Table of Exercises

Exercise 1.1 Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 with the GUI 22

Exercise 1.2 Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 Using Server Core 25
Exercise 1.3 Initializing Disk Drives . 32
Exercise 1.4 Converting a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk 33
Exercise 1.5 Creating a Volume Set . 34
Exercise 1.6 Creating Mount Points . 40
Exercise 1.7 Installing Microsoft MPIO . 42
Exercise 1.8 Configuring iSCSI Storage Connection . 44
Exercise 1.9 Installing the iSNS Feature on Windows Server 2012 R2 . 47
Exercise 2.1 Installing and Configuring the DNS Service . 92
Exercise 2.2 Configuring a Zone for Dynamic Updates 98
Exercise 2.3 Creating a Delegated DNS Zone 101
Exercise 2.4 Manually Creating DNS RRs . 102
Exercise 2.5 Simple DNS Testing . 106
Exercise 2.6 Using the nslookup Command 111
Exercise 2.7 Installing the DHCP Service 122
Exercise 2.8 Unauthorizing a DHCP Server 127
Exercise 2.9 Authorizing a DHCP Server . 128
Exercise 2.10 Creating a New Scope . 135
Exercise 2.11 Configuring User Class Options . 148
Exercise 2.12 Creating a Superscope 150
Exercise 2.13 Creating a New Multicast Scope 152
Exercise 2.14 Enabling DHCP-DNS Integration 155
Exercise 3.1 Viewing Disk Configuration 170
Exercise 3.2 Promoting a Domain Controller . 181
Exercise 3.3 Installing AD DS on Server Core 186
Exercise 3.4 Viewing the Active Directory Event Log 191
Exercise 3.5 Joining a Computer to an Active Directory Domain 195
Exercise 3.6 Configuring DNS Integration with Active Directory 201
Exercise 4.1 Creating and Publishing a Shared Work Folder . 210
Exercise 4.2 Configuring Offline Folder Options . 214
Exercise 4.3 Configuring a Shared Network Folder for Offline Access 215
Exercise 4.4 Configuring a Shadow Copy on a Volume 216
Exercise 4.5 Configuring Shared and NTFS Settings 223
Exercise 4.6 Configuring Disk Quotas . 225
Exercise 4.7 Creating and Publishing a Printer 226
Exercise 4.8 Starting the Windows PowerShell Utility . 238
Exercise 5.1 Creating an OU Structure 257

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Exercise 5.2 Modifying OU Structure 260
Exercise 5.3 Using the Delegation of Control Wizard 263
Exercise 5.4 Delegating Custom Tasks 264
Exercise 5.5 Creating Active Directory Objects . 270
Exercise 5.6 Creating a User Template 273
Exercise 5.7 Managing Object Properties . 277
Exercise 5.8 Moving Active Directory Objects . 282
Exercise 5.9 Resetting an Existing Computer Account . 283
Exercise 5.10 Creating and Publishing a Printer 285
Exercise 5.11 Creating and Publishing a Shared Folder . 286
Exercise 5.12 Finding Objects in Active Directory 287
Exercise 6.1 Creating a Group Policy Object Using the GPMC 307
Exercise 6.2 Linking Existing GPOs to Active Directory . 309
Exercise 6.3 Filtering Group Policy Using Security Groups . 312
Exercise 6.4 Delegating Administrative Control of Group Policy 313
Exercise 6.5 Configuring Automatic Certificate Enrollment in Group Policy . 321
Exercise 6.6 Configuring Folder Redirection in Group Policy 322
Exercise 6.7 Creating a Software Deployment Share . 332
Exercise 6.8 Publishing and Assigning Applications Using Group Policy 334
Exercise 6.9 Applying Software Updates . 336
Exercise 7.1 Delegating Control of Active Directory Objects . 370
Exercise 7.2 Enabling Auditing of Active Directory Objects . 375
Exercise 7.3 Configuring Windows Firewall . 382
Exercise 8.1 Class C, 10 Hosts per Subnet 407
Exercise 8.2 Class C, 20 Hosts per Subnet 408
Exercise 8.3 Class C, Five Subnets 408
Exercise 8.4 Class B, 1,500 Hosts per Subnet . 409
Exercise 8.5 Class B, 3,500 Hosts per Subnet 409
Exercise 9.1 Installing Hyper-V in Full Installation Mode 448
Exercise 9.2 Creating an Internal Virtual Network . 455
Exercise 9.3 Creating a Differencing Hard Disk . 457
Exercise 9.4 Creating a New Virtual Machine 461
Exercise 9.5 Installing Hyper-V Integration Components . 468
Exercise 10.1 Installing a WSUS Server 489
Exercise 10.2 Setting WSUS Server Options . 493
Exercise 10.3 Configuring a GPO for WSUS . 498
Exercise 10.4 Installing SNMP 522
Exercise 10.5 Configuring SNMP . 522
Exercise 11.1 Enabling BitLocker in Windows Server 2012 R2 . 536

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Exercise 11.2 Installing the DFS Namespace Service . 540
Exercise 11.3 Enabling Auditing of Active Directory Objects . 545
Exercise 11.4 Generating and Viewing Audit Logs 546
Exercise 11.5 Creating and Publishing a Shared Network Folder 549
Exercise 11.6 Configuring Offline Folder Options . 550
Exercise 11.7 Configuring a Shared Network Folder for Offline Access 551
Exercise 12.1 Installing and Configuring the DNS Service . 589
Exercise 12.2 Configuring a Zone for Dynamic Updates 596
Exercise 12.3 Creating a Delegated DNS Zone 598
Exercise 12.4 Manually Creating DNS RRs . 599
Exercise 12.5 Simple DNS Testing . 603
Exercise 12.6 Using the nslookup Command 607
Exercise 12.7 Enabling DHCP-DNS Integration 613
Exercise 13.1 Installing the Remote Access Role . 633
Exercise 13.2 Changing Remote Access Logging Settings 642
Exercise 14.1 Creating a Network Access Policy . 674
Exercise 14.2 Restricting a User Profile for Dial-In Access . 680
Exercise 14.3 Configuring Encryption . 684
Exercise 14.4 Creating a VPN Network Access Policy . 685
Exercise 15.1 Creating and Managing Users and Groups 714
Exercise 15.2 Creating and Using User Templates 717
Exercise 15.3 Delegating Control of Active Directory Objects . 718
Exercise 15.4 Applying Security Policies by Using Group Policy 721
Exercise 15.5 Fine-Grained Password Policy . 723
Exercise 15.6 Assigning Single-Master Operations 728
Exercise 15.7 Backing Up Active Directory . 736
Exercise 16.1 Creating a Group Policy Object Using the GPMC 761
Exercise 16.2 Linking Existing GPOs to Active Directory . 764
Exercise 16.3 Filtering Group Policy Using Security Groups . 769
Exercise 16.4 Delegating Administrative Control of Group Policy 770
Exercise 16.5 Configuring Automatic Certificate Enrollment in Group Policy . 777
Exercise 16.6 Configuring Folder Redirection in Group Policy 779
Exercise 16.7 Creating a Software Deployment Share . 793
Exercise 16.8 Publishing and Assigning Applications Using Group Policy 795
Exercise 16.9 Applying Software Updates . 796
Exercise 17.1 Installing NLB Nodes . 825
Exercise 17.2 Installing the Failover Cluster Feature . 835
Exercise 17.3 Running the Validate A Configuration Wizard 837
Exercise 17.4 Creating a Cluster 839

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Exercise 17.5 Clustering the Print Services Role . 842
Exercise 17.6 Using the Dependency Viewer . 846
Exercise 18.1 Configure the NFS Data Store 859
Exercise 18.2 Configuring BranchCache Firewall Exceptions 863
Exercise 18.3 Installing BranchCache on Windows Server 2012 R2 865
Exercise 18.4 Enabling Auditing of Active Directory Objects . 872
Exercise 18.5 Generating and Viewing Audit Logs 873
Exercise 18.6 Enable Dynamic Access Control 876
Exercise 18.7 Configure User and Device Claim Types . 878
Exercise 18.8 Create and Configure Resource Properties and Lists 880
Exercise 18.9 Create and Configure Central Access Rules and Policies . 882
Exercise 18.10 Configure File Classification . 884
Exercise 18.11 Implement Policy Stages and Staging 885
Exercise 18.12 Configure Access-Denied Assistance . 888
Exercise 18.13 Configuring iSCSI Storage Connection . 891
Exercise 18.14 Installing the iSNS Feature on Windows Server 2012 R2 . 893
Exercise 19.1 Backing Up Active Directory . 910
Exercise 19.2 Configuring a Shadow Copy on a Volume 922
Exercise 19.3 Booting Your Computer to Safe Mode 926
Exercise 19.4 Using Boot Logging . 927
Exercise 20.1 Creating a Superscope 940
Exercise 20.2 Creating and Activating a New Multicast Scope 941
Exercise 20.3 Creating and Activating a New DHCPv6 Scope 944
Exercise 20.4 Configuring DHCP Failover . 946
Exercise 20.5 Configuring DHCP Filtering 950
Exercise 20.6 Enabling DHCP Name Protection . 951
Exercise 20.7 Disabling Dynamic Updates . 952
Exercise 20.8 Configuring DNSSEC . 954
Exercise 20.9 Enabling DNS Diagnostic Logging . 957
Exercise 20.10 Disabling DNS Recursion 959
Exercise 20.11 Configuring a GlobalNames Zone . 961
Exercise 20.12 Installing the IPAM Feature . 964
Exercise 20.13 Configuring IPAM Server Discovery 967
Exercise 20.14 Manually Add IPAM IP Address Space 968
Exercise 21.1 Creating Sites . 988
Exercise 21.2 Creating Subnets . 991
Exercise 21.3 Configuring Sites . 993
Exercise 21.4 Creating Site Links and Site Link Bridges . 998
Exercise 21.5 Moving Server Objects Between Sites 1001

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Exercise 21.6 Creating a New Subdomain 1018
Exercise 21.7 Assigning Single-Master Operations 1028
Exercise 21.8 Managing Trust Relationships 1032
Exercise 21.9 Adding a UPN Suffix 1033
Exercise 21.10 Managing GC Servers . 1035
Exercise 21.11 Managing Universal Group Membership Caching 1036
Exercise 22.1 Installing AD CS Through Server Manager 1056
Exercise 22.2 Configuring AD CS Through Server Manager 1059
Exercise 22.3 Configure an Auto-enrollment Group Policy for a Domain 1062
Exercise 22.4 Creating a Certificate Template 1065
Exercise 22.5 Publishing a Certificate Template 1066
Exercise 22.6 Revoking a Certificate . 1067
Exercise 22.7 Configuring CA Policy Auditing . 1068
Exercise 22.8 Backing Up the Certificate Authority Server 1069
Exercise 22.9 Installing the AD FS Role on a Computer Using Server Manager
1076
Exercise 22.10 Configuring the AD FS Role on the Computer Using Server
Manager 1079
Exercise 22.11 Configuring Multifactor Authentication 1088
Exercise 22.12 Workplace Joining a Device 1090
Exercise 22.13 Installing an AD RMS Role on the Local Computer Using Server
Manager 1094
Exercise 22.14 Backing Up an AD RMS Database 1100
Exercise 22.15 Adding a Trusted User Domain 1102
Exercise 22.16 Exporting the Trusted User Domain 1103
Exercise 22.17 Exporting the Trusted Publishing Domain 1103
Exercise 22.18 Adding the Trusted Publishing Domain 1104

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