Lab Setup

Windows 7 Administration Training

Instructor: Scott Lowe

Lab Setup
Windows 7 Administration Training

In This Lesson:
Globomantics corporate network
Globomantics locations
Headquarters network details
Large regional office network details
Small regional office network details
Globomantics network diagram logical
Lab overview
Lab network diagram physical

Lab Setup
Windows 7 Administration Training

Globomantics Corporate Network

The Windows 7 implementation team is focused on creating a
deployment template for one of each location type
Each location type is replicated in the course lab
Headquarters (Columbia, MO)
Large regional office Southwest office (Scottsdale, AZ)
Small regional office Northeast office (Utica, NY)
Mobile worker

Globomantics Locations
Seattle, WA

Northeast Office
Utica, NY

Globomantics HQ

Southwest Office
Scottsdale, AZ

Germantown, MD

Dallas, TX

Miami, FL

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Headquarters
Headquarters server naming convention
Example: GM-File - The file server for HQ
Network details for HQ
IP address range: 172.16.5.1 to 172.16.5.254
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 172.16.5.254
DNS: 172.16.5.1

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Large Regional Office

Large regional office server naming convention
Example: GM-SW-File - The file server for the Southwest
regional office
Network details for Scottsdale, AZ large regional office
IP address range: 172.16.6.1 to 172.16.6.254
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 172.16.6.254
DNS: 172.16.6.1

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Small Regional Office

Small regional offices (Example: Northeast regional office) do
not have dedicated servers

Network details for Utica, NY small regional office

IP address range: 172.16.7.1 to 172.16.7.254
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 172.16.7.254
DNS: 172.16.5.1 (HQ DNS server)

Globomantics Corporate Network Diagram

Network: 172.16.5.0
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 172.16.5.254
DNS: 172.16.5.1

Network: 172.16.6.0
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 172.16.6.254
DNS: 172.16.6.1

Globomantics Corporate Headquarters

GM-DC
Domain Controller
(globomantics.com)
DNS server
Windows 2008 R2
172.16.5.1

GM-Remote
Globomantics Remote
Access Server
Windows 2008 R2
172.16.5.2

GM-7-XXX
Globomantics
Windows 7 Desktop
Naming Convention
DHCP-assigned IP
address

Southwest Office

DNS server
Windows 2008 R2
172.16.6.1

GM-7-M-XXX

GM-7-XXX
Globomantics
Windows 7 Desktop
Naming Convention

DHCP-assigned IP
address

DHCP-assigned IP
address

GM-File

GM-General
Globomantics General
Purpose Server
Windows 2008 R2
172.16.5.4

Northeast Office

GM-SW-File
Southwest Office
File Server

Globomantics
Windows 7 Mobile
Naming Convention

Globomantics File and

Print Server
Windows 2008 R2
172.16.5.3

Network: 172.16.7.0
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 172.16.7.254
DNS: 172.16.5.1

GM-7-M-XXX
Globomantics
Windows 7 Mobile
Naming Convention

GM-7-XXX
Globomantics
Windows 7 Desktop
Naming Convention
DHCP-assigned IP
address

GM-7-M-XXX
Globomantics
Windows 7 Mobile
Naming Convention
DHCP-assigned IP
address

DHCP-assigned IP
address

Firewall

Firewall

Firewall

Inside: 172.16.5.254

Inside: 172.16.6.254

Inside: 172.16.7.254

Firewall
Outside: 192.168.10.6

Firewall
Outside: 192.168.10.7

Firewall
Outside: 192.168.10.5

To other sites

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Windows 7 Administration Training

Lab Overview
For this course
The various servers and Windows 7 workstations used in this
course run on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Data Center
machine under Hyper-V R2
The Hyper-V R2 server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server
with 32 GB RAM, 2 x quad core Xeon processors and just
under 1 TB of disk space (RAID 5)
Each Globomantics site is connected on a separate network
adapter in the Hyper-V R2 server
Each network adapter is connected to an actual firewall and
then to my lab/home network

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Lab Overview
For this course
All servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
Each server has 1 GB of RAM assigned
Windows Server 2008 R2 180-day trial software is available
for download from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trialsoftware.aspx
My lab goal: Mimic as closely as possible a real-world
multisite environment

Physical Lab Configuration

Server
PowerEdge 2950
32 GB RAM
2 x Xeon X5355
8 cores
Windows 2008
R2

Hyper-V R2

VMs

VMs

VMs

VMs

Other needs

HQ

Large Regional

Small Regional

Mobile workers

GM-DC
GM-Remote
GM-File
GM-General
Desktops

GM-SW-File
Desktops

Desktops

Hyper-V R2
server
management

NIC4

172.16.6.254

172.16.7.253

NIC3

To other computers

172.16.6.253

NIC2

172.16.5.253

NIC1

192.168.0.197

172.16.5.254

172.16.7.254

Firewall

Firewall

Firewall

192.168.10.5

192.168.10.6

192.168.10.7

Router
192.168.0.1

in my home

255.255.0.0

To Internet