Specifications

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19. Click Apply.
20. Click Change power settings.
21. Click Change plan settings under Balanced.
22. Change the Turn off monitor drop-down menu to Never.
23. Click Save changes and close the Power Options, Screen Saver Settings, and Personalization windows.
24. Open the Start menu, type regedit in the search field and press Enter.
25. To allow the VM to automatically log into the OS after a system reboot, change the following Registry key
to have the values shown here:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
• DefaultPassword=Password1
• AutoAdminLogon=1
• DefaultUsername=administrator
26. Restart the VM.
Installing the domain controller
1. Set a static IP address using the following steps:
a. Right-click the network icon in the quick-launch bar, and choose Network and Sharing Center.
b. Click Manage network connections.
c. Right-click the local area connection, and choose Properties.
d. Select Internet Protocol Version (TCP/IPv4), and click Properties.
e. Select the Use the following IP address radio button and enter 192.168.0.250 in the IP
address field.
f. Press Tab to auto-fill 255.255.255.0 in the Subnet mask field.
g. In the Preferred DNS server field, enter 127.0.0.1 and click OK to close the IPv4 properties
window.
h. Click Close.
2. Give the computer a name using the following steps:
a. Click Start then right-click Computer and select Properties.
b. Click Change Settings.
c. Click Change.
d. Enter mailserver in the Computer name field, and click OK.
e. In the Computer Name/Domain Changes pop-up window, click OK.
f. Click OK.
g. In the Microsoft pop-up window, click Restart Now.
3. Promote the mailserver to domain controller by following these steps:
a. Select StartÆCommand Prompt.
b. Type dcpromo.
c. At the Welcome pop-up window, click Next.
d. At the Operating System Compatibility screen, click Next.
e. At the Choose a Deployment Configuration screen select the Create a new domain in a new
forest radio button, and click Next.
f. At the Name the Forest Root Domain screen, type a domain name (mailserver.com), and click
Next.
g. At the Set Forest Functional Level screen, choose Windows Server 2008 from the drop-down
menu, and click Next.
h. At the Additional Domain Controller Options screen, accept the defaults, and click Next.
i. When the Static IP assignment window pops up, click Yes, the computer will use a dynamically
assigned IP address.
j. When the Active Directory domain Services Installation Wizard window pops up, click Yes.
k. At the Location for Database, Log Files, and SYSVOL screen, click Browse next to the Database
folder field and choose the D:\ drive. Click Next.
l. At the Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator Password screen, enter a password, and
click Next.
m. At the Summary screen review the selections, and click Next.
n. When the installation software prompts you to do so, insert the OS CD, and click OK.