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

Set the phone to USB Modem

Start – Settings – Connections –USB Device Type – Modem.

Download the Motorola USB drivers

http://www.motorola.com/Hellomoto/Common/Default/USB_Driver_32.zip

http://www.motorola.com/Hellomoto/Common/Default/USB_Driver_64.zip

Install the relevant .msi file

Then plug the phone in to the lappy. Vista now happily detects the phone as a modem and installs it.

Configuring the Modem

Start –Control Panel – Phone and Modems Options – Modems- Smartphone wireless USB modem – properties.

In the general tab click Change settings (continue in UAC) –Advanced – Extra initialization commands type in AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”telstra.internet“,”" then click ok – ok

Set up the Dial up Account

Start –Control Panel – Network and Sharing center –Set up a connection or Network – set up a dial up connection

Pick the Smartphone wireless USB modem In dial-up phone number enter *99#

Leave username and password blank and give it a witty name “Q9 Phone” and connect

Set the location type to Public if the option pops up.

Tweaking the Dial up options

As you don’t need the username and password fields for this at the Dial-up prompt for the Q9 Phone – properties –Options –untick Prompt for name and password

The internet is now yours and the pc now charges the phone at the same time. Magic!

Bluetooth – similar sort of set up, but I like my phone charger magic.

For those out there with an i-mate JASJAM and Windows XP follow this:

http://www.imate.com/support/Generic/Guidelines_for_using_i-mate_JASJAM_as_a_USB_Modem_AU.pdf