Lab Activity 4:

Objective: Create and deploy a Windows 2025 Server. Configure the VM as a DNS Server and add DNS entries.

Your work will be assessed based on the following:

  1. Server named correctly
  2. Server placed in correct folder
  3. Sever configured with the correct IP address
  4. Server has VMware tools installed and running
  5. DNS Server role installed
  6. DNS Zone named correctly
  7. A record for mysql
  8. A record for web
  9. Client VM able to resolve addresses from DNS Server

  • Submit a screenshot, similar to the below, of the web page showing that it is responding to the new DNS Entry:

Browser showing WordPress page loading via DNS hostname entry confirming Windows Server DNS role is working