IT160 Ch 1 Lab Activities

Lab 1-2 Reviewing System Properties and Exploring Server

Manager
 Time Required: 10 minutes
 Objective: Identify system properties in Windows Server 2022.
 Required Tools and Equipment: ServerSA1 with Windows Server
2022 Datacenter or Standard Edition installed according to instructions in
the “Before You Begin” section of this book’s Introduction.
 Screenshots must include:
o The full screen that shows the date and time in the corner as
displayed on screen.
o The entire screen (Do Not Crop Images)
 Description: You learn how to find basic information about a Windows
Server 2022 installation, such as the server edition, network adapter
settings, processors, installed RAM, and disk drives.

Steps
1. Start ServerSA1 and sign in as Administrator with the
password Password01. Server Manager starts automatically.
2. In the left pane of Server Manager, click Local Server. You see the
Properties window for ServerSA1, shown in Figure 1-10.
Figure 1-10
The Local Server Properties window
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3. Review the fields highlighted in Figure 1-10: Ethernet, Installed memory

(RAM), and Total disk space. Your settings may differ depending on your
environment.
4. Scroll down to explore other information available in Server Manager, such
as a list of recent events, a summary of services, and a list of installed roles
and features at the bottom.
5. Click Dashboard in the left pane. (Notice the icon next to Dashboard; you’ll
need it to navigate back to this view later.) The Dashboard is divided into
two sections: Welcome and Roles and Server Groups. The Welcome
section lists common tasks you can access easily, including adding roles
and features, adding other servers to manage, and creating server groups.
This section can be hidden if desired.
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6. Scroll down, if necessary, to see the Roles and Server Groups section. This
section contains a box for each installed role, a box for the local server,
and a box for each server group (see Figure 1-11). Each box contains
information about manageability, which tells you whether Server Manager
can contact the role or server to perform management tasks. You can
double-click other items in these boxes to get details about events,
services, performance, and Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) results. In the
File and Storage Services box, click Events. Any events related to this role
are then displayed in the resulting dialog box. Click Cancel to close the
Events Detail View box for File and Storage Services.
Figure 1-11
The Roles and Server Groups section
 7. Scroll up to see the Welcome section, if necessary. In the Welcome section,
click Add roles and features to start the Add Roles and Features Wizard;
you use this wizard often in this book’s activities. Read the information in
the Before you begin window.
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8. Note the three tasks that are recommended before installing new roles and
features. When you’re finished, click Cancel to close the Add Roles and
Features Wizard window.
9. Click Local Server in the left pane. The right pane is then divided into
several sections, with the Properties section at the top. Scroll down to the
Events section, which shows the most recent warning or error events that
have occurred in your system. Clicking an event displays a description of it
(see Figure 1-12).
Figure 1-12
The Events section
10. Scroll down to the Services section, which displays a list of services
installed on the server along with their status. You can start and stop
services by right-clicking them and then selecting an action in the menu.
11. Scroll down to the Best Practices Analyzer section. The Best Practices
Analyzer (BPA) is used to make sure a server role is installed in
compliance with best practices to ensure effectiveness, trustworthiness,
and reliability. Run a BPA scan by clicking the TASKS drop-down arrow
and then clicking Start BPA Scan. After a while, the results and any best
practices suggestions will be displayed. There may not be any warnings or
errors, which means the server is completely in compliance!
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12. Scroll down to the Performance section. You can view and configure
performance alerts for CPU and memory use.

13. Scroll down to the Roles and Features section to see a list of roles and
features installed on the local server. They’re listed in the approximate
order in which they were installed. You will see a list of roles and features
that are installed by default on Windows Server 2022 because you haven’t
installed any yet.
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14. In the left pane, click All Servers. The right pane has the same sections as
Local Server, except for the top section, which is labeled Servers instead of
Properties. In the Servers section, you can select one or more servers and
see information about them in the other sections of this window. As of
now, you only have one server that can be managed with Server Manager.
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15. In the left pane, click File and Storage Services. This server role is
installed by default. The window changes to show you specific tools for
working with this role. Click Volumes to see a summary of the server’s
volumes (see Figure 1-13). Click Disks to see information about the
physical disks installed. Click Storage Pools. This feature in Windows
Server 2022 was explained earlier in the Storage Spaces section of this
module and will be discussed in more detail in Module 4.
Figure 1-13
The Volumes window in Server Manager

16. Click the Dashboard icon in Server Manager to return to the Dashboard
view.
17. Let’s add a shortcut to Server Manager on the taskbar. (If Server Manager
is already pinned to the taskbar, skip this step.) To add the shortcut to the
taskbar, right-click the Server Manager icon on the taskbar and click Pin
to taskbar.
18. Continue to the next activity.

Lab 1-3 Examining NTFS Permissions and Attributes

 Time Required: 10 minutes
 Objective: Review NTFS file permissions and attributes.
  Required Tools and Equipment: ServerSA1
 Screenshots must include:
o The full screen that shows the date and time in the corner as
displayed on screen.
o The entire screen (Do Not Crop Images)
 Description: In this activity, you familiarize yourself with the features
of NTFS.

Steps
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click the File Explorer icon on the taskbar, and then click This PC in the
left pane.
3. Right-click the (C:) drive in the right pane and click Properties.
4. Click the General tab, if necessary. You see that the file system is NTFS,
which is the only option for the drive where Windows is installed.
FAT/FAT32 lacks the security and features required by Windows.
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5. Click the Security tab (see Figure 1-14).

Figure 1-14
The Security tab showing file and folder permissions
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6. Click each item in the Group or user names section and view the permission
settings for each in the bottom pane.
7. Next, click the Quota tab. The quotas feature allows you to set the
maximum space a user’s files can occupy on a volume. You see that disk
quotas are disabled, which is the default configuration.
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8. Now click the Previous Versions tab. This feature enables you to restore
previous versions of a file and must be enabled on each volume on which
you want to use the feature.
 9. Finally, click the General tab again. Note the two check boxes at the bottom
for enabling file indexing and compression, which are features of NTFS.
10. Click Cancel to close the Properties dialog box.
11. In the left pane, click the Documents folder. Right-click in the right pane,
point to New, and click Text Document.
12. Right-click New Text Document and click Properties. Notice the two
check boxes at the bottom labeled Read-only and Hidden. They are
common file attributes in both the FAT/FAT32 and NTFS/ReFS file
systems. Click Advanced.
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13. In the Advanced Attributes dialog box, notice four more check boxes for
attributes. Only the archiving attribute is available with FAT/FAT32
volumes. The other three, for file indexing, file compression, and
encryption, are available only with NTFS volumes. Click Cancel and then
click Cancel again.
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14. Close all open windows and continue to the next activity.

Lab 1-4 Working with MMCs

 Time Required: 15 minutes.
 Objective: Use the Tools menu in Server Manager; work with custom
MMCs.
 Required Tools and Equipment: ServerSA1
 Screenshots must include:
o The full screen that shows the date and time in the corner as
displayed on screen.
o The entire screen (Do Not Crop Images)
  Description: Familiarize yourself with the management tools on your
server that work with prebuilt MMCs, and create a custom MMC.

Steps
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator and start Server Manager, if
necessary.
2. In Server Manager, click Tools and then click Computer
Management from the menu. (You can also access Computer
Management by right-clicking Start.) You might notice that some tools in
the Computer Management MMC, such as Task Scheduler and Event
Viewer, are also available as separate MMCs in the Tools menu.
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3. To explore a tool in Computer Management, click the tool name in the left
pane. Some tools have an arrow next to them to indicate additional
components. Each tool is called a snap-in.
4. Click the arrow next to Services and Applications to expand it, and then
click the Services snap-in. This snap-in is also available as a standalone
tool in the Tools menu.
5. In Services, find and double-click Windows Defender Firewall. Review the
properties for this service, which are typical for most services.
Click Cancel to close the Windows Defender Firewall Properties window.
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6. Explore several snap-ins in the left pane of Computer Management, such as

Performance and Disk Management, so you are familiar with the server.
Close Computer Management.
7. Now, you’ll create a custom MMC. Right-click Start and click Run.
Type mmc in the Open text box, and then click OK.
8. Click File and then click Add/Remove Snap-in from the MMC menu.
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 9. In the Available snap-ins list box (see Figure 1-15), click Device
Manager and then click Add.
Figure 1-15
Creating a custom MMC

10. Note your choices in the next dialog box. You can decide whether to use
the selected snap-in on the local computer or another computer. If you
select the “Another computer” option, you can manage this computer
remotely with your MMC. Leave the Local computer option selected, and
then click Finish.
11. Repeat Steps 9 and 10, but this time add the Disk Management and Task
Scheduler snap-ins instead of Device Manager. Click Finish after adding
Disk Management and OK after adding Task Scheduler. Then click OK to
close the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog box.
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 12. To name your MMC, click File and then click Save As from the menu.
13. In the Save As dialog box, click the Desktop icon, type DevDiskTask for
the file name, and then click Save. You now have a customized MMC on
your desktop. Close the DevDiskTask MMC. When prompted to save the
console settings, click No.
14. Continue to the next activity.

Lab 1-5 Creating a Volume and Sharing a Folder

 Time Required: 15 minutes
 Objective: Create a volume using the Disk Management snap-in; then
create and share a folder.
 Required Tools and Equipment: ServerSA1
 Screenshots must include:
o The full screen that shows the date and time in the corner as
displayed on screen.
 The entire screen (Do Not Crop Images)
 Description: Use the Disk Management snap-in to create a volume.
Then create a folder on the new volume and share it.

Steps
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator, if necessary.
2. From the desktop, open the MMC you created in Activity 1-4. (You can also
access Disk Management by right-clicking Start and clicking Disk
Management.)
3. Click the Disk Management snap-in in the left pane. There are two panes
in Disk Management: The upper pane shows a summary of configured
volumes and basic information about each volume. The lower pane shows
installed disks and how each disk is being used.
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4. Right-click the (C:) volume in the upper pane and note some of the options
you have.
 5. In the lower pane, find Disk 1. If its status is online and initialized, skip to
the next step; otherwise, right-click Disk 1 and click Online. Right-click it
again and click Initialize Disk to open the dialog box shown in Figure 1-16.
Leave the default option GPT (GUID Partition Table) selected and click OK.
Figure 1-16
Initializing a disk in Disk Management

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6. Right-click the unallocated space of Disk 1 and notice the options for
making the unallocated space into a new volume.
7. Click New Simple Volume to start the New Simple Volume Wizard. In the
welcome window, click Next.
8. In the Specify Volume Size window, type 500 to make a 500 MB volume,
and then click Next.
9. In the Assign Drive Letter or Path window, you have the option to assign a
drive letter or mount the new volume into a folder on another volume. Click
the drive letter to open the selection box, click drive letter S, and then
click Next.
 10. In the Format Partition window, click the File system list arrow, and note
the available options. Click NTFS to select it as the file system. In the Volume
label text box, type DataVol1, and then click Next.
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11. Review the settings summary, and then click Finish. Watch the space
where the new volume has been created. After a short pause, the volume
should begin to format. When formatting is finished, the volume status should
be Healthy (Basic Data Partition).
12. Close the management console; click No when prompted to save the
settings.
13. Open File Explorer and click This PC in the left pane to view the available
drives.
14. Click the S: drive. Click the folder icon near the upper-left corner of the
window to create a new folder. Type DocShare for the folder name and
press Enter.
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15. Double-click the DocShare folder to open it. Create a text file in the folder
by right-clicking empty space in File Explorer, pointing to New, and
clicking Text Document. Type file1 for the file name and press Enter.
16. In the left pane, click the S: drive so you see DocShare in the right pane
again. Right-click the DocShare folder, point to Give access to, and
click Specific people.
17. Click the selection arrow, click Everyone, and click Add. Notice that the
default permission level is set to Read (see Figure 1-17), which allows all
users with an account on the network to open or copy files in the DocShare
folder, but not change them.
Figure 1-17
Sharing a folder
18. Click Share. (If you see a Network discovery and file sharing message,
click No, make the network I am connected to a private network.) You see
a message confirming that the folder is shared and the path to your new share
is \\ServerSA1\DocShare. This is called the Universal Naming Convention
(UNC) path. Click Done.
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19. To verify that you can access the share using the UNC path, right-
click Start, click Run, type \\ServerSA1\DocShare (note that capitalization
is not important), and click OK or press Enter. A File Explorer window opens
and you see the file you created earlier. The UNC path is how someone on
another computer would access the shared folder.
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 20. Close any open File Explorer windows and open Server Manager, if
necessary. Click File and Storage Services in the left pane.
21. You should see that new tools have been added to the left pane: Shares,
iSCSI, and Work Folders. (If you don’t see these new tools, press F5, click
the Refresh button at the top of Server Manager, or close and restart Server
Manager.) When you created a share, the File Server role service was installed
automatically along with additional tools.
22. Click Shares to see a list of shares on your server (see Figure 1-18).
Figure 1-18
Viewing shares in Server Manager

23. Continue to the next activity.

Lab 1-6 Exploring Windows Networking Components

 Time Required: 15 minutes
 Objective: Identify features of Windows networking components.
 Required Tools and Equipment: ServerSA1
 Screenshots must include:
o The full screen that shows the date and time in the corner as
displayed on screen.
 o The entire screen (Do Not Crop Images)
 Description: Manage various aspects of a network connection on your
server.

Steps
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Right-click the network connection icon in the notification area and
click Open Network & Internet settings.
3. You see the network status. Depending on your network configuration,
your network might have a name or be shown as simply Network or
Network 2, as in Figure 1-19.
Figure 1-19
The Network status window

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 4. Click Change adapter options under Advanced network settings. Right-
click the Ethernet adapter and click Status to see connection status and
activity information (see Figure 1-20).
Figure 1-20
Viewing the status of a network connection

5. Click the Details button to view address information about TCP/IP and
physical address information about your NIC, and then click Close.
6. Click the Properties button to see details on installed protocols, clients,
and services. Each protocol and service has a check box for enabling or
disabling it on the connection.
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7. Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). (Don’t clear the check box,
or you’ll disable the protocol.) Then click Properties to open a dialog box
 where you can change your server’s IP address settings. For now, leave
the settings as they are. Click Cancel, and then click Cancel again.
Click Close.
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8. Close all open windows and continue to the next activity.

Lab 1-7 Working with PowerShell

 Time Required: 15 minutes
 Objective: Use Windows PowerShell cmdlets and features.
 Required Tools and Equipment: ServerSA1
 Screenshots must include:
o The full screen that shows the date and time in the corner as
displayed on screen.
 The entire screen (Do Not Crop Images)
 Description: Open a PowerShell prompt and work with some cmdlets
and features of PowerShell.

Steps
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click the Search Windows icon, type power, and click Windows
PowerShell in the search results. A PowerShell window opens. Add
PowerShell to the taskbar by right-clicking the PowerShell icon on the
taskbar and clicking Pin to taskbar.
3. Click in the PowerShell window, type Get-Verb, and press Enter. You see a
list of verbs that PowerShell cmdlet names can begin with.
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4. Type Get-Command and press Enter. You see a list of all PowerShell
cmdlets.
5. Press the up arrow; Get-Command is repeated. Press the Backspace key
until you see only Get-Com, and then type p and press Tab. Get-
ComputerInfo is displayed. Press Enter to see information about the
computer. Scroll through the information; a lot of detailed information
about your computer is shown.
6. Type Get-Command *info* and press Enter to see all cmdlets and
command prompt commands that have the string “info” as part of their
name.
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7. Type Get-Disk and press Enter. You see a list of all disks on the computer.
Type Get-Disk | Where-Object IsOffline –eq $False and press Enter to
see a list of disks that are online.
8. Type Get-Disk | Where-Object IsSystem –eq $True | fl and press Enter.
You see information about the system disk. The | fl part of the command
means Format-List and provides more details about an object.
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9. Type Get-NetI<Tab> | Where Int<Tab> –like Ethernet* and press Enter.

Be sure to press the Tab key where the command shows <Tab>, and don’t
type a space before the Tab key. You see interfaces that have a name
starting with “Ethernet.”
10. Use a variable to store a value. Type $interface = “Ethernet*” and
press Enter.
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11. Press the up arrow twice so that the command from step 9 is shown.
Press Backspace until the word “Ethernet” is erased, then
type $interface and press Enter.
12. Use a variable to store an object. Type $interfaces = Get-
NetIPAddress and press Enter.
13. Type $[Link] and press Enter to see a list of addresses for
all interfaces.
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14. This was a brief introduction to PowerShell. Close the PowerShell

window.