MOAC 70-412: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services

Lab 17

Managing Active Directory and Sysvol replication

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 17.1 / Demoting a Domain Controller
Exercise 17.2 / Promoting a Domain Controller
Exercise 17.3 / Replicating with Active Directory Sites and Services
Exercise 17.4 / Using REPADMIN
Exercise 17.5 / Configuring Password Replication Policies for an RODC
Challenge / Upgrading SYSVOL Replication to DFSR
Exercise 17.1 / Demoting a Domain Controller
Overview / In this exercise, you will remove the adatum.com domain so that you can use Storage01 as a second domain controller for the contoso.com domain.
Completion time / 15 minutes

7. Take a screen shot of the Credentials page by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 17 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Exercise 17.2 / Promoting a Domain Controller
Overview / In this exercise, you will promote Storage01 as a second domain controller for contoso.com.
Completion time / 20 minutes

7. Take a screen shot of the Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) Properties dialog box by pressing Alt+Prt Scr and then paste it into your Lab 17 worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.

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Exercise 17.3 / Replicating with Active Directory Sites and Services
Overview / In this exercise, you will replicate Active Directory between two domain controllers using the Active Directory Sites and Services console.
Completion time / 10 minutes

Mindset Question: What is used to determine how Active Directory is replicated between domain controllers?

Question 1 / What replication connection is already made for Storage01 and how is the connection generated?
Exercise 17.5 / Configuring Password Replication Policies for an RODC
Overview / In this exercise, you will configure the password replication policies for Read-Only domain controllers (RODC).
Completion time / 30 minutes

Mindset Question: Why should you configure a password replication policy for RODCs?

Question 2 / What is the status of the RODC01, as indicated by the icon?
Question 3 / What group is allowed password replication.
Question 4 / Why did it fail?

Lab REview Questions

Completion time / 10 minutes

1. In Exercise 17.3, what tool did you use to replicate between two domain controllers?

2. In Exercise 17.4,what tool did you use to force Active Directory replication?

3. In Exercise 17.4, what tool did use to check the status of Active Directory replication?

4. In Exercise 17.5, how did you configure Password Replication Properties

Lab Challenge / Upgrading SYSVOL Replication to DFSR
Overview / To complete this challenge, you will describe how to implement thin provisioning by writing the steps for the following scenario.
Completion time / 10 minutes

A year ago, you upgraded a domain controller from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, and then to Window Server 2008 R2. Last week, you upgrade the domain controller to Windows Server 2012. However, the server is still using File Replication Services (FRS) for the SYSVOL folder. How would you upgrade SYSVOL to use Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)?

Write out the steps you performed to complete the challenge.