This document contains summaries of 16 labs covering topics such as network load balancing, failover clustering, virtual machine management, file services, access control, storage configuration, backups, server recovery, site resilience, DHCP/DNS solutions, Active Directory configuration, certificate services, and disaster recovery planning. Each lab contains multiple exercises to complete the objectives of that lab.

1. CIS 409 Lab 1 Configuring Network Load Balancing
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Exercise 1.1 Installing the Network Load Balancing Feature
Exercise 1.2 Creating a Windows Server 2012 NLB Cluster
Exercise 1.3 Configuring DNS
Exercise 1.4 Configuring Cluster Properties
Exercise 1.5 Managing the Cluster Nodes
Exercise 1.6 Removing the NLB Cluster
Lab Challenge Upgrading an NLB Cluster
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2. CIS 409 Lab 2 Configuring Failover Clustering
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Exercise 2.1 Configuring the iSCSI Client
Exercise 2.2 Installing the Failover Clustering Feature
Exercise 2.3 Creating a Failover Cluster
Exercise 2.4 Configuring the Quorum
Exercise 2.5 Implementing Cluster Aware Updating
Lab Challenge Upgrading a Failover Cluster
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3. CIS 409 Lab 3 Managing Failover Clustering
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Exercise 3.1 Deploying the General Use File Server Role
Exercise 3.2 Deploying a Scale-Out File Server
Exercise 3.3Configuring Failover and Preference Settings
Exercise 3.4 Managing a Cluster and Cluster Nodes
Exercise 3.5 Destroying a Cluster
Lab Challenge Configuring VM Monitoring
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4. CIS 409 Lab 4 Managing VM Movement
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Exercise 4.1 Moving a VM Storage Location
Exercise 4.2 Moving a VM to Another Host
Exercise 4.3 Copying a VM
Exercise 4.4 Exporting and Importing a VM
Lab Challenge Configuring Computers for Live Migration
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CIS 409 Lab 5 Configuring Advanced file Solutions
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Exercise 5.1 Creating an NFS Shared Folder

5. Exercise 5.2 Installing and Configuring BranchCache
Exercise 5.3 Using File Classification
Exercise 5.4 Configuring File Access Auditing
Lab Challenge Creating an NFS Shared Folder on a Cluster
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CIS 409 Lab 6 Implementing Dynamic Access Control
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Exercise 6.1 Using Dynamic Access Control
Exercise 6.2 Implementing a Central Access Policy

6. Lab Challenge Performing Access-Denied Remediation
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CIS 409 Lab 7 Configuring and Optimizing Storage
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Exercise 7.1 Removing an iSCSI Target
Exercise 7.2 Creating and Configuring an iSCSI Target
Exercise 7.3 Configuring iSCSI Initiator
Exercise 7.4 Using Features on Demand
Lab Challenge Implementing Thin Provisioning

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CIS 409 Lab 8 Configuring and Managing Backups
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Exercise 8.1 Installing the Windows Server Backup Feature
Exercise 8.2 Performing a Manual Backup of a Local
Volume to a Remote Share
Exercise 8.3 Backing up the System State
Exercise 8.4 Managing VSS Settings
Exercise 8.5 Enabling Shadow Copies for Shared Volumes

8. Lab Challenge Using Hyper-V Snapshots
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CIS 409 Lab 9 Recovering Servers
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Exercise 9.1 Restoring a folder using Windows Server
Backup
Exercise 9.2 Restoring the System State of a System
Exercise 9.3 Restoring a File Using Shadow Copy
Exercise 9.4 Booting Into Safe Mode
Exercise 9.5 Using Command Prompt Repair Tools

9. Lab Challenge Performing an Authoritative Restore
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CIS 409 Lab 10 Configuring site-Level Fault Tolerance
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Exercise 10.1 Configuring and Enabling Hyper-V
Replication
Exercise 10.2 Configuring Replication for a VM
Lab Challenge Configuring Multi-Site Failure Cluster
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CIS 409 Lab 11 Implementing an Advanced Dynamic Host
CONFIGURATION Protocol (DHCP) Solution

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Exercise 11.1 Creating a Vendor Class
Exercise 11.2 Creating a DHCP Policy
Exercise 11.3 Creating and Configuring a Superscope
Exercise 11.4 Creating and Configuring Multicast Scopes
Exercise 11.5 Implementing DHCPv6 Scopes
Exercise 11.6 Configuring DHCP Name Protection
Lab Challenge Creating a DHCP Split-Scope
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11. CIS 409 Lab 12 Implementing an Advanced DNS Solution
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Exercise 12.1 Configuring DNSSEC
Exercise 12.2 Enabling DNS Cache Locking
Exercise 12.3 Configuring DNS Logging
Exercise 12.4 Disabling Recursion
Exercise 12.5 Configuring Net mask Ordering
Exercise 12.6 Configuring a Global Names Zone

12. Lab Challenge Delegating DNS Administration
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CIS 409 Lab 13 Deploying And Managing IPAM
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Exercise 13.1 Installing an IPAM on a Member Server
Exercise 13.2 Configuring IPAM
Lab Challenge Migrating to IPAM
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CIS 409 Lab 14 Configuring A Domain And Forest

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Exercise 14.1 Creating a Child Domain
Exercise 14.2 Demoting a Domain Controller
Exercise 14.3 Installing a New Forest
Exercise 14.4 Raising the Domain and Forest Functional
Level
Exercise 14.5 Configuring Multiple UPN Suffixes
Lab Challenge Performing an Upgrade Installation
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14. CIS 409 Lab 15 Configuring Trusts
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Exercise 15.1 Creating and Configuring a One-Way
External Trust
Exercise 15.2 Creating and Configuring a Two-Way Forest
Trust
Exercise 15.3 Validating and Testing a Trust
Lab Challenge Configuring Selective Authentication
between two Trusted Domains
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CIS 409 Lab 16 Configuring Sites

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Exercise 16.1Adding Sites and Subnets
Exercise 16.2 Configuring a Bridgehead Server
Exercise 16.3 Creating a Site Link
Exercise 16.4 Modifying the Replication Interval
and Replication Schedule of a Site Link
Lab Challenge Working with DNS SRV Records
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CIS 409 Lab 17 Managing Active Directory And Sysvol
Replication

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Exercise 17.1 Demoting a Domain Controller
Exercise 17.2 Promoting a Domain Controller
Exercise 17.3 Replicating with Active Directory Sites and
Services
Exercise 17.4 Using REPADMIN
Exercise 17.5 Configuring Password Replication Policies for
an RODC
LAB Challenge Upgrading SYSVOL Replication to DFSR
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17. CIS 409 Lab 18 Implementing Active Directory Federation
Services
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Exercise 18.1 Installing the Active Directory Federation
Services
Exercise 18.2 Creating a standalone Federation Server
Exercise 18.3 Creating and Configuring a Sample WIF
Application
Exercise 18.4 Implementing Relying Party Trusts
Exercise 18.5 Configuring the Active Directory Claims
Provider Trust

18. Lab Challenge Configuring a Global Authentication Policy
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CIS 409 Lab 19 Installing And Configuring Active Directory
Certificate Services
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Exercise 19.1 Installing an Enterprise Certificate Authority
Exercise 19.2 Installing a Subordinate Certificate Server
Exercise 19.3 Configuring Certified Revocation List (CRL)
Distribution Point
Exercise 19.4 Installing the Online Responder Role

19. Exercise 19.5 Performing a CA Backup
Lab Challenge Managing Administrative Roles
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CIS 409 Lab 20 Managing Certificates
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Exercise 20.1 Importing and Exporting Digital Certificates
Exercise 20.2 Renewing a CA Certificate
Exercise 20.3 Creating a New User Certificate Template
Exercise 20.4 Requesting a Certificate

20. Exercise 20.5 Configuring Auto Enrollment
Exercise 20.6 Configuring Enrollment Agents
Lab Challenge Configuring the Key Recovery Agent
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CIS 409 Lab 21 Installing And Configuring Active Directory
Rights Management Services
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Exercise 21.1 Installing Active Directory Rights
Management Service (AD RMS)
Exercise 21.2 Creating and Enabling the Super Users Group

21. Exercise 21.3 Creating a Distributed Rights Policy Template
Exercise 21.4 Enabling and Configuring an Application
Exclusion
Lab Challenge Backing Up and Restoring AD RMS
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CIS 409 Week 6 Assignment 1 Disaster Recovery Plan
(100% Score)
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Assignment 1: Disaster Recovery Plan
You are an administrator for the Contoso Corporation. The
Contoso Corporation has two (2) large sites. The corporate
office is in New York and the manufacturing site is in

22. Cleveland, Ohio. In addition, the Contoso Corporation has
five (5) smaller sites.
At the Corporate site, you currently have eight (8) physical
Hyper-V hosts that host approximately one hundred twenty
(120) virtual machines. The virtual machines are running
Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. The
servers are needed to host email, various databases, file
services, print services, and a point-of sales-application. The
virtual machines are stored on a centrally located storage
area network (SAN) that has multiple power supplies, and
use redundant array of independent disks (RAID).
Over the last three (3) years, you have had two (2) power
failures that caused the servers to go down at the corporate
office. Recently, during one (1) of these incidents, files on one
(1) of the servers were corrupted. It was later discovered
that the backup could only partially restore the data files,
but could not restore the server itself.
The servers must remain available and reliable. As the
administrator, you must ensure that you can recover from a
failure or problem quickly with minimum loss.
Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:
1. Develop a continuity plan / disaster recovery plan for
Contoso Corporation in which you address the following:

23. 1. Suggest an approach that provides redundancy (failover)
for all mission critical functions in the event of a disaster
including power failure. Consider the following in your
approach: Essential Infrastructure; Email; Database; File
Services; Print Services; Point-of-Sale Applications; Power
Redundancy Solutions.
2. Identify the changes that should be made to the backup
procedures in order to address the problem with the server
backups.
3. Outline the necessary actions that Server Administrators
must verify for proper operation of servers in the event of a
failover.
4. Provide a plan for returning all services back to the
primary systems once the crisis has passed.
5. Examine the pros and cons of moving part of the data
center to the Cleveland office and housing it there on a
permanent basis. Provide your recommendation for the
stated action.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font
(size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and
references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check
with your professor for any additional instructions.

24. • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment,
the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,
and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not
included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
• Demonstrate the ability to describe, manage, and configure
load balancing and failover clustering.
• Demonstrate the ability to configure and manage backups
to include role-specific and online or cloud environments.
• Demonstrate the ability to recover servers to include files
and volumes.
• Use technology and information resources to research
issues in advanced network infrastructure environments.
• Write clearly and concisely about advanced network
infrastructure topics using proper writing mechanics and
technical style conventions.
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CIS 409 Week 10 Assignment 2 Managing a Merger (100%
Score)

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Assignment 2: Managing a Merger
Imagine you work for Quality Corporation (Quality.ad) who
has just recently bought Crescent Inc. (Crescent.ad) in a
recent merger. Quality and Crescent have separate offices in
St. Louis (Quality HQ), Little Rock, and Austin (Crescent
HQ). Crescent also has offices in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and
Santa Fe. The desire is to establish trusts between the two (2)
AD forests and consolidate core services (DNS, DHCP, etc.)
as soon as possible. Both companies are running Server 2012
as Domain Controllers. Their primary DNS, DHCP, and
Domain Controller servers are in the two (2) corporate
headquarters with secondary servers located in the other
cities to reduce latency.For the Quality.ad domain, the
Flexible Single Master Operation (FMSO) roles are located
on Server01, which is located at the Quality HQ. For the
Crescent.ad domain, the FSMO roles are located on
RWDC01, which is located at the Crescent HQ. In addition,
the Quality.ad domain has several servers configured as a

26. Certificate Authority, and the Crescent.ad domain has a
single Certificate Authority.
During this acquisition, you will need to consider the
following:
• The Crescent Inc. has developed several enhancements for
the widgets that your company produces. The engineering
documents are installed on the ServerDocs located at the
Austin office. You will need to configure the necessary
systems so that the engineers from Quality Corporation can
access these documents. Since these documents are
considered proprietary and highly confidential, you must
ensure that no other users except the two (2) engineering
teams can access these documents and that the documents
stay within the company.
• For both organizations, all user IDs and digital certificates
from the other organization must be recognized.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
1. Explain the key considerations behind establishing trust
relationships between the two (2) domains.
2. Suggest a method for consolidating Core Network
services.

27. 3. Provide a plan for integrating both AD forests eliminating
duplication of service wherever possible.
Your assignment must follow these formatting
requirements:
• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font
(size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and
references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check
with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment,
the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,
and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not
included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this
assignment are:
• Describe, manage, and install Active Directory replication,
federation services, and certificate services.
• Demonstrate the ability to plan an advanced AD, DHCP,
and DNS solution.
• Describe and plan for configuring a domain and forest as
well as configuring trusts.

28. • Use technology and information resources to research
issues in advanced network infrastructure environments.
• Write clearly and concisely about advanced network
infrastructure topics using proper writing mechanics and
technical style conventions.
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