named pipe.

• COM 2. Allows you to configure an additional connection through a named pipe.

• Disk drive. Allows you to map a virtual floppy disk image to a virtual disk drive.

You can add the following hardware to a virtual machine by editing the virtual machine's properties and
then clicking Add Hardware:
• SCSI controller. You can add up to four virtual SCSI devices. Each controller supports up to 64 disks.

• Network adapter. A single virtual machine can have a maximum of eight synthetic network adapters.
• Legacy network adapter. You can use legacy network adapters with any operating systems that do
not support integration services. You can also use legacy network adapters to deploy operating
system images throughout the network. A single virtual machine can have up to four legacy network
adapters.
• Fibre Channel adapter. If you add a Fibre Channel adapter to a virtual machine, the virtual machine
can then connect directly to a Fibre Channel SAN. You can only add a Fibre Channel adapter to a
virtual machine if the virtualization server has a Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) that also has a
Windows Server 2012 driver that supports virtual Fibre Channel.

• RemoteFX 3D video adapter. If you add a RemoteFX 3D video adapter to a virtual machine, the virtual
machine can then display high performance graphics by leveraging Microsoft DirectX® and graphics
processing power on the host Windows Server 2012 server.

Additional Reading: For more information about virtual Fibre Channel adapters, see
Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Overview at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269712.
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Configuring Dynamic Memory

In the first release of Hyper-V with Windows
Server 2008, you could only assign a static amount
of memory to virtual machines. Unless you took
special precautions to measure the precise
amount of memory that a virtual machine
required, you were likely to either under-allocate
or over-allocate memory.

Dynamic Memory was introduced with Windows

Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1). With
Dynamic Memory you can:
• Allocate a minimum amount of memory to a
virtual machine.

• Allow the virtual machine to request additional memory as the virtual machine needs it.
• Configure a maximum amount of memory to a virtual machine.
Thus, by using Dynamic Memory you no longer have to guess how much memory a virtual machine
requires; instead, you can configure Hyper-V so that the virtual machine is allocated as much memory as it
needs.

With Windows Server 2012, you can modify some of the Dynamic Memory minimum and maximum
memory values while the virtual machine is running. This was not possible with Windows Server 2008 R2
SP1. You can perform this task from a Virtual Machine's Settings dialog box.

Note: Virtual machines must support Hyper-V integration services to use Dynamic Memory.

Smart Paging
Virtual machines may need more memory during startup than they need during normal operation. Smart
Paging, which is a new feature in Windows Server 2012, assigns additional temporary memory to a virtual
machine when it is starting up. This means that you can allocate memory based on what the virtual
machine needs when it is operating normally, rather than the amount that it needs during startup. Smart
Paging uses disk paging to assign additional temporary memory to a virtual machine when it is starting
up. However, using Smart Paging may result in lower performance because it uses disk resources that
would otherwise be used by the host server and other virtual machines.

Note: About configuration: You can configure virtual machine memory using the
Set-VMMemory Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

Additional Reading: For more information about Hyper-V Dynamic Memory, see Hyper-V
Dynamic Memory Overview at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269713.
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Configuring Virtual Machine Integration Services

You must install Virtual Machine Integration
Services if you want to use features such as
operating system shutdown, time synchronization,
and if you want to install virtual hardware
components, such as SCSI adapters and synthetic
network adapters, onto the virtual machines.

Virtual machine guest operating systems that

are supported by Hyper-V and that can use
Integration Services include:

• Windows Server 2012

• Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1

• Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

• Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2

• Windows Home Server 2011

• Windows MultiPoint® Server 2012

• Windows Small Business Server 2011

• Windows Server 2003 with SP2

• CentOS 6.0-6.2

• CentOS 5.5-5.7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0-6.2

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5-5.7

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 with SP1or SP2

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 4 (SP4)

• Windows 7 with SP1

• Windows Vista® with SP2

• Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3)

Note: Support for the Windows XP operating system expires in April 2014. Support for
Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 expires in July 2015.

You can install the Hyper-V integration services components on an operating system by accessing the
Virtual Machine Connection window, and then in the Action menu, clicking the Insert Integration
Services Setup Disk item. You can then install the relevant operating system drivers either manually
or automatically. You can also enable the following virtual machine integration components:

• Operating system shutdown. Allows the server running Hyper-V to initiate a graceful shutdown of the
guest virtual machine.

• Time synchronization. Allows the virtual machine to use the virtualization server's processor for the
purpose of time synchronization.
• Data exchange. Allows the server running Hyper-V to write data to the registry of the virtual machine.
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• Heartbeat. Allows Hyper-V to determine if the virtual machine has become unresponsive.

• Backup (volume snapshot). Allows the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provider to create
snapshots of the virtual machine for the purposes of backup operation, without interrupting the
virtual machine’s normal operations.

Configuring Virtual Machine Start and Stop Actions

You can use virtual machine start and stop actions
to ensure that critical virtual machines always start
automatically whenever a server running Hyper-V
is restarted, and that they are shut down
gracefully if the server receives a shutdown
command. When you configure the virtual
machine start and stop actions, you select the
steps that the server running Hyper-V will perform
on specific virtual machines when the physical
server is started or shut down. You configure
startup and shutdown settings for each virtual
machine by editing the properties of the virtual
machine.

Automatic Start Options

You can configure the following options in the Automatic Start Actions window:
• Nothing. The virtual machine does not start automatically when the server running Hyper-V starts,
even if the virtual machine was in a running state when the server was shut down.

• Automatically start if it was running when the service stopped. The virtual machine restarts if it was
running when the server running Hyper-V received the command to shut down, or if the virtual
machine was running when the server suffered a failure that caused it to be powered off.

• Always start this virtual machine automatically. The virtual machine always starts when the server
running Hyper-V starts. You can configure a startup delay to ensure that multiple virtual machines do
not attempt to all start up at the same time.

Automatic Stop Options

You can configure the following options in the Automatic Stop Actions window:
• Save the virtual machine state. This option saves the active state of the virtual machine to disk,
including memory, when the server receives a shutdown command. This makes it possible for the
virtual machine to restart when the server that is running Hyper-V restarts.

• Turn off the virtual machine. The virtual machine is turned off when the server receives a shutdown
command. Data may be lost when this happens.

• Shut down the guest operating system. The virtual machine is shut down in a graceful manner when
the server receives a shutdown command. This option is available only if integration services
components are installed on the virtual machine.

Note: You can also configure virtual machine automatic start and stop actions by using the
Windows PowerShell cmdlet Set-VM with the AutomaticStartAction and
AutomaticStopAction parameters.
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Hyper-V Resource Metering

Resource metering allows you to track the
resource use of virtual machines that are hosted
on Windows Server 2012 servers with the Hyper-V
role installed.

With resource metering, you can measure the

following parameters on individual Hyper-V
virtual machines:
• Average CPU use.

• Average physical memory use, including:

o Minimum memory use.

o Maximum memory use.

• Maximum disk space allocation.

• Incoming network traffic for a network adapter.

• Outgoing network traffic for a network adapter.

By measuring how much of these resources each virtual machine uses, an organization can bill
departments or customers based on how much resources their virtual machines use, rather than charging
a flat fee per virtual machine. An organization with only internal customers can also use these
measurements to see patterns of use and plan future expansions. You perform resource metering tasks
from a Windows PowerShell command-line interface using the following cmdlets:
• Enable-VMResourceMetering. Starts collecting data on a per virtual machine basis.

• Disable-VMResourceMetering. Disables resource metering on a per virtual machine basis.

• Reset-VMResourceMetering. Resets virtual machine resource metering counters.

• Measure-VM. Displays resource metering statistics for a specific virtual machine.

Note: There is no GUI tool that you can use to perform resource metering.

Additional Reading: For more information about resource metering for Hyper-V, see
Hyper-V Resource Metering Overview at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269714.
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Lesson 3
Managing Virtual Machine Storage
Hyper-V provides many different virtual machine storage options. By knowing which option is appropriate
for a given situation, you can help ensure that a virtual machine performs well. However, if you do not
understand the different virtual machine storage options, you may end up deploying VHDs that consume
unnecessary space or that place an unnecessary performance burden on the virtualization server.

In this lesson, you will learn about different VHD types, different VHD formats, and the benefits and
limitations of using virtual machine snapshots.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe the purpose of VHD.

• Explain how to create a VHD type.

• Explain how to manage VHDs.

• Explain how to deploy differencing VHDs to reduce storage.

• Explain how to use virtual machine snapshots.

What Is a VHD?
A VHD is a file that represents a traditional hard
disk drive that you can configure a VHD with
partitions and an operating system. You can use
VHDs on virtual machines, and you can mount
VHDs as local volumes using the Windows Server
2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server
2012, and Windows 8, and Windows 7 operating
systems. Windows Server 2012 supports boot to
VHD; this makes it possible for you to configure a
computer to boot into a Windows Server 2012
operating system that is deployed on a VHD, or
into certain editions of the Windows 8 operating
system that are deployed on a VHD. You can create a VHD using:
• The Hyper-V Manager console.

• The Disk Management console.

• The DiskPart (diskpart.exe) command-line tool.

• The Windows PowerShell cmdlet New-VHD.

Note: Some editions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 also support boot
to VHD.
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VHDs in .vhd format vs. VHDs in .vhdx format

VHDs use the .vhd extension. Windows Server 2012 introduces a new type of VHD which uses the .vhdx
extension. VHDs with the new format have the following benefits over VHDs that were used in Hyper-V
on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2:

• VHDs with the .vhdx format can be as large as 64 TB, whereas VHDs with the, vhd format are limited
to 2 TB.
• VHDs with the .vhdx format are less likely to be corrupted if the virtualization server suffers an
unexpected power outage.

• The .vhdx format supports better alignment when deployed to a large sector disk.
• VHDs with the .vhdx format can hold larger dynamic and differencing VHDs, which means that the
dynamic and differencing VHDs perform better.

You can convert a VHD with the .vhd format to the .vhdx format using the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard;
you may want to do this if you have upgraded a Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2
virtualization server to Windows Server 2012. You can also convert a VHD with the .vhdx format to the
.vhd format.

SMB Share Support

Windows Server 2012 now supports VHDs with the .vhdx format that are stored on SMB 3.0 file shares.
This is an alternative to storing .vhdx files on internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel SAN devices. When
creating a virtual machine in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012, you can specify a network share when
you choose the VHD location or when you attach an existing VHD. The file share must support SMB 3.0.
This means that you must place VHDs on file shares that are hosted on file servers with Windows Server
2012. Older versions of Windows Server do not support SMB 3.0.

Additional Reading: For more information about VHD formats, see Hyper-V Virtual Hard
Disk Format Overview at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269715.

Creating Virtual Disk Types

When you configure a VHD, you can choose
between several different disk types, including
fixed, dynamic, and direct-attached storage.

Creating Fixed VHDs

When you create fixed VHDs, all of the hard
disk space that you have specified is allocated
during the creation process. This minimizes
fragmentation, which improves VHD performance
if the disk is on a traditional (i.e. non-solid state)
storage device. Allocating all of the specified
hard disk space during the creation process has a
disadvantage though—in many situations, you will
not know precisely how much disk space a virtual machine needs. Therefore, you may end up allocating
space that is not actually required.
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Note: Disk fragmentation is less of an issue when VHDs are hosted on RAID volumes, or on
SSDs. Improvements in Hyper-V (since it was first introduced with Windows Server 2008) also
minimize the performance differences between dynamic and fixed VHDs.

To create a fixed VHD, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. On the Actions pane, click New, and then click Hard Disk.
3. On the Before You Begin page of the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, click Next.

4. In the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, on the Choose Disk Format page, click either VHD or VHDX,
and then click Next.

5. On the Choose Disk Type page, click Fixed size, and then click Next.
6. On the Specify Name and Location page, enter a name for the VHD, and then specify a folder in
which to host the VHD file.

7. On the Configure Disk page, choose one of the following options:

o Create a new blank virtual hard disk of the specified size.

o Copy the contents of a specified physical disk. With this option you can replicate an existing
physical disk on the server as a VHD. The fixed VHD will be the same size as the physical disk.
Replicating an existing physical hard disk does not change the data on that disk.

o Copy the contents of a specified virtual hard disk. With this option, you can create a new
fixed hard disk based on the contents of an existing VHD.

Note: You can create a new fixed hard disk using the Windows PowerShell cmdlet
New-VHD with the -Fixed parameter.

Dynamically Expanding VHDs

When you create a dynamically expanding VHD, you specify a maximum size, but the disk uses only the
space that it needs and grows as necessary. A dynamically expanding VHD can be formatted with the
.vhd format or the .vhdx format. A new dynamically expanding VHD with the .vhd format is allocated
approximately 260 kilobytes (KB). A new dynamically expanding VHD with the .vhdx format is allocated
approximately 4,096 KB.
As you save files to a dynamically expanding VHD, it grows. However, if you delete files from a
dynamically expanding VHD, it does not shrink. You can only shrink a dynamically expanding VHD file by
performing a shrink operation.

To create a dynamically expanding VHD you follow the steps for creating a fixed VHD shown above
except that on the Choose Disk Type page (in step 5), you click Dynamically Expanding instead of Fixed
Size.

Note: You can create a new dynamic hard disk using the Windows PowerShell cmdlet
New-VHD with the -Dynamic parameter.
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Direct-attached Storage
Direct-attached storage makes it possible for a virtual machine to access a physical disk drive. You can use
direct-attached storage to connect a virtual machine directly to an iSCSI logical unit number (LUN). When
you use direct-attached storage, the virtual machine must have exclusive access to the target disk; to
ensure this, you must take the disk offline.

You can attach direct-attached storage by performing the following steps:

1. Ensure that the target hard disk is offline. If it is not, then use the Disk Management console on the
virtualization server to take it offline.

2. Use the Hyper-V Manager console to edit the existing virtual machine's properties.
3. Click on an IDE or SCSI controller, click Add, and then click Hard Drive.

4. In the Hard Drive dialog box, click Physical Hard Disk. From the drop-down menu, select the disk
that you want to use as direct-attached storage.

Note: If you connect direct-attached storage to a virtual machine's SCSI controller, then
you do not have to shut down the virtual machine. If you want to connect to a virtual machine's
IDE controller, then you must first shut down the virtual machine.

Question: Why might you consider using fixed VHDs instead of dynamically expanding
VHDs?

Question: In what situations might you encounter difficulties if you use dynamically
expanding disks?

Managing VHDs
From time to time, you need to perform
maintenance operations on VHDs. For example,
you might want to convert a VHD to another
format as your needs change, or you might want
to compact a VHD to free up space. You can
perform the following maintenance operations
on VHDs:

• Convert the disk from fixed to dynamic

• Convert the disk from dynamic to fixed

• Convert a VHD in .vhd format to .vhdx format

• Convert a VHD in .vhdx format to .vhd format

• Compact a dynamically expanding VHD

• Expand a dynamically expanding VHD

• Expand a fixed VHD

Converting a Disk
When you convert a VHD, the contents of the existing VHD are copied to a newly created VHD. For
example, when you convert a fixed VHD to a dynamically expanding VHD, a new dynamic disk is created,
then the contents of the fixed disk are copied to the new dynamic disk, and then the fixed disk is deleted.
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To convert a VHD from fixed to dynamic or from dynamic to fixed, perform the following steps:

1. In the Hyper-V Manager console, from the Actions pane, click Edit Disk.

2. In the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, on the Before You Begin page, click Next.

3. On the Local Virtual Hard Disk page, click Browse, and then select the VHD that you want to
convert.

4. On the Choose Action page, click Convert, and then click Next.
5. On the Convert Virtual Hard Disk page, choose between VHD and VHDX format.

6. On the Convert Virtual Hard Disk page, choose between Fixed Size and Dynamically Expanding.
If you also want to convert the hard disk type, choose the appropriate type, and then click Next.

7. On the Configure Disk page, choose the destination location for the disk.

Changing the Size of a Disk

You can compact a dynamically expanding VHD that is not using all of the space that it is allocated.
However, you cannot compact a fixed VHD; instead, you must first convert it to a dynamically expanding
VHD before you can compact it. You can expand both dynamically expanding VHDs and fixed VHDs.

You can use one of two methods to change the size of a VHD. They are:

1. Use the Windows PowerShell cmdlets resize-partition and the resize-vhd.

2. In the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, select either the Compact or the Expand option.

Reducing Storage Needs with Differencing VHDs

Differencing VHDs are separate VHDs that record
the changes made to a parent disk. You can use
differencing VHDs to reduce the amount of hard
disk space consumed by VHDs; this increases
disk performance by reducing the space used.
Differencing VHDs work well with SSDs. They
also work well where the available space on the
parent volume is limited and the disk performance
compensates for the performance drawbacks of
using a differencing VHD.

You can link multiple differencing VHDs to a

single parent disk. However, if you modify the
parent disk, the links to all of the differencing VHDs fail.

You can reconnect a differencing VHD to the parent using the Inspect Disk tool, which is available in the
Actions pane of the Hyper-V Manager console. You can also use the Inspect Disk tool to locate the parent
disk of a differencing VHD.

You can create a differencing VHD using the Hyper-V Manager console or using the Windows PowerShell
cmdlet New-VHD.

To create a differencing VHD using the Hyper-V Manager console, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. In the Actions pane, click New, and then click Hard Disk.

3. In the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, on the Before You Begin page, click Next.
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4. On the Choose Disk Format page, click VHD, and then click Next.

5. On the Choose Disk Type page, click Differencing, and then click Next.

6. On the Specify Name and Location page, provide the location of the parent hard disk.

To create a differencing VHD using the New-VHD Windows PowerShell cmdlet, follow the pattern of the
following example. To create a new differencing VHD named c:\diff-disk.vhd that uses the VHD
c:\parent.vhd, use the following Windows PowerShell command:

New-VHD c:\diff-disk.vhd -ParentPath C:\parent.vhd

Using Snapshots
Snapshots are a static image of the data on a
virtual machine at a given moment. Snapshots are
stored in either .avhd or .avhdx format depending
on the VHD format. You can take a snapshot of
a virtual machine from the Action menu of the
Virtual Machine Connection window, or from the
Hyper-V Manager console. Each virtual machine
can have a maximum of 50 snapshots.
You can take snapshots at any time, even when
a virtual machine is shut down. When you take
a snapshot of a running virtual machine, the
snapshot includes the contents of the virtual
machine’s memory.
When taking snapshots of multiple virtual machines that are part of the same group, for example a virtual
domain controller and virtual member server, you should take these snapshots simultaneously. This
ensures that items such as computer account passwords are the same on all of the snapshots.

Remember that when you revert to a snapshot, you are reverting to a computer’s state at that point in
time. If you take a computer back to a point before it had performed a computer password change with a
domain controller, you need to rejoin that computer to the domain or run the netdom resetpwd
command.

Snapshots vs. Backups

Snapshots are not a replacement for backups. Snapshots are stored on the same volume as the VHDs. If
that volume fails, both the snapshots and the VHD file are lost.

Exporting Snapshots
You can perform a virtual machine export of a snapshot. When you do this, Hyper-V creates full VHDs
that represent the state of the virtual machine at the time the snapshot was taken. If you choose to export
an entire virtual machine, all snapshots associated with the virtual machine are also exported.
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Differencing VHD Files

When you create a snapshot, Hyper-V writes differencing VHD (.avhd, or .avhdx) files, which store the data
that differentiates the snapshot from the previous snapshot, or from the parent VHD. When you delete
snapshots, this data is either discarded or merged back into the previous snapshot or parent VHD. For
example:

• If you delete the most recent snapshot, the data is discarded. With Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012,
this space is reclaimed immediately rather than when the virtual machine is shut down.
• If you delete the second-most recent snapshot, the data is merged so that the earlier and latter
snapshot states of the virtual machine retain their integrity.

Managing Snapshots
When you apply a snapshot, the virtual machine reverts to the configuration as it existed at the time
the snapshot was taken. Reverting to a snapshot does not delete existing snapshots. If you revert to a
snapshot after making a configuration change, you are prompted to take a snapshot. It is only necessary
to create a new snapshot if you want to return to that current configuration.

It is possible to create snapshot trees that have different branches. For example, consider the following
scenario:
You take a snapshot of a virtual machine on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday you apply
the Tuesday snapshot. Immediately after applying the Tuesday snapshot, you make changes to the virtual
machine's configuration.

In this scenario, the original branch is the series of snapshots taken on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
You create a new branch by applying the Tuesday snapshot and making changes to the virtual machine.
You can have multiple branches as long as you do not exceed the 50 snapshots per virtual machine limit.
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Lesson 4
Managing Virtual Networks
Hyper-V provides several different options for network communication between virtual machines. You can
configure virtual machines that communicate with an external network in a manner similar to traditionally
deployed physical hosts. You can configure virtual machines to communicate only with a limited number
of other virtual machines that are hosted on the same server. Knowing the options available for Hyper-V
virtual networks ensures that you can leverage those options to best meet your organization's needs.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe virtual switches.

• Describe Hyper-V network virtualization.

• Explain how to manage a virtual machine MAC address pool.

• Explain how to configure virtual network adapters.

What Is a Virtual Switch?

A virtual switch is a virtual version of a network
switch. (The term virtual network, which was used
in Windows Server 2008, has been replaced by
the term virtual switch in Windows Server 2012.)
Virtual switches control how network traffic flows
between virtual machines that are hosted on the
virtualization server, and between virtual machines
and the rest of the organizational network. You
manage virtual switches through the Virtual
Switch Manager, which is accessible through the
Actions pane of the Hyper-V Manager console.
Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 supports three
different types of virtual switches:

• External. This type of switch maps a network to a specific network adapter or network adapter team.
Windows Server 2012 supports mapping an external network to a wireless network adapter if you
have installed the wireless local area network (LAN) service on the virtualization server, and if the
virtualization server has a compatible adapter.

• Internal. Internal virtual switches communicate between the virtual machines on the virtualization
server, and between the virtual machines and the virtualization server itself.

• Private. Private switches communicate only between virtual machines on the virtualization server. You
cannot use private switches to communicate between the virtual machines and the virtualization
server itself.

When configuring a virtual network, you can also configure a virtual LAN (VLAN) ID to be associated with
the network. This allows you to extend existing VLANs on the external network to VLANs within the
virtualization server's network switch. VLANs allow you to partition network traffic, and they function as
separate logical networks. Traffic can only pass from one VLAN to another if it passes through a router.
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You can configure the following extensions for each virtual switch type:

• Microsoft NDIS Capture. This extension allows data that is travelling across the virtual switch to be
captured.
• Microsoft Windows Filtering Platform. This extension allows data that is travelling across the virtual
switch to be filtered.

Additional Reading: For more information about virtual switches, see Hyper-V Virtual
Switch Overview at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269716.

Hyper-V Network Virtualization

Hyper-V Network Virtualization makes it
possible for you to isolate virtual machines that
share the same physical server. For example, if
you provide an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
to different businesses, you should isolate their
virtual machines from each other. With Network
Virtualization, you can assign virtual machines
to separate VLANs as a way of isolating network
traffic. You deploy Network Virtualization
primarily in scenarios where you use a server that
is running Hyper-V to host virtual machines for
another organization.

When you configure Network Virtualization, each guest virtual machine has two IP addresses that function
as follows:
• Customer IP address. This address is assigned by the customer to the virtual machine. This IP address
is configured so that communication with the customer's internal network occurs even though the
virtual machine might be hosted on a virtualization server that is connected to a separate public IP
network. To display the customer IP address, at a command prompt on the virtual machine, execute
IPCONFIG.

• Provider IP address. This address is assigned by the hosting provider. This address is visible to the
hosting provider and to other hosts on the physical network, but it is not visible from the virtual
machine.

Network Virtualization allows you to host multiple machines that use the same customer address—for
example, 192.168.15.101—on the same a server that is running Hyper-V, because the virtual machines
have different provider IP addresses.

Additional Reading: For more information about network virtualization, see Hyper-V
Network Virtualization Overview at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=269717.
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Managing Virtual Machine MAC Addresses

Unless you specify a static media access control
(MAC) address, Hyper-V dynamically allocates an
address to each virtual machine network adapter
from a pool of MAC addresses. You can configure
the address range of this pool from the MAC
Address Range setting of the Virtual Switch
Manager console. By default, a server running
Hyper-V has a pool of 255 MAC addresses.

When virtual machines use private or internal

networks, the MAC address that is allocated to
network adapters is not likely to be of concern
because the server running Hyper-V ensures that
duplicate MAC addresses are not assigned to different virtual machines. However, when you have
multiple servers that are running Hyper-V and are hosting virtual machines that use adapters connected
to external networks, you should ensure that each server uses a different pool of MAC addresses. This
ensures that separate servers that connect to the same network do not assign the same MAC addresses to
the virtual machines that they host.
When virtual machines are allocated IP addresses through a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
reservation, you should consider using static MAC addresses. A DHCP reservation ensures that a particular
IP address is always allocated to a specific MAC address.
You can configure the MAC address range by performing the following steps:

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. Select the Hyper-V host that you wish to configure.

3. On the Actions pane, click Virtual Switch Manager.

4. Under Global Network Settings, click MAC Address Range.

5. Specify a minimum and a maximum range for the MAC address.
MAC addresses are in hexadecimal format. When configuring ranges for multiple Hyper-V hosts, you
should consider changing the values of the second from the last pair of digits. The following table displays
examples of ranges for multiple Hyper-V hosts.

Hyper-V host MAC address range

Host 1 Minimum: 00-15-5D-0F-AB-00

Maximum: 00-15-5D-0F-AB-FF

Host 2 Minimum: 00-15-5D-0F-AC-00

Maximum: 00-15-5D-0F-AC-FF

Host 3 Minimum: 00-15-5D-0F-AD-00

Maximum: 00-15-5D-0F-AD-FF
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Configuring Virtual Network Adapters

Virtual network adapters allow the virtual machine
to communicate using the virtual switches that
you configure in the Virtual Switch Manager
console. You can edit the properties of a virtual
machine to modify the properties of a network
adapter. From the Network Adapter pane on the
virtual machine's Settings dialog box, you can
configure the following:

• Virtual Switch. You configure to which virtual

switch the network adapter connects.
• VLAN ID. You specify a VLAN ID that the
virtual machine uses for communication that
passes through this adapter.

• Bandwidth Management. You allocate a minimum and a maximum bandwidth for the adapter. The
minimum bandwidth allocation is reserved by Hyper-V for the network adapter, even when virtual
network adapters on other virtual machines are working at capacity.
Both synthetic network adapters and legacy network adapters support the following advanced features:
• MAC address allocation. You can configure a MAC address to be assigned from the MAC address
pool, or you can configure the network adapter to use a fixed MAC address. You can also configure
MAC address spoofing. This is useful when the virtual machine needs to provide specific network
access, such as when the virtual machine is running a mobile device emulator that requires network
access.
• DHCP Guard. This feature drops DHCP messages from virtual machines that are functioning as
unauthorized DHCP servers. This may be necessary in scenarios where you are managing a server
running Hyper-V that hosts virtual machines for others, but does not have direct control over the
configuration of those virtual machines.
• Router Guard. This feature drops router advertisement and redirection messages from virtual
machines that are configured as unauthorized routers. This may be necessary in scenarios where you
do not have direct control over the configuration of virtual machines.
• Port Mirroring. This feature allows you to copy incoming and outgoing packets from a network
adapter to another virtual machine that you have configured for monitoring.
• NIC Teaming. This feature allows you to add the virtual network adapter to an existing team on the
server running Hyper-V.

Synthetic network adapters require the guest operating system to support integration services. In addition
to the advanced features listed earlier, synthetic network adapters support the following hardware
acceleration features:

• Virtual Machine Queue. This feature uses hardware packet filtering to deliver network traffic directly
to the guest. This improves performance because the packet does not need to be copied from the
management operating system to the virtual machine. Virtual Machine Queue requires that the host
computer has a network adapter that supports this feature.
• IPsec task offloading. This feature allows calculation-intensive security association tasks to be
performed by the host's network adapter. In the event that sufficient hardware resources are not
available, the guest operating system performs these tasks. You can configure a maximum number of
offloaded security associations between 1 and 4,096. IP security (IPsec) task offloading requires guest
operating system support and network adapter support.
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• SR-IOV. Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) allows multiple virtual machines to share the same
Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express physical hardware resources. If sufficient resources
are not available, then network connectivity falls back to be provided through the virtual switch.
SR-IOV requires specific hardware and special drivers to be installed on the guest operating system.

Legacy network adapters emulate common network adapter hardware. You use legacy network adapters
in the following situations:
• You want to support network boot installation scenarios for virtual machines. For example, you want
to deploy an operating system image from a Windows Deployment Services (Windows DS) server or
through Configuration Manager.

• You need to support operating systems that do not support integration services and do not have
drivers for the synthetic network adapter.

Legacy network adapters do not support the hardware acceleration features that synthetic network
adapters support. You cannot configure virtual machine queue, IPsec task offloading, or Single-root I/O
virtualization for legacy network adapters.
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Lab: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V

Scenario
A. Datum Corporation has an IT office and data center in London, which supports the London location
and other locations. A. Datum has recently deployed a Windows Server 2012 infrastructure with Windows
8 clients. Your assignment is to configure the infrastructure service for a new branch office.

To use the server hardware that is currently available at branch offices more effectively, your manager
has decided that all branch office servers will run as virtual machines. You must now configure a virtual
network and a new virtual machine for these branch offices.

Objectives
After performing this lab, you will be able to:

• Install the Hyper-V role onto a server.

• Configure virtual networking.

• Create and configure a virtual machine.

• Use virtual machine snapshots.

Lab Setup
Estimated Time: 75 minutes

Virtual machine 20410B-LON-HOST1

User name Adatum\Administrator

Password Pa$$w0rd

1. Reboot the classroom computer and from the Windows Boot Manager, select 20410B-LON-HOST1.
2. Sign in to LON-HOST1 with the Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

Exercise 1: Installing the Hyper V Role onto a Server

Scenario
The first step in migrating to a virtualized environment for the branch office is installing the Hyper-V role
on a new Windows Server 2012 server.
The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Install the Hyper-V role onto a server.

2. Complete Hyper-V role installation and verify settings.

 Task 1: Install the Hyper-V role onto a server

1. In Server Manager, click Local Server, and then configure the following network settings:

o IP Address: 172.16.0.31

o Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

o Default gateway: 172.16.0.1

o Preferred DNS server: 172.16.0.10

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2. Use the Add Roles and Features Wizard to add the Hyper-V role to LON-HOST1 with the following
options:

o Do not create a virtual switch.

o Use the Default stores locations.

o Allow the server to restart automatically if required.

3. After a few minutes, the server restarts automatically. Ensure that you restart the machine from the
boot menu as 20410B-LON-HOST1. The computer will restart several times.

 Task 2: Complete Hyper-V role installation and verify settings

1. Sign in to LON-HOST1 using the account Administrator with the password Pa$$word.

2. When the installation of the Hyper-V tools completes, click Close.

3. Open the Hyper-V Manager console, and then click LON-HOST1.

4. Edit the Hyper-V settings of LON-HOST1, and configure the following settings:

o Keyboard: Use on the virtual machine

o Virtual Hard Disks: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have installed the Hyper-V role onto a physical server.

Exercise 2: Configuring Virtual Networking

Scenario
After installing the Hyper-V role on the new server, you need to configure the virtual network. You need
to create both a network that is connected to the physical network, and a private network that can be
used only for communication between virtual machines. The private network will be used once virtual
machines are configured for high availability. You also need to configure a specific range of MAC
addresses for the virtual machines.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Configure the external network.

2. Create a private network.

3. Create an internal network.

4. Configure the Media Access Control (MAC) address range.

 Task 1: Configure the external network

1. Open the Hyper-V Manager console, and then click LON-HOST1.
2. Use the Virtual Switch Manager to create a new External virtual network switch with the following
properties:

o Name: Switch for External Adapter

o External Network: Mapped to the host computer's physical network adapter. (This varies
depending on the host computer.)
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 Task 2: Create a private network

1. On LON-HOST1, open the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. Use the Virtual Switch Manager to create a new virtual switch with the following properties.

o Name: Private Network

o Connection type: Private network

 Task 3: Create an internal network

1. On LON-HOST1, open the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. Use the Virtual Switch Manager to create a new virtual switch with the following properties.
o Name: Internal Network

o Connection type: Internal network

 Task 4: Configure the Media Access Control (MAC) address range

1. On LON-HOST1, open the Hyper-V Manager console.
2. Use the Virtual Switch Manager to configure the following MAC Address Range settings:

o Minimum: 00-15-5D-0F-AB-A0

o Maximum: 00-15-5D-0F-AB-EF

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have configured virtual switch options on a physically
deployed Windows Server 2012 server running the Hyper-V role.

Exercise 3: Creating and Configuring a Virtual Machine

Scenario
You have been asked to deploy two virtual machines to LON-HOST1. You have copied a sysprepped VHD
file that hosts a Windows Server 2012 installation.
To minimize disk space use at the cost of performance, you are going to create two differencing VHD files
based on the sysprepped VHD. You will then use these differencing VHD files as the VHD files for the new
virtual machines.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Create differencing VHDs.

2. Create virtual machines.

3. Enable resource metering.

 Task 1: Create differencing VHDs

1. Use Windows Explorer to create the following two folders:

o E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base \LON-GUEST1

o E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base \LON-GUEST2

Note: The drive letter may depend upon the number of drives on the physical host machine.
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2. In the Hyper-V Manager console, create a VHD with the following properties:

o Disk Format: VHD

o Disk Type: Differencing

o Name: LON-GUEST1.vhd

o Location: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST1\

o Parent Location: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\Base12A-WS12-TMP.vhd

3. Open Windows PowerShell, import the Hyper-V module using the following command:

Import-Module Hyper-V

4. In Windows PowerShell, execute the following command:

New-VHD "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST2\LON-GUEST2.vhd"

-ParentPath "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\Base12A-WS12-TMP.vhd"

5. Inspect the disk at E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST2\LON-GUEST2.vhd.

6. Verify that LON-GUEST2.vhd is configured as a differencing VHD with E:\Program Files\Microsoft
Learning\Base\Base12A-WS12-TMP.vhd as a parent.

 Task 2: Create virtual machines

1. On LON-HOST1, in the Hyper-V Manager console, in the Actions pane, click New, and then click
Virtual Machine.

2. Create a virtual machine with the following properties:

o Name: LON-GUEST1
o Location: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST1\

o Memory: 1024 MB

o Use Dynamic Memory: Yes

o Networking: Private Network

o Connect Virtual Hard Disk: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST1

\lon-guest1.vhd

3. Open Windows PowerShell, import the Hyper-V module using the following command:

Import-Module Hyper-V

4. In Windows PowerShell, execute the following command:

New-VM -Name LON-GUEST2 -MemoryStartupBytes 1024MB -VHDPath "E:\Program

Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST2\LON-GUEST2.vhd" -SwitchName "Private
Network"

5. Use the Hyper-V Manager console to edit the settings of LON-GUEST2 by configuring the following:

o Automatic Start Action: Nothing

o Automatic Stop Action: Shut down the guest operating system
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 Task 3: Enable resource metering

1. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, import the Hyper-V module.

2. Enter the following commands:

Enable-VMResourceMetering LON-GUEST1
Enable-VMResourceMetering LON-GUEST2

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have deployed two separate virtual machines using a
sysprepped VHD file as a parent disk for two differencing VHDs.

Exercise 4: Using Virtual Machine Snapshots

Scenario
You are in the process of developing a strategy to mitigate the impact of incorrectly applied change
requests. As a part of this strategy development, you are testing the speed and functionality of virtual
machine snapshots to roll back to a previously existing stable configuration.

In this exercise, you will deploy Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine. You will then create a stable
configuration for that virtual machine, and take a virtual machine snapshot. Finally, you will modify the
configuration, and roll back to the snapshot.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

1. Deploy Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine.

2. Create a virtual machine snapshot.

3. Modify the virtual machine.

4. Revert to the existing virtual machine snapshot.

5. View resource metering data.

6. Revert the virtual machines.

 Task 1: Deploy Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine

1. Use the Hyper-V Manager console to start LON-GUEST1.
2. Open the Virtual Machine Connection window, and perform the following steps to deploy Windows
Server 2012 on the virtual machine:

o On the Settings page, click Skip.

o On the Settings page, select the I accept the license terms for using Windows check box, and
then click Accept.

o On the Settings page, click Next to accept the Region and Language settings.

o On the Settings page, enter the password Pa$$w0rd twice, and then click Finish.

3. Sign in to the virtual machine using the account Administrator and the password Pa$$w0rd.

4. Reset the name of the virtual machine to LON-GUEST1, and then restart the virtual machine.
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 Task 2: Create a virtual machine snapshot

1. Sign in to the LON-GUEST1 virtual machine, and verify that the name of the computer is set to
LON-GUEST1.

2. Create a snapshot of LON-GUEST1, and name the snapshot Before Change.

 Task 3: Modify the virtual machine

1. Sign in to the LON-GUEST1 virtual machine, and use the Server Manager console to change the
computer's name to LON-Computer1.

2. Reboot the virtual machine.

3. Sign in to the LON-GUEST1 virtual machine, and verify that the server name is set to
LON-Computer1.

 Task 4: Revert to the existing virtual machine snapshot

1. Use the Virtual Machine Connection window to revert the virtual machine.
2. Verify that the Computer Name of the virtual machine is now set to LON-GUEST1.

 Task 5: View resource metering data

1. On LON-HOST1, import the Hyper-V Windows PowerShell module.

2. Issue the following command:

Measure-VM LON-GUEST1

3. Note the average CPU, average RAM, and total disk use figures, and then close Windows PowerShell.

 Task 6: Revert the virtual machines

After you finish the lab, restart the computer in Windows Server 2008 R2.

1. On the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. In the Windows PowerShell window, enter the following command, and then press enter:

Shutdown /r /t 5

3. From the Windows Boot Manager, click Windows Server 2008 R2.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have used virtual machine snapshots to recover from a
virtual machine misconfiguration.

Question: What type of virtual network switch would you create if you wanted to allow the
virtual machine to communicate with the LAN that is connected to the Hyper-V virtualization
server?

Question: How can you ensure that no one single virtual machine uses all available
bandwidth provided by the Hyper-V virtualization server?

Question: What Dynamic Memory configuration task was not possible on previous versions
of Hyper-V, but which you can now perform on a virtual machine that is hosted on the
Hyper-V role on a Windows Server 2012 server?
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Module Review and Takeaways

Common Issues and Troubleshooting Tips
Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip

Cannot deploy Hyper-V on an x64

platform.

Virtual machine does not use Dynamic

Memory.

Best Practices
When implementing server virtualization with Hyper-V, use the following best practices:
• Ensure that the processor on the computer that will run Hyper-V supports hardware assisted
virtualization.

• Ensure that a virtualization server is provisioned with adequate RAM. Having multiple virtual
machines paging the hard disk drive because they have inadequate memory decreases performance
for all virtual machines on the server.

• Monitor virtual machine performance carefully. A virtual machine that uses a disproportionate
amount of server resources can reduce the performance of all other virtual machines that are hosted
on the same virtualization server.

Tools
You can use the following tools with Hyper-V to deploy and manage virtual machines.

Name of tool Used for Where to find it

Sysinternals Use to convert physical hard disks to VHD Microsoft TechNet website.
disk2vhd tool format.
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Module 1: Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2012

Lab: Deploying and Managing Windows
Server 2012
Exercise 1: Deploying Windows Server 2012
 Task 1: Install the Windows Server® 2012 server
1. Open the Hyper-V® Manager console.

2. Click 20410B-LON-SVR3. In the Actions pane, click Settings.

3. Under Hardware, click DVD Drive.

4. Click Image file, and then click Browse.

5. Browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\20410\Drives, and then click
Windows2012_RTM.iso.

6. Click Open, and then click OK.

7. In the Hyper-V Manager console, double-click 20410B-LON-SVR3.

8. In the Virtual Machine Connection window, in the Action menu, click Start.
9. In the Windows Setup Wizard, on the Windows Server 2012 page, verify the following settings, and
then click Next.

o Language to install: English (United States)

o Time and currency format: English (United States)

o Keyboard or input method: US

10. On the Windows Server 2012 page, click Install now.

11. On the Select the operating system you want to install page, select Windows Server 2012
Datacenter Evaluation (Server with a GUI), and then click Next.

12. On the License terms page, review the operating system license terms. Select the I accept the
license terms check box, and then click Next.

13. On the Which type of installation do you want? page, click Custom: Install Windows only
(advanced).
14. On the Where do you want to install Windows? page, verify that Drive 0 Unallocated Space has
enough space for the Windows Server 2012 operating system, and then click Next.

Note: Depending on the speed of the equipment, the installation will take approximately
20 minutes. The virtual machine will restart several times during this process.

15. On the Settings page, in both the Password and Reenter password boxes, enter the password
Pa$$w0rd, and then click Finish.
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 Task 2: Change the server name

1. Sign in to LON-SVR3 as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, click Local Server.

3. Click on the randomly-generated name next to Computer name.

4. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Computer Name tab, click Change.

5. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, in the Computer name text box, enter the
name LON-SVR3, and then click OK.
6. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, click OK.

7. Close the System Properties dialog box.

8. In the Microsoft Windows dialog box, click Restart Now.

 Task 3: Change the date and time

1. Sign in to server LON-SVR3 as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. On the taskbar, click the time display. A pop-up window with a calendar and a clock displays.

3. On the pop-up window, click Change date and time settings.

4. In the Date and Time dialog box, click Change Time Zone.
5. In the Time Zone Settings dialog box, set the time zone to your current time zone, and then click
OK.

6. In the Date and Time dialog box, click Change Date and Time.
7. Verify that the date and time that display in the Date and Time Settings dialog box match those in
your classroom, and then click OK.

8. Click OK to close the Date and Time dialog box.

 Task 4: Configure the network and NIC teaming

1. In the Server Manager console on LON-SVR3, click Local Server.

2. Next to NIC Teaming, click Disabled.

3. In the NIC Teaming dialog box, press and hold the Ctrl key, and then in the Adapters And
Interfaces workspace, click both Local Area Connection and Local Area Connection 2.

4. Right-click the selected network adapters, and then click Add to New Team.
5. In the New Teaming dialog box, in the Team name field. type LON-SVR3, and then click OK.

6. Close the NIC Teaming dialog box. Refresh the Server Manager console.

7. In the Server Manager console, next to LON-SVR3, click IPv4 Address Assigned by DHCP, IPv6
Enabled.

8. In the Network Connections dialog box, right-click LON-SVR3, and then click Properties.

9. In the LON-SVR3 Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then
click Properties.
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10. In the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties dialog box, enter the following IP address
information, and then click OK:

o IP address: 172.16.0.101
o Subnet Mask: 255.255.0.0

o Default Gateway: 172.16.0.1

o Preferred DNS server: 172.16.0.10

11. Click Close to close the LON-SVR3 Properties dialog box.

12. Close the Network Connections dialog box.

 Task 5: Add the server to the domain

1. On LON-SVR3, in the Server Manager console, click Local Server.

2. Next to Workgroup, click WORKGROUP.

3. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Computer Name tab, click Change.

4. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, in the Member Of area, click the Domain
option.
5. In the Domain box, type adatum.com, and then click OK.

6. In the Windows Security dialog box, enter the following details, and then click OK:

o Username: Administrator
o Password: Pa$$w0rd

7. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, click OK.

8. When informed that you must restart the computer to apply changes, click OK.
9. In the System Properties dialog box, click Close.

10. In the Microsoft Windows dialog box, click Restart Now.

11. After LON-SVR3 restarts, sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have deployed Windows Server 2012 on LON-SVR3. You also
will have configured LON-SVR3, including name change, date and time, networking, and network
teaming.

Exercise 2: Configuring Windows Server 2012 Server Core

 Task 1: Set computer name
1. Sign in to LON-CORE as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd and press Enter.

3. To select Computer Name, type 2, and then press Enter.

4. Enter the computer name LON-CORE, and then press Enter.

5. In the Restart dialog box, click Yes.
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6. Sign in to server LON-CORE using the Administrator account with the password Pa$$w0rd.

7. At the command prompt, type hostname, and then press Enter to verify the computer’s name.

 Task 2: Change the computer’s date and time

1. Ensure you are signed in to server LON-CORE as Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd, and then press Enter.

3. To select Date and Time, type 9, and then press Enter.

4. In the Date and Time dialog box, click Change time zone. Set the time zone to the same time zone
that your classroom uses, and then click OK.

5. In the Date and Time dialog box, click Change Date and Time, and verify that the date and time
match those in your location. To dismiss the dialog boxes, click OK two times.
6. In the Command Prompt window, type 15, and then press Enter to exit Server Configuration.

 Task 3: Configure the network

1. Ensure that you are signed in to server LON-CORE using the account Administrator and password
Pa$$w0rd.
2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd, and then press Enter.

3. To configure Network Settings, type 8, and then press Enter.

4. Type the index number of the network adapter that you want to configure, and then press Enter.
5. On the Network Adapter Settings page, type 1, and then press Enter. This sets the Network Adapter
Address.

6. To select static IP address configuration, type S, and then press Enter.

7. At the Enter static IP address: prompt, type 172.16.0.111, and then press Enter.

8. At the Enter subnet mask prompt, Type 255.255.0.0, and then press Enter.

9. At the Enter default gateway prompt, type 172.16.0.1, and then press Enter.

10. On the Network Adapter Settings page, type 2, and then press Enter. This configures the DNS
server address.

11. At the Enter new preferred DNS server prompt, type 172.16.0.10, and then press Enter.

12. In the Network Settings dialog box, click OK.

13. Press Enter to not configure an alternate DNS server address.

14. Type 4, and then press Enter to return to the main menu.

15. Type 15, and then press Enter to exit sconfig.cmd.

16. At the command prompt, type ping lon-dc1.adatum.com to verify connectivity to the domain
controller from LON-CORE.

 Task 4: Add the server to the domain

1. Ensure that you are signed in to server LON-CORE using the account Administrator with password
Pa$$w0rd.

2. At the command prompt, type sconfig.cmd, and then press Enter.

3. To switch to configure Domain/Workgroup, type 1, and then press Enter.

4. To join a domain, type D, and then press Enter.
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5. At the Name of domain to join prompt, type adatum.com and press Enter.

6. At the Specify an authorized domain\user prompt, type Adatum\Administrator, and then press
Enter.
7. At the Type the password associated with the domain user prompt, type Pa$$w0rd and then
press Enter.

8. At the Change Computer Name prompt, click No.

9. In the Restart dialog box, click Yes.

10. Sign in to server LON-CORE with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have configured a Windows Server 2012 Server Core
deployment, and verified the server’s name.

Exercise 3: Managing Servers

 Task 1: Create a server group
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. In the Server Manager console, click Dashboard, and then click Create a server group.

3. In the Create Server Group dialog box, click the Active Directory tab, and then click Find Now.
4. In the Server group name box, type LAB-1.
5. Use the arrow to add LON-CORE and LON-SVR3 to the server group. Click OK to close the Create
Server Group dialog box.

6. In the Server Manager console, click LAB-1. Press and hold the Ctrl key, and then select both
LON-CORE and LON-SVR3.

7. Scroll down, and under the Performance section, select both LON-CORE and LON-SVR3.

8. Right-click LON-CORE, and then click Start Performance Counters.

 Task 2: Deploy features and roles to both servers

1. In Server Manager on LON-DC1, click LAB-1.

2. Scroll to the top of the pane, right-click LON-CORE, and then click Add Roles and Features.

3. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Next.

4. On the Select installation type page, click Role-based or feature-based installation, and then
click Next.

5. On the Select destination server page, verify that LON-CORE.Adatum.com is selected, and then
click Next.

6. On the Select server roles page, select Web Server (IIS), and then click Next.
7. On the Features page, select Windows Server Backup, and then click Next.

8. On the Web Server Role (IIS) page, click Next.

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9. On the Select Role Services page, add the Windows Authentication role service, and then
click Next.

10. On the Confirm installation selections page, select the Restart the destination server
automatically if required check box, and then click Install.
11. Click Close to close the Add Roles and Features Wizard.

12. In Server Manager, right-click LON-SVR3, and then click Add Roles and Features.

13. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, on the Before you begin page, Click Next.
14. On the Select installation type page, click Role-based or feature-based installation. Click Next.

15. On the Select destination server page, verify that LON-SVR3.Adatum.com is selected, and then
click Next.

16. On the Server Roles page, click Next.

17. On the Select features page, click Windows Server Backup, and then click Next.

18. On the Confirm installation selections page, select the Restart the destination server
automatically if required check box, and then click Install.

19. Once the install commences, click Close.

20. In Server Manager, click the IIS node, and verify that LON-CORE is listed.

 Task 3: Review services, and change a service setting

1. Sign in to LON-CORE with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In the Command Prompt window, type the following command, and then press Enter:

netsh.exe firewall set service remoteadmin enable ALL

3. Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.
4. In Server Manager, click LAB-1.

5. Right-click LON-CORE, and then click Computer Management.

6. In the Computer Management console, expand Services and Applications, and then click Services.
7. Right-click the World Wide Web Publishing service, and then click Properties. Verify that the
Startup type is set to Automatic.

8. In the World Wide Web Publishing Service dialog box, on the Log On tab, verify that the service is
configured to use the Local System account.

9. On the Recovery tab, configure the following settings, and then click the Restart Computer Options
button:
o First failure: Restart the Service

o Second failure: Restart the Service

o Subsequent failures: Restart the Computer.

o Reset fail count after: 1 days

o Restart service after: 1 minute

10. In the Restart Computer Options dialog box, in the Restart Computer After box, type 2, and then
click OK.
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11. Click OK to close the World Wide Web Publishing Services Properties dialog box.

12. Close the Computer Management console.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have created a server group, deployed roles and features,
and configured the properties of a service.

Exercise 4: Using Windows PowerShell to Manage Servers

 Task 1: Use Windows PowerShell® to connect remotely to servers and view
information
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 with the Adatum\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In the Server Manager console, click LAB-1.

3. Right-click LON-CORE, and then click Windows PowerShell.

4. At the command prompt, type Import-Module ServerManager, and then press Enter.
5. Type Get-WindowsFeature and then press Enter to review the roles and features installed on
LON-CORE.

6. Type the following command to review the running services on LON-CORE and then press Enter:

Get-service | where-object {$_.status -eq “Running”}

7. Type get-process, and then press Enter to view a list of processes on LON-CORE.

8. Type the following command to review the IP addresses assigned to the server and then press Enter:

Get-NetIPAddress | Format-table

9. Type the following command to review the most recent 10 items in the security log and then press
Enter:

Get-EventLog Security -Newest 10

10. Close Windows PowerShell.

 Task 2: Use Windows PowerShell to remotely install new features

1. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.
2. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type import-module ServerManager, and then
press Enter.

3. To verify that the XPS Viewer feature has not been installed on LON-SVR3, type the following
command, and then press Enter:

Get-WindowsFeature -ComputerName LON-SVR3

4. To deploy the XPS Viewer feature on LON-SVR3, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Install-WindowsFeature XPS-Viewer -ComputerName LON-SVR3

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5. To verify that the XPS Viewer feature has now been deployed on LON-SVR3, type the following
command and then press Enter:

Get-WindowsFeature -ComputerName LON-SVR3

6. In the Server Manager console, from the Tools drop-down menu, click Windows PowerShell ISE.

7. In the Windows PowerShell ISE window, in the Untitled1.ps1 script pane, type the following, pressing
Enter after each line:

Import-Module ServerManager
Install-WindowsFeature WINS -ComputerName LON-SVR3
Install-WindowsFeature WINS -ComputerName LON-CORE

8. Click the Save icon. Select the root of Local Disk (C:). Create a new folder named Scripts, and then
save the script in that folder as InstallWins.ps1.

9. Press the F5 key to run the script.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have used Windows PowerShell to perform a remote
installation of features on multiple servers.

 To prepare for the next module

When you have completed the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this,
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, switch to the Hyper-V Manager console.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CORE and 20410B-LON-SVR3.

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Module 2: Introduction to Active Directory Domain Services

Lab: Installing Domain Controllers
Exercise 1: Installing a Domain Controller
 Task 1: Add an Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS) role to a member server
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, in the left column, click All Servers.

2. Right-click All Servers, and then click Add Servers.

3. In the Add Servers dialog box, in the Name (CN) box, type LON-SVR1, and then click Find Now.

4. Under Name, click LON-SVR1, and then click the arrow to add the server to the Selected column.

5. Click OK to close the Add Servers dialog box.

6. In Server Manager, in the Servers window, right-click LON-SVR1, and then select Add Roles and
Features.
7. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Next.

8. In the Select installation type window, ensure that Role-based or feature-based installation is
selected, and then click Next.
9. On the Select destination server page, ensure that Select a server from the server pool is
selected. In the Server Pool window, verify that LON-SVR1.Adatum.com is highlighted, and then
click Next.

10. On the Select server roles page, select the Active Directory Domain Services check box, click Add
Features, and then click Next.
11. On the Select features page, click Next.
12. On the Active Directory Domain Services page, click Next.

13. On the Confirm installation selections page, select the Restart the destination server
automatically if required check box, and then click Install.
14. Installation will take several minutes. When the installation completes, click Close to close the Add
Roles and Features Wizard.

 Task 2: Configure a server as a domain controller

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, on the menu bar, click the Notifications button.
2. In the Post-deployment Configuration window, click Promote this server to a domain controller.

3. In the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard, on the Deployment Configuration
page, ensure that the Add a domain controller to an existing domain radio button is selected, and
then, beside the Domain line, click Select.

4. In the Windows Security dialog box, in the Username box, type Adatum\Administrator, in the
Password box, type Pa$$w0rd, and then click OK.
5. In the Select a domain from the forest window, click adatum.com, and then click OK.

6. In the Deployment Configuration window, click Next.

7. On the Domain Controller Options page, ensure that Domain Name System (DNS) server is
selected, and then deselect the check box next to Global Catalog (GC).
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Note: You would usually also want to enable the global catalog, but for the purpose of this
lab, this is done in the next lab task.

8. In the Type the Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) password section, type Pa$$w0rd in
both text boxes, and then click Next.

9. On the DNS Options page, click Next.

10. On the Additional Options page, Click Next.

11. On the Paths page, accept the default folders, and then click Next.

12. On the Review Options page, click View Script, examine the Windows PowerShell script that the
wizard generates. Close the Notepad window.
13. On the Review Options page, click Next.

14. On the Prerequisites Check page, read any warning messages, and then click Install.

15. When the task completes successfully, click Close.

16. Wait for the server to restart.

 Task 3: Configure a server as a Global Catalog server

1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Sites and Services.

3. When the Active Directory Sites and Services window opens, expand Sites, expand
Default-First-Site-Name, expand Servers, and then expand LON-SVR1.

4. In the left column, right-click NTDS Settings, and then click Properties.
5. In the NTDS Settings Properties dialog box, select the Global Catalog check box, and then
click OK.

6. Close Active Directory Sites and Services.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have explored Server Manager and promoted a member
server to be a domain controller.

Exercise 2: Installing a Domain Controller by Using IFM

 Task 1: Use the Ntdsutil tool to generate IFM
1. On LON-DC1, point the mouse at the lower-right corner of the Start screen, and click the Start charm
when it appears.

2. On the Start screen, type CMD, and then press Enter.

3. At a command prompt, type the following, pressing Enter after each line:

Ntdsutil
Activate instance ntds
Ifm
Create sysvol full c:\ifm
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 Task 2: Add the AD DS role to the member server

1. Switch to LON-SVR2, and, if required, sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password
Pa$$w0rd.

2. Point the mouse at the lower-right corner of the desktop, and click the Start charm when it appears.
3. On the Start screen, type CMD, and then press Enter.

4. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Net use k: \\LON-DC1\c$\IFM

5. Switch to Server Manager.

6. From the list on the left, click Local Server.

7. In the toolbar, click Manage, and then click Add Roles and Features.

8. On the Before you begin page, click Next.

9. On the Select installation type page, ensure that Role-based or feature-based installation is
selected, and then click Next.

10. On the Select destination server page, verify that LON-SVR2.Adatum.com is highlighted, and then
click Next.

11. On the Select server roles page, click Active Directory Domain Services.

12. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Add Features, and then click Next.

13. On the Select Features page, click Next.

14. On the Active Directory Domain Services page, click Next.

15. On the Confirm installation selections page, click Restart the destination server automatically if
required. Click Yes at the message box.

16. Click Install.

17. After the installation completes, click Close.

Note: If you see a message stating that a delegation for the DNS server cannot be created,
click OK.

 Task 3: Use IFM to configure a member server as a new domain controller

1. On LON-SVR2, open a Command Prompt window.
2. At the command prompt, type the following commands, and then press Enter:

Robocopy k: c:\ifm /copyall /s

3. Close the Command Prompt window.

4. In the Server Manager toolbar, click the Notifications button.

5. In the Post-deployment Configuration window, click Promote this server to a domain controller.

6. On the Deployment Configuration page, ensure that Add a domain controller to an existing
domain is selected, and confirm that adatum.com is the target domain. Click Next.
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7. On the Domain Controller Options page, ensure that both Domain Name System (DNS) server
and global catalog are selected. For the DSRM password, enter Pa$$w0rd in both boxes, and then
click Next.

8. On the DNS Options page, click Next.

9. On the Additional Options page, select the Install from media check box, in the text box, type
C:\ifm, and then click verify.

10. When the path has been verified, click Next.

11. On the Paths page, click Next.

12. On the Review Options page, click Next, and then observe the Active Directory Domain Services
Configuration Wizard as it performs a check for prerequisites.
13. Click Install, and wait while AD DS is configured. While this task is running, read the information
messages that display on the screen.

14. Wait for the server to restart.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have installed an additional domain controller for the
branch office by using IFM.

 To prepare for the next module

When you have completed the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this,
complete the following steps:

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1, 20410B-LON-RTR, and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

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Module 3: Managing Active Directory Domain Services

Objects
Lab: Managing Active Directory Domain
Services Objects
Exercise 1: Delegating Administration for a Branch Office
 Task 1: Delegate administration for Branch Administrators
1. Switch to LON-DC1.

2. From Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
3. In Active Directory Users and Computers, click Adatum.com.

4. Right-click Adatum.com, point to New, and then click Organizational Unit.

5. In the New Object – Organizational Unit dialog box, in the Name box, type Branch Office 1, and
then click OK.

6. Right-click Branch Office 1, point to New, and then click Group.

7. In the New Object – Group dialog box, in the Group name box, type Branch 1 Help Desk, and then
click OK.
8. Right-click Branch Office 1, point to New, and then click Group.

9. In the New Object – Group dialog box, in the Group name box, type Branch 1 Administrators, and
then click OK.
10. Right-click Branch Office 1, point to New, and then click Group.

11. In the New Object – Group dialog box, in the Group name box, type Branch 1 Users, and then click
OK.
12. In the navigation pane, click IT.

13. In the details pane, right-click Holly Dickson, and then click Move.
14. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.

15. In the navigation pane, click the Development organizational unit (OU).

16. In the details pane, right-click Bart Duncan, and then click Move.

17. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.
18. In the navigation pane, click the Managers OU.

19. In the details pane, right-click Ed Meadows, and then click Move.
20. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.

21. In the navigation pane, click the Marketing OU.

22. In the details pane, right-click Connie Vrettos, and then click Move.
23. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.

24. In the navigation pane, click the Research OU.

25. In the details pane, right-click Barbara Zighetti, and then click Move.
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26. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.

27. In the navigation pane, click the Sales OU.

28. In the details pane, right-click Arlene Huff, and then click Move.

29. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.

30. In the navigation pane, click Branch Office 1.

31. In the navigation pane, click Computers.

32. In the details pane, right-click LON-CL1, and then click Move.

33. In the Move dialog box, click Branch Office 1, and then click OK.

34. Switch to LON-CL1.

35. Pause your mouse pointer in the lower-right corner of the display, and then click Settings.

36. Click Power, and then click Restart.

37. When the computer has restarted, sign in as Adatum\Administrator with the password of
Pa$$w0rd.

38. Switch to LON-DC1.

39. If necessary, switch to Active Directory Users and Computers.

40. In the navigation pane, right-click Branch Office 1, click Delegate Control, and then click Next.
41. On the Users or Groups page, click Add.

42. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select
(examples) box, type Branch 1 Administrators, and then click OK.
43. On the Users or Groups page, click Next.

44. On the Tasks to Delegate page, in the Delegate the following common tasks list, select the
following check boxes, and then click Next:
o Create, delete, and manage user accounts

o Reset user passwords and force password change at next logon

o Read all user information

o Create, delete and manage groups

o Modify the membership of a group

o Manage Group Policy links

45. On the Completing the Delegation of Control Wizard page, click Finish.

46. In the navigation pane, right-click Branch Office 1, click Delegate Control, and then click Next.

47. On the Users or Groups page, click Add.

48. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select
(examples) box, type Branch 1 Administrators, and then click OK.
49. On the Users or Groups page, click Next.

50. On the Tasks to Delegate page, click Create a custom task to delegate, and then click Next.
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51. On the Active Directory Object Type page, select Only the following objects in the folder, select
the following check boxes, and then click Next:

o Computer objects
o Create selected objects in this folder

o Delete selected objects in this folder

52. On the Permissions page, select both the General check box and the Full Control check box, and
then click Next.
53. On the Completing the Delegation of Control Wizard page, click Finish.

 Task 2: Delegate a user administrator for the Branch Office Help Desk
1. On LON-DC1, in the navigation pane, right-click Branch Office 1, click Delegate Control, and then
click Next.

2. On the Users or Groups page, click Add.

3. In the Select Users, Computers, or Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select
(examples) box, type Branch 1 Help Desk and then click OK.
4. On the Users or Groups page, click Next.

5. On the Tasks to Delegate page, in the Delegate the following common tasks list, select the
following check boxes, and then click Next:
o Reset user passwords and force password change at next logon

o Read all user information

o Modify the membership of a group

6. On the Completing the Delegation of Control Wizard page, click Finish.

 Task 3: Add a member to the Branch Administrators

1. On LON-DC1, in the navigation pane, click Branch Office 1.
2. In the details pane, right-click Holly Dickson, and then click Add to a group.

3. In the Select Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select (examples) box, type
Branch 1 Administrators, and then click OK.
4. In the Active Directory Domain Services dialog box, click OK.
5. In the details pane, right-click Branch 1 Administrators, and then click Add to a group.

6. In the Select Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select (examples) box, type
Server Operators, and then click OK.

7. In the Active Directory Domain Services dialog box, click OK.

8. On your host computer, in the 20410B-LON-DC1 window, on the Action menu, click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

9. On LON-DC1, click Sign out.

10. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Holly with the password Pa$$w0rd. You can log on locally at a
domain controller because Holly belongs indirectly to the Server Operators domain local group.
11. On the desktop, in the taskbar, click Server Manager.

12. In the User Account Control dialog box, in the User name box, type Holly. In the Password box,
type Pa$$w0rd, and then click Yes.
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13. From Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

14. In Active Directory Users and Computers, expand Adatum.com.

15. In the navigation pane, click Sales.

16. In the details pane, right-click Aaren Ekelund, and then click Delete.

17. Click Yes to confirm.

18. Click OK to acknowledge that you do not have permissions to perform this task.

19. In the navigation pane, click Branch Office 1.

20. In the details pane, right-click Ed Meadows, and then click Delete.

21. Click Yes to confirm. You are successful because you have the required permissions.

 Task 4: Add a member to the Branch Help Desk group

1. On LON-DC1, in the details pane, right-click Bart Duncan, and then click Add to a group.
2. In the Select Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select (examples) box, type
Branch 1 Help Desk, and then click OK.

3. In the Active Directory Domain Services dialog box, click OK.

4. Close Active Directory Users and Computers.

5. Close Server Manager.

6. On the desktop, click Server Manager.

7. In the User Account Control dialog box, in the User name box, type Adatum\Administrator. In the
Password box, type Pa$$w0rd, and then click Yes.

Note: To modify the Server Operators membership list, you must have permissions beyond
those available to the Branch 1 Administrators group.

8. In Server Manager, click Tools.

9. In the Tools list, click Active Directory Users and Computers.
10. In Active Directory Users and Computers, expand Adatum.com.

11. In the navigation pane, click Branch Office 1.

12. In the details pane, right-click Branch 1 Help Desk, and then click Add to a group.

13. In the Select Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select (examples) box, type
Server Operators, and then click OK.
14. In the Active Directory Domain Services dialog box, click OK.

15. On your host computer, in the 20410B-LON-DC1 window, on the Action menu, click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

16. On LON-DC1, click Sign out.

17. Sign in as Adatum\Bart with the password Pa$$w0rd. You can log on locally at a domain controller
because Bart belongs indirectly to the Server Operators domain local group.

18. On the desktop, click Server Manager.

19. In the User Account Control dialog box, in the User name box, type Bart. In the Password box,
type Pa$$w0rd, and then click Yes.
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20. In Server Manager, click Tools.

21. Click Active Directory Users and Computers.

22. In Active Directory Users and Computers, expand Adatum.com.

23. In the navigation pane, click Branch Office 1.

24. In the details pane, right-click Connie Vrettos, and then click Delete.

25. Click Yes to confirm. You are unsuccessful because Bart lacks the required permissions. Click OK.

26. Right-click Connie Vrettos, and then click Reset Password.

27. In the Reset Password dialog box, in the New password and Confirm password boxes, type
Pa$$w0rd, and then click OK.
28. Click OK to confirm the successful password reset.

29. On your host computer, in the 20410B-LON-DC1 window, on the Action menu, click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

30. On LON-DC1, click Sign out.

31. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After this exercise, you should have successfully created an OU, and delegated administration of
it to the appropriate group.

Exercise 2: Creating and Configuring User Accounts in AD DS

 Task 1: Create a user template for the branch office
1. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Windows® Explorer icon.
2. Click Desktop, and then double-click Computer.

3. Double-click Local Disk (C:).

4. On the menu, click Home, and then click New folder.

5. Type branch1-userdata, and then press Enter.

6. Right-click branch1-userdata, and then click Properties.

7. In the branch1-userdata Properties dialog box, on the Sharing tab, click Advanced Sharing.

8. Select the Share this folder check box, and then click Permissions.
9. In the Permissions for branch1-userdata dialog box, select the Full Control Allow check box, and
then click OK.

10. In the Advanced Sharing dialog box, click OK, and then in the branch1-userdata Properties dialog
box, click Close.

11. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers, and then
expand Adatum.com.

12. Right-click Branch Office1, point to New, and then click User.

13. In the New Object – User dialog box, in the Full name box, type _Branch_template.

14. In the User logon name box, type _Branch_template, and then click Next.

15. In the Password and Confirm password boxes, type Pa$$w0rd.

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16. Select the Account is disabled check box, and then click Next.

17. Click Finish.

 Task 2: Configure the template settings

1. On LON-DC1, from within the Branch Office 1 OU, right-click _Branch_template, and then click
Properties.

2. In the _Branch_template Properties dialog box, on the Address tab, in the City box, type Slough.

3. Click the Member Of tab, and then click Add.

4. In the Select Groups dialog box, in the Enter the object names to select (examples) box, type
Branch 1 Users, and then click OK.

5. Click the Profile tab.

6. Under Home folder, click Connect, and in the To box, type
\\lon-dc1\branch1-userdata\%username%.

7. Click Apply, and then click OK.

 Task 3: Create a new user for the branch office, based on the template
1. On LON-DC1, right-click _Branch_template, and then click Copy.
2. In the New Object – User dialog box, in the First name box, type Ed.

3. In the Last name box, type Meadows.

4. In the User logon name box, type Ed, and then click Next.
5. In the Password and Confirm password boxes, type Pa$$w0rd.

6. Clear the User must change password at next logon check box.
7. Clear the Account is disabled check box, and then click Next.
8. Click Finish.

9. Right-click Ed Meadows, and then click Properties.

10. In the Ed Meadows Properties dialog box, click the Address tab. Notice that the City is already
configured.

11. Click the Profile tab. Notice that the home folder location is already configured.
12. Click the Member Of tab. Notice that Ed belongs to the Branch 1 Users group. Click OK.

13. On your host computer, in the 20410B-LON-DC1 window, on the Action menu, click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

14. On LON-DC1, click Sign out.

 Task 4: Sign in as a user to test account settings

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. On your host computer, in the 20410B-LON-CL1 window, on the menu, click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

3. On LON-CL1, click Sign out.

4. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Ed with the password of Pa$$w0rd.

5. On the Start screen, click Desktop.

6. On the taskbar, click the File Explorer icon.

7. In the navigation pane, click Desktop, and then in the details pane, double-click Computer.
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8. Verify that drive Z is mapped to \\lon-dc1\branch1userdata\Ed.

9. Double-click Ed (\\lon-dc1\branch1-userdata) (Z:).

10. If you receive no errors, you have been successful.

11. On your host computer, in the 20410B-LON-CL1 window, on the Action menu, click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

12. On LON-CL1, click Sign out.

Results: After this exercise, you should have successfully created and tested a user account created from a
template.

Exercise 3: Managing Computer Objects in AD DS

 Task 1: Reset a computer account
1. On LON-DC1, sign in as Adatum\Holly with the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. On the taskbar, click Server Manager.

3. In the User Account Control dialog box, in the User name box, type Holly. In the Password box,
type Pa$$w0rd, and then click Yes.
4. From Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

5. In Active Directory Users and Computers, expand Adatum.com.

6. In the navigation pane, click Branch Office 1.

7. In the details pane, right-click LON-CL1, and then click Reset Account.

8. In the Active Directory Domain Services dialog box, click Yes, and then click OK.

 Task 2: Observe the behavior when a client logs on

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. Sign in as Adatum\Ed with the password Pa$$w0rd.

3. A message displays stating that The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary
domain failed.
4. Click OK.

 Task 3: Rejoin the domain to reconnect the computer account

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. On the Start screen, right-click the display, click All apps, and in the Apps list, click Control Panel.
3. In Control Panel, in the View by list, click Large icons, and then click System.

4. In the navigation list, click Advanced system settings.

5. In System Properties, click the Computer Name tab, and then click Network ID.

6. On the Select the option that describes your network page, click Next.

7. On the Is your company network on a domain? page, click Next.

8. On the You will need the following information page, click Next.
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9. On the Type your user name, password, and domain name for your domain account page, in
the Password box, type Pa$$w0rd. Leave the other fields completed, and then click Next.

10. In the User Account and Domain Information dialog box, click Yes.
11. On the Do you want to enable a domain user account on this computer? page, click Do not add
a domain user account, and then click Next.

12. Click Finish, and then click OK.

13. In the Microsoft Windows dialog box, click Restart Now.

14. Sign in as Adatum\Ed with the password of Pa$$w0rd. You are successful because the computer had
been successfully rejoined.

Results: After this exercise, you should have successfully reset a trust relationship.

 To prepare for the next module

When you have completed the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this,
complete the following steps:
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.
2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-CL1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-DC1.
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Module 4: Automating Active Directory Domain Services

Administration
Lab: Automating AD DS Administration by
Using Windows PowerShell
Exercise 1: Creating User Accounts and Groups by Using Windows
PowerShell
 Task 1: Create a user account by using Windows PowerShell
1. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell® icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

New-ADOrganizationalUnit LondonBranch

3. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

New-ADUser -Name Ty -DisplayName "Ty Carlson" -GivenName Ty -Surname Carlson -Path

"ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com"

4. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Set-ADAccountPassword Ty

5. When prompted for the current password, press Enter.

6. When prompted for the desired password, type Pa$$w0rd, and then press Enter.

7. When prompted to repeat the password, type Pa$$w0rd, and then press Enter.

8. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type Enable-ADAccount Ty, and then press Enter.
9. On LON-CL1, sign in as Ty using a password of Pa$$w0rd.

10. Verify that sign in is successful and then sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 2: Create a group by using Windows PowerShell

1. On LON-DC1, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press
Enter:

New-ADGroup LondonBranchUsers -Path "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com" -GroupScope

Global -GroupCategory Security

2. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Add-ADGroupMember LondonBranchUsers -Members Ty

3. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Get-ADGroupMember LondonBranchUsers

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have created user accounts and groups by using Windows
PowerShell.
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Exercise 2: Using Windows PowerShell to Create User Accounts in Bulk

 Task 1: Prepare the .csv file
1. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Windows® Explorer icon.

2. In the Windows Explorer window, expand E:, expand Labfiles, and then click Mod04.
3. Right-click LabUsers.ps1, and then click Edit.

4. In Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), read the comments at the top of the
script, and then identify the requirements for the header in the .csv file.

5. Close Windows PowerShell ISE.

6. In Windows Explorer, double-click LabUsers.csv.

7. In the How do you want to open this type of file (.csv) window, click Notepad.
8. In Notepad, type the following line at the top of the file:
FirstName,LastName,Department,DefaultPassword
9. Click File, and then click Save.

10. Close Notepad.

 Task 2: Prepare the script

1. On LON-DC1, in Windows Explorer, right-click LabUsers.ps1, and then click Edit.
2. In Windows PowerShell ISE, under Variables, replace C:\path\file.csv with
E:\Labfiles\Mod04\LabUsers.csv.

3. Under Variables, replace "ou=orgunit,dc=domain,dc=com" with

"ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com".
4. Click File, and then click Save.

5. Scroll down and review the contents of the script.

6. Close Windows PowerShell ISE.

 Task 3: Run the script

1. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type cd E:\Labfiles\Mod04, and then press Enter.
3. Type .\LabUsers.ps1, and then press Enter.

4. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com"

5. Close the Windows PowerShell prompt.

6. On LON-CL1, sign in as Luka using a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have used Windows PowerShell to create user accounts in
bulk.
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Exercise 3: Using Windows PowerShell to Modify User Accounts in Bulk

 Task 1: Force all user accounts in LondonBranch to change their passwords at
next logon
1. On LON-DC1, on the task bar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell Prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com" | Format-Wide

DistinguishedName

3. Verify that only users from the LondonBranch organizational unit (OU) are listed.

4. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase "ou=LondonBranch,dc=adatum,dc=com" |

Set-ADUser -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true

5. Close Windows PowerShell.

 Task 2: Configure the address for user accounts in LondonBranch

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Administrative
Center.

2. In Active Directory Administrative Center, in the Navigation pane, expand Adatum (local) and
double-click LondonBranch.

3. Click the Type column header to sort based on the object type.

4. Select all user accounts, right-click the user accounts, and then click Properties.
5. In the Multiple Users window, under Organization, select the Address check box.

6. In the Street box, type Branch Office.

7. In the City box, type London.

8. In the Country/Region box, click United Kingdom, and then click OK.

9. Close Active Directory Administrative Center.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have modified user accounts in bulk.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert all virtual machines back to their initial state by performing the following
steps:

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-CL1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 to 3 for 20410B-LON-DC1.

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Module 5: Implementing IPv4

Lab: Implementing IPv4
Exercise 1: Identifying Appropriate Subnets
 Task 1: Calculate the bits required to support the hosts on each subnet
1. How many bits are required to support 100 hosts on the client subnet?

Seven bits are required to support 100 hosts on the client subnet (27-2=126, 26-2=62).

2. How many bits are required to support 10 hosts on the server subnet?
Four bits are required to support 10 hosts on the server subnet (24-2=14,23-2=6).
3. How many bits are required to support 40 hosts on the future expansion subnet?

Six bits are required to support 40 hosts on the future expansion subnet (26-2=62, 25-2=30).
4. If all subnets are the same size, can they be accommodated?

No. If all subnets are the same size, then all subnets must use 7 bits to support 126 hosts. Only a
single class C–sized address with 254 hosts has been allocated. Three subnets of 126 hosts would not
fit.
5. Which feature allows a single network to be divided into subnets of varying sizes?

Variable length subnet masking allows you to define different subnet masks when subnetting.
Therefore, variable length subnet masking allows you to have subnets of varying sizes.
6. How many host bits will you use for each subnet? Use the simplest allocation possible, which is one
large subnet and two equal sized smaller subnets.

The client subnet is 7 host bits. This allows for up to 126 hosts and uses half of the allocated address
pool.

The server and future expansion subnets are 6 host bits. This allows for up to 62 hosts on each subnet
and uses the other half of the address pool.

 Task 2: Calculate subnet masks and network IDs

1. Given the number of host bits allocated, what is the subnet mask that you will use for the client
subnet? Calculate the subnet mask in binary and decimal.
• The client subnet is using 7 bits for the host ID. Therefore, you will use 25 bits for the subnet
mask.

Binary Decimal

11111111.11111111.11111111.10000000 255.255.255.128
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2. Given the number of host bits allocated, what is the subnet mask that you will use for the server
subnet? Calculate the subnet mask in binary and decimal.

• The server subnet is using 6 bits for the host ID. Therefore, you will use 26 bits for the subnet
mask.

Binary Decimal

11111111.11111111.11111111.11000000 255.255.255.192

3. Given the number of host bits allocated, what is the subnet mask that you will use for the future
expansion subnet? Calculate the subnet mask in binary and decimal.

• The future expansion subnet is using 6 bits for the host ID. Therefore, you will use 26 bits for the
subnet mask.

Binary Decimal

11111111.11111111.11111111.11000000 255.255.255.192

4. For the client subnet, define the network ID, first available host, last available host, and broadcast
address. Assume that the client subnet is the first subnet allocated from the available address pool.
Calculate the binary and decimal versions of each address.

In this table, the bits in bold are part of the network ID.

Description Binary Decimal

Network ID 11000000.10101000.1100010.00000000 192.168.98.0

First host 11000000.10101000.1100010.00000001 192.168.98.1

Last host 11000000.10101000.1100010.01111110 192.168.98.126

Broadcast 11000000.10101000.1100010.01111111 192.168.98.127

5. For the server subnet, define the network ID, first available host, last available host, and broadcast
address. Assume that the server subnet is the second subnet allocated from the available address
pool. Calculate the binary and decimal versions of each address.
In this table, the bits in bold are part of the network ID.

Description Binary Decimal

Network ID 11000000.10101000.1100010.10000000 192.168.98.128

First host 11000000.10101000.1100010.10000001 192.168.98.129

Last host 11000000.10101000.1100010.10111110 192.168.98.190

Broadcast 11000000.10101000.1100010.10111111 192.168.98.191

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6. For the future allocation subnet, define the network ID, first available host, last available host, and
broadcast address. Assume that the future allocation subnet is the third subnet allocated from the
available address pool. Calculate the binary and decimal versions of each address.

In this table, the bits in bold are part of the network ID.

Description Binary Decimal

Network ID 11000000.10101000.1100010.11000000 192.168.98.192

First host 11000000.10101000.1100010.11000001 192.168.98.193

Last host 11000000.10101000.1100010.11111110 192.168.98.254

Broadcast 11000000.10101000.1100010.11111111 192.168.98.255

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have identified the subnets required to meet the
requirements of the lab scenario.

Exercise 2: Troubleshooting IPv4

 Task 1: Prepare for troubleshooting
1. On LON-SVR2, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell® icon.
2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type ping LON-DC1, and then press Enter.

3. Open a Windows® Explorer window, and browse to \\LON-DC1\E$\Labfiles\Mod05.

4. Right-click Break.ps1, and then click Run with PowerShell.

5. Close Windows Explorer.

 Task 2: Troubleshoot IPv4 connectivity between LON-SVR2 and LON-DC1

1. On LON-SVR2, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type ping LON-DC1, and then press Enter. Notice
that the destination host is unreachable.
2. Type tracert LON-DC1, and then press Enter. Notice that the host is unable to find the default
gateway, and that it is not the default gateway that is responding back.

3. Type ipconfig, and then press Enter. Notice that the default gateway is configured correctly.

4. Type ping 10.10.0.1, and then press Enter. Notice that the default gateway is responding, but that
packets are not being routed there.

5. Type Get-NetRoute, and then press Enter. Notice that the entry for the default gateway (0.0.0.0) is
correct, but there is an unnecessary entry for the 172.16.0.0 network.

6. Type Remove-NetRoute –DestinationPrefix 172.16.0.0/16, and then press Enter. This removes the
unnecessary route to the 172.16.0.0 network. The default gateway will be used for routing instead.
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7. Press Y, and then press Enter to confirm removal of the route from active routes.

8. Type ping LON-DC1, and then press Enter. Notice that the ping is now successful.

Results: After completing this lab, you will have resolved an IPv4 connectivity problem.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps.

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-RTR and 20410B-LON-SVR2.

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Module 6: Implementing Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol
Lab: Implementing DHCP
Exercise 1: Implementing DHCP
 Task 1: Install the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server role
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In Server Manager, click Add roles and features.

3. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Next.

4. On the Select installation type page, click Next.

5. On Select destination server page, click Next.

6. On the Select server roles page, select the DHCP Server check box.

7. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Add Features, and then click Next.

8. On the Select features page, click Next.

9. On the DHCP Server page, click Next.

10. On the Confirm installation selections page, click Install.

11. On the Installation progress page, wait until the Installation succeeded on lon-svr1.adatum.com
message displays, and then click Close.

 Task 2: Configure the DHCP scope and options

1. In the Server Manager Dashboard, click Tools, and then click DHCP.

2. In the DHCP console, expand and right-click on lon-svr1.adatum.com, and then click Authorize.
3. In the DHCP console, right-click lon-svr1.adatum.com, and then click Refresh. Notice that the icons
next to IPv4 IPv6 changes color from red to green, which means that DHCP server has been
authorized in Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS).
4. In the DHCP console, in the navigation pane, click lon-svr1.adatum.com, expand and right-click
IPv4, and then click New Scope.

5. In the New Scope Wizard, click Next.

6. On the Scope Name page, in the Name box, type Branch Office, and then click Next.
7. On the IP Address Range page, complete the page using the following information, and then click
Next:

o Start IP address: 172.16.0.100

o End IP address: 172.16.0.200

o Length: 16

o Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

8. On the Add Exclusions and Delay page, complete the page using the following information:

o Start IP address: 172.16.0.190

o End IP address: 172.16.0.200
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9. Click Add, and then click Next.

10. On the Lease Duration page, click Next.

11. On the Configure DHCP Options page, click Next.

12. On the Router (Default Gateway) page, in the IP address box, type 172.16.0.1, click Add, and then
click Next.

13. On the Domain Name and DNS Servers page, click Next.
14. On the WINS Servers page, click Next.

15. On the Activate Scope page, click Next.

16. On the Completing the New Scope Wizard page, click Finish.

 Task 3: Configure client to use DHCP, and then test the configuration
1. Switch to the LON-CL1 computer.
2. Move the mouse on the lower right corner of the screen, click Search icon.

3. In the Search box, type Control Panel, and then press Enter.

4. In Control Panel, under Network and Internet, click View Network Status and Tasks.
5. In the Network and Sharing Center window, click Change Adapter Settings.

6. In the Network Connections window, right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.

7. In the Local Area Connection Properties window, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and
then click Properties.

8. In the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties dialog box, select the Obtain an IP
address automatically radio button, select the Obtain DNS server address automatically radio
button, click OK, and then click Close.

9. Move the mouse on the lower right corner of the screen, and then click the Search icon.

10. In the Search box, type Command Prompt, and then press Enter.
11. In the Command Prompt window, at the command prompt, type ipconfig /renew, and then press
Enter.

12. Test the configuration, verify that LON-CL1 has received an IP address from the DHCP scope by
typing ipconfig /all at a command prompt.

This command will return information such as IP address, subnet mask, and DHCP enabled status,
which should be Yes.

 Task 4: Configure a lease as a reservation

1. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ipconfig /all, and then press Enter.

2. Write down the Physical Address of LON-CL1 network adapter.

3. Switch to LON-SVR1.
4. In the Server Manager dashboard, click Tools, and then click DHCP.

5. In the DHCP console, expand lon-svr1.adatum.com, expand IPv4, expand Branch Office, right-click
Reservations, and then click New Reservation.
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6. In the New Reservation window:

o In the Reservation Name field, type LON-CL1.

o In the IP address field, type 172.16.0.155.

o In the MAC address field, type the physical address you wrote down in step 2.

o Click Add, and then click Close.

7. Switch to LON-CL1.

8. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ipconfig /release, and then press
Enter. This causes LON-CL1 to release any currently leased IP addresses.

9. At a command prompt, type ipconfig /renew, and then press Enter. This causes LON-CL1 to lease
any reserved IP addresses.

10. Verify that IP address of LON-CL1 is now 172.16.0.155.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have implemented DHCP, configured DHCP scope and
options, and configured a DHCP reservation.

 To prepare for the optional exercise

If you are going to do the optional lab, revert the 20410B-LON-CL1 virtual machine. To do this, complete
the following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.
2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-CL1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

Exercise 2: Implementing a DHCP Relay Agent (Optional Exercise)

 Task 1: Install a DHCP relay agent
1. Switch to LON-RTR.

2. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Routing and Remote Access.

3. In the navigation pane, expand LON-RTR (local), expand IPv4, right-click General, and then click
New Routing Protocol.

4. In the Routing protocols list, click DHCP Relay Agent, and then click OK.

 Task 2: Configure a DHCP relay agent

1. In the navigation pane, right-click DHCP Relay Agent, and then click New Interface.

2. In the New Interface for DHCP Relay Agent dialog box, click Local Area Connection 2, and then
click OK.
3. In the DHCP Relay Agent Properties – Local Area Connection 2 Properties dialog box, click OK.

4. Right-click DHCP Relay Agent, and then click Properties.

5. In the DHCP Relay Agent Properties dialog box, in the Server address box, type 172.16.0.21, click
Add, and then click OK.

6. Close Routing and Remote Access.

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 Task 3: Test the DHCP relay agent with a client

Note: To test how a client receives an IP address from the DHCP relay agent in another
subnet, we need to create another DHCP scope.

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In the Server Manager Dashboard, click Tools, and then click DHCP.

3. In the DHCP console, expand lon-svr1.adatum.com.

4. In the DHCP console, in the navigation pane, click lon-svr1.consoto.com, expand IPv4, right-click
IPv4, and then click New Scope.
5. In the New Scope Wizard, click Next.

6. On the Scope Name page, in the Name box, type Branch Office 2, and then click Next.

7. On the IP Address Range page, complete the page using the following information, and then click
Next:

o Start IP address: 10.10.0.100

o End IP address: 10.10.0.200

o Length: 16

o Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

8. On the Add Exclusions and Delay page, complete the page using the following information, click
Add, and then click Next:

o Start IP address: 10.10.0.190

o End IP address: 10.10.0.200

9. On the Lease Duration page, click Next.

10. On the Configure DHCP Options page, click Next.

11. On the Router (Default Gateway) page, in the IP address box, type 10.10.0.1, click Add, and then
click Next.

12. On the Domain Name and DNS Servers page, click Next.

13. On the WINS Servers page, click Next.

14. On the Activate Scope page, click Next.

15. On the Completing the New Scope Wizard page, click Finish.

16. To test the client, switch to LON-CL2.

17. On the Start screen, in the Start box, type Control Panel, and then press Enter.

18. Under Network and Internet, click View network status and tasks.

19. In the Network and Sharing Center window, click Change Adapter Settings, right-click Local Area
Connection, and then click Properties.

20. In the Local Area Connection Properties window, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and
then click Properties.
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21. In the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties dialog box, click Obtain an IP address
automatically, click Obtain DNS server address automatically, click OK, and then click Close.

22. Navigate to the lower right corner, from the right menu, click Search, type cmd, and then press Enter.
23. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ipconfig /renew, and then press
Enter.

24. Verify that IP address and DNS server settings on LON-CL2 are obtained from DHCP Server scope
Branch Office 2, installed on LON-SVR1.

Note: IP address should be from following range: 10.10.0.100/16 to 10.10.0.200/16.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have implemented a DHCP relay agent.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1, 20410B-LON-RTR, and 20410B-LON-CL2.
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Module 7: Implementing Domain Name System

Lab: Implementing DNS
Exercise 1: Installing and Configuring DNS
 Task 1: Configure LON-SVR1 as a domain controller without installing the Domain
Name System (DNS) server role
1. In the Server Manager console, click Add roles and features.

2. On the Before you begin page, click Next.

3. On the Select installation type page, click Next.

4. On the Select destination server page, ensure that LON-SVR1.Adatum.com is selected, and then
click Next.

5. On the Select server roles page, select Active Directory Domain Services.

6. When Add Roles and Features Wizard displays, click Add Features, and then click Next.
7. On the Select features page, click Next.

8. On the Active Directory Domain Services page, click Next.

9. On the Confirm installation selections page, click Install.

10. On the Installation progress page, when the Installation succeeded message displays, click Close.

11. In the Server Manager console, on the navigation page, click AD DS.

12. On the title bar where Configuration required for Active Directory Domain Services at
LON-SVR1 displays, click More.

13. On the All Server Task Details and Notifications page, click Promote this server to a domain
controller.
14. In the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard, on the Deployment Configuration
page, ensure that Add a domain controller to an existing domain is selected, and then click Next.
15. On the Domain Controller Options page, clear the Domain Name System (DNS) server check box,
and leave the Global Catalog (GC) check box selected. Type Pa$$w0rd in both text fields, and then
click Next.

16. On the Additional Options page, click Next.

17. On the Paths page, click Next.

18. On the Review Options page, click Next.

19. On the Prerequisites Check page, click Install.

Note: The LON-SVR1 server will restart automatically as part of the procedure.

20. After LON-SVR1 restarts, sign in as Adatum\Administrator.

 Task 2: Create and configure nwtraders.msft zone on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1 machine, in the Server Manager console, click Tools and click DNS.

2. Expand LON-DC1, and then right click Forward Lookup Zones and select New Zone….
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3. In the New Zone Wizard, on the Welcome to the New Zone Wizard page, click Next.

4. On the Zone Type page, clear the check mark from the option Store the zone in Active Directory
and click Next.
5. On the Zone Name page, type nwtraders.msft and click Next.

6. On the Zone File page, click Next.

7. On the Dynamic Update page, click Next.

8. On the Completing the New Zone Wizard page, click Finish.

9. Right click nwtraders.msft zone, and click New Host (A or AAAA).

10. In the New Host window, in the Name textbox, type www.
11. In the IP address box, type 172.16.0.100.

12. Click Add Host.

13. Click OK, and then click Done.

14. Leave the DNS Manager console open.

 Task 3: Review configuration settings on the existing DNS server to confirm

root hints
1. On LON-DC1, in the DNS Manager console, click and then right-click LON-DC1, and then click
Properties.
2. In the LON-DC1 Properties dialog box, click the Root hints tab. Ensure that root hints servers
display.

3. Click the Forwarders tab. Ensure that the list displays no entries, and that the Use root hints if no
forwarders are available option is selected.

4. Click Cancel.

5. Close the DNS Manager console.

 Task 4: Add the DNS server role for the branch office on the domain controller
1. On LON-SVR1, in the Server Manager console, click Add roles and features.
2. On the Before you begin page, click Next.

3. On the Select installation type page, click Next.

4. On the Select destination server page, ensure that LON-SVR1.Adatum.com is selected, and then
click Next.

5. On the Select server roles page, select DNS Server.

6. When the Add Roles and Features Wizard displays, click Add Features, and then click Next.
7. On the Select Features page, click Next.

8. On the DNS Server page, click Next.

9. On the Confirm installation selections page, click Install.

10. On the Installation progress page, when the message Installation succeeded displays, click Close.
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 Task 5: Verify replication of the Adatum.com Active Directory®–integrated zone

1. On LON-SVR1, in the Server Manager console, click Tools.

2. On the list of tools, click DNS.

3. In the DNS Manager console, expand LON-SVR1, and then expand Forward Lookup Zones. This
container will most likely be empty.

4. Switch back to Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Sites and Services.

5. In the Active Directory Sites and Services console, expand Sites, expand Default-First-Site-Name,
expand Servers, expand LON-DC1, and then click NTDS Settings.
6. In the right pane, right-click the LON-SVR1 replication connection, and select Replicate Now.

Note: If you receive an error message, proceed to the next step and then retry this step
after 3-4 minutes.

7. In the navigation pane, expand LON-SVR1, and then click NTDS Settings.

8. In the right pane, right-click the LON-DC1 replication connection, click Replicate Now, and then
click OK.

9. Switch back to the DNS Manager console, right-click Forward Lookup Zones, and then click
Refresh.
10. Ensure that both the _msdcs.Adatum.com and Adatum.com containers display.
11. Close DNS Manager.

 Task 6: Use Nslookup to test non-local resolution

1. On LON-SVR1, switch to the Start screen, and type Control Panel. Press Enter.
2. In Control Panel, click View network status and tasks.

3. Click Change adapter settings.

4. Right-click Local Area connection, and then click Properties.

5. Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click Properties.

6. In the preferred DNS server field, remove the IP address, type 127.0.0.1, click OK, and then click
Close.

7. On LON-SVR1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell® icon.

8. In the Windows PowerShell window, at a command prompt, type Resolve-DNSName
www.nwtraders.msft, and then press Enter. It is expected that you will receive an error message.

9. Leave the Windows PowerShell window open.

 Task 7: Configure Internet name resolution to forward to the head office

1. On LON-SVR1, open the DNS Manager console.

2. In the DNS Manager console, right-click LON-SVR1, and then click Properties.
3. In the LON-SVR1 Properties dialog box, click the Forwarders tab, and then click Edit.

4. In the Edit Forwarders window, type 172.16.0.10, and then click OK two times.

5. In the DNS Manager console, right click LON-SVR1, select All Tasks, and then click Restart.
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 Task 8: Use Nslookup to confirm name resolution

1. On LON-SVR1, switch to a Windows PowerShell window.

2. In the Command Prompt window, type nslookup, and then press Enter.

3. At the nslookup prompt, type www.nwtraders.msft, and then press Enter.

4. Ensure that you receive an IP address for this host as a non-authoritative answer.

5. Type quit, and then press Enter.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have installed and configured DNS on LON-SVR1.

Exercise 2: Creating Host Records in DNS

 Task 1: Configure a client to use LON-SVR1 as a DNS server
1. On LON-CL1, sign in as Adatum\Administrator using the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. On the Start screen, type Control Panel, and then press Enter.

3. In Control Panel, click View network status and tasks.

4. Click Change adapter settings.

5. Right-click Local Area connection, and then click Properties.

6. In the Local Area Network Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol Version 4
(TCP/Ipv4), and then click Properties.
7. Delete the IP address for preferred DNS server. In the preferred DNS server box, type 172.16.0.21,
click OK, and then click Close.

 Task 2: Create several host records in the Adatum.com domain for web apps
1. On LON-DC1, in the Server Manager console, click Tools, and then click DNS.
2. In the DNS Manager console, expand LON-DC1, expand Forward Lookup Zones, and then click on
Adatum.com.

3. Right-click Adatum.com, and then click New Host (A or AAAA).

4. In the New Host window, configure the following settings:

o Name: www

o IP address: 172.16.0.200

5. Click Add Host, and then click OK.

6. In the New Host window, configure the following settings:

o Name: ftp

o IP address: 172.16.0.201
7. Click Add Host, click OK, and then click Done.
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 Task 3: Verify replication of new records to LON-SVR1

1. On LON-SVR1, in the Server Manager console, click Tools, and then click DNS.

2. In the DNS Manager console, expand LON-SVR1, expand Forward Lookup Zones, and then click
Adatum.com.
3. Ensure that both www and ftp resource records display. (If they do not display, right-click
Adatum.com, and then click Refresh). It may take a couple of minutes for the records to display.

 Task 4: Use the ping command to locate new records from LON-CL1
1. On LON-CL1, right-click the taskbar, and then click Task Manager.

2. In the Task Manager window, click More details.

3. Open the File menu, and then click Run new task.

4. In the Create new task window, type cmd, and then press Enter.
5. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ping www.adatum.com, and then
press Enter.

6. Make sure that the name resolves to 172.16.0.200. (You will not receive replies.)

7. At a command prompt, type ping ftp.adatum.com, and then press Enter.

8. Ensure that name resolves to 172.16.0.201. (You will not receive replies.)

9. Leave the Command Prompt window open.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have configured DNS records.

Exercise 3: Managing the DNS Server Cache

 Task 1: Use the ping command to locate an Internet record from LON-CL1
1. On LON-CL1, in the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ping
www.nwtraders.msft, and then press Enter.

2. Ping will not work, but ensure that the name resolves to an IP address 172.16.0.100.

3. Leave the Command Prompt window open.

 Task 2: Update an Internet record to point to the LON-DC1 IP address

1. On LON-DC1, open DNS Manager.

2. In the DNS Manager console, expand LON-DC1, expand Forward Lookup Zones, and then click
nwtraders.msft.
3. In the right pane, right-click www, and then click Properties.

4. Change the IP address to 172.16.0.10, and then click OK.

5. Switch back to LON-CL1.

6. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ping www.nwtraders.msft, and then
press Enter. Note that ping will not work, and that the old IP address (which is 172.16.0.100) will still
display.
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 Task 3: Examine the content of the DNS cache

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In the Server Manager console, click Tools, and then click DNS.

3. Click LON-SVR1, click the View menu, and then click Advanced.

4. Expand LON-SVR1, expand the Cached Lookups node, expand .(root), expand msft, and then click
nwtraders.

5. In the right pane, examine the cached content. You will see that www record has the IP address
172.16.0.100.
6. Switch to LON-CL1.

7. In the Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ipconfig /displaydns, and then press
Enter.

8. Look for cached entries. You will notice that www.nwtraders.msft is resolving to 172.16.0.100.

 Task 4: Clear the cache, and retry the ping command

1. On LON-SVR1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.
2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type Clear-DNSServerCache, and then press Enter. Type y, and
then press Enter.

3. Switch to LON-CL1.
4. In a Command Prompt window, at a command prompt, type ping www.nwtraders.msft, and then
press Enter. The return will still be the old IP address.

5. In the Command Prompt window, type ipconfig /flushdns, and then press Enter.
6. In the Command Prompt window, type ping www.nwtraders.msft, and then press Enter.

7. Ping now should work on address 172.16.0.10.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have examined the DNS server cache.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps:

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Module 8: Implementing IPv6

Lab: Implementing IPv6
Exercise 1: Configuring an IPv6 Network
 Task 1: Verify IPv4 routing
1. On LON-SVR2, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell® icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type ping lon-dc1, and then press Enter. Notice that there are
four replies from 172.16.0.10.
3. Type ipconfig, and then press Enter.

4. Verify that the only IPv6 address listed is a link-local address that cannot be routed.

 Task 2: Disable IPv6 on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Local Server.
2. In the Properties window, next to Local Area Connection, click 172.16.0.10, IPv6 enabled.

3. In the Network Connections window, right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.

4. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, clear the Internet Protocol Version 6
(TCP/IPv6) check box, and then click OK.
5. Close the Network Connections window.

6. In Server Manager, verify that Local Area Connection lists only 172.16.0.10. You may need to
refresh the view. LON-DC1 is now an IPv4-only host.

 Task 3: Disable IPv4 on LON-SVR2

1. On LON-SVR2, in Server Manager, click Local Server.

2. In the Local Server Properties dialog box, next to Local Area Connection, click 10.10.0.24, IPv6
enabled.

3. In the Network Connections window, right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.

4. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, clear the Internet Protocol Version 4
(TCP/IPv4) check box, and then click OK.

5. Close the Network Connections window.

6. In Server Manager, verify that Local Area Connection now lists only IPv6 enabled. You may need to
refresh the view. LON-SVR2 is now an IPv6-only host.

 Task 4: Configure an IPv6 network on LON-RTR

1. On LON-RTR, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. Configure a network address that will be used on the IPv6 network. At the Windows PowerShell
prompt, type the following cmdlet, and then press Enter:

New-NetRoute -InterfaceAlias " Local Area Connection 2" -DestinationPrefix

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3. Allow clients to obtain the IPv6 network address automatically from LON-RTR. At the Windows
PowerShell prompt, type the following cmdlet, and then press Enter:

Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceAlias "Local Area Connection 2" -AddressFamily IPv6

-Advertising Enabled

4. Type ipconfig, and then press Enter. Notice that Local Area Connection 2 now has an IPv6 address on
the 2001:db8:0:1::/64 network. This address is used for communication on the IPv6-only network.

 Task 5: Verify IPv6 on LON-SVR2

1. On LON-SVR2, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type ipconfig, and then press Enter. Notice that Local Area
Connection now has an IPv6 address on the on the 2001:db8:0:1::/64 network. The network address
was obtained from the router through stateless configuration.

Results: After completing the exercise, students will have configured an IPv6–only network.

Exercise 2: Configuring an ISATAP Router

 Task 1: Add an ISATAP host record to DNS
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click DNS.
2. In DNS Manager, expand LON-DC1, expand Forward Lookup Zones, and then click Adatum.com.

3. Right-click Adatum.com, and then click New Host (A or AAAA).

4. In the New Host window, in the Name box, type ISATAP.
5. In the IP address box, type 172.16.0.1, and then click Add Host. ISATAP clients resolve this host
name to find the ISATAP router.

6. Click OK to clear the success message.

7. Click Done to close the New Host window.

8. Close DNS Manager.

 Task 2: Enable the ISATAP router on LON-RTR

1. On LON-RTR, configure the IP address of Local Area Connection as the ISATAP router. At the
Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Set-NetIsatapConfiguration -Router 172.16.0.1

2. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Get-NetIPAddress | Format-Table InterfaceAlias,InterfaceIndex,IPv6Address

3. Record the InterfaceIndex of the ISATAP interface that has an IPv6 address that includes 172.16.0.1.

Interface index:
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4. Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Get-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded -PolicyStore ActiveStore |

Format-List

5. Verify that Forwarding is enabled for the interface and that Advertising is disabled.

6. The ISATAP interface for an ISATAP router must have forwarding enabled and advertising enabled.
Type the following command, and then press Enter:

Set-NetIPInterface -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded -Advertising Enabled

7. Create a new IPv6 network that will be used for the ISATAP network. Type the following command,
and then press Enter:

New-NetRoute -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded -DestinationPrefix 2001:db8:0:2::/64

-Publish Yes

8. View the IP address configuration for the ISATAP interface. Type the following command, and then
press Enter:

Get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceIndex IndexYouRecorded

9. Verify that an IPv6 address is listed on the 2001:db8:0:2::/64 network.

 Task 3: Remove ISATAP from the Global Query Block List

1. On LON-DC1, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type regedit, and then press Enter.
2. In the Registry Editor window, expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, expand SYSTEM, expand
CurrentControlSet, expand Services, expand DNS, click Parameters, and double-click
GlobalQueryBlockList.

3. In the Edit Multi-String window, delete isatap, and then click OK.
4. If an error displays indicating that there was an empty string, click OK to continue.

5. Close the Registry Editor.

6. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type Restart-Service DNS -Verbose, and then press Enter.

7. Type ping isatap, and then press Enter. The name should resolve and you should receive four replies
from 172.16.0.1.

 Task 4: Enable LON-DC1 as an ISATAP client

1. On LON-DC1, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press
Enter:

Set-NetIsatapConfiguration -State Enabled

2. Type ipconfig, and then press Enter.

3. Verify that the Tunnel adapter for ISATAP has an IPv6 address on the 2001:db8:0:2/64 network.
Notice that this address includes the IPv4 address of NYC-DC1.
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 Task 5: Test connectivity

1. On LON-SVR2, at the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command, and then press
Enter:

ping 2001:db8:0:2:0:5efe:172.16.0.10

2. In Server Manager, if necessary, click Local Server.

3. In the Local Server Properties dialog box, next to Local Area Connection, click IPv6 enabled.
4. In the Network Connections window, right-click Local Area Connection, and then click Properties.

5. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6),
and then click Properties.

6. In the Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) Properties dialog box, click Use the following DNS
server addresses.
7. In the Preferred DNS server box, type 2001:db8:0:2:0:5efe:172.16.0.10, and then click OK.

8. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Close.

9. Close the Network Connections window.

10. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type ping LON-DC1, and then press Enter. Notice that four
replies are received from LON-DC1.

Note: A ping from LON-DC1 to LON-SVR2 does not respond because the firewall
configuration on LON-SVR2 blocks ping requests.

Results: After completing this exercise, students will have configured an ISATAP router on LON-RTR to
allow communication between an IPv6–only network and an IPv4–only network.

 To prepare for the next module

After you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps.

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-RTR and 20410B-LON-SVR2.
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Module 9: Implementing Local Storage

Lab: Implementing Local Storage
Exercise 1: Installing and Configuring a New Disk
 Task 1: Initialize a new disk
1. Sign in to LON-SVR1 with username of Adatum\Administrator and the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, click the Tools menu, and then click Computer Management.

3. In the Computer Management console, under the Storage node, click Disk Management.

4. In the Disks pane, right-click Disk2, and then click Online.

5. Right-click Disk2, and then click Initialize Disk.

6. In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the Disk 2 check box, ensure that all other Disk check boxes
are cleared, click GPT (GUID Partition Table), and then click OK.

 Task 2: Create and format two simple volumes on the disk

1. In the Computer Management console, in Disk Management, right-click the black marked box right
of Disk 2, and then click New Simple Volume.
2. In the New Simple Volume Wizard, on Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click
Next.

3. On the Specify Volume Size page, in the Simple volume size MB field, type 4000, and then click
Next.

4. On Assign Drive Letter or Path page, ensure that the Assign the following drive letter check box
is selected, and that F is selected in from the drop-down menu, and then click Next.
5. On the Format Partition page, from the File system drop-down menu, click NTFS, in the Volume
label text box, type Volume1, and then click Next.

6. On Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click Finish.

7. In the Disk Management window, right-click the black marked box right of Disk 2, and then click New
Simple Volume.

8. In the New Simple Volume Wizard, on Welcome to the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click
Next.
9. On the Specify Volume Size page, in the Simple volume size in MB field, type 5000, and then click
Next.

10. On the Assign Drive Letter or Path page, ensure that the Assign the following drive letter check
box is selected, and that G is selected in from the drop-down list, and then click Next.

11. On the Format Partition page, from the File system drop-down menu, click ReFS, in the Volume
label text box, type Volume2, and then click Next.
12. On the Completing the New Simple Volume Wizard page, click Finish.
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 Task 3: Verify the drive letter in a Windows® Explorer window

1. On the taskbar, open a Windows Explorer window, expand Computer, and then click Volume1 (F:).

2. In Windows Explorer, click Volume2 (G:), right-click Volume2 (G:), point to New, and then click
Folder.
3. In the New folder field, type Folder1, and then press Enter.

Results: After you complete this lab, you should have initialized a new disk, and then created two simple
volumes and formatted them. You should also have verified that the drive letters are available in Windows
Explorer.

Exercise 2: Resizing Volumes

 Task 1: Shrink Volume1
1. On LON-SVR1, switch to the Computer Management console.
2. In the Computer Management console, in Disk Management, in the middle-pane, right-click
Volume1 (F:), and then click Shrink Volume.

3. In the Shrink F: window, in the Enter the amount of space to shrink in MB field, type 1000, and
then click Shrink.

 Task 2: Extend Volume2

1. On LON-SVR1, in Disk Management, in the middle-pane, right-click Volume2 (G:), and then click
Extend Volume.
2. In Extend Volume Wizard, on the Welcome to the Extended Volume Wizard page, click Next.

3. On the Select Disks page, in the Select the amount of space in MB field, type 1000, and then click
Next.
4. On the Completing the Extended Volume Wizard page, click Finish.

5. In a Windows Explorer window, click Volume2 (G:), and verify that Folder1 is available on the
volume.

Results: After this lab, you should have made one volume smaller, and extended another.

Exercise 3: Configuring a Redundant Storage Space

 Task 1: Create a storage pool from five disks that are attached to the server
1. On LON-SVR1, on the taskbar, click the Server Manager icon.

2. In Server Manager, in the left pane, click File and Storage Services, and then in the Servers pane,
click Storage Pools.
3. In the STORAGE POOLS pane, click TASKS, and then in the TASKS drop-down menu, click New
Storage Pool.

4. In the New Storage Pool Wizard window, on the Before you begin page, click Next.
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5. On the Specify a storage pool name and subsystem page, in the Name box, type StoragePool1,
and then click Next.

6. On the Select physical disks for the storage pool page, click the following physical disks, and then
click Next:
o PhysicalDisk3

o PhysicalDisk4

o PhysicalDisk5
o PhysicalDisk6

o PhysicalDisk7
7. On the Confirm selections page, click Create.

8. On the View results page, wait until the task completes, then click Close.

 Task 2: Create a three-way mirrored virtual disk

1. On LON-SVR1, in Server Manager, in the Storage Spaces pane, click StoragePool1.
2. In the VIRTUAL DISKS pane, click TASKS, and then from the TASKS drop-down menu, click New
Virtual Disk.

3. In the New Virtual Disk Wizard window, on the Before you begin page, click Next.
4. On the Select the storage pool page, click StoragePool1, and then click Next.
5. On the Specify the virtual disk name page, in the Name box, type Mirrored Disk, and then click
Next.
6. On the Select the storage layout page, in the Layout list, click Mirror, and then click Next.

7. On the Configure the resiliency settings page, click Three-way mirror, and then click Next.

8. On the Specify the provisioning type page, click Thin, and then click Next.
9. On the Specify the size of the virtual disk page, in the Virtual disk size box, type 10, and then click
Next.

10. On the Confirm selections page, click Create.

11. On the View results page, wait until the task completes. Ensure that the Create a volume when this
wizard closes check box is selected, and then click Close.

12. In the New Volume Wizard window, on the Before you begin page, click Next.
13. On the Select the server and disk page, in the Disk pane, click the Mirrored Disk virtual disk, and
then click Next.

14. On the Specify the size of the volume page, click Next to confirm the default selection.
15. On the Assign to a drive letter or folder page, in the Drive letter drop-down menu, ensure that H
is selected, and then click Next.

16. On the Select file system settings page, in the File system drop-down menu, click ReFS, in the
Volume label box, type Mirrored Volume, and then click Next.

17. On the Confirm selections page, click Create.

18. On the Completion page, wait until the creation completes, and then click Close.
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 Task 3: Copy a file to the volume, and verify that it is visible in Windows Explorer
1. Click to the Start screen, type command prompt, and then press Enter.

2. In the Command Prompt window, at the command prompt, type the following command, and then
press Enter:

Copy C:\windows\system32\write.exe H:\

3. Close the Command Prompt window.

4. On the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer icon.

5. In the Windows Explorer window, click Mirrored Volume (H:).

6. Verify that write.exe displays in the file list.

7. Close Windows Explorer.

 Task 4: Remove a physical drive

1. On Host machine, in Hyper-V Manager®, in the Virtual Machines pane, right-click
20410B-LON-SVR1, and then click Settings.
2. In Settings for 20410B-LON-SVR1, in the Hardware pane, click the Hard Drive that begins with
20410B-LON-SVR1-Disk5.

3. In the Hard Drive pane, click Remove, in Settings dialog box click Continue, and then click OK.

 Task 5: Verify that the write.exe file is still accessible

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. On the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer icon.

3. In the Windows Explorer window, click Mirrored Volume (H:).

4. In the file list pane, verify that write.exe is still available.

5. Close Windows Explorer.

6. In Server Manager, in the STORAGE POOLS pane, on the menu bar, click the Refresh “Storage
Pools” button. Notice the warning that displays next to Mirrored Disk.

7. In the VIRTUAL DISK pane, right-click Mirrored Disk, and then click Properties.

8. In the Mirrored Disk Properties dialog box, in the left pane, click Health. Notice that the Health
Status indicates a Warning. The Operational Status should indicate Incomplete, Unknown or
Degraded.
9. Click OK to close the Mirrored Disk Properties dialog box.

 Task 6: Add a new disk to the storage pool and remove a broken disk
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In Server Manager, in the STORAGE POOLS pane, on the menu bar, click the Refresh “Storage
Pools” button.
3. In the STORAGE POOLS pane, right-click StoragePool1, and then click Add Physical Disk.

4. In the Add Physical Disk window, click PhysicalDisk8 (LON-SVR1), and then click OK.

5. In the PHYSICAL DISKS pane, right-click the disk that has a warning that displays beside it, and then
click Remove Disk.
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6. In the Remove Physical Disk window, click Yes.

7. In the STORAGE POOLS pane, on the menu bar, click the Refresh “Storage Pools” button to see the
warnings disappear.

Results: After completing this lab, you should have created a storage pool and added five disks to it. Then
you should have created a three-way mirrored, thinly provisioned virtual disk from the storage pool. You
should have also copied a file to the new volume and verified that it is accessible. Next, after removing a
physical drive, you should have verified that the virtual disk was still available and could be accessed.
Finally, you should have added another physical disk to the storage pool.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1.

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Module 10: Implementing File and Print Services

Lab: Implementing File and Print Services
Exercise 1: Creating and Configuring a File Share
 Task 1: Create the folder structure for the new share
1. On LON-SVR1, on the taskbar, click the Windows® Explorer icon.

2. In a Windows Explorer window, in the navigation pane, expand Computer, and then click
Allfiles (E:).
3. On the menu toolbar, click Home, click New folder, type Data, and then press Enter.

4. Double-click the Data folder.

5. On the menu toolbar, click Home, click New folder, type Development, and then press Enter.
6. Repeat Step 5 for the following new folder names:
• Marketing

• Research
• Sales

 Task 2: Configure NTFS permissions on the folder structure

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to drive E, right-click the Data folder, and then click Properties.

2. In the Data Properties dialog box, click Security, and then click Advanced.
3. In the Advanced Security Settings for Data window, click Disable Inheritance.

4. In the Block Inheritance window, click Convert inherited permissions into explicit permissions on
this object.
5. Click OK to close the Advanced Security Settings for Data window.

6. Click OK to close the Data Properties dialog box.

7. In Windows Explorer, double-click the Data folder.

8. Right-click the Development folder and then click Properties.

9. In the Development Properties window, click Security, and then click Advanced.

10. In the Advanced Security Settings for Development window, click Disable Inheritance.

11. In the Block Inheritance window, click Convert inherited permissions into explicit permissions on
this object.

12. Remove the two permissions entries for Users (LON-SVR1\Users), and then click OK.

13. On the Security tab, click Edit.

14. In the Permissions for Development window, click Add.

15. Type Development, click Check names, and then click OK.

16. Select the check box for Allow Modify in the Permissions for Development section.

17. Click OK to close the Permissions for Development window.

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18. Click OK to close the Development Properties window.

19. Repeat steps 8 through 18 for the Marketing, Research, and Sales folders, assigning Modify
permissions to the Marketing, Research, and Sales groups for their respective folders.

 Task 3: Create the shared folder

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to drive E, right-click the Data folder, and then click Properties.

2. On the Data Properties dialog box, click the Sharing tab, and then click Advanced Sharing.

3. In the Advanced Sharing window, select the Share this folder check box, and then click Permissions.

4. In the Permissions for Data window, click Add.

5. Type Authenticated Users, click Check names, and then click OK.

6. In the Permissions for Data window, click Authenticated Users, and then select the Allow check box
for the Change permission.

7. Click OK to close the Permissions for Data window.

8. Click OK to close the Advanced Sharing window.

9. Click Close to close the Data Properties dialog box.

 Task 4: Test access to the shared folder

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Bernard with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Note: Bernard is a member of the Development group.

2. On the Start screen, click the Desktop tile.

3. On the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer icon.

4. In Windows Explorer, in the address bar, type \\LON-SVR1\Data, and then press Enter.

5. Double-click the Development folder.

Note: Bernard should have access to the Development folder.

6. Attempt to access the Marketing, Research, and Sales folders. NTFS permissions on these folders will
prevent you from doing this.

Note: Bernard can still see the other folders, even though he does not have access to their
contents.

7. Sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 5: Enable access-based enumeration

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. On the taskbar, click the Server Manager icon.

3. In Server Manager, in the navigation pane, click File and Storage Services.

4. On the File and Storage Services page, in the navigation pane, click Shares.
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5. In the Shares pane, right-click Data, and then click Properties.

6. Click Settings, and then select the Enable access-based enumeration check box.

7. Click OK to close the Data Properties dialog box.

8. Close Server Manager.

 Task 6: Test access to the share

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Bernard with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Click the Desktop tile.

3. On the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer icon.

4. In Windows Explorer, in the address bar, type \\LON-SVR1\Data, and then press Enter.

Note: Bernard can now view only the Development folder, the folder for which he has been
assigned permissions.

5. Double-click the Development folder.

Note: Bernard should have access to the Development folder.

6. Sign out of LON-CL1.

 Task 7: Disable Offline Files for the share

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. On the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer icon.

3. In Windows Explorer, navigate to drive E, right-click the Data folder, and then click Properties.

4. In the Data Properties dialog box, click the Sharing tab, click Advanced Sharing, and then click
Caching.
5. In the Offline Settings window, click No files or programs from the shared folder are available
offline, and then click OK.

6. Click OK to close the Advanced Sharing window.

7. Click Close to close the Data Properties dialog box.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have created a new shared folder for use by multiple
departments.

Exercise 2: Configuring Shadow Copies

 Task 1: Configure shadow copies for the file share
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Open Windows Explorer.

3. Navigate to drive E, right-click Allfiles (E:), and then click Configure Shadow Copies.
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4. In the drive Allfiles (E:) Properties dialog box, on the Shadow Copies tab, click drive E, and then
click Enable.

5. In the Enable Shadow Copies dialog box, click Yes.

6. In the drive Allfiles (E:) Properties dialog box, on the Shadow Copies tab, click Settings.

7. In the Settings dialog box, click Schedule. This opens the drive E dialog box.

8. In the drive Allfiles (E:) dialog box, change Schedule Task to Daily, change Start time to 12:00 AM,
and then click Advanced.
9. In the Advanced Schedule Options dialog box, select Repeat task, and then set the frequency to
every 1 hours.

10. Select Time, and change the time value to 11:59PM.

11. Click OK twice.

12. Click OK to close the Settings dialog box.

13. Leave the drive Allfiles (E:) Properties dialog box open; it will be opened on the Shadow Copies
tab.

 Task 2: Create multiple shadow copies of a file

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Open Windows Explorer.

3. Navigate to the E:\Data\Development folder.

4. On the menu toolbar, click Home, click New item, and then click Text Document.
5. Type Report, and then press Enter.

6. Switch back to the Allfiles (E:) Properties dialog box; it should still be opened on the Shadow
Copies tab. Click Create Now.

 Task 3: Recover a deleted file from a shadow copy

1. On LON-SVR1, switch back to the Windows Explorer window.
2. Right-click Report.txt, and then click Delete.

3. In Windows Explorer, right-click the Development folder, and then click Properties.

4. In the Development Properties dialog box, click the Previous Versions tab.
5. Click the most recent folder version for Development, and then click Open.

6. Confirm that the Report .txt is in the folder, right-click Report.txt, and then click Copy.

7. Close the Windows Explorer window that just opened.

8. In the other Windows Explorer window, right-click the Development folder, and then click Paste.

9. Close Windows Explorer.

10. Click OK and close all open windows.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have enabled shadow copies on the file server.
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Exercise 3: Creating and Configuring a Printer Pool

 Task 1: Install the Print and Document Services server role
1. On LON-SVR1, on the taskbar, and click the Server Manager shortcut.

2. In Server Manager, on the menu toolbar, click Manage.

3. Click Add Roles and Features, click Next.

4. Click Role-based or feature-based Installation, click Next.

5. On the Select destination server page, click the server on which you want to install the Print and
Document Services. The default server is the local server. Click Next.

6. On the Select Server Roles page, select the Print and Document Services check box. In the Add
Roles and Features Wizard window, click Add Features, and then click Next in the Select server
roles window.

7. On the Select Features page, click Next.

8. On the Print and Document Services page, review the Notes for the administrator, and then click
Next.

9. On the Select Role Services page, click Next until the Confirm Installation Selections page
displays. Click Install to install the required role services.
10. Click Close.

 Task 2: Install a printer

1. On LON-SVR1, in the Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Print Management.
2. Expand Printer Servers, expand LON-SVR1, right-click Printers, and then click Add Printer. The
Network Printer Installation Wizard starts.

3. On the Network Printer Installation Wizard page, click Add a TCP/IP or Web Services Printer by
IP address or hostname, and then click Next.
4. Change the Type of Device to TCP/IP Device.

5. In the Host name box, type 172.16.0.200, clear the Auto detect printer driver to use check box,
and then click Next.
6. Under Device Type, click Generic Network Card, and then click Next.

7. Click Install a new driver, and then click Next.

8. Click Microsoft as the Manufacturer, under Printers, click Microsoft XPS Class Driver, and then
click Next.

9. Change the Printer Name to Branch Office Printer, and then click Next.
10. Click Next two times to accept the default printer name and share name, and to install the printer.

11. Click Finish to close the Network Printer Installation Wizard.

12. In the Print Management console, right-click the Branch Office Printer, and then click Enable
Branch Office Direct Printing.

13. In the Print Management console, right-click the Branch Office Printer, and then select Properties.

14. Click the Sharing tab, select the List in the directory check box, and then click OK.
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 Task 3: Configure printer pooling

1. In the Print Management console, under LON-SVR1, right-click Ports, and then click Add Port.

2. In the Printer Ports window, click Standard TCP/IP Port, and then click New Port.

3. In the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard, click Next.

4. In the Printer Name or IP Address field, type 172.16.0.201, and then click Next.

5. In the Additional port information required window, click Next.

6. Click Finish to close the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard.

7. Click Close to close the Printer Ports window.

8. In the Print Management console, click Printers, right-click Branch Office Printer, and then click
Properties.
9. On the Branch Office Printer Properties page, click the Ports tab, select the Enable printer
pooling check box, and then click the 172.16.0.201 port to select it as the second port.

10. Click OK to close the Branch Office Printer Properties page.

11. Close the Print Management Console.

 Task 4: Install a printer on a client computer

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. On LON-CL1, point to the bottom left of the screen, and click the Start charm.
3. In the Start box, type Control Panel, and then press Enter.

4. In Control Panel, under Hardware and Sound, click Add a device.

5. In the Add a device window, click Branch Office Printer on LON-SVR1, and then click Next. The
device installs automatically.

 Task 5: To prepare for the next module

After you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps.
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.
2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-SVR1, and then click Revert.

3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CL1 and 20410B-LON-DC1.

Results: After finishing this exercise, you will have installed the Print and Document Services server role
and installed a printer with printer pooling.
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Module 11: Implementing Group Policy

Lab: Implementing Group Policy
Exercise 1: Configuring a Central Store
 Task 1: View the location of administrative templates in a Group Policy Object (GPO)
1. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Group Policy Management.

3. In the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), expand Forest: Adatum.com, expand Domains,
expand Adatum.com, and then expand the Group Policy Objects folder.

4. Right-click the Default Domain Policy, and then click Edit.

5. In the Group Policy Management Editor, expand the Default Domain Policy, expand User
Configuration, expand Policies, and then click Administrative Templates.
6. Point your mouse over the Administrative Templates folder, and note that the location is
Administrative Templates: Policy definitions (.admx files) retrieved from the local computer.
7. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 2: Create a central store

1. On the taskbar, click the Windows® Explorer icon.

2. In the Windows Explorer window, expand Local Disk (C:), expand Windows, expand SYSVOL,
expand sysvol, expand Adatum.com, and then double-click Policies.

3. In the details pane, right-click on a blank area, click New, and then click Folder.

4. Name the folder PolicyDefinitions.

 Task 3: Copy administrative templates to the central store

1. In Windows Explorer, navigate back to C:\Windows, and open the PolicyDefinitions folder.
2. Select the entire contents of the PolicyDefinitions folder.

Hint: Click in the details pane, and then use the Ctrl+A keys to select all of the content.

3. Right-click the selection, and then click Copy.

4. Expand Local Disk (C:), expand Windows, expand SYSVOL, expand sysvol, expand Adatum.com,
and open the PolicyDefinitions folder.

5. Right-click in the empty folder area, and then click Paste.

 Task 4: Verify the administrative template location in GPMC

1. In the GPMC, right-click the Default Domain Policy, and then click Edit.

2. In the Group Policy Management Editor, expand Polices, point your mouse over the Administrative
Templates folder, and view the local information text. Note that it now says Administrative
Templates: Policy definitions (ADMX files) retrieved from the Central Store.
3. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have configured a Central Store.
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Exercise 2: Creating GPOs

 Task 1: Create a Windows Internet Explorer® Restriction default starter GPO
1. In the GPMC right-click the Starter GPOs folder, and then click New.

2. In the New Starter GPO dialog box, in the Name field, type Internet Explorer Restrictions, and
in the Comment field, type This GPO disables the General page in Internet Options, and then
click OK.

 Task 2: Configure the Internet Explorer Restriction starter GPO

1. In the GPMC, expand the Starter GPOs folder, right-click the Internet Explorer Restrictions GPO,
and then click Edit.

2. In the Group Policy Management Editor, expand User Configuration, Administrative Templates,
and then click All Settings.
3. Right-click All Settings, and then click Filter Options.

4. In the Filter Options dialog box, select the Enable Keyword Filters check box.
5. In the Filter for word(s): field, type General page.
6. In the drop-down box, click Exact, and then click OK.

7. Double-click the Disable the General page setting, click Enabled, and then click OK.
8. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 3: Create an Internet Explorer Restrictions GPO from the Internet Explorer
Restrictions starter GPO
1. In the GPMC, right-click the Adatum.com domain, and then click Create a GPO in this domain, and
link it here.
2. In the New GPO dialog box, in the Name field, type IE Restrictions.

3. Under Source Starter GPO, click the drop down box, select Internet Explorer Restrictions, and then
click OK.

 Task 4: Test the GPO for Domain Users

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Brad with a password of Pa$$w0rd.
2. Point the mouse at the lower-right corner of the screen, and when the side bar appears, click the
Search charm.

3. In the Apps search box, type Control Panel.

4. In the Apps results, click Control Panel.

5. In Control Panel, click Network and Internet.

6. In the Network and Internet dialog box, click Change your homepage. A message box displays
informing you that this feature has been disabled.

7. Click OK to acknowledge the message.

8. In the Control Panel, click Internet Options. Notice that in the Internet Properties dialog box the
General tab does not display.

9. Close all open windows and sign out.

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 Task 5: Use security filtering to exempt the IT Department from the Internet Explorer
Restrictions policy
1. Switch to LON-DC1.

2. In the GPMC, expand the Group Policy Objects folder, and in the left pane, click the IE Restrictions
policy.
3. In the details pane, click the Delegation tab.

4. On the Delegation tab, click the Advanced button.

5. In the IE Restrictions Security Settings dialog box, click Add.

6. In the Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts, or Groups field, type IT, and then click OK.

7. In the IE Restrictions Security Settings dialog box, click the IT (Adatum\IT) group, next to the
Apply group policy permission, select the Deny check box, and then click OK.

8. Click Yes to acknowledge the Windows Security dialog box.

 Task 6: Test the GPO application for IT department users

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Brad with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Point the mouse at the lower-right corner of the screen, and when the sidebar displays, click the
Search charm.

3. In the Apps search box, type Control Panel.

4. In the Apps results window, click Control Panel.

5. In Control Panel, click Network and Internet.

6. In the Network and Internet dialog box, click Change your homepage. The Internet Properties
dialog box opens to the General tab, and all settings are available.
7. Close all open windows, and sign out.

 Task 7: Test Application of the GPO for other domain users

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Boris with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

2. Point the mouse at the lower-right corner of the screen, and when the sidebar displays, click the
Search charm.

3. In the Apps search box, type Control Panel.

4. In the Apps results window, click Control Panel.

5. In Control Panel, click Network and Internet.

6. In the Network and Internet dialog box, click Change your homepage. A message box displays
informing you that this feature has been disabled.

7. Click OK to acknowledge the message.

8. Click Internet Options. In the Internet Properties dialog box, notice that the General tab does not
display.

9. Close all open windows, and sign out.

Results: After completing this lab, you should have created a GPO.
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 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines back to their initial state. To do this, complete the
following steps:

1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Module 12: Securing Windows Servers Using Group Policy

Objects
Lab A: Increasing Security for Server
Resources
Exercise 1: Using Group Policy to Secure Member Servers
 Task 1: Create a Member Servers organizational unit (OU) and move servers into it
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

2. In the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, right-click
Adatum.com, click New, and then click Organizational Unit.
3. In the New Object - Organizational Unit window, in the Name box, type Member Servers OU, and
then click OK.

4. In the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, click Computers
container.

5. Press and hold the Ctrl key. In the details pane, click both LON-SVR1 and LON-SVR2, right-click the
selection, and then click Move.
6. In the Move window, click Member Servers OU, and then click OK.

 Task 2: Create a Server Administrators group

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
2. In the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, right-click the Member
Servers OU, click New, and then click Group.

3. In the New Object – Group window, in the Group Name field, type Server Administrators, and then
click OK.

 Task 3: Create a Member Server Security Settings Group Policy Object (GPO) and link
it to the Member Servers OU
1. On LON-DC1, in the Server Manager window, click Tools, and then click Group Policy
Management.
2. In the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), expand Forests: Adatum.com, expand Domains,
expand Adatum.com, right-click Group Policy Objects, and then click New.

3. In the New GPO window, in the Name field, type Member Server Security Settings, and then click
OK.

4. In the Group Policy Management Console window, right-click Member Servers OU, and then click
Link an Existing GPO.
5. In the Select GPO window, in Group Policy Objects window, click Member Server Security Settings,
and then click OK.
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 Task 4: Configure group membership for local administrators to include Server

Administrators and Domain Admins
1. On LON-DC1, in the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), expand Forest: Adatum.com,
expand Domains, expand Adatum.com, right-click Default Domain Policy, and then click Edit.

2. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies,
expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, and then click Restricted Groups.
3. Right-click Restricted Groups, and then click Add Group.

4. In the Add Group dialog box, in the Group name field, type Administrators, and then click OK.

5. In the Administrators Properties dialog box, next to Members of this group, click Add.
6. In the Add Member dialog box, type Adatum\Server Administrators, and then click OK.

7. Next to Members of this group, click Add.

8. In the Add Member dialog box, type Adatum\Domain Admins, and then click OK twice.

9. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 5: Verify that Computer Administrators has been added to the local
Administrators group
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. On the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell® icon.

4. At the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

Gpupdate /force

5. In the Server Manager window, click Tools, and then click Computer Management.
6. In the Computer Management console, expand Local Users and Groups, click Groups, and then in
the right pane, double-click Administrators.

7. Confirm that the Administrators group contains both ADATUM\Domain Admins and
ADATUM\Server Administrators as members. Click Cancel.

8. Close the Computer Management console.

 Task 6: Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to remove Users from
Allow log on locally
1. Switch to LON-DC1.
2. On LON-DC1, in the GPMC, expand Forest: Adatum.com, expand Domains, expand Adatum.com,
and then click Group Policy Objects.

3. In the right pane, right-click Member Server Security Settings, and then click Edit.
4. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies,
expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, and then click User
Rights Assignment.

5. In the right pane, right-click Allow log on locally, and then click Properties.

6. In the Allow log on locally Properties dialog box, select the Define these policy settings check
box, and then click Add User or Group.
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7. In the Add User or Group window, type Domain Admins, and then click OK.

8. Click Add User or Group.

9. In the Add User or Group window, type Administrators, and then click OK twice.

 Task 7: Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to enable User Account
Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account
1. On LON-DC1, in the Group Policy Management Editor window, under Computer Configuration,
expand Policies, expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, and
then click Security Options.

2. In the right pane, right-click User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in
Administrator account, and then click Properties.

3. In the User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account
Properties dialog box, select the Define this policy settings check box, ensure that Enabled radio
button is selected, and then click OK.

4. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 8: Verify that a non-administrative user cannot log on to a member server

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.
2. On the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type following command, and then press Enter:

Gpupdate /force

4. Sign out from LON-SVR1.

5. Try to sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Adam with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

6. Verify that you cannot sign in to LON-SVR1, and that a logon error message displays.
7. To prepare for the next exercise, sign out from LON-SVR1, and log back on to LON-SVR1 as
Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have used Group Policy to secure Member servers.

Exercise 2: Auditing File System Access

 Task 1: Modify the Member Server Security Settings GPO to enable object access
auditing
1. Switch to LON-DC1.

2. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. In the GPMC, expand Forest: Adatum.com, expand Domains, expand Adatum.com, and then click
Group Policy Objects.

4. In the right pane, right-click Member Server Security Settings, and then click Edit.
5. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies,
expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, click Audit Policy, and
then in the right pane, right-click Audit object access, and then click Properties.
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6. In the Audit object access Properties dialog box, select the Define these policy settings check
box, select both the Success and Failure check boxes, and then click OK.

7. Sign out from LON-DC1.

 Task 2: Create and share a folder

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. Sign in to LON-SVR1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. On LON-SVR1, on the taskbar, click the Windows Explorer icon.

4. In the Windows Explorer window, in the navigation pane, click Computer.

5. In the Computer window, double-click Local Disk (C), click Home, click New folder, and then type
Marketing.
6. In the Computer window, right-click the Marketing folder, click Share with, and then click Specific
people.

7. In the File Sharing window, type Adam, and then click Add.

8. Change the Permission Level to Read/Write, click Share, and then click Done.

 Task 3: Enable auditing on the Marketing folder for Domain Users

1. On LON-SVR1, in the Local Disk (C:) window, right-click the Marketing folder, and then click
Properties.
2. In the Marketing Properties window, click the Security tab, and then click Advanced.

3. In the Advanced Security Settings for Marketing window, click the Auditing tab, click Continue, and
then click Add.

4. In the Auditing Entry for Marketing window, click Select a principal.

5. In the Select User, Computer, Service Account or Group window, in the Enter the object name to
select field, type Domain Users, and then click OK.
6. In the Auditing Entry for Marketing window, from the Type drop-down menu, select All.

7. In the Auditing Entry for Marketing window, under the Permission list, select the Write check box,
and then click OK three times.
8. On the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

9. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type following command, and then press Enter:

gpupdate /force

10. Close the Windows PowerShell window.

 Task 4: Create a new file in the file share from LON-CL1

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, click the Search charm, and then in the Search box,
type cmd.
4. Open a Command Prompt window, and at the command prompt, type the following command, and
then press Enter:

gpupdate /force
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5. Close the Command Prompt window.

6. Sign out from LON-CL1, and then sign in again as Adatum\Adam with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

7. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, click the Search charm, in the Search box, type
\\LON-SVR1\Marketing, and then press Enter.

8. In the Marketing window, click Home, click New item, click Text Document, in the file name field,
type Employees, and then press Enter.

9. Sign out from LON-CL1.

 Task 5: View the results in the security log on the domain controller
1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In the Server Manager window, click Tools, and then click Event Viewer.
3. In the Event Viewer window, expand Windows Logs, and then click Security.

4. Verify that the following event and information displays:

o Source: Microsoft Windows Security Auditing

o Event ID: 4663

o Task category: File System

o An attempt was made to access an object.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have enabled file system access auditing.

Exercise 3: Auditing Domain Logons

 Task 1: Modify the Default Domain Policy GPO
1. Switch to LON-DC1.
2. Sign in to LON-DC1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

3. On LON-DC1, on the taskbar, click the Server Manager icon.

4. In the Server Manager window, click on Tools, and then click on Group Policy Management.
5. On LON-DC1, in the GPMC, expand Forest: Adatum.com, expand Domains, expand Adatum.com,
and then click Group Policy Objects.

6. In the right pane, right-click Default Domain Policy, and then click Edit.
7. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies,
expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Local Policies, and then click Audit
Policy. In the right pane, right-click Audit account logon events, and then click Properties.
8. In the Audit account logon events Properties dialog box, select the Define these policy settings
check box, select both the Success and Failure check boxes, and then click OK.

9. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.
10. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.
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11. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

gpupdate /force

 Task 2: Run GPUpdate

1. Switch to LON-CL1.

2. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

3. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.

4. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

5. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:

gpupdate /force

6. Close the Command Prompt window, and sign out from LON-CL1.

 Task 3: Sign in to LON-CL1 with an incorrect password

• Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Adam with a password of password.

Note: This password is intentionally incorrect to generate a security log entry that shows
that that an unsuccessful login attempt has been made.

 Task 4: Review event logs on LON-DC1

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Event Viewer.

2. In the Event Viewer window, expand Windows Logs, and then click Security.

3. Review the event logs for following message: “Event ID 4771 Kerberos pre-authentication failed.
Account Information: Security ID: ADATUM\Adam.”

 Task 5: Sign in to LON-CL1 with the correct password

• Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Adam with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

Note: This password is correct, and you should be able to sign in successfully as Adam.

 Task 6: Review event logs on LON-DC1

1. Sign in to LON-DC1.

2. In the Server Manager window, click Tools, and then click Event Viewer.
3. In the Event Viewer window, expand Windows Logs, and then click Security.

4. Review the event logs for the following message: “Event ID 4624 An account was successfully
logged on. New Logon: Security ID: ADATUM\Adam.”

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have enabled domain logon auditing.

 To prepare for the next lab

• To prepare for the next lab, leave the virtual machines running.
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Lab B: Configuring AppLocker and Windows

Firewall
Exercise 1: Configuring AppLocker Policies
 Task 1: Create an OU for client computers
1. Switch to LON-DC1.

2. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
3. In the Active Directory® Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, right-click
Adatum.com, click New, and then click Organizational Unit.

4. In the New Object - Organizational Unit window, type Client Computers OU, and then click OK.

 Task 2: Move LON-CL1 to the Client Computers OU

1. On LON-DC1, in the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, click
Computers container.
2. In the details pane, right-click LON-CL1, and then click Move.

3. In the Move window, click Client Computers OU, and then click OK.

 Task 3: Create a Software Control GPO and link it to the Client Computers OU
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Group Policy Management.
2. In the GPMC, expand Forests: Adatum.com, expand Domains, expand Adatum.com, right-click
Group Policy Objects, and then click New.

3. In New GPO window, in the Name text box, type Software Control GPO, and then click OK.
4. In the right pane, right-click Software Control GPO, and then click Edit.
5. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies,
expand Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Application Control Policies, and
then expand AppLocker.
6. Under AppLocker, right-click Executable Rules, and then click Create Default Rules.

7. Repeat the previous step for Windows Installer Rules, Script Rules, and Packaged app Rules.

8. In the navigation pane, click AppLocker, and then in the right pane, click Configure rule
enforcement.

9. In the AppLocker Properties dialog box, under Executable rules, select the Configured check box,
and then from the drop-down menu, select Audit only.
10. Repeat the previous step for Windows Installer Rules, Script Rules, and Packaged app Rules, and
then click OK.

11. In the Group Policy Management Editor, expand Computer Configuration, expand Policies, expand
Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, click System Services, and then double-click
Application Identity.
12. In the Application Identity Properties dialog box, click Define this policy setting, under Select
service startup mode, click Automatic, and then click OK.

13. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

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14. In the GPMC, right-click Client Computers OU, and then click Link an Existing GPO.

15. In the Select GPO window, in Group Policy Objects list, click Software Control GPO, and then
click OK.

 Task 4: Run GPUpdate

1. Switch to LON-CL1.

2. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.

3. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

4. In Command Prompt window, type following command, and then press Enter:

gpupdate /force

5. Close the Command Prompt window.

6. Point to the lower right corner of the screen, click the Settings charm, click Power, and then click
Restart.

 Task 5: Run app1.bat in the C:\CustomApp folder

1. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Administrator with the password Pa$$w0rd.

2. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.
3. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

4. At the command prompt, type following command, and then press Enter:

gpresult /R

Review the result of the command and ensure that Software Control GPO is displayed under
Computer Settings, Applied Group Policy Objects. If Software Control GPO is not displayed, restart
LON-CL1 and repeat steps from 1 to 4.

5. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.

6. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

7. At the command prompt, type following command, and then press Enter:

C:\CustomApp\app1.bat

 Task 6: View AppLocker® events in an event log

1. On LON-CL1, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, click the Search charm, and in the Search
box, type eventvwr.msc, and then press Enter.
2. In the Event Viewer window, expand Application and Services Logs, expand Microsoft, expand
Windows, and then expand AppLocker.

3. Click MSI and Scripts and review event log 8005 that contains the following text:
%OSDRIVE%\CUSTOMAPP\APP1.BAT was allowed to run.

Note: If no events display, ensure that the Application Identity service has started, and try
again.
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 Task 7: Create a rule that allows software to run from a specific location
1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Group Policy Management.

2. In the Group Policy Management window, expand the Group Policy Objects node, right-click
Software Control GPO, and click Edit.
3. Browse to the following setting location: Computer Configuration/Policies/Windows Settings
/Security Settings/Application Control Policies/AppLocker.

4. Right-click Script rules and click Create New Rule.

5. On the Before You Begin page, click Next.

6. On the Permissions page, select the Allow radio button, and then click Next.

7. On the Conditions page, select the Path radio button, and then click Next.
8. On Path page, in the Path field, type the path %OSDRIVE%\CustomApp\app1.bat, and then click
Next.

9. On Exception page, click Next.

10. On the Name and Description page, in the Name field, type Custom App Rule, and then click
Create.

 Task 8: Modify the Software Control GPO to enforce rules

1. In the Software control GPO window, in navigation pane, click AppLocker, and then in the right
pane, click Configure rule enforcement.
2. In AppLocker Properties dialog box, under Executable rules, select the Configured check box, and
then from drop-down menu, click Enforce rules.

3. Repeat the previous step for Windows Installer Rules, Script Rules, and Packaged app Rules, and
then click OK.

4. Close Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 9: Verify that an application can still be run

1. Switch to LON-CL1.
2. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.

3. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

4. In the Command Prompt window, type the following command, and then press Enter:

gpupdate /force

5. Close the Command Prompt window.

6. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, click the Settings charm, click Power, and then click
Restart.
7. Sign in to LON-CL1 as Adatum\Tony with a password of Pa$$w0rd.

8. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.

9. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

10. In the Command Prompt window, type following command, and then press Enter:

C:\customapp\app1.bat
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 Task 10: Verify that an application cannot be run

1. On LON-CL1, on the taskbar, click the Windows® Explorer icon.

2. In the Windows Explorer window, in the navigation pane, click Computer.

3. In the Computer window, double-click Local Disk (C:), double-click the CustomApp folder, right-
click app1.bat, and then click Copy.

4. In the CustomApp window, on the navigation pane, right-click the Documents folder, and then click
Paste.

5. In a Command Prompt window, type C:\Users\Tony\Documents\app1.bat, and then press Enter.

6. Verify that applications cannot be run from the Documents folder, and that the following message
displays: “This program is blocked by Group Policy. For more information, contact your system
administrator.”
7. Close all open windows, and sign out from LON-CL1.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have configured AppLocker policies for all users
whose computer accounts are located in the Client Computers OU organizational unit. The policies you
configured should allow these users to run applications that are located in the folders C:\Windows and
C:\Program Files, and run the custom-developed application app1.bat in the C:\CustomApp folder.

Exercise 2: Configuring Windows Firewall

 Task 1: Create a group named Application Servers
1. Switch to LON-DC1.
2. In the Server Manager window, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.

3. In the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, right-click the Member
Servers OU, click New, and then click Group.
4. In the New Object – Group window, in the Group Name field, type Application Servers, and then
click OK.

 Task 2: Add LON-SVR1 as a group member

1. In the Active Directory Users and Computers console, in the navigation pane, click the Member
Servers OU, in the details pane right-click Application Servers group, and then click Properties.
2. In the Application Server Properties dialog box, click the Members tab, and then click Add.

3. In Select Users, Computers, Service Accounts or Groups, click Object Types, click Computers, and
then click OK.

4. In the Enter the object names to select box, type LON-SVR1, and then click OK.

5. In the Application Server Properties window, click OK.

 Task 3: Create a new Application Servers GPO

1. On LON-DC1, in Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Group Policy Management.
2. In the GPMC, expand Forests: Adatum.com, expand Domains, expand Adatum.com, right-click
Group Policy Objects, and then click New.

3. In the New GPO window, in the Name field, type Application Servers GPO, and then click OK.
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4. In the GPMC, right-click Application Servers GPO, and then click Edit.

5. In the Group Policy Management Editor, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies, expand
Windows Settings, expand Security Settings, expand Windows Firewall with Advanced Security,
and then click Windows Firewall with Advanced Security - LDAP://CN={GUID}.
6. In the Group Policy Management Editor, click Inbound Rules.

7. Right-click Inbound Rules, and then click New Rule.

8. In the New Inbound Rule Wizard, on the Rule Type page, click Custom, and then click Next.
9. On the Program page, click Next.

10. On the Protocol and Ports page, in the Protocol type list, click TCP.
11. In the Local port list, click Specific Ports, in the text box, type 8080, and then click Next.

12. On the Scope page, click Next.

13. On the Action page, click Allow the connection, and then click Next.

14. On the Profile page, clear both the Private and Public check boxes, and then click Next.
15. On the Name page, in the Name box, type Application Server Department Firewall Rule, and then
click Finish.

16. Close the Group Policy Management Editor.

 Task 4: Link the Application Servers GPO to the Member Servers OU

1. On LON-DC1, In the GPMC, right-click Member Servers OU, and then click Link an Existing GPO.

2. In the Select GPO window, in Group Policy objects list, click Application Servers GPO, and then
click OK.

 Task 5: Use security filtering to limit the Application Server GPO to members of
Application Server group
1. On LON-DC1, in the GPMC, click Member Servers OU.

2. Expand the Member Servers OU, and then click the Application Servers GPO link.
3. In the Group Policy Management Console message box, click OK.

4. In the right-hand pane, under Security Filtering, click Authenticated Users, and then click Remove.

5. In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.

6. In the details pane, under Security Filtering, click Add.

7. In the Select User, Computer, or Group dialog box, type Application Servers, and then click OK.

 Task 6: Run GPUpdate on LON-SVR1

1. Switch to LON-SVR1 and sign in as Adatum\Administrator.

2. Point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click the Search charm.
3. In the Search box, type cmd, and then press Enter.

4. In the Command Prompt window, type following command, and then press Enter:

gpupdate /force
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5. Close the Command Prompt window.

6. Restart LON-SVR1, and then log back on as Adatum\Administrator with the password of
Pa$$w0rd.

 Task 7: View the firewall rules on LON-SVR1

1. Switch to LON-SVR1.

2. In Server Manager, click Tools, and then click Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

3. In the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security window, click Inbound rules.

4. In the right pane, verify that the Application Server Department Firewall Rule that you created
earlier using Group Policy is configured.

5. Verify that you cannot edit the Application Server Department Firewall Rule, because it is
configured through Group Policy.

Results: After completing this exercise, you should have used Group Policy to configure Windows Firewall
with Advanced Security to create rules for application servers.

 To prepare for the next module

When you finish the lab, revert the virtual machines to their initial state by performing the following steps:
1. On the host computer, start Hyper-V® Manager.

2. In the Virtual Machines list, right-click 20410B-LON-DC1, and then click Revert.
3. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for 20410B-LON-SVR1 and 20410B-LON-CL1.

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Module 13: Implementing Server Virtualization with Hyper-V

Lab: Implementing Server Virtualization
with Hyper-V
Exercise 1: Installing the Hyper V Role onto a Server
 Task 1: Install the Hyper-V role onto a server
1. On LON-HOST1, in Server Manager, click Local Server.

2. In the Properties pane, click the IPv4 address assigned by DHCP, IPv6 enabled link.

3. In the Network Connections dialog box, right-click the network object, and then click Properties.

4. In the Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click
Properties.

5. In the Properties dialog box, on the General tab, click Use the following IP address, and then
configure the following:
o IP Address: 172.16.0.31

o Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

o Default gateway: 172.16.0.1

6. On the General tab, click Use the following DNS server addresses, and then configure the
following:
o Preferred DNS server: 172.16.0.10

7. Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.

8. In the Properties dialog box of the network object click Close.

9. Close the Network Connections dialog box.

10. In the Server Manager console, from the Manage menu, click Add Roles and Features.

11. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, on the Before you begin page, click Next.

12. On the Select installation type page, click Role-based or feature-based installation, and then
click Next.

13. On the Select destination server page, ensure that LON-HOST1 is selected, and then click Next.

14. On the Select server roles page, select Hyper-V.

15. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, click Add Features.

16. On the Select server roles page, click Next.

17. On the Select features page, click Next.

18. On the Hyper-V page, click Next.

19. On the Virtual Switches page, verify that no selections have been made, and then click Next.
20. On the Virtual Machine Migration page, click Next.

21. On the Default Stores page, review the location of the Default Stores, and then click Next.

22. On the Confirm installation selections page, click Restart the destination server automatically if
required.
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23. In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, review the message regarding automatic restarts, and then
click Yes.

24. On the Confirm Installation Selections page, click Install.

25. After a few minutes, the server restarts automatically. Ensure that you restart the machine from the
boot menu as 20410B-LON-HOST1. The computer will restart several times.

 Task 2: Complete Hyper-V role installation and verify settings

1. Sign in to LON-HOST1 using the account Administrator with the password Pa$$word.

2. When the installation of the Hyper-V tools completes, click Close to close the Add Roles and
Features Wizard.

3. On the desktop, on the taskbar, click the Server Manager icon.

4. In the Server Manager console, click the Tools menu, and then click Hyper-V Manager.

5. In the Hyper-V Manager console, click LON-HOST1.

6. In the Hyper-V Manager console, in the Actions pane, with LON-HOST1 selected, click Hyper-V
Settings.

7. In the Hyper-V Settings for LON-HOST1 dialog box, click the Keyboard item. Verify that the
Keyboard is set to the Use on the virtual machine option.
8. In the Hyper-V Settings for LON-HOST1 dialog box, click the Virtual Hard Disks item. Verify that
the location of the default folder to store Virtual Hard Disk files is C:\Users\Public\Documents
\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks, and then click OK.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have installed the Hyper-V role onto a physical server.

Exercise 2: Configuring Virtual Networking

 Task 1: Configure the external network
1. In the Hyper-V Manager console, click LON-HOST1.
2. From the Actions menu, click Virtual Switch Manager.

3. In the Virtual Switch Manager for LON-HOST1 dialog box, click New virtual network switch.
Ensure that External is selected, and then click Create Virtual Switch.
4. In the Virtual Switch Properties area, enter the following information, and then click OK:

o Name: Switch for External Adapter

o External Network: Mapped to the host computer's physical network adapter. (This varies
depending on the host computer.)

5. In the Apply Networking Changes dialog box, review the warning, and then click Yes.

 Task 2: Create a private network

1. In Server Manager, on the Tools menu, open Hyper-V Manager, and then click LON-HOST1.
2. From the Actions menu, click Virtual Switch Manager.

3. Under Virtual Switches, click New virtual network switch.

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4. Under Create virtual switch, click Private, and then click Create Virtual Switch.

5. In the Virtual Switch Manager dialog box, in the Virtual Switch Properties section, configure the
following settings, and then click OK:
o Name: Private Network

o Connection type: Private network

 Task 3: Create an internal network

1. In Server Manager, on the Tools menu, open Hyper-V Manager, and then click LON-HOST1.

2. From the Actions menu, click Virtual Switch Manager.

3. Under Virtual Switches, click New virtual network switch.

4. Under Create virtual switch, click Internal and then click Create Virtual Switch.

5. In the Virtual Switch Manager dialog box, in the Virtual Switch Properties section, configure the
following settings, and then click OK:

o Name: Internal Network

o Connection type: Internal network

 Task 4: Configure the Media Access Control (MAC) address range

1. In Server Manager, on the Tools menu, open Hyper-V Manager, and then click LON-HOST1.

2. On the Actions menu, click Virtual Switch Manager.

3. Under Global Network Settings, click MAC Address Range.

4. On MAC Address Range settings, configure the following values, and then click OK:

o Minimum: 00-15-5D-0F-AB-A0
o Maximum: 00-15-5D-0F-AB-EF

5. Close the Hyper-V Manager console.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have configured virtual switch options on a physically
deployed Windows Server 2012 server running the Hyper-V role.

Exercise 3: Creating and Configuring a Virtual Machine

 Task 1: Create differencing VHDs
1. On the taskbar, click the Windows® Explorer icon.
2. Click Computer, expand drive E, expand Program Files, expand Microsoft Learning, and then
expand Base.

Note: The drive letter may depend upon the number of drives on the physical host
machine.

3. In the Base folder, verify that the Base12A-WS12-TMP.vhd hard disk image file is present.
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4. Click the Home tab, and then click the New Folder icon twice to create two new folders. Right-click
each folder and rename the folders to the following names:

o LON-GUEST1
o LON-GUEST2

5. Close Windows Explorer.

6. In the Server Manager console, click Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
7. In the Hyper-V Manager console, in the Actions pane, click New, and then click Hard Disk.

8. In the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, on the Before You Begin page, click Next.

9. On the Choose Disk Format page, click VHD, and then click Next.
10. On the Choose Disk Type page, click Differencing, and then click Next.

11. On the Specify Name and Location page, specify the following details, and then click Next:

o Name: LON-GUEST1.vhd

o Location: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST1\

12. On the Configure Disk page, type the location: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base
\Base12A-WS12-TMP.vhd, and then click Finish.
13. On the desktop, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell® icon.
14. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command to import the Hyper-V module,
and then press Enter:

Import-Module Hyper-V

15. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command to create a new differencing VHD
to be used with LON-GUEST2, and then press Enter:

New-VHD "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST2\LON-GUEST2.vhd"

-ParentPath "E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\Base12A-WS12-TMP.vhd"

16. Close Windows PowerShell.

17. In the Hyper-V Manager console, in the Actions pane, click Inspect Disk.

18. In the Open dialog box, browse to E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST2\, click
LON-GUEST2.vhd, and then click Open.
19. In the Virtual Hard Disk Properties dialog box, verify that LON-GUEST2.vhd is configured as a
differencing VHD with E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\Base12A-WS12TMP.vhd as a
parent, and then click Close.

 Task 2: Create virtual machines

1. In Server Manager, on the Tools menu, open Hyper-V Manager, and then click LON-HOST1.

2. In the Hyper-V Manager console, in the Actions pane, click New, and then click Virtual Machine.

3. In the New Virtual Machine Wizard, on the Before You Begin page, click Next.
4. On the Specify Name and Location page, click Store the virtual machine in a different location,
enter the following values, and then click Next:

o Name: LON-GUEST1

o Location: E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST1\

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5. On the Assign Memory page, enter a value of 1024 MB, select the Use Dynamic Memory for this
virtual machine option, and then click Next.

6. On the Configure Networking page, for the connection, click Private Network, and then click
Next.
7. On the Connect Virtual Hard Disk page, click Use an existing virtual hard disk. Click Browse,
browse to E:\Program Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST1\lon-guest1.vhd, click Open,
and then click Finish.

8. On the desktop, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

9. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command and press Enter to import the
Hyper-V module:

Import-Module Hyper-V

10. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, type the following command to create a new virtual machine
named LON-GUEST2:

New-VM -Name LON-GUEST2 -MemoryStartupBytes 1024MB -VHDPath "E:\Program

Files\Microsoft Learning\Base\LON-GUEST2\LON-GUEST2.vhd" -SwitchName "Private
Network"

11. Close Windows PowerShell.

12. In the Hyper-V Manager console, click LON-GUEST2.

13. In the Actions pane, under LON-GUEST2, click Settings.

14. In the Settings for LON-GUEST2 on LON-HOST1 dialog box, click Automatic Start Action, and set
the Automatic Start Action to Nothing.
15. In the Settings for LON-GUEST2 on LON-HOST1 dialog box, click Automatic Stop Action, and set
the Automatic Stop Action to Shut down the guest operating system.
16. Click OK to close the Settings for LON-GUEST2 on LON-HOST1 dialog box.

 Task 3: Enable resource metering

1. On the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, enter the following command to import the Hyper-V module
and press Enter:

Import-Module Hyper-V

3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, enter the following commands to enable resource metering on
the virtual machines, pressing Enter at the end of each line:

Enable-VMResourceMetering LON-GUEST1
Enable-VMResourceMetering LON-GUEST2

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have deployed two separate virtual machines using a
sysprepped VHD file as a parent disk for two differencing VHDs.
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Exercise 4: Using Virtual Machine Snapshots

 Task 1: Deploy Windows Server 2012 in a virtual machine
1. In the Hyper-V Manager console, click on LON-GUEST1.

2. In the Actions pane, click Start.

3. Double-click LON-GUEST1 to open the Virtual Machine Connection window.

4. In the LON-GUEST1 on LON-HOST1 - Virtual Machine Connection window, perform the following
steps:

o On the Settings page, select the I accept the license terms for using Windows check box, and
then click Accept.
o On the Settings page, click Next to accept the Region and Language settings.

o On the Settings page, type the password Pa$$w0rd twice, and then click Finish.

5. In the LON-GUEST1 on LON-HOST1 - Virtual Machine Connection window, from the Action menu,
click Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
6. Sign in to the virtual machine using the account Administrator and the password Pa$$w0rd.

7. On the virtual machine, in the Server Manager console, click Local Server, and then click the
randomly assigned name next to the computer name.
8. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Computer Name tab, click Change.

9. In the Computer Name field, type LON-GUEST1, and then click OK.
10. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, click OK.
11. Click Close to close the System Properties dialog box.

12. In the Microsoft Windows dialog box, click Restart Now.

 Task 2: Create a virtual machine snapshot

1. Sign in to the LON-GUEST1 virtual machine using the Administrator account and the password
Pa$$w0rd.

2. In the Server Manager console, click the Local Server node, and verify that the name of the computer
is set to LON-GUEST1.

3. In the Virtual Machine Connection window, from the Action menu, click Snapshot.

4. In the Snapshot Name dialog box, type the name Before Change, and then click Yes.

 Task 3: Modify the virtual machine

1. In the Server Manager console, click Local Server, and then next to Computer name, click
LON-GUEST1.

2. In the System Properties dialog box, on the Computer Name tab, click Change.

3. In the Computer Name field, type LON-Computer1, and then click OK.
4. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes dialog box, click OK.

5. Close the System Properties dialog box.

6. In the Microsoft Windows dialog box, click Restart Now.

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7. Sign back in to the LON-GUEST1 virtual machine using the Administrator account and the password
Pa$$w0rd.

8. In the Server Manager console, click Local Server, and verify that the server name is set to
LON-Computer1.

 Task 4: Revert to the existing virtual machine snapshot

1. In the Virtual Machine Connection window, from the Action menu, click Revert.

2. In the Revert Virtual Machine dialog box, click Revert.

3. In the Server Manager console, in the Local Server node, in the Virtual Machines list, verify that the
Computer Name is now set to LON-GUEST1.

 Task 5: View resource metering data

1. On LON-HOST1, on the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, enter the following command and Press Enter to import the
Hyper-V module:

Import-Module Hyper-V

3. At the Windows PowerShell prompt, enter the following command and press Enter to retrieve
resource metering information:

Measure-VM LON-GUEST1

4. Note the average CPU, average random access memory (RAM), and total disk usage figures.

5. Close the Windows PowerShell window.

 Task 6: Revert the virtual machines

After you finish the lab, restart the computer in Windows Server 2008 R2.
1. On the taskbar, click the Windows PowerShell icon.

2. In the Windows PowerShell window, enter the following command, and then press enter:

Shutdown /r /t 5

3. From the Windows Boot Manager, click Windows Server 2008 R2.

Results: After completing this exercise, you will have used virtual machine snapshots to recover from a
virtual machine misconfiguration.
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