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1. #LAB CHALLENGE CONFIGURING TCPIP WITH WINDOWS POWERSHELL PASSWORD#
2. #LAB CHALLENGE CONFIGURING TCPIP WITH WINDOWS POWERSHELL FREE#

I fully recognize the password is sitting in clear text, and by all rights, this breaks every security rule! But remember, this is intended as use for lab environment. Next on the list, we’ll define our domain name, folders for Active Directory, and a password for the safe-mode recovery for our domain.

We need two types of values for two types of cmdlets (the second are the DHCP cmdlets).I’m lazy and I don’t want to write a cool function to convert the subnet.We are using two variables for the subnet mask because: We’re also going to leverage all the new built-in cmdlets in Windows Server 2012 R2 to make this easier. We’re not simply going to spin up the Windows PowerShell cmdlet and create a new Active Directory we are actually going to prepopulate some server features.įirst, our server will need to have a static IP address configured. In this case, I’m going to create a script for a virtual machine called EOT-DC01 for a future domain controller. If you remember last time, for part of our set up, we have a Windows PowerShell script with the same name as a virtual machine for automatic setup.

#LAB CHALLENGE CONFIGURING TCPIP WITH WINDOWS POWERSHELL FREE#

Set Up a Lab with Windows PowerShell and Free Microsoft Software: Part 4Īt this point, we are creating a Windows PowerShell script.Set Up a Lab with Windows PowerShell and Free Microsoft Software: Part 3.Set Up a Lab with Windows PowerShell and Free Microsoft Software: Part 2.Set Up a Lab with Windows PowerShell and Free Microsoft Software: Part 1.

Note This post is the last in a five-part series. Yes my good friend, with our current setup, we can set up that virtual machine to autostart to the point that we have a domain controller automatically! Honorary Scripting Guy, Sean Kearney, about to release the Kraken of Knowledge. Were you teasing us about creating a new domain controller in this lab environment? I’d really love to see the script that would configure a domain controller in a lab virtual machine! I saw how we could build the virtual machines from a template. Summary: Preconfigure a virtual machine as a domain controller including Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration and DHCP.