July 11- day 6 Blog

Blog Day 6 July 11 Active Directory is setup and configured correctly.
To do this required setups on the Server as well as setups on the workstation.
The setup on the server was much more complex, and something that I had newer done.
These were the steps:
1)configure your server to be a part of Active Directory and specifically to be a domain controller.
a)First step is to run DCPROMO from the command line which will launch the Active Directory Domain Services installation screen
we were able to launch from the start/server manager /add roles and selected the 3 AD roles . Installation was successful and we got to the graphic user interface Active Directory Domain Services Installation.
b)Next we were prompted by a screen which warns you that Windows NT4 clients may not be able to authenticate against a Windows Server 2008 domain controller. This is because Windows Server 2008 policy called “Allow cryptography algorithms compatible with Windows NT 4.0″ Click Next
c)Next screen is to select whether we want to add an additional Active Directory server into an existing domain
We added it to the network5769.local domain. This was a tree on the existing forest that Lyle has set up .on the 198.168.181.50 server.
d) the server goes through a checking up for the domain on the forest .
e) Next screen is to select the location of the Database Folder, Log Files folder and the SYSVOL folder
We clicked Next without any changes to the setup
f) Next is to enter the Directory Services Restore Mode password.We put in a new password as it did not like our admin5769 password. It was changed to Admin5769* but then Lyle change it by policy.
g) There was a review screen: summary of all the options that have been selected, we selected next through a variety of setups through 5 screens
The installation was completed and a restart of the server commenced.

2 join a windows 7 client to Active Directory and join both of the windows 7 workstations to the domain.
a)Log into the Windows computer you want to join to the domain. You must be logged into an account with Administrator access.
b)In the Start Menu or Desktop, right-click Computer and select Properties. This will open the System control panel menu.
c)Under Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings, click Change Settings
d) we entered change settings and entered the domain network5769.local

f)You will be prompted for a user name and password. Enter the credentials provided to you by the Campus Active Directory administrators and click OK.
g) a welcome message. Click OK to continue.
h)You will be prompted to restart your computer which we did . We restarted both workstation computers and checked that the domain network5769.local was held.




C) on the windows 2008 server Active directory users and groups
Start/ administrative tools/ Active directory users and computers
to set up the containers and OU's in Active Directory.
create 4 containers in Active Directory that will be located inside our Sandie –John container
right click on the container, new Organizational unit called Computers
repeat this 3 more times with names teachers Student groups
After the containers are created we added pour workstations found in network 5769.local computers folder and dragged them into our Sandie-John Computers folder.
Inside the "Groups" container we create two groups Teachers JS and Students JS

In the students container we created a
user Student J. Lobo un student.lobo pw Admin5769
user student S. Lefebvre un student.lefebvre pw Admin5769

In the teachers container we created a
user teacher J. Lobo un teacher.lobo pw Admin5769
user teacher S. Lefebvre un teacher.lefebvre pw Admin5769

We were not able to log into the accounts from the workstation initially. We were able to login to the network5769\administrator account.
So we went back to the server and deleted the teacher and student users, re-entered them then we were able to log into active directory from a workstation as teacher.lobo and student.lobo and share a file with the shared folder on the JSserver 50.

The last item to do was to research hidden desktop policy settings on server2008, to hide the desktop icons for workstations. We will run these on the win 2008 server on Tuesday July 12