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So I've got Windows Server 2016 home labs setup... but I feel like I don't know what to do with it, Is there any scenarios I can do with it? Does anybody know of any sites that have scenarios I can work through for my own personal development? Or Can anyone advise on what I can do with my...

I'm having trouble configuring my network lab on Hyper V, I'm trying to connect Server 2012 R2 to my home router network, I have reserved a IP address on my router along with the nic mac address but it's still not picking up. Seems to work quite well when I used VMWare. Any ideas? :confused:

Thanks guys, I'll check these out.

Afternoon folks! ;) I've been iTunes on my PC as my main media player for all my Mp3 files. I'm music lover so a good media player is needed for me to musically entertain myself every day. iTunes was good but it's started to get slow and I wanted a change, if I can't find anything good then...

Yeah no doubt....I found out the hard way, I have to put the testing on hold until the extra RAM arrives.

Great! I understand....I will do just that, as soon as I get extra RAM. I started to build a WSUS VM as well to see how it works but the extra is needed for the other client machines I'm going to build as well.

Ok....I'm a bit confused, (good thing I'm not doing this in the real world) Should I have either two DCs, one with DNS and the other with DHCP or both with DNS and DHCP? Or Should I have two DCs, both running DNS and then another server running DHCP? Wouldn't the third server need to be on...

I've demoted my 2nd DC and left the server just running as DHCP. Is that cool?

Ok that's alright...I'll start that again later today then.

Oh, I thought you mean't for me to promote the 2nd server as a secondary DC with DHCP. So you're saying that it should be a normal server with DHCP? :neutral:

;) This was helpful....thank you.

Ok so I have created two DCs, the first one being the DNS server and the 2nd being DHCP. When it comes to replication, is that something that is done automatically or is it is something that I need to configure myself. What is the next step? If I remember from the top of my head, it was...

My NAS is setup as a normal hard drive but once I add the 2nd HDD then it will be configured for RAID 1. It holds all my music and I wanted to keep it separate from my desktop. I have a Sharecenter by D-Link. It has the latest firmware but since the latest Win 10 release it has been playing up...

I've just created the first DNS DC and I'm about to start doing the 2nd. Exciting stuff! How do I make it a DHCP?

Thank you for your responses.....I will setup two servers and get them to talk to each other. First things first though....I need to get it to work, something is wrong with the connection to my NAS. I'm all about Desktop Support stuff but trying to learn about servers and networks now.