Forward Lookup Zone DNS Manager 2012, The internal DNS servers will grip a non-authoritative copy of our external namespace. In short, with the exception of a few minor tweaks to our Exchange records, we are cloning everything in our external DNS to an inside DNS server. this might only be used by our internal users.
Create Forward Lookup Zone DNS Manager 2012
1- On your active directory DNS server, open DNS ManagerRight clicks on Forward Lookup Zone and then choose New Zone.
In this article, I will discuss How to set up FTP Server on Windows. I will be able to describe the method of putting in and configuring the FTP server in Windows Server 2019.
How to install FTP Server 2019 (IIS)
1- Open the Server Manager > Left side select Dashboard option and click on Add roles and features under welcome to server manager.
2- Click next.
3- Select Role-based or feature-based installation and click on next because of the installation type.
4- Select the server from the server pool and click on next.
5- In the server roles, check the IIS web server role.
6- Click Add features required for Web Server (IIS).
7- After selecting the Web Server (IIS) role, click next.
8- On the features option page, click next.
9- Click next.
10- In the Role Services window, check the FTP server and FTP Extensibility and click next.
11- Review the confirm installation summary and click install.
12- Server role installation installed successfully. Click close.
Step by step, create FTP users and groups to access an FTP server in 2019
1- Create a replacement user to access the FTP server > open Server Manager > select tools and click on Computer Management.
2- Under computer management > Expand Local Users and Groups > select Users > right-click and select New User.
3- Type user name, Description, and Password, select Password never expires, and click create.
4- Now, a new user has been created.
How to Create a replacement Group for local users and computers.
1- After creating a user,> Now right-click on Groups under Users and Groups and click new group.
2- In the Group Name field, type the group’s name> a Description and click the Add button to add a user.
3- Enter a character under the object names to select field > click Check Names If Windows users exist > then click Ok.
4- After the user is added > Select Create button to create a group.
Step by step Creates an FTP site in the IIS Manager server 2019.
1- Open IIS Manager > select Tools and Internet Information Service (IIS) Manager.
2- Expand your FTP server, right-click Sites, and Add FTP Site.
3- Enter the FTP site name and path to the directory and click next.
4- type your IP address in the IP Address field, Port, for encryption, select No SSL and click next.
5- Under Authorization, select Basic > Specified roles or groups > type your FTP group name for users > choose read and write permissions and click Finish.
6- Now, my website is showing in the tree structure of the Windows web server.
How to add FTP virtual directory and add permission
1- Open This PC > open Local Disk (C) > open FTP directory > right-click, select New and click Folder to create a subdirectory.
2- Type a subdirectory name and press enter.
3- Right-click on your FTP site and select Add Virtual Directory.
4- In the Alias field, type a name and select … to add the user directory path,
5- Expand Local Drive (C) > FTP directory > select the subdirectory the one you have created and click ok.
6- After adding a virtual directory path, click ok.
7- To configure permissions in IIS Manager > right-click on a subdirectory (for example, Jamil) and select edit Permission.
8- Click on the Security tab and click the Advanced button.
9- Under advanced security settings and click the Disable inheritance button.
10- Select convert inherited permissions into explicit permission on the object.
11- After enabling inheritance, click ok.
12- Go back to the Security tab and click on the Edit button.
13- Select the Users group in which all users are located and click the Remove button. After removing all users, only the directory owner has access to it.
14- We need to add a Windows user with full access to the directory. Click the Add button.
15- Type the username of the virtual directory > click Check Names and click Ok.
16- Next, we need to permit complete control of the guide> Select the created user, check all fields Allow (Permissions), and click ok.
17- Click Ok.
How to set up FTP User Isolation
1- Now, we need to set up an isolation FTP For each user to get to their directory and not have access to other files after connecting to the server and selecting FTP User Isolation.
2- Select the user name directory and click Apply under the Action menu.
How to allow FTP port in windows firewall
You need to configure the firewall for an external connection to the FTP server.
1- Open Server Manager > select Tools and Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security.
2- Select Inbound Rules and a particular New Rule under the Action menu.
3- Select Predefined, select FTP Server from the drop-down list and click next.
4- Check all the predefined rules and click next.
5- Select Allow the connection, and click Finish. For these rules to take effect and restart the server.
How to Access an FTP Server in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer
You can set up an FTP server in many ways, for example, through the standard Windows utility, Explorer, or the FileZilla program.
1- I am connecting through Windows Explorer. Type FTP address in the address bar and press enter: For example, (my FTP server address is – ftp://10.0.0.50)
2- Type user name, Password, check the save password box, and click Log On.
3- You will see the contents of the FTP server folder.
4- Now, I am connecting through Internet Explorer. Type FTP address in the address bar and press enter: For example, (my FTP server address is – ftp://10.0.0.50).
Type a user name, Password and click Log On.
5- You will see the contents of the FTP server folder.
How to map an FTP network location or a web share location in File Explorer.
1- Open This PC in Windows Explorer, and select Add a network locationto open the Add Network Location Wizard.
2- Click Next.
3- Select Choose a custom network location and click on Next.
4- Type your FTP address (Ex. ftp://10.0.0.50) and click next.
5- Uncheck Log on anonymously, type your user name provided as your FTP login credentials, and then click next.
6- Type a name for the Network location and click Finish.
7- Check the box Open this network location when I click Finish.
8- Type your Password in the password field, click on Save Password and click Log On to test your connection. This is the second last step in FTP setup.
9- After setting up FTP Server, you can see the FTP folder.
I think I did my best to Provide valuable information to you about How to set up FTP Server on Windows Server. I assure you that if you read this article entirely, You will be able to set up FTP on Windows Server.
1- Open Active Directory Users and Computers > right-click Users > select New and select User.
2- Type first name and last name and then a user logon name for the individual and click next.
3- Type Password and Confirm Password, I selected Password never expired or you can choose any of these options click Next.
4- Click finish.
5- Right-click on the newly created user and select properties. (here is the description of the user, their office, their telephone number, their email, their address information, etc.
Copy Users
6- To copy the user account right-click on it and select Copy.
7- type first name > Last name > user logon name and click next.
8- Type Password and Confirm Password, I selected Password never expired or you can choose any of these options click next.
9- Click Finish.
10- To delete a user account right-click on it and select delete.
Create an Active Directory Global Security Group
11- OpenActive Directory Users and Computers. Expand your local domain > Right-click on users > select New and then select Group.
12- Type the name of the new group. Use a reputation that you simply can easily accompany the role or service that you’re creating.
In the Group scope option, select Global. In Group type, choose Security.
Click OK.
Repeat steps for all remaining groups.
13- How to Create an Active Directory Global Security Group with PowerShell
Open
PowerShell with administrative privileges.
We can create a security group with actual values replaced. Here I’m creating the IT Group.
New-ADGroup “IT” -GroupScope Global -GroupCategory Security
By default, the security groups is going to be created in Users field.
After creating a security group you can add members to a security group. I am adding (user and user2) Add-ADGroupMember “IT” -Members user,user2
For more information on how to create users and groups in windows server 2019
1- Open Server Manager and select the Dashboard and select the Tools tab and click Active Directory Users and Computers To create OU in ADctive Directory.
2- In the Active Directory Users and Computers window right click on your Domain. (My domain name is xpertstec.local). So click new and then select the Organizational Unit.
3- Type OU name in the name box. Select protect the container from accidental deletion and then click on OK.
4- So you can see that the OU (Sales) is created.
Creating OUs in an Active Directory with PowerShell
5- You can create new ou in the Active Directory with PowerShell command. So the below command will create an OU named “Account” in the Domain Controller.
New-ADOrganizationalUnit “Account”
6- If you want a different OU LDAP path, specify its distinguished name using the –Pathcmdlet parameter.
In this blog, I will be able to configure database backup and restore the mailbox database and recover the whole database and emails using Windows Server Backup.
First of all, we’d like to install the Windows Server Backup role.
1- Open powershell and type the below command to enable the windows server backup role.
Install Windows Server Backup
Install-WindowsFeature windows-server-backup
2- Windows Server Backup role start the installation.
Exchange 2019 Database Backup and Restore
3- Select windows search bar and type Windows Server Backup and then select to start the Backup Process.
4- After opening windows server backup and under the action menu and then select on Backup once.
5- In the backup options so select Different options and then click on the next.
6- Select full backup (recommended) and then click on the Next button.
7- Select Local Drives and then click on the Next button.
8- Select a volume where you want to store the backup and then click on the next.
9- After confirmation and then click the Backup button to start the back up.
10- Now the Backup process successfully completed, so click on close.
Restoring the Entire Mailbox Database.
11- Login to Exchange admin center and select the Servers tab and select the database and select … and then click on Dismount.
12- Open your mailbox database location and then right click on the mailbox database 111625473 and select on rename.
In this blog, I will migrate the user’s mailboxes from one mailbox database to a different database.
Migrate Mailbox to Different Database
1- Open Exchange Admin Center and select the Servers tab and select the database tab so we can check out the mailbox databases on the Server.
2- Select the recipient’s options and Select the migration tab and select the + button and select Move to a different database so, the mailboxes move to the different databases.
3- Under select the users you want to move and click the + icon.
4- Select the users that you want to move and click the add button and click on ok.
5- Click on next.
6- Under the Target Database, so click on browse.
7- Select the database where you want to move the users and click on add so click on ok.
8- After selecting the target database and click on next.
9- Click on new to start user’s migration.
10- Migration completed, so click on view details.
11- so now you can check to move mailbox details.
12- Status for all batches and click on close.
13- The status report of migration Exchange 2019 will be sent to defined recipients.
1- Log on to Exchange Admin Center and select the Servers tab and select Databases and select “…” icon and select Add database copy.
2- So under the specified mailbox server click Browse.
3- Select the mailbox server to want to add a copy to and click on ok.
4- In the Action preference number select 2 and click on the Save button to add the database copy.
5- Now you can see the file paths on the server that you are adding the database copy to and you will also see the seeding files as the database and the transaction log files are copied across.
6- Because a small database will not take more than a few minutes to finish saving. Larger databases or slower networks will take long. After saving completed successfully click on close.
When the operation complete the second server is going to be hosting a passive database copy that’s maintained, so far through a process of continuous replication from the active database copy.
7- Now you will see the two servers have copies of the database.
8- So now type “Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus” to check the database copy health.
9- So Now type “Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus “EXCHDB” | ft -auto” to check the database status.
In this blog, we’ll go through the installation of Exchange 2019 Database Availability Group with two-node members. The DAG will have a Primary network as well as one replication network. The file share witness is another member server in the domain that has no Exchange 2019 server roles installed. I am using my domain controller as a file share witness server.
In my environment
SRV2019-DC (File share witness
server)
10.0.0.20
Exch2K19-1 (Node 1)
10.0.0.24
192.168.0.11
Exch2K19-2 (Node 2)
10.0.0.25
192.168.0.12
Database Availability Group Configuration Exchange 2019
First, we need to prepare the Environment for the DAG
1- I have two networks one Primary and one Replication for my DAG replication for all the nodes which I am planning to add in DAG.
2- Make sure these networks are in a Different Class of IP Address.
Primary Network
3- Replication Network.
Replication IP Address should ping with other replication IP Address – So that Database Availability Group replication will happen through these Networks.
How to Create a Computer Account
We need to create a computer account to pre-stage the Cluster Cluster Name Object.
4- Open active directory users and computers > expand your local domain > select computers > right side under descriptions right-click > click New and click Computer Account.
5- Type a DAG Name and click ok.
6- Right-click on dag computer name and select Disable Account.
7- Click Yes.
8- Click OK.
9- Give Full Control for Exchange Trusted Subsystems.
Right-click on DAG computer name and select properties.
10- Select security tab > Select Exchange Trusted Subsystem > select full control and click apply.
11- Now under security click the Add button.
12- Select Object Types.
13- Select Computers and click ok.
14- Type your First node name > click check names and click ok.
15- First Node Computer account has been added > select full control box to give permission and click apply.
16- Under the security tab, click the add button again and Type second node computer name > click check names and click ok.
17- Give full control > click Apply for the Permissions and click ok.
Now we are creating a DAG in Exchange Server 2019.
The Exchange Trusted Subsystem should be a member of the local Administrator group on the specified witness server.
I am using my active directory server as a witness server.
18- Open active directory users and computers > expand domain controller > select Microsoft Exchange Security Group and then right Exchange Trusted Subsystem and select properties.
19- Select Member of and click the add button.
20- Type administrator > click check names and click ok.
21- Click OK.
Create Database Availability Group
22- Login to Exchange Admin Center > select Servers > select Database Availability Groups and select + add button.
23- Type DAG name > Witness Server Name > Witness Location > Add Two DAG IP Address (Static IP for the DAG)
1 for Primary Site and 1 for DR site
If you have different subnet or different classes of IP Addresses on either Sites. Have Two IP addresses for the DAG so that DAG resource can be online while failover on either site If you have only one Subnet then you can have only one IP Address for the DAG.
Database Availability Groupe Membership
24- Now my DAG Configuration is Ready and Add a member to it > Select Manage DAG Membership.
25- Select the + add icon.
26- Select first node > click add and click ok.
27- Select Save.
28- First node member completed successfully and click close.
29- Now you can add the 2nd DAG member > again Select Manage DAG Membership.
30- Select the + Add icon.
31- Select 2nd node > click the add button and click ok.
32- Click Save.
33- 2nd node completed successfully and click close.
34- Now both the nodes successfully added.
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