Lab 1c - Windows Server 2019

Go to “Server Manager > Dashboard” panel. Click on “Local Server” – this is the Windows Server 2019 machine.

Check/change the following information

1. Make sure the time zone is set to (UTC+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney – change if it’s not.

2. Check the networks – Ethernet0 and Ethernet1 should be IPv4 address assigned by DHCP, IPv6 enabled.

You can click on the “IPv4 address assigned by DHCP” which will open the more detailed Network Connections configuration page.

3. Change the computer name and description to something more reasonable, for example, “chrisserver.

4. Reboot the server for the changes to take effect.

4. Note the section on updates to see when updates were last installed/checked, and how Windows Update handles updates. Note that a server is different to a workstation – we don’t want the server rebooting itself unexpectedly due to updates being installed.

Virtually all of the commands to setup Windows Server 2019 can be done from the command line. Here are some samples:

net = contains many functions for managing the local server

netdom = contains many functions for managing the domain

netsh = contains many functions for managing the local network

net help = command to see the syntax of the commands