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Lab Continuation: Join Windows 10 PC To Domain, Group Policy, RSOP Report

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 For this one, we're going to create an account, and install Windows 10 on another VirtualBox. The new VirtualBox is going to be Desktop2 after Desktop1 and Desktop2 is going to be the User Account that we're going to work with since Desktop1 is the HelpDesk computer that we made. Just to remind you that this is a continuation of the previous blog  here.  What we'll need to do is create another VM and this time, we are going to call it Desktop2 as our User Account.   The process is fairly straightforward and simple. We've already done this several times in the previous blogs and I will not show it to you again because documenting all of this stuff is mental anguish by itself. While the Windows VM is still installing, we're going to create another account for it. Go to the HelpDesk/Desktop1 computer and go to Active Directory Users and Computers.   First things first is that is to left click on the domain and create a new Organizational Unity.   The point of...
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Lab Continuation: Windows 10, Join PC to Domain, Installing RSAT tool, and Server Manager

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 Today what we're gonna do is install Windows 10 on a VM, join that to a domain and some other things so let's get started. First thing's first is to download the Windows 10 ISO file which can be downloaded  here.   I've already explained how to download the ISO file from the installation media from my first  blog  but I will just paste it here just for the sake of it:  For home Windows, download the installation media and make an ISO file off of it. First thing that we have to do is install a Windows 10 virtual machine on VirtualBox. The process for it is basically the same thing when we made a VM with Windows Server 2016 so there's no point in bringing it up all over again and you can just go back to the previous blog that I did which I already linked. Just to let you know to pick Windows 10 Pro at the setup. After it's installing, what I want to do is open the Windows Server VM and make it a static IP. Why are we doing that? Because we don't have a Cisco...
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Active Directory Account Creation and some CMD Commands

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 This is a follow up from the previous blog were we renamed our computer and server and installed Active Directory on our virtual machine. If you haven't checked the previous one out, I advise you to go read it  here  and the one before that as well. Since we've already dealt with Active Directory installation and its other intricacies, I would like to show you a little bit of things that you could do and I would like to make it as straightforward and short as possible so let's get started. First thing's first is to open VirtualBox, run the Windows Server OS that we installed, and log in your account. Since we created Active Directory services and everything, now we want to make a brand new account. Just a heads up, it's not gonna be your regular account. This is going to be a Help Desk account and he's going to have superpowers and he's gonna have access to do everything but not server manager which would mean we have to do other things. That would mean a b...
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Installing Active Directory and Renaming Server 2016

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 Back from where we left off, we are about to install Active Directory on our virtual machine and rename the 2016 server. If you haven't set up VirtualBox and the Windows server yet, I advise you to go look up the previous blog post on how to do them which I will link  here. Now we open VirtualBox and run the Windows server 2016 then log in your password. First thing that we have to do is go to our PC's properties and check our computer name and change it to something more readable.  If you check our computer name, it's sort of gibberish and we can't remember that and that's something that we have to think about for now because we have to map things out. Next thing you'll do is change the name for your PC. First, click the Change Settings link, then click on the Change button once the window pops out, and then change the name at the Computer Name textbar. Personally I like to keep the names simple and concise so that we're able to easily remember them. I wou...
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