​​ Department of Computing and Information Technology Enterprise Communications Semester 1, 2016 Version 1.0: 5/6/2016 ICT50415 Diploma of Information Technology Networking Competencies  ICANWK501A: Plan, implement and test enterprise communication solutions  ICTTEN5168A: Design and implement an enterprise voice over internet protocol and a unified communications network  ICTNWK505: Design, build and test a network server Critical Aspects of Evidence  Evidence of the ability to: o ICANWK501A 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.7, 1.10, 3.3, 3.4, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.7 o ICTTEN5168A: 3.1 o ICTNWK505: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 5.1-5.4 o Design and implement an enterprise mail system, web portal or content management system and business collaboration tools o Configure network, servers and application software to provide optimal performance, meet security requirements and avoid known conflicts o Configure applications to meet customisation requirements o Monitor, test and evaluate the performance of aspects of convergent solutions, including security and access levels, network traffic protocols and bandwidth considerations o Design and implement a EC network, including implementing the infrastructure for enterprise VOIP and EC systems to meet business requirements using converged networks o Apply knowledge of current networking, transmission technologies and protocols Instructions To Students  Submit your assessment items by the specified dates  Present material according to IT Dept. standards specified.  Practical activities are to be noted down in the student journals specifically for this subject. Marks will be allotted according to the practical and the write up. Method Introductory Activity – Assessed as a Prac in-class activity Due Date As completed. Refer to subject outline. Tools & Equipment Grade Approx. 4% of final grade (40% total) Minimum Competency A satisfactory assessment. Windows Based Computer(s) with Virtualisation Environment Lab 1 Page 1 Enterprise Communications – Practical Activity 1 Practical Exercise 1 On the successful completion of the following activities, students can expect to achieve approximately 4% from the 40% allotted for the practical exercises. The aims of this exercise are to investigate some of the resourcing requirements and basic concepts around installing and configuring a simple mail system. Firstly, we will configure the mail system to work locally. Then we will implement infrastructure, such as DNS Servers and Routers, to permit mail transports across different notional sites. We will investigate this using simple software – hMail and Thunderbird. Utilising these tools, we will be able to discover some of the basic issues and configuration specifics that we will need when implementing more comprehensive systems. Activities 1 – 6 should be completed individually. Activity 7 should be completed with another student. Note that this is a Diploma subject and that steps for pracs will now be less prescriptive. You may need to research how to complete tasks yourself by using The Internet or documentation available for your products. This exercise will be completed within a VMware Player 6.0.x Environment. Read the entire activity before starting!!! Activity 1 In this activity we will prepare the basic server OS, workstation OS and their networking environs. The server environ will be implemented within a Windows 2012 R2 Virtual Machine. By default, the NAT environment is configured to use the 192.168.200.0/24 subnet. Each student should also determine their internet domain name (i.e.xxxstudentid.edu.au) for their environment, where xxx = the first three letters of their surname and studentid is their student number.  i.e. Student "Saththiyan Satchi" with student number 12345678 has domain name The Server  Deploy a Windows 2012 R2 Server Virtual machine.  Allocate a 4Gb of RAM and at least 30Gb of Virtual HDD space to this VM.  Implement the VM within a NAT networking environ.  A trial version of Windows Server 2012 R2 can be downloaded from or use the MSDNAA "Sat12345678.edu.au" Domains without the students' name will not be accepted. o Remember that the 192.168.x.2 address is the address of the NAT/Router http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate- windows-server- 2012-r2 Lab 1 Page 2 Enterprise Communications – Practical Activity 1 o As we are working in VMware Player and need to do a fresh install download the .iso version. Save a copy of this to your removable HDD. Note that this file at time of publication is 4.22Gb in size so plan the timing of this download of this effectively. You will require a "Live" account in order to download Windows Server 2012 R2 and any other Microsoft product. Note that a "Hotmail" address is a "Live" account. If you do not have a "Live" account, click on the "Sign Up now" link at https://login.live.com/login.srf?lc=3081 .  Establish Internet connectivity with this VM CIT Labs may or may not have transparent proxies ask your Teacher or the CIT Technician how to obtain internet connectivity.  Activate this VM (for 180 Days).  Update this VM using the Windows Update facility.  Configure the Server Virtual Machine as follows:  Install the "Standard Evaluation" with "Server with a GUI" option  Machine Name: win2k12dc  Change the "Primary DNS suffix of the computer" to that which you determined earlier:  IP Address: 192/168.200.10/24.  Gateway: 192.168.200.2 o i.e. Sat12345678.edu.au  DNS Server: 127.0.0.1 o Note this will be the address of your Router NAT interface implemented in VMware Player. o Remember that the only time a DNS server address of 127.0.0.1 is set is when the machine that you are on will be a DNS server itself. The "Workstations" You will deploy a Windows 8.1 Workstation within a VM to implement and simulate client connectivity.  Deploy a Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64 bit) Virtual machine.  A trial version of Windows 8.1 Enterprise (64 bit) that is active for 90 days can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate- windows-8- 1- enterprise o As we are working in VMware Player and need to do a fresh install download the .iso version. Save a copy of this to your removable HDD. Note that this file at time of publication is 3.7 Gb in size so plan the timing of this download of this effectively.  Allocate a 2Gb of RAM and at least 25Gb of Virtual HDD space to this VM.  Implement the VM within a NAT networking environ. o Name: win81ws o IP Address: 192.168.200.100/24 o DNS: 192.168.200.10 o Gateway: 192.168.200.2 Lab 1 Page 3 Enterprise Communications – Practical Activity 1  Change the "Primary DNS suffix of the computer" to that which you determined earlier:  Save settings and reboot the machine Now you need to test connectivity between machines.  Open a command prompt window on both the server and Workstation  Ping each machine: o i.e. Sat12345678.edu.au o ping 192.168.200.2  From every machine o ping 192.168.200.10  From the workstation o ping 192.168.200.100  From the server  Resolve any connectivity issues should they exist.  Test internet connectivity for each machine. Both the Server and the client workstation(s) should now have IP settings set appropriately and should be able to access the internet.  Document the steps that you followed in your Journal. Journal must have full screen and clear screenshots. Activity 2 At this point we are going to deploy Active Directory to the Windows 2012 R2 server and join the Windows 8.1 Workstation to this domain. This is technically not required to complete this exercise. Should you not be sure on how to do this please refer to this "Eli The Computer Guy" video at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WyBxwJD_c0 (Run time 28 mins)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9fmQ0crCsg (Run time 22 mins) Perform the following activities:  Deploy Active Directory to your Windows 2012 R2 Server  Each student should also determine their Active Directory domain name (i.e.xxxstudentid.edu.au) for their environment, where xxx = the first three letters of their surname and studentid is their student number. o i.e. Student "Saththiyan Satchi" with student number 12345678 has domain name "Sat12345678.edu.au"  Ensure that the DNS server is properly configured.  Note: There is no need to install a DHCP server at this time as VMware Player has a built-in DHCP server although this may be desirable for future exercises. If you do install the DHCP server within Windows 2012 R2 disable the VMware Player DHCP Server from the "vmnetcfg" console that should be available on your desktop.  Join the Windows 8.1 workstation to your Active Directory domain.  Document the steps that you followed to obtain and install your tool in your Journal. Lab 1 Page 4 Enterprise Communications – Practical Activity 1 Activity 3 In this activity we will acquire and deploy all the resources needed for the exercise. Firstly, we need to deploy Thunderbird within the Windows 8.1 workstation.  Download and deploy Thunderbird from the following URL:  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/  Skip any "Integration" or "Account Setup" at this stage. The VMware Player Virtual environment shares an IP address with the host operating system. For the NAT interface that we are using this IP address is 192.168.200.1 The Mozilla Thunderbird client should already be installed on the base OS of each machine. If Thunderbird is installed it may need updating.  Select Help. Thunderbird should auto-update. The next state is to download hMail  Download the latest production release of hMail to this machine (Version 5.6 at time of writing) to the Windows 2012 R2 server.  http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=download  Deploy the hMail Server  A simple tutorial (that may not necessarily match Version 5.6) is available at  Document the steps that you followed to obtain and install your tool in your Journal. Activity 4 In this Activity we will configure the DNS Server on our machine designated as the server that will also hold the mail server itself.  Use the Server Manager of Windows Server 2012 R2 to install the DNS Service if it has not already been deployed.  Install a "Forward Lookup Zone" zone for the subnet that you have been allocated.  Make sure that there is an "A" record for each machine in your group.  Create a MX record for your "Host Domain" (i.e. home.org,au) and point it to the "A" record of the machine that is to become your mail server.  Create an Alias record of "mail" to the "A" record of the machine that is to become your mail server.  Note: leave the "Host or child domain:" box BLANK  The "Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of mail server:" box should point to the fully  Fully test domain name resolution with the "ping" and "nslookup" commands at both IP address and host/domain name levels  nslookup -type:MX sat12345678.org.au  where sat12345678.org.au is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbYINKGo0Wc as a guide. qualified domain name of your server. replaced with your domain name, may assist Only continue when all name resolution issues are resolved. Lab 1 Page 5 Enterprise Communications – Practical Activity 1 Activity 5 In this Activity we will install hMail server and create accounts. Firstly, review the following tutorials for installing and deploying hMail:  https://www.hmailserver.com/documentation/latest/?page=howto_install  https://www.hmailserver.com/documentation/latest/?page=basic_configuration  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SZcogPRXNk  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmR5UIo-0bo  If hMail is not already installed on your server install hMail now  Create a domain for your allocated internet domain (i.e. sat12345678.edu.au)  Create accounts for the following users:  User A: Account [email protected] Password Tafe123  User B: Account [email protected] Password Tafe123  User C: Account [email protected] Password Tafe123  Document the steps that you followed in your Journal. Activity 6 In this Activity we will configure Thunderbird on each machine to retrieve and send mail for each account (i.e. one account per PC)  Configure Thunderbird for User A within the Windows 8.1 OS installed within a VM. Diagnose any connection issues.  Likewise configure Thunderbird for User B and User C on the host OS.  Test that you can send email between each user.  Document the steps that you followed in your Journal. Activity 7 In this activity we will use simple routing techniques to exchange mail across different domains and resources.  Migrate the VM network settings to "bridged" VM Networking You will need to collaborate with a second student at this point who has completed up to this stage.  Reconfigure an adjacent student's system to operate on Network 192.168.220.0/24  Adjust your base machine IP address to  Adjust an adjacent student machine's IP address to o Adjust all IP addresses accordingly o IP: 192.168.200.200/24 o Gateway: 192.168.200.2 o DNS 192.168.200.10 o IP: 192.168.220.200/24 o Gateway: 192.168.220.2 o DNS 192.168.220.10 Lab 1 Page 6 Enterprise Communications – Practical Activity 1  Set up "DNS Forwarder" group.  Using a crossover cable patch each group's networks together using a router. o Forward DNS Lookups to 192.168.220.10 on your DNS Server o Forward DNS Lookups to 192.168.200.10 on the adjacent student's DNS Server o Configure the IP address of the port that YOUR PC connects to as 192.168.200.2/24. o Configure the IP address of the port that THE ADJACENT STUDENT'S PC connects to as 192.168.220.2/24.  Ping test via IP to ensure that all PCs can see each other.  Ping test via machine DNS names to ensure that all PCs can see each other.  Attempt to send mail to users not on your network but created on the other group's network.  Document the steps that you followed in your Journal. Explain and demonstrate a fully functioning mail environ to your teacher Upload your Journal Notes to BrightSpace for assessment. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- If there are no further tasks given by the Teacher at this point, then shut down your virtual operating systems. Remember to shut down the client workstation first and then the server operating system ********************************************************************************************************* At the end of the practical session, please ensure that you have saved the folders of the virtual operating systems on to your USB hard disk. Before leaving the lab room return each machine to a better state than you found it I, removing all software that you have installed.