cis223 system administration and maintenance lesson 2

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Pre-lab questions:

  1. What is Active Directory?
  2. What is a Domain Controller?
  3. What is DNS?
  4. What is the ICM Protocol and what command is commonly used with it?

Exercise 2:

On the domain controller, include a screenshot of the domain. (hint: look at server manager and local server).

Exercise 3:

Take a screenshot of the user1 listed in Active Directory Administrative Center

Exercise 4:

In this lesson, we set “password never expires”. Is this a good idea in a production environment? Why or why not?Show a screenshot of user 2 in the AD admin center. Was user 2 able to login to the server? if not, why was that user not able to login and user1 was able to?Which method of adding a user do you prefer and why? (exercise 3 and 4 demonstrated two different ways to add users)

Exercise 5-6:
Include screenshots showing you were able to add FS1 to the domain.

what is the IP address of the DNS for our new AD environment?