Module 9 Progress Report

This week I worked a full 40 hours bringing my quarter total to 320 hours. This week I expected to get computers in to repair as WEDA testing is still going on. Only the first three days this week they tested and the rest of the days had no testing. This was nice as there wasn't as many laptops to come in that needed updates or to be reset. A nice addition for Wednesday and Thursday was the System Admin let me configure our server to host Virtual Machines. 

The host server had windows server 2025, our newest server OS (or other ones are running server 2012 and 2019). We are slowly trying to shift the server roles to the newer servers and update them to server2025 as the older versions are no longer going to be supported. So on the host machine I configured Hyper-V and restarted it to enable the feature, I was remoted in so I had to wait a few min for it to restart so I could re-connect to it. I then set up a VM and passed in our Volume License key so the VM was activated. This is going to be our AD-FS server, I added the role to the VM but was not allowed to do any configuration as up to this point it is not a production server and if I started to mess with configuration it would be. I then made another VM with server 2025 but I ran into an issue were it was not getting any internet even though I passed the external virtual switch to it. It wasn't getting a IPv4 address but had a local link IPv6 address. When I ran into this issue it was almost time to leave so I didn't get time to further diagnose it.

Next week I expect to continue to help set up the different VM's as we need to host a ClassLink connector server and it needed to be set up by June. The system admin and another co-worker were working on it when I left so we will see if they finished it or not. 

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