Technical Report_Sercer 2012 R2 - Adeeb Raja

TECHNICAL

TRAINING REPORT

Windows Server 2012 R2

ABSTRACT It’s a complete easy guide & Training Report

regarding IT and specially Windows Servers

2012 R2. In this report all aspects are discuss

in detail regarding Servers Introduction,

Installations, Configurations as well as

Enabling Features. It will also helping guide

for new Beginners and Trainees those who are

interested as Scope in Microsoft. Published

for Microsoft Department, Techaccess

Pakistan.

Adeeb Raja

Microsoft - TAP

Adeeb Raja| Microsoft

1 Introduction Server 2012 R2

Table of Contents

DEDICATION ............................................................................................................... 3

Chapter No. 1: INTRODUCTION SERVER 2012 R2 ........................................ 4

1.1 WINDOWS SERVER 2012 .................................................................................... 4

1.2 FEATURES ........................................................................................................... 4

1.2.1 INSTALLATION OPTIONS ................................................................................. 4

1.2.2 USER INTERFACE ............................................................................................ 5

1.2.3 TASK MANAGER ............................................................................................. 5

1.2.4 IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT (IPAM) .............................................................. 5

1.2.5 ACTIVE DIRECTORY ....................................................................................... 6

1.2.6 HYPER-V ......................................................................................................... 6

1.2.7 REFS ............................................................................................................... 6

1.2.8 IIS 8.0 .............................................................................................................. 7

1.2.9 SCALABILITY .................................................................................................. 7

1.3 EDITIONS ............................................................................................................ 7

1.4 Changes from Windows Server 2012 ............................................................... 10

Chapter No. 2: INSTALLATION SERVER 2010 R2 .......................................12

2.1 Installation Process ........................................................................................... 12

Chapter No. 3: CONFIGURATIONS ADD ROLES & FEATURES ...................20

3.1 Configure Local Server .................................................................................... 20

3.2 Add & Roles Features ....................................................................................... 22

3.3 Active Directory Users & Computer ................................................................ 31

3.4 Group Policy Management ............................................................................... 37

Chapter No. 4: HYPER-V WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 ............................... 44

4.1 Hyper –V .......................................................................................................... 44

4.2 Hyper –V Shared Virtual Hard Disk ................................................................ 44

4.3 Resize Virtual Hard Disk .................................................................................. 44

4.6 Storage Quality of Service ................................................................................ 45

4.5 Live Migrations ................................................................................................ 45

4.6 Virtual Machine Generation ............................................................................. 46



4.6.1 Generation 1 .................................................................................................. 46

4.6.2 Generation 2 .................................................................................................. 46

4.7 Add Roles & Features of Hyper –V ................................................................. 46

4.8 Make Virtual Machine in Hyper –V ................................................................. 49

Chapter No. 5: ACTIVE DIRECTORY

DOMAIN JOINING WINDOWS 7 ULTIMATE ......................... 57

SECTION 1. ............................................................................................................... 57

5.1 Domain Joining ................................................................................................. 57

5.2 Pre-requisites for Domain Joining .................................................................... 57

5.3 Active Directory Domain Joining..................................................................... 60

SECTION 2. ............................................................................................................... 63

5.4 AD Domain Policy ........................................................................................... 63

5.5 AD Domain Policies Testing: ........................................................................... 64



Dedication

First of all I would like to thank “Allah Almighty the most gracious and the most

merciful”. Specially dedicated to my Mother & Father and also Microsoft TAP

Team for their support and encouragement throughout my life.

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Chapter No. 1

Introduction

Server 2012 R2

1.1 WINDOWS SERVER 2012

“Windows Server is a group of operating system designed by Microsoft that supports enterprise

level management, data storage, applications and communication. Windows server have focused

on stability, security, networking and windows various improvement to file system.”

Unlike its predecessor, Windows Server 2012 has no support for Itanium-based computers and

has four editions. Various features were added or improved over Windows Server 2008 R2 (with

many placing an emphasis on cloud computing), such as an updated version of Hyper-V, an IP

address management role, a new version of Windows Task Manager, and ReFS, a new file

system. Windows Server 2012 received generally good reviews in spite of having included the

same controversial Metro-based user interface seen in Windows 8.

The successor to Windows Server 2012, called Windows Server 2012 R2, was released along

with Windows 8.1in October 2013. A service pack, formally designated Windows Server 2012

R2 Update, was released in April 2014.

1.2 FEATURES

The features of windows server 2012 R2 are discussed as bellowed:

1.2.1 INSTALLATION OPTIONS

Unlike its predecessor, Windows Server 2012 can switch between "Server Core" and "Server

with a GUI" installation options without a full reinstallation. Server Core - an option with a

command-line interface only - is now the recommended configuration. There is also a third

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Task_Manager

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_pack



installation option that allows some GUI elements such as MMC and Server Manager to run, but

without the normal desktop, shell or default programs like File Explorer.

1.2.2 USER INTERFACE

Server Manager has been redesigned with an emphasis on easing management of multiple

servers. The operating system, like Windows 8, uses the Metro-based user interface unless

installed in Server Core mode. Windows Store is available in this version of Windows but is not

installed by default. Windows PowerShell in this version has over 2300 command-lets, compared

to around 200 in Windows Server 2008 R2.

1.2.3 TASK MANAGER

Windows Server 2012 includes a new version of Windows Task Manager together with the old

version. In the new version the tabs are hidden by default showing applications only. In the new

Processes tab, the processes are displayed in varying shades of yellow, with darker shades

representing heavier resource use. It lists application names and status, as well

as CPU, memory, hard disk and network utilization. The process information found in the older

versions are now moved to the new Details tab. The Performance tab shows "CPU", "Memory",

"Disk", "Wi-Fi" and "Ethernet" graphs. The CPU tab no longer displays individual graphs for

every logical processor on the system by default; instead, it can display data for each non-

uniform memory access (NUMA) node. When displaying data for each logical processor for

machines with more than 64 logical processors, the CPU tab now displays simple utilization

percentages on heat-mapping tiles.[24]

The color used for these heat maps is blue, with darker

shades again indicating heavier utilization.

1.2.4 IP ADDRESS MANAGEMENT (IPAM)

Windows Server 2012 has an IP address management role for discovering, monitoring, auditing,

and managing the IP address space used on a corporate network. The IPAM is used for the

management and monitoring of Domain Name System (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol (DHCP) servers. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are fully supported.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2012#cite_note-24



1.2.5 ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Windows Server 2012 has a number of changes to Active Directory from the version shipped

with Windows Server 2008 R2. The Active Directory Domain Services installation wizard has

been replaced by a new section in Server Manager, and a GUI has been added to the Active

Directory Recycle Bin. Multiple password policies can be set in the same domain. Active

Directory in Windows Server 2012 is now aware of any changes resulting from virtualization,

and virtualized domain controllers can be safely cloned. Upgrades of the domain functional level

to Windows Server 2012 are simplified; it can be performed entirely in Server Manager. Active

Directory Federation Services is no longer required to be downloaded when installed as a role,

and claims which can be used by the Active Directory Federation Services have been introduced

into the Kerberos token. Windows Power-shell commands used by Active Directory

Administrative Center can be viewed in a "Power-shell History Viewer.

1.2.6 HYPER-V

Windows Server 2012, along with Windows 8, includes a new version of Hyper-V, as presented

at the Microsoft BUILD event. Many new features have been added to Hyper-V, including

network virtualization, multi-tenancy, storage resource pools, cross-premise connectivity, and

cloud backup. Additionally, many of the former restrictions on resource consumption have been

greatly lifted. Each virtual machine in this version of Hyper-V can access up to 64 virtual

processors, up to 1 terabyte of memory, and up to 64 terabytes of virtual disk space per virtual

hard disk (using a new .vhdx format). Up to 1024 virtual machines can be active per host, and up

to 8000 can be active per failover cluster. SLAT is a required processor feature for Hyper-V on

Windows 8, while for Windows Server 2012 it is only required for the supplementary Remote-

FX role.

1.2.7 REFS

Resilient File System (ReFS) codenamed "Protogon" is a new file system in Windows Server

2012 initially intended for file servers that improves on NTFS in some respects. Major new

features of ReFS include.

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Improved reliability for on-disk structures

Built-in resilience

Compatibility with existing APIs and technologies

1.2.8 IIS 8.0

Windows Server 2012 includes version 8.0 of Internet Information Services (IIS). The new

version contains new features such as SNI, CPU usage caps for particular websites, centralized

management of SSL certificates, Web-Socket support and improved support for NUMA, but few

other substantial changes were made.

1.2.9 SCALABILITY

Windows Server 2012 supports the following maximum hardware specifications. Windows

Server 2012 improves over its predecessor Windows Server 2008 R2:

Specification Windows Server

2012

Windows Server 2008

R2

Physical Processors X64 X64

Logical Processors when

Hyper-V is Disable

640 256

Logical Processors when

Hyper-V is Enable

320 64

Memory 4 TB 2 TB

Failover Cluster nodes

(in any single cluster)

64 16

1.3 EDITIONS

Windows Server 2012 has four editions:



1. Foundation. 2. Essentials.



3. Standard. 4. Datacenter.



1.4 Changes from Windows Server 2012

Microsoft has confirmed the following changes introduced by Windows Server 2012 R2:

1 Automated Tiering: Storage Spaces stores most frequently accessed files on fastest

physical media.

2 Deduplication for VHD: Reduces the storage space for VHD files with largely similar

contents by storing the similar contents only once.

3 Windows PowerShell v4, which now includes a Desired State Configuration (DSC)

feature

4 Integrated Office 365 support (Essentials edition)

5 User interface changes from Windows 8.1, including visible Start button.

6 UEFI-based virtual machines

7 Upgrades from driver emulators to synthetic hardware drivers to minimize legacy support

8 Faster VM deployment (approximately half the time).

9 Internet Information Services 8.5: Support for logging to Event Tracing for Windows and

the ability to log any request/response headers. To improve scalability, if IIS is

configured with 100 or more web sites, by default it will not automatically start any of

them. Alongside this, a new "Idle Worker Process Page-Out" configuration option has

been added to application pools to instruct Windows to page-out the process if it has been

idle for the idle time-out period (by default, 20 minutes).

10 Server Message Block: Performance and event logging quality improvements, support for

Hyper-V Live Migration over SMB, bandwidth prioritization management, and the

ability to remove SMB 1.0 support.

11 Windows Deployment Services: Support for managing WDS via PowerShell.



12 Windows Defender is available in a Server Core installation, and is installed and enabled

by default.

13 IP Address Management (IPAM): Extended to support role-based access control,

allowing for fine-grained control over which users can view or change configurations for

DHCP reservations, scopes, IP address blocks, DNS resource records, etc. Additionally,

IPAM can integrate with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 to have

coordinated IP policy across both physical and virtual environments. The IPAM database

can be stored in a SQL Server instance instead of Windows Internal Database.

14 Group Policy has a new "Policy Cache" setting which allows domain-joined machines to

store a copy of the group policy settings on the client machine and, depending on the

speed of access to the domain controller, use those at startup time instead of waiting for

the policy settings to download. This can improve startup times on machines that are

disconnected from the company network. New Group Policy settings have been added to

cover new features in Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11, such as enabling/disabling

SPDY/3 support, configuring start screen layouts, and detecting phone numbers in web

pages.

15 Hyper-V role and Hyper-V management console are added to the Essentials edition.

In next chapter, I will discussed how to install the Windows server 2012 R2.

Chapter No. 2

Installation

Server 2010 R2

2.1 Installation Process

Microsoft recently released the Preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 for download and

install. We got our hands on the install ISO and decided to spin this up in a VMware

WorkStation version 11.0. Microsoft has greatly improved things in the R2 trim which has been

the standard they have stuck to in the past couple of Server iterations.

Below are the screenshots we took as the installer ran as well as the first screens we saw when

we logged on for the first time under the administrator account.

Figure 2.1 A Loading files of server 2012-R2 for installation.


13 Installation of Server 2012 R2

Figure 2.1 B Selection of Language & Keyboard selection & click Next.

Figure 2.1 C For Begin the Installation, click Install now.



Figure 2.1 D Put the 25 character Key of Server 2012 R2

Figure 2.1 E Select the Standard with GUI option



Figure 2.1 F Select the License terms

Figure 2.1 G Choose Custom: Install Windows only



Figure 2.1 H Select the Drive and Click next for Install

Figure 2.1 I After selecting next, the windows 2012 R2 setup begins and starting copy, and

getting installation files from ISO image into physical system, where we are going to install.



Figure 2.1 J After installing and restart, the PC will comes on Setting Tab. Here enter the

password for Administrator & remember it. Who will manage the server.

Figure 2.1 K Your settings are just going to Finalized.



Figure 2.1 L after Finalized, here comes Lock screen. Now press “Ctrl + Alt + Del” for login.

Figure 2.1 M login as Administrator. Put password same as we set before in the installation.



Figure 2.1 N This is first startup screen of Server 2012-R2. Installation has been completed

successfully.

In the next chapter, we will discussed how to configure the Local server & How to

add & Role features into the local server 2012 R2.

Chapter No. 3

Configurations

Add Roles & Features

3.1 Configure Local Server

First of all we will configure the local server because if we don’t configure it, than it will allow

installing Domain services on it. And at client side we can’t connect the Domain joining. Let’s

begin the first step “The configuration of local Server.”

Figure 3.1 A Overview of Server Manager and Dash-Board.


21 Configuration Add Roles & Features

There are five things are very important, which has to be changed to make it Domain Server.

1 Computer Name: I give it a name as “Adeeb-2012R2”

2 Windows Firewall: Windows Firewall has been turn OFF.

3 Remote Desktop: Remote Desktop must be Enable. It allows the remote access.

4 Ethernet: Ethernet setting must change into Static IPv4. I set as:

IP Address: 192.168.1.200

Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1

5 Time Zone: It has to be set as UTC +05:00 Islamabad, Pakistan.

Figure 3.1 B Configuration of the Local Server.



3.2 Add & Roles Features

The Add Roles Wizard simplifies how you install roles on the server, and lets you install

multiple roles at one time. Server Manager replaces Add or Remove Windows Components, and

a single session in the Add Roles Wizard can complete the configuration of the server.

Figure 3.2 A Add & Roles Features

Figure 3.2 B Add & Roles Features setup begins



Figure 3.2 C Select the role based option, because we assign the roles against the users.

Figure 3.2 D Server Selection



Figure 3.2 E Select Active Directory Domain Services, click Add the features

Figure 3.2 F Features, select .NET framework 4.5 and click next.



Figure 3.2 G AD DS = Active Directory Domain Services, Click next

Figure 3.2 H Confirmation, select restart option & click then Install



Figure 3.2 I See Results, Feature installation is in progress. After completion click close.

Figure 3.2 J Click the flag, then click “Promote this server to a Domain controller



Figure 3.2 K Promotion, Click Add a new forest, Domain name= Raja.com

Figure 3.2 L Set forest function level, and assign the Password. (Remember the password)



Figure 3.2 M Check NetBIOS domain name, if it is not matched with your Forest then it will

not work properly. But we have got our Domain name is “RAJA”, which is right. Means it’s OK.

Figure 3.2 N Paths, These are the paths where log files will be saved, click next.



Figure 3.2 O Review options: Domain= raja.com, NetBIOS=RAJA, DNS=yes. Click next

Figure 3.2 P Prerequisites check, we have passed this process, now click Install.



Figure 3.2 Q AD DS Installation is under process.

Figure 3.2 R AD DS installation was successfully configured as a domain controller. Click

closed, this will restart your servers once. After restart it will be ready for used AD DS.



Figure 3.2 S After restart, login as administrator. And go to the Dash-Board. You will see

your server is now Domain controller as “raja.com” AD DS promote successfully.

3.3 Active Directory Users & Computer

In this article we will discussed how to make the users in Active Directory, under the Forest

Domain as “Raja.com” we will make folder under this forest domain, folders are called as

Organization Units.

Figure 3.3 A Click Tools menu, then select “A-D users & computers from drop-down menu.



Figure 3.3 b “raja.com” has drop-down menu, we can see folders which are so called OU=

Organization Units, there is already users OU. But we will make another OU for make easy.

Figure 3.3 c Right click on “raja.com” Select “New” and then choose “Organization Units

=OU”. We will make our own OU because we can put users into groups very easily.



Figure 3.3 d Create in raja.com, it means we are making OU under this forest domain.

Figure 3.3 e In Additional OU, there are 2 OU’s. Super users & Domain users. Now we are

going to make user in “Super user” OU.



Figure 3.3 f Type username & Logon name @raja.com. Because our Domain is “raja.com”

Figure 3.3 g Assign the password, and uncheck the 1st Option, & check the 2nd & 3rd option.



Figure 3.3 h Confirmation, click finish.

Figure 3.3 i now we are making Domain users as [email protected], click next




Figure 3.3 j assigned the credential for Farhan, uncheck 1st option, and check 2nd 3rd option.

Figure 3.3 k Confirmation, click finish.



Figure 3.3 L See the Domain users. There is Farhan, user as [email protected]

3.4 Group Policy Management

Group Policy is an infrastructure that allows you to specify managed configurations for users and

computers through Group Policy settings and Group Policy Preferences. To configure Group

Policy settings that affect only a local computer or user, you can use the Local Group Policy

Editor. You can manage Group Policy settings and Group Policy Preferences in an Active

Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environment through the Group Policy Management

Console (GPMC). Group Policy management tools also are included in the Remote Server

Administration Tools pack to provide a way for you to administer Group Policy settings from

your desktop.

Figure 3.4 a Go to Tools, and select Group Policy Management Menu




Figure 3.4 b this is GPO menu, click Additional users,

Figure 3.4 c Create a GPO in this Domain.



Figure 3.4 d Give name to GPO as Domain users GPO & click OK

Figure 3.4 e Right click to Domain users GPO and go to edit.



Figure 3.4 f go to Administrative templates, personalized and we are going to “prevent changing

desktop icons”, this policy is applicable on Domain users. Which is [email protected]

Figure 3.4 g Enable the policy, write comment and click OK.




Figure 3.4 h Prevent changing desktop icons Status Enable.

Figure 3.4 i Prevent Desktop Background, Enable the policy, write comment and click OK.



Figure 3.4 j Prevent changing Desktop Background icons Status Enable.

Figure 3.4 k Domain Users GPO, Delegation Tab. Add give privileges on [email protected]




Figure 3.4 L Domain GPO Settings tab, confirm how many policies are applied on GPO.

Figure 3.4 m Domain GPO Details tab, Check GPO status = Enabled. @raja.com

Chapter No. 4

Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 R2 4.1 Hyper –V

The Hyper-V role enables you to create and manage a virtualized computing environment by

using virtualization technology that is built in to Windows Server 2012 R2. Hyper-V virtualizes

hardware to provide an environment in which you can run multiple operating systems at the

same time on one physical computer, by running each operating system on its own virtual

machine. For more information about Hyper-V, see the Hyper-V overview.

4.2 Hyper –V Shared Virtual Hard Disk

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 enables clustering virtual machines by using shared virtual

hard disk (VHDX) files.

What value does this change add?

This feature is used to build a high availability infrastructure, and it is especially important for

private cloud deployments and cloud-hosted environments that manage large workloads. Shared

virtual hard disks enable multiple virtual machines to access the same virtual hard disk (VHDX)

file, which provides shared storage for use by Windows Failover Clustering.. The shared virtual

hard disk files can be hosted on Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) or on Server Message Block

(SMB)-based Scale-Out File Server file shares.

What works differently?

This feature is new in Windows Server 2012 R2. It was not possible to cluster virtual machines

by using a shared virtual hard disk in previous releases of Windows Server.

4.3 Resize Virtual Hard Disk

Hyper-V storage has been updated to support resizing virtual hard disks while the virtual

machine is running.


45 Hyper –V Windows Server 2012 R2


Resizing virtual hard disks while the virtual machine is running enables an administrator to

perform configuration and maintenance operations on the virtual hard disks while the associated

virtual machine is online or the virtual hard disk data disk is in use.


Online virtual hard disk resizing is only available for VHDX files that are attached to a SCSI

controller. The virtual hard disk size can be increased or decreased through the user interface

while virtual hard disk is in use.

4.6 Storage Quality of Service

Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 includes storage Quality of Service (QoS). Storage QoS

enables you to manage storage throughput for virtual hard disks that are accessed by your virtual

machines.


Storage QoS enables you to specify the maximum and minimum I/O loads in terms of I/O

operations per second (IOPS) for each virtual disk in your virtual machines. Storage QoS ensures

that the storage throughput of one virtual hard disk does not impact the performance of another

virtual hard disk on the same host.


This feature is new in Windows Server 2012 R2. It was not possible to configure storage QoS

parameters for your virtual hard disks in previous releases of Windows Server.

4.5 Live Migrations

Hyper-V live migration has been updated with the following capabilities.

Improved performance

Hyper-V live migration has been updated to allow the administrator to select the optimal

performance options when moving virtual machines to a different server.



4.6 Virtual Machine Generation

Virtual machine generation determines the virtual hardware and functionality that is presented to

the virtual machine.


Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 includes two supported virtual machine generations.

4.6.1 Generation 1

Provides the same virtual hardware to the virtual machine as in previous versions of Hyper-V.

4.6.2 Generation 2

Provides the following new functionality on a virtual machine:

o Secure Boot (enabled by default)

o Boot from a SCSI virtual hard disk

o Boot from a SCSI virtual DVD

o PXE boot by using a standard network adapter

o UEFI firmware support

4.7 Add Roles & Features of Hyper –V

The Hyper-V role enables you to create and manage a virtualized computing environment by

using virtualization technology that is built in to Windows Server. Installing the Hyper-V role

installs the required components and optionally installs management tools. The required

components include Windows hypervisor, Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management Service, the

virtualization WMI provider, and other virtualization components such as the virtual machine

bus (VMbus), virtualization service provider (VSP) and virtual infrastructure driver (VID).

The management tools for the Hyper-V role consist of:

GUI-based management tools: Hyper-V Manager, a Microsoft Management Console

(MMC) snap-in, and Virtual Machine Connection, which provides access to the video output

of a virtual machine so you can interact with the virtual machine.



Hyper-V-specific cmdlets for Windows PowerShell. Windows Server 2012 includes a

Hyper-V module, which provides command-line access to all the functionality available in

the GUI, as well functionality not available through the GUI.

Figure 4.7 a Add Roles & Features, Select Role-based or features based installation.

Figure 4.7 b Select a server from the server pool, & click next.



Figure 4.7 c Server Role: Select Hyper-V, Tick include management tools, & Add feature

Figure 4.7 d Hyper –V after install.



4.8 Make Virtual Machine in Hyper –V

Virtual machine generation determines the virtual hardware and functionality that is presented to

the virtual machine. In this article we will study how to make a new virtual machine using Hyper

–V.

Figure 4.8 a Right click, go to New, and click Virtual machine.

Figure 4.8 b Begin your installation, Click next



Figure 4.8 c enter name of VM, give destination path for VM installation, and click next.

Figure 4.8 d Select Generation 1, and click next to continue.



Figure 4.8 e Assign memory for RAM, and click next

Figure 4.8 f select the network switch, I select Intel Gigabyte switch.



Figure 4.8 g Assign Virtual Hard disk in GB’s for installation, and click next

Figure 4.8 h Select boot from DVD-ROM, Browse to fetch ISO image, and click next.



Figure 4.8 i Overview of previous settings, Verified and click finish to continue.

Figure 4.8 j after finishing, this tab will come, right click to windows7 and click connect.



Figure 4.8 k Setup is loading files for installation windows 7

Figure 4.8 l accept the license and click next



Figure 4.8 m Select custom: install windows only (advance) option.

Figure 4.8 n Select partition where windows will be installed, and click next.



Figure 4.8 o Windows Setup will start, this process will take approx. 25-35 minutes.

Figure 4.8 p Windows 7 installation has been completed. This is GUI of installed windows 7

on Hyper –V as Adeeb-2012R2 is a Server named tag.

Chapter No. 5

Active Directory Domain Joining

Windows 7 Ultimate

SECTION 1.

This chapter is divided into two sections. In this section we will study what is

Domain joining and how to connect local windows client to the Active Directory

Domain. Our A.D Domain is “raja.com”

5.1 Domain Joining

To connect your computer to a domain, you'll need to know the name of the domain and have a

valid user account on the domain. Open System by clicking the Start button, right-clicking

Computer, and then clicking Properties. Under Computer name, domain, and workgroup

settings, click Change settings.

5.2 Pre-requisites for Domain Joining

1 Do not set public DNS server in TCP/IP setting of WS.

2 Check the TCP/IP NetBIOS helper service is started and running.

3 Check the time and time zone setting on the client PC. It should be correct.

4 Disable the windows firewall and Antivirus on the client PC.

5 Check DNS client, server, workstation service is started.

6 If possible change the PC name and try to join the PC to domain.


58 Active Directory Domain Joining Windows 7 Ultimate

Figure 5.2 b Go to control panels, Windows Fire-Wall settings, turn off Windows firewall.

Figure 5.2 c Goto Control panels, Time & Date settings, Click change time Zone, select +5:00



Figure 5.2 c Go to control panel, Network connections, right click Area and open properties.



Figure 5.2 d this is the properties of IPv4 Local Area network, set it to Static IPv4.

In Default Gateway give IP of Local Domain Server’s = 192.168.1.200.

Which indicates Adeeb-2012R2 AKA @raja.com, and click OK.

5.3 Active Directory Domain Joining

After completion of prerequisites, now we will study how to join Active Directory Domain on

this client end in windows 7 Ultimate. It’s very simple after prerequisites, see below:

Figure 5.3 A into system properties, First change the computer name, and it will asked you

for restart. After restart it, again come to same page. Change Workgroup to

Domain. Type “raja.com” because this is our AD Domain. And click Ok.



Figure 5.3 B In here put your Credential Domain Organization Users: “Farhan & Password”

Figure 5.3 C Domain Joining successfully, and now click OK.



Figure 5.3 D Restart required, therefore click Restart Now.

Figure 5.3 E After restart, here come logon screen, at here enter Credentials.



SECTION 2.

In this section we will test the Domain Policies which were made earlier chapter

and we will check onto local windows client of the Active Directory Domain. Our

A.D Domain client is [email protected]

5.4 AD Domain Policy

First of all Logon to @raja.com domain. Farhan is a Domain user of raja.com, and only policies

are applicable in Domain premises. Let’s begin the Policies Testing.

Figure 5.4 A Logon to: RAJA, Enter the credentials.




5.5 AD Domain Policies Testing:

The following policies were enable in our Domain Server, therefore only these limited policies

will be verified these policies are working good or not at Client windows 7 side.

1. Prevent changing Desktop Background

2. Remove Task Manager

3. Lock the Taskbar

4. Show only specified Control Panels items

5. Ability to Enable/Disable a LAN connections

Figure 5.5 1A Server Side: We Enabled Prevent changing desktop background Policy



Figure 5.5 1B Client Side: “Prevent Background Policy” Successfully applied. Test Passed.

Figure 5.5 2A Server Side: We Enabled “Remove Task Manager” Policy



Figure 5.5 2B Client Side: “Remove Task Manager” policy successfully applied. Test Passed.

Figure 5.5 3A Server Side: We Enabled “Lock the Taskbar” Policy.



Figure 5.5 3B Client Side: “Lock the Taskbar” Policy is successfully applied. Test Passed.

Figure 5.5 4A Server Side: We Enabled “Show only Specified Control panel items” Policy.



Figure 5.5 4B Client Side: “Show only specified Control panels (Mouse)” successfully applied.

Figure 5.5 5A Server Side: We Enabled “Ability Enabled/Disable a LAN connection” policy.



Figure 5.5 5B Client Side: “Ability to Enabled/Disable a LAN connection” Policy is successfully

applied. Therefore policy test passed.

Dear fellows you see all fives policies are successfully passed the test. By here I am going

to finish this report. Hope this Technical Training guide will help you to understand the

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 version’s installation and its basic but most

important configurations.

For your precious feedback or to contact me:

Adeeb Raja

Microsoft

+92 334 5445167

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