Security for a day

(or MCSE 2008 as the rest of us call it)

For reasons only known to myself, I’ve stupidly decided to kick off the final two MCITP: Enterprise exams starting with 70-649.

Ah, nothing like making bets, attempting to get a bit of competition going, that you can get certified before the rest of the team.

In front the Boss. (He’s a hockey playing, beer drinking, Northern ninja for randomly appearing like that!)

Pure Muppet magic on my part! Meep.

Hum ho.

Why the Enterprise rather than the long winded 70-647 update exam first? After skimming the objectives, it looks less work and studying for 749 will help out with 647 at a guess.

Check List:

Study guide:                                         Ms Press Self paced 70-647 Training kit

Hands on:                                              Build a virtual lab on Windows 2008 and use the Ms Virtual Labs

Pick a date to get this done by:    Monday 23rd of March 2009

Better get on with it then.

So, kick off by designing and build and small self contained Windows 2008 domain. This is all built on a physical machine, running Windows 2008 Server x64 with 8GB of RAM, lots of hard disk space and a couple of NICs. Hyper-V is installed.

I’ve added three additional networks in the Virtual Network Manger: Domain_Internal, DMZ and Hyper-V_External. Hyper-V_External is connected to the router for direct Internet access.

I’ve build, installed the Integration tools and patched (32updates and 159mb later) one VM, then cloned it (done by copying it to a new location, starting it up and running newsid) to speed things up and save download bandwidth. I should have used Windows Deployment Services (WDS), but I get around to that later.

The master network plan is below

This isn’t information leakage and I haven’t forgotten to add IPv6 addresses in, just a basic network diagram!

So once everything has finished installing, on with setting it up.

Now to start going through the notes and playing!

Notes Part 1