IT 160 Ch.

1 Activities Worksheet
Note from the Instructor: Any missing or incorrect screenshots will result in either a point reduction or no
credit at all for the activity.
Make sure you are doing the activities on the correct machines and in the correct order or the activities may not
work.
When taking screenshots for each activity, make sure the VM number in the top left-hand corner is in
the screenshot or NO credit will be given for the screenshot.
Ch. 1 Activities Worksheet will be worth 600 pts!
The following is a checklist of the activities you will need to complete for Ch. 1:
☐Activity 1-2: Reviewing System Properties and Exploring Server Manager
☐Activity 1-3: Examining NTFS Permissions and Attributes
☐Activity 1-4: Working with MMCs
☐Activity 1-5: Creating a Volume and Sharing a Folder
☐Activity 1-6: Exploring Windows Networking Components
☐Activity 1-7: Working with PowerShell

Activity 1-2: Reviewing System Properties and Exploring Server Manager

Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: View system properties in Windows Server 2016.
Required VM: ServerSA1-# (# being your VM number)
Description: You learn to find basic information about a Windows Server 2016 installation, such as the server
edition, network adapter settings, processors, installed RAM, and disk drives.
1. Start ServerSA1, and sign in as Administrator with the password Password01. Server Manager starts
automatically.
2. In the left pane of Server Manager, click Local Server. You see the Properties window for ServerSA1 as
shown in Figure 1-10 on page 15 of the textbook.
3. Review the fields highlighted in Figure 1-10: Ethernet, Installed memory (RAM), and Total disk space.
Your settings may differ depending on your environment.
4. Scroll down to explore other information available in Server Manager, such as a list of recent events, a
summary of services, and a list of installed roles and features at the bottom.
5. Click Dashboard in the left pane. (Notice the icon next to Dashboard; you’ll need it to navigate back to
this view later.) The Dashboard is divided into two sections: Welcome and Roles and Server Groups.
The Welcome section lists common tasks you can access easily, including adding roles and features,
adding other servers to manage, and creating server groups. This section can be hidden if desired.
6. Scroll down, if necessary, to see the Roles and Server Groups section. This section contains a box for
each installed role, a box for the local server, and a box for each server group (see Figure 1-11, p.16 in
the textbook). Each box contains information about manageability, which tells you whether Server
 Manager can contact the role or server to perform management tasks. You can double-click other items
in these boxes to get details about events, services, performance, and Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)
results. In the File and Storage Services box, click Events. Any events related to this role are then
displayed in the resulting dialog box. After clicking Events, take a screenshot and paste it below. Make
sure the VM number in the top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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7. Click Cancel to close the Events Detail View box for File and Storage Services.
8. Scroll up to see the Welcome section, if necessary. In the Welcome section, click Add roles and
features to start the Add Roles and Features Wizard; you use this wizard often in this book’s activities.
Read the information in the Before you begin window.
9. Note the three tasks that are recommended before installing new roles and features. When you’re
finished, click Cancel to close the Add Roles and Features Wizard window.
10. Click Local Server in the left pane. The right pane is then divided into several sections with the
Properties section at the top. Scroll down to the Events section, which shows the most recent warning or
error events that have occurred in your system. Clicking an event displays a description of it (see Figure
1-12, p.16 in the textbook).
11. Scroll down to the Services section, which displays a list of services installed on the server along with
their status. You can start and stop services by right-clicking them and then selecting an action in the
menu.
12. Scroll down to the Best Practices Analyzer section. The Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is used to make
sure a server role is installed in compliance with best practices to ensure effectiveness, trustworthiness,
and reliability. Run a BPA scan by clicking the TASKS drop-down arrow, and then clicking Start BPA
Scan. After a while, you see the results and any best practices suggestions will be displayed. There may
not be any warning or errors, which means the server is completely in compliance! Make sure the scan
is completed, then take a screenshot and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top left-hand
corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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13. Scroll down to the Performance section. You can view and configure performance alerts for CPU and
memory use. Performance monitoring is covered in more detail in Ch. 11.
14. Scroll down to the Roles and Features section to see a list of roles and features installed on the local
server. They’re listed in the approximate order in which they were installed. You will see a list of roles
and features that are installed by default on Windows Server 2016 since you haven’t installed any yet.
15. In the left pane, click All Servers. The right pane has the same sections as Local Server except the top
section, which is Servers instead of Properties. In the Servers section, you can select one or more
servers and see information about them in the other sections of this window. As of now, you have only
one server that can be managed with Server Manager.
16. In the left pane, click File and Storage Services. This server role is installed by default. The window
changes to show you specific tools for working with this role. Click Volumes to see a summary of the
server’s volumes (see Figure 1-13, p.17 in the textbook). Click Disks to see information about the
physical disks installed. Click Storage Pools. This feature in Windows Server 2016 is explained later in
the “Storage Spaces” section of this chapter and in more detail in Ch. 4.
17. Click the Dashboard icon in Server Manager to return to the Dashboard view.
18. Let’s add a shortcut to Server Manager on the taskbar. Close Server Manager. Open Server Manager
again by clicking the Search Windows icon next to Start (it looks like a magnifying glass) and typing
server and then clicking Server Manager in the results window. To add the shortcut to the taskbar,
right-click the Server Manager icon on the taskbar and click Pin to taskbar.
19. After pinning the Server Manager icon to the taskbar, close the Server Manager. Once the Server
Manager is closed, take a screenshot of the taskbar showing the pinned icon and paste it below. Before
taking the screenshot, make sure the Server Manager is closed and the VM number in the top left-hand
corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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 20. Continue to the next activity.

Activity 1-3: Examining NTFS Permissions and Attributes

Time Required: 10 minutes
Objective: View NTFS file permissions and attributes.
Required VM: ServerSA1-# (# being your VM number)
Description: In this activity, you familiarize yourself with the features of NTFS.
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator if necessary.
2. Click the File Explorer icon on the taskbar, and then click This PC in the left pane.
3. Right-click the (C:) drive in the right pane and click Properties.
4. Click the General tab, if necessary. You see that the file system is NTFS, which is the only option for the
drive where Windows is installed. FAT/FAT32 lacks the security and features required by Windows.
5. Click the Security tab (see Figure 1-14, p.18 in the textbook).
6. Click each item in the Group or user names section, and view the permission settings for each in the
bottom pane.
7. Next, click the Quota tab. The quotas feature allows you to set the maximum space a user’s files can
occupy on a volume. You see that disk quotas are disabled, the default configuration.
8. Now click the Previous Versions tab. This feature enables you to restore previous versions of a file and
must be enabled on each volume on which you want to use the feature.
9. Last, click the General tab again. Note the two check boxes at the bottom for enabling file indexing and
compression, which are features of NTFS.
10. Click Cancel to close the Properties dialog box.
11. In the left pane, click the Documents folder. Right-click in the right pane, point to New, and click Text
Document.
12. Right-click New Text Document and click Properties. Notice the two checkboxes at the bottom labeled
Read-only and Hidden. They are common file attributes in both the FAT/FAT32 and NTFS/ReFS file
systems. Click Advanced.
13. In the Advanced Attributes dialog box, notice four more check boxes for attributes. Only the archiving
attribute is available with FAT/FAT32 volumes. The other three, for file indexing, file compression, and
encryption, are available only with NTFS volumes. Take a screenshot of the Advanced Attributes dialog
box and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full
credit for this step.
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 14. Close all open windows and continue to the next activity.

Activity 1-4: Working with MMCs

Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Explore the Tools menu in Server Manager and work with MMCs.
Required VM: ServerSA1-# (# being your VM number)
Description: Familiarize yourself with the management tools on your server work with prebuilt MMCs, and
create a custom MMC.
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator and start Server Manager, if necessary.
2. In Server Manager, click Tools, Computer Management from the menu (you can also access
Computer Management by right-clicking Start). You might notice that some tools in the Computer
Management MMC, such as Task Scheduler and Event Viewer, are also available as separate MMCs in
the Tools menu.
3. To explore a tool in Computer Management, click the tool name in the left pane. Some tools have an
arrow next to them to indicate additional components. Each tool is called a “snap-in.”
4. Click the arrow next to Services and Applications to expand it, and then click the Services snap-in.
This snap-in is also available as a standalone tool in the Tools menu.
5. In Services, find and double-click Windows Firewall. Review the properties for this service, which are
typical for most services. Click Cancel to close the Windows Firewall Properties window.
6. Explore several snap-ins in the left pane of Computer Management such as Performance and Disk
Management so you are familiar with the server. Close Computer Management.
7. Now, you’ll create a custom MMC. Right-click Start and click Run. Type mmc in the Open text box, and
then click OK.
8. Click File, Add/Remove Snap-in from the MMC menu.
9. In the Available snap-ins list box, click Device Manager, and then click Add.
10. Note your choices in the next dialog box. You can decide whether to use the selected snap-in on the
local computer or another computer. If you select the Another computer option, you can manage this
computer remotely with your MMC. Leave the Local computer option selected, and then click Finish.
11. Repeat Steps 9 and 10, but this time add the Disk Management and Task Scheduler snap-ins instead
of Device Manager. Click Finish after adding Disk Management and then OK after adding Task
Scheduler. Then click OK to close the Add or Remove Snap-ins dialog box. After clicking OK, take a
screenshot showing the added snap-ins and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top left-
hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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12. To name your MMC, click File, Save As from the menu.
13. In the Save As dialog box, click the Desktop icon, type DevDiskTask for the file name, and then click
Save. You now have a customized MMC on your desktop. Close the DevDiskTask MMC. When
prompted to save the console settings, click No.
14. Continue to the next activity.

Activity 1-5: Creating a Volume and Sharing a Folder

Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Create a volume using the Disk Management snap-in; then create and share a folder.
Required VM: ServerSA1-# (# being your VM number)
Description: Use the Disk Management snap-in to create a volume. Then create a folder on the new volume
and share it.
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator if necessary.
2. From the desktop, open the MMC you created in Activity 1-4. (You can also access Disk Management
by right-clicking Start and clicking Disk Management).
3. Click the Disk Management snap-in in the left pane. There are two panes in Disk Management: The
upper pane shows a summary of configured volumes and basic information about each volume. The
lower pane shows installed disks and how each disk is being used.
4. Right-click the (C:) volume in the upper pane and note some of the options you have.
5. In the lower pane, find Disk1. If its status is online and initialized, skip to the next step; otherwise, right-
click Disk 1 and click Online. Right-click it again and click Initialize Disk to open the dialog box shown
in Figure 1-15, p.20 in the textbook. Select the option GPT (GUID Partition Table), and click OK.
6. Right-click the unallocated space of Disk 1, and notice the options for making the unallocated space into
a new volume.
7. Click New Simple Volume to start the New Simple Volume Wizard. In the welcome window, click Next.
8. In the Specify Volume Size window, type 500 to make a 500 MB volume, and then click Next.
9. In the Assign Drive Letter or Path window, you have the option to assign a drive letter or mount the new
volume into a folder on another volume. Click the drive letter to open the selection box, click drive letter
S, and then click Next.
10. In the Format Partition window, click the File system list arrow, and note the available options. Click
NTFS to select it as the file system. In the Volume label text box, type DataVol1, and then click Next.
11. Review the settings summary, and then click Finish. Watch the space where the new volume has been
created. After a short pause, the volume should begin to format. When formatting is finished, the volume
status should be Healthy (Primary Partition). Once the formatting is completed, take a screenshot and
paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for
this step.
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12. Close the management console; click No when prompted to save the settings.
13. Open File Explorer and click This PC in the left pane to view the available drives.
14. Double-click the S: drive. Click the folder icon at the upper left to create a new folder. Type DocShare
for the folder name and press Enter.
15. Double-click the DocShare folder to open it. Create a text file in the folder by right-clicking empty space
in File Explorer, pointing to New, and clicking Text Document. Type file1 for the file name and press
Enter.
16. In the left pane, click the S: drive so you see DocShare in the right pane again. Right-click the
DocShare folder, point to Share with, and click Specific people.
17. Click the selection arrow, click Everyone, and click Add. Notice that the default permission level is set
to Read (see Figure 1-16, p.21 in the textbook), which allows all users with an account on the network to
open or copy files in the DocShare folder, but not to change them.
 18. Click Share. (If you see a Network discovery and file sharing message, click No, make the network I
am connected to a private network.) You see a message confirming that the folder is shared and the
path to your new share is \\ServerSA1\DocShare. This is called the Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
path. After the folder is shared, take a screenshot and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the
top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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19. Click Done.

20. To verify that you can access the share using the UNC path, right-click Start, click Run, type
\\ServerSA1\ DocShare (note that capitalization is not important), and click OK or press Enter. A File
Explorer window opens, and you see the file you created earlier. The UNC path is how someone on
another computer would access the shared folder.
 Caution: The UNC Path is missing your VM #. For example, if my VM # is 03, the path would be
as follows: \\ServerSA1-03\DocShare
21. Close both File Explorer windows and open Server Manager if necessary. Click File and Storage
Services in the left pane.
22. You should see that new tools have been added to the left pane: Shares, iSCSI, and Work Folders. (If
you don’t see these new tools, press F5, or click the Refresh button at the top of Server Manager, or
close and restart Server Manager.) When you created a share, the File Server role service was installed
automatically along with additional tools.
23. Click Shares to see a list of shares on your server (see Figure 1-17, p.22 in the textbook). After clicking
Shares, take a screenshot and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top left-hand corner is in
the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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24. Continue to the next activity.

Activity 1-6: Exploring Windows Networking Components

Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Explore features of Windows networking components.
Required VM: ServerSA1-# (# being your VM number)
Description: Manage various aspects of a network connection on your server.
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator if necessary.
2. Right-click the network connection icon in the notification area and click Open Network and Sharing
Center.
3. Active networks are listed at the top of the window. Depending on your network configuration, your
network might have a name or be shown as simply Network as in Figure 1-18, p.22 in the textbook.
4. Click the Ethernet link on the right to display information about your network connection and the number
of bytes being sent and received (see Figure 1-19, p.23 in the textbook).
 5. Click the Details button to view address information about TCP/IP and physical address information
about your NIC. After clicking the Details button, take a screenshot and paste it below. Make sure the
VM number in the top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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6. Click Close.
7. Click the Properties button to see details on installed protocols, clients, and services. Each protocol and
service has a check box for enabling or disabling it on the connection.
8. Click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). (Don’t clear the check box, or you’ll disable the protocol.)
Then click Properties to open a dialog box where you can change your server’s IP address settings. For
now, leave the settings as they are. Click Cancel, and then click Cancel again. Click Close.
9. Close all open windows and continue to the next activity.

Activity 1-7: Working with PowerShell

Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Work with Windows PowerShell cmdlets and features.
Required VM: ServerSA1-# (# being your VM number)
Description: Open a PowerShell prompt and work with some cmdlets and features of PowerShell.
1. Sign in to ServerSA1 as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click the Search Windows icon and type power and click Windows PowerShell in the search results.
A PowerShell window opens.
3. Type Get-Verb and press Enter. You see a list of verbs that can begin PowerShell cmdlet names.
4. Type Get-Command and press Enter. You see a list of all PowerShell cmdlets.
5. Press the Up Arrow and Get-Command is repeated. Press the Backspace key until you see only Get-
Com and then type p and press Tab. Get-ComputerInfo is displayed. Press Enter to see information
about the computer. Scroll through the information as there is quite a lot of detailed information about
your computer shown.
6. Type Get-Command *info* and press Enter to see all cmdlets and command prompt commands that
have the string “info” as part of their name. After running the command, take a screenshot of the results
and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full
credit for this step.
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7. Type Get-Disk and press Enter. You see a list of all disks on the computer.
8. Type Get-Disk | Where-Object IsOffline –eq $False and press Enter to see a list of disks that are
online. After running the command, take a screenshot of the results and paste it below. Make sure the
VM number in the top left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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9. Type Get-Disk | Where-Object IsSystem –eq $True | fl and press Enter. You see information about
the system disk. The | fl part of the command means Format-List and provides more details about an
object.
10. Now you will use a variable to store an object. Type $interfaces = Get-NetIPAddress and press Enter.
11. Type $interfaces.IPAddress and press Enter to see a list of addresses for all interfaces. After running
the command, take a screenshot of the results and paste it below. Make sure the VM number in the top
left-hand corner is in the screenshot for full credit for this step.
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12. You have an introduction to PowerShell. Close the PowerShell window and shut down the server.