What's up guys, it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes, I just got two new servers in the
nine to five job.
I had the slightest clue what type of servers what type of memory, processor I just I don't
even know what type of model all I know they are 1U Dell servers, replacements for our
domain controllers.
We are currently running two power edge 860s that are running a Windows Server 2008 R2
Service Pack one for the operating system.
Again, the whole plan for these two physical machines is so install server 2019.
add them to our current domain controller and then start decommissioning the two that
we have and make these two guys our primary domain controller within our nine to five
so I'm super excited again.
I have the slightest
clue
what type of specifications my IT Manager got on these two machines, we're going to
unbox them.
We have a slip right here and take my knife out.
slice it up real quick, I think, typically for Dell, the slip that's attached to the
box, there you go has like the specifications.
Oh, awesome.
Cool.
So it looks like we got to power edge R240 servers.
Hmm,
interesting.
All right.
So we go over some of the specifications and how he got specked out and put this stuff
to the side.
Hopefully they're really really good.
And we're going to unbox them real quick.
All right, so what comes inside the box super simple.
We have a heavy gauge power cable boom.
Each server came with one heavy gauge power cable.
So that basically tells me that there's only one power supply.
You know, I don't like servers with only one single
power supply.
But hey, I didn't speck this out.
All right, so I'm just happy I got two brand new power edge R240s which will replace our
old power edge 860s.
Don't get me wrong, the 860s are great machines is it's just you know, you need to upgrade
right?
It comes with the safety.
You know, information guide
comes with
the Dell EMC poweredge R240 getting started guide.
Got some more information right here, Lifecycle Controller information.
And then you have the enterprise Dell warranty.
Right.
So each server came with this
we are going to put this stuff to the side because we don't need it anymore.
And here goes the servers.
I got each one on top have each other beautiful looks like we only have two bays 3.5
Okay, awesome.
Beautiful.
Oh cool
so if I turn these guys around, so we can take a closer look some of the ports.
Alright, so in the back, pretty self explanatory again we got one power supply, we have two
we have two Gigabit Ethernet Jacks RJ 45 looks like we have two USB for our keyboard and
mouse.
We have a VGA to insert our monitor.
And then I think this is a serial port.
Cool, interesting.
Awesome.
That a bunch of empty slots, which
my IT manager did not configure,
but the fact that there's only one power
supply like that's
driving me nuts.
Alright, so let me stop talking.
I'm gonna take one of these servers.
I'm going to plug in the keyboard and mouse and a Monitor we're going to power it on and
we will take a closer look.
Alright so I got the keyboard, mouse, monitor hooked up to the R240 Yes, power and everything
is hooked up.
Power button is actually located on if you're looking at the server this way on your right
hand side you got your power button.
You have an additional USB port but this one is actually 2.0.
The two USB ports at the back of the 240 or the R240 is actually 3.0 And last but not
least underneath this USB port.
At the front, we have a I believe a micro USB port Cool.
All right, so we're gonna power this guy on.
And you probably say to yourself, how are you going to image this machine?
Love that.
I make sure I pay attention i think is like whatever F2, to get in.
So I'm gonna press f2 real quick.
And then I'm going to go over some of the specifications of how my IT manager got these
two machines now press F2 like a madman.
So I want to get into BIOS, F2.
Awesome.
All right, so you're probably asking yourself, Hey, Bernardo, how are you going to image
this machine?
Are you going to use SCCM?
Are you going to use MDT?
No, and no, I'm going to do old school.
I actually burn the Windows Server 2019 ISO inside this flash drive.
I'm going to boot into it.
I'm going to go old school.
Alright, so let's go over some of the specifications.
Now both poweredge R240 servers are running the following.
They're both running an Intel Xeon E 2124 processor with a clock speed of 3.3 gigahertz.
And what else eight gigs of memory, only one hard drive.
I have two bays it looks like 3.5 is the size of each bay.
But it looks like we only have one terabyte 7.2 RPM SATA hard drives, oh my gosh.
And again one power supply which is actually 250 watts.
It doesn't have any operating system installed.
It doesn't have a CD ROM or anything like that.
Alright, so again, I'm going to go old school.
I'm actually gonna boot this guy up.
I got one of those flash drives that is a type C and a USB.
So like when you try to insert the USB side and he pushes it the Type C section kind of
like pops out.
It's crazy.
Alright, so I have full control with the mouse with the new Dell BIOS, which is awesome.
We are going to go inside I believe system BIOS.
Sorry, it doesn't look like the flash drive is being read inside BIOS.
So what I'm going to do is
Control Alt Delete,
we're going to do a reboot let's hit F11.
Because I got the boot manager, there's a good chance that the flash drive will be part
of the boot manager and I could just go directly in there rather than going to BIOS, which
I'm hoping that's the case.
Okay, so we are going to pick the one shot BIOS boot menu.
Let's click on that it's going to boot into this.
Bam, it sees the disconnected to the front USB, which is this guy right here.
Awesome.
We are going to select that.
And if everything works, well, it should automatically boot into that flash drive and then we could
start installing our operating system.
We'll see what happens.
All right, so I'm going to cut it right here, I'm going to show you guys how I am actually
going to configure these two physical machines within my nine to five, but I'm going to do
it within a virtual environment, right? can't really show you what I'm going to do at my
nine to five job because you know, there's a lot of security stuff that I can't just,
you know, show you guys, but I am going to show you right now in the lab, virtualize
everything and we're going to do everything step by step.
So
let's get right into that.
All right, so you guys saw the two new servers that I received at my nine to five job before
I even touch the physical machines, I wanted to test everything within a lab, and this
is how I did it.
Okay, so first things first, I'm doing everything within a Hyper V environment.
I created a DC 03 and a DC 04 both machines are actually running Windows Server 2008 R2.
As you can see, both of them are domain controllers.
If I open up PowerShell within dc 04 and I run the command of net Dom query FSMO is going
to tell me that the DC 03 runs the schema master, the domain naming Master, the PDC,
the RDI and the infrastructure master.
Now within Hyper V, I created DC 01, and DC 02.
Now these two machines are the real machines, these are the new machines.
And if I open them up, they're both running server 2019.
Because in reality, this is what I'm trying to do those two new machines that I got, those
R240s actually going to install server 2019 and add them into the 2008 R2 environment.
And then I'm going to promote these two machines.
Now both machines, I already installed the operating system on them, I pushed out all
the windows update and I added them into the domain controller.
Now you don't really need to do this because when you promote the servers to a domain controller,
they automatically add them to the Active Directory.
I just skip that part and just added them manually, I also created a Windows 10 machine.
And this is actually version 1909.
And it's part of the Active Directory now on 03 DC 03, which is actually running Windows
Server 2008 R2, I opened up the Active Directory Users and computer utility.
And from here, I right clicked on my domain.
And I clicked on raise domain functional level.
On the drop down menu, I only have one option.
So I clicked on raise.
And from here, I'm going to click OK.
And we're done.
Click OK.
Now I opened up the Active Directory domains and trusts a right click on the primary node,
and I clicked on raise forest functional level, click on the drop down, I only have one option,
I'm going to raise it to the 2008 R2.
So that's the option that I'm going to pick.
I'm going to click on raise.
Click OK here.
Okay.
Want to double check to make sure everything was raised up.
If you open up the Active Directory Users and Computers utility and you right click
on your domain name, and you go to properties.
You're going to see that the domain functional level and the forest functional level was
raised to 2008 R2. now within dc 01.
I'm going to click on start i'am going to open up Server Manager and within Server Manager
we are going to click on Manage.
Within manage we are going to click on Add Roles and Features.
Once this pops up, we are going to click on Next.
Next again next again, we need to locate the Active Directory Domain Services we are going
to give it a checkmark.
We are going to add all the features.
We're going to click on next here next here Next install.
Once the installation is done, you're going to get this and we are going to click on promote
this server to a domain controller.
You're going to get this wizard now if you did not add the machine into your Active Directory,
most likely you will enter your domain name.
And then you will click on change and provide a enterprise account that is able to add this
machine into the Active Directory.
Okay, once you're done with that, click on Next.
Everything works well it should take you here, provide a password, confirm the password,
and then click on Next.
Next here, next here, next here is going to prep the schema for you and also prep the
domain.
Click on Next.
Next here, awesome got that green checkmark and then click on install, you're going to
get this just click on close, it's going to reboot the machine, I'm actually logging into
DC 03 and opening up Active Directory Users and Computers and within domain controllers
node you're going to see your new domain for me was dc 01.
Awesome.
Now you're going to do the same thing for DC 02.
And same process when you get to this point right here, just click on promote the server
to a domain controller.
Follow the prompts.
You're going to get this again click on Close is going to reboot.
Then go back inside the Active Directory Users and Computers application.
Go inside the domain controllers node and you're going to see your new domain.
So right now you got four domains.
01 and 02 are the new servers.
For me, in the real world.
They're actually the power edge R240s okay.
03 and 04 actually the power edge 860s that I'm trying to replace now within dc 01, I'm
going to click on Start and open up Windows PowerShell.
Now the first command that I'm going to run is this, I'm going to hit enter, all the roles
are actually attached to the DC 03.
But I want to move all these roles into one of the new servers, we're going to run the
following command of move ad directory server operation master roles with a parameter of
identity and the new server name, which would be dc 01.
For me, or for another parameter of operation master roles and whatever roles you want the
new server to have.
Okay, you are able to split it up.
But for this example, I'm actually taking all the roles on 03 and moving into DC 01.
Once you hit enter, you're going to get this do you want To move the operation master role,
you're going to hit A for yes for all that enter.
Done.
If you run the same command that you did in the beginning and you hit enter, you're going
to see that dc 01 is now the primary domain controller that's running all the operation
master roles now if a DC 03 and DC 04 and you need to decommission them, so login to
those machines, you're going to click on Start and click on Run.
And we're going to type in DC promo hit Okay, you're going to get this click on Next click
OK here click Next we're going to uncheck this click next here, provide a password and
confirm it.
This password is for the local administrator account for this machine and then click on
Next.
Next here give a checkmark to reboot on completion.
And then once it's done, it's going to reboot by go back inside dc 01.
Click on Start and we are going to open up the windows Administrative Tools and from
here we are going to open up the Active Directory Users and Computers and then from here we
are going to click on the domain controllers node and You're going to see that 03 is not
there anymore.
If you go inside the computer's node, you're going to see that 03 is there.
So 03 is no longer a domain controller right you're going to do the same thing with 04.
Same process click on start, click on Run DC promo, follow the prompts, make sure you
check off reboot on completion is going to reboot.
If you go back inside the domain controller node, you're going to see that dc 04 is not
there anymore if you go inside the computer OU dc 04 is there.
Awesome.
Now if you log into one of the machines within your infrastructure, like for my example was
BTNHD win, which was the windows 10 machine.
If I opened up the PowerShell command, I did a CMD and from here I echo login server.
And if I hit into here, it's going to give me dc 01.
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