PowerShellLab

Deprecated

This lab configuration is no longer maintained in this repository. They are part of the PSAutolab module. It is recommended you look at the README file in that repository.

You can install the PSAutolab module from the PowerShell Gallery.

Install-Module -Name PSAutolab

This repository is maintained for historical purposes and should not be used for new installations.

Legacy Instructions

To use the scripts and configurations, download the current release . Extract the contents of the zip file folder to your Autolab Configurations directory. You should end up with something like C:\Autolab\Configurations\PowerShellLab which contains the files from this repository.

PS C:\> dir C:\Autolab\Configurations\PowerShellLab\


    Directory: C:\Autolab\Configurations\PowerShellLab


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
d-----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM                PostSetup
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM             24 .gitignore
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM           2017 AD-Group.json
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM            506 AD-OU.json
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM           5017 AD-Users.json
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM           1054 Instructions.md
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM           1576 README.md
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM          36159 VMConfiguration.ps1
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM           8903 VMConfigurationData.psd1
-a----        8/25/2017   7:35 PM           6020 VMValidate.test.ps1

Change to that directory and continue with the Autolab setup instructions.

Domain Setup

Domain name: Company.pri Password for all accounts is: P@ssw0rd

You most likely will want to use one or more of these accounts.

• The user Art Deco (ArtD) is a member of the Domain Admins group.
• The user April Showers (AprilS) is a member of the Domain Admins group.
• The user Mike Smith (MikeS) is a standard, non-domain admin, user.

Servers

All servers run an evaluation version of Windows Server 2016 Core:

• DOM1 Domain Controller
• SRV1 Domain Member server
• SRV2 Domain Member server
• SRV3 Workgroup server

Desktops

• Win10 - Windows 10 Enterprise (evaluation version) with Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) installed.
• PowerShell remoting has been enabled. You will need to run Update-Help and manually install items like VS Code.

Notes

• All computers are set for Mountain Time with a location of Phoenix, Arizona.
• It is strongly recommended that you run Windows update on the virtual machines, especially the Windows 10 client.
• The PostSetup folder contains a number of optional scripts you might want to run after the Autolab setup is complete. It has a separate README file.
• To connect to a virtual machine, in a PowerShell prompt you can use the vmconnect command: vmconnect localhost win10 where you specify the name of the Hyper-V host (your local machine) and the name of the virtual machine.

Last updated 10 September 2019