It’s been a while since I have had an opportunity to play with my NUC, but today was the day. I fired it up, with a monitor plugged in, and got my DHCP-provided IPv4 address to reach the GUI from my laptop. Something I hadn’t noticed before was that, below the Ipv4 address, ESXi also provides an IPv6 address with “(STATIC)” behind it. I was able to reach the GUI via the so-called “static” IPv6 address, but I don’t fully trust it to be static; I’ll have to ask around and see if that is true. There are enough IPv6 addresses to be had, but it seems a bit strange, from a security standpoint, to just statically assign an address by default. I went back to the configuration settings in ESXi and assigned a static IPv4 address and saved it as a bookmark in my browser of choice. Now, there is no need for me to plug a monitor into the NUC just to obtain the address to reach the GUI.
I’ve been following 7minsecurity’s webinar to install a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller step by step, but I somehow missed a crucial step. My OS could not be found! I had to go back into the settings of my VM and scroll down to my virtual CD/DVD drive and browse to the ISO I had downloaded from Microsoft.
I finally got windows to boot up, made my account, set my time and date, and turned on automatic updates. But… I can’t get windows update to work! I tried downloading updates from microsoft using Internet Explorer from within the VM. No Luck. I just shut it down and am leaving it for now. Windows 8 sucks anyway, and it probably makes sense to play around in a more current version of Windows Server anyway. It’s always there if I want to go back to it.
So now I’ve created another VM, and will go with Windows Server 2019 to host my DC.
