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Lab 2:
Advanced Services
Prepared by
{Your name here}
Date Report Submitted: MMM DD, 2014
NOTE: Before you submit your completed work, PLEASE delete the portions that no longer make sense, like this note, and provide screen captures to show completed work – along with text.
Table of Contents
Abstract
In the course you will include a descriptive abstract with each lab. Abstracts have a very specific purpose and are not to be confused with an executive summary or introduction to the lab. See how to write a descriptive abstract at http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/documents/abstract/
The Abstract summarizes four essential aspects of the report:
· The purpose of the experiment (sometimes expressed as the purpose of the report)
· Key findings
· Most significant point of discussion of the lab relating to networking
· New insights and conclusions.
Introduction
The Introduction/Setup of the lab must contain the following:
· Purpose of the lab
· Important background and theory
· References to how previous labs help in working through this lab
· Identify all the hardware and software required for the lab, don't forget network components
Objectives for this Lab
1) Create a client/server network with at least a single client and a single server (The MS Server 2012):
2) Set up users and groups in Active Directory
3) Setup basic rights to folders on server and login to the server as a non-administrative user and test your file/folder permissions
4) Learn how employ Group Policy objects with Active Directory
Activities in the Lab
Lab Overview
Step 1: Setup the following folders on your server using Windows Explorer. Name them as follows:
· Secret files
· Private files
· Public files
Create several text or word docs and put a couple of files in each folder. It doesn’t matter what is in the files since you will only be concerned with setting user access to them.
Step 2: Go to the server’s Active Directory Users and Groups utility to create/manage users and groups
· Create three groups: Administrators, IT staff & Data Entry Clerks (See section 14-3 in chapter 14 of the book) by right clicking on the Groups folder and selecting ‘new’
· Create several users: (ie. Doc, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy, Sneezy, Bashful, etc.) by right clicking on User folder and selecting ‘new’
· Create passwords for each. (I recommend using the same password for all users)
· Assign a few users to each of the groups. You may have a user in more than one group.
· From Windows Explorer, navigate to the folders you previously set up. Right click on the folder and choose PROPERTY to setup the rights for each group to the their respective folders (See pgs 533-538 in the book)
· Administrators get full rights to all folders
· IT staff gets no rights to the Secret Folder, Full Control rights to the Private Files & Public Files folders
· The Data Entry Clerks Get full rights to the Public File folder, Read-only rights to the Private File folder and no rights to the Secret folder.
Step 3: Share your public folder so that you access the server from your other desktop. If you bought the MS Server book you can go to chapter 15 and read about sharing files and folders. If you didn’t buy the book you will have to use the HELP files in the File and Server Resource Manger and the Share and Storage Manger consoles. Log in from your external workstation as different users and show your attempts to access all three folders
Step 4: Give a substantial report on how the following MS Server 2012 services are made available to users. How is security implemented in the File server? (This should be the main bulk of the lab)
· Creating folders on the server hard drive
· The uses of users and groups
· How access privileges are assigned
· How external users can access files on the server
Bonus Activity: Set up a printer on your server. Create a shared printer and print a document from your workstation to the server printer. Explain the process and the benefits of sharing a network printer. Show a screen capture of the print queue with your print job.
Step 5: In the last lab you used Active Directory to create some users and groups. Now that you are working within a domain there is another tool that lets you create and manage Group Policy Objects (GPO). To explore this tool navigate to the GROUP POLICY MANAGEMENT (GPM) tool within the Administrative Tools. Acquaint yourself with the GPM console and read the following 3 papers at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753298.aspx .
· Getting started with GPMC
· Edit, Filter, and Comment Policy settings
· Control the Scope of Group Policy Objects
Show me that you have created and configured an appropriate object for your network and write me a summary report on the purpose and possible uses of GPO’s.
Conclusion
I will be looking for your opinions and insights on how the MS Server 2012 can be used in an organization. What did you think was slick and what was clumsy? Any Aha’s along the way? What did you learn in the lab? How do you think you could use what you learned in the lab?
References
(APA format)
Use APA format and be sure to place citations in the text next to the material you used (See www.oit.edu/libraries/help/citing for help with the references. www.bibme.org will create the citations in the right form for you.
Glossary
Add to your previous Glossary from lab 1 and highlight any new entries in Yellow
