Deploying Windows Server 2012 Core R2

The objective of our project is to create an infrastructure for a company called Tail Spin toys. It consisted the configuration of an isolated Network which has five Physical computers which is called HOST to accomplish our objective. It consists of a Forest Domain called tailspintoys.com with Domain Name Server (DNS) Server on it and Child Domain that is called corp.tailspintoys.com which has two Domain Controller (DC) that has also DNS in each server. This project challenges us in resolving issues in deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 Core and to use Powershell to peform configuring tasks. Each one in our group has task to perform so the work load would be easier to handle and if one of us has a problem we helped them right away. The responsibilities includes:

• Create a bootable USB for auto Install on each Server Core servers
• Configuring networking on the Servers using Powershell scripts
• Install Active Directory (AD) with Powershell
• Create user and group through Powershell
• Documentation of the Project

This are the methods that would make our project work completely given of our short time of eight hours. Dividing the task would be completely successful because you are concentrated on one topic while the other members are doing their responsibilities too. When a problem occurs one of the team member or the whole team would jump to help the one who is having difficulty on the task.

The good thing of our project is that everyday we had a meeting to check our accomplishment of task that is needed to be done for the day. We also ask each member if they are experiencing difficulty so that the problem could be solved immediately. It was a great experience doing this kind of project especially I’m not used to do this kind of projects.

Takeaways

The most challenging part of this project is about understanding the Powershell because the I have very minimal skills of making scripts. It is also very complex because I always received error when I tried to learn from but in the course of time I learn bit by bit in learning Powershell through my team members who gives articles about the fundamentals of Powershell.

One of the good things that I learned during this project is being a team player. Know how to take responsibilities and accept help when needed. Learning on how to configure Group Policy Objects (GPO) in Powershell scripts, add usernames and administrators are examples of great things that this project provided for me. Throughout the first five weeks in the program I learned lots of information about Windows Server 2012 R2 and it keeps me motivated to learn more.