Overview

In these MOC courses, Students will use Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 to
perform the hands on Practices and Labs. A convenient “Lab Launcher” is provided.

Important: At the end of each Lab, students must close

each Virtual Machine and MUST NOT SAVE any changes!

1. For each running Virtual Machine, close the Virtual

Machine Remote Control (VMRC) window.
2. In the Close box, make sure students select:
Turn off machine and discard changes

Every chapter has one or more MOC Labs that are designed to be discarded upon
completion, and then will start the next Lab from a known starting point.

The proper procedure is for:

 the Instructor to review each student’s Lab work

 verify that they have completed Labs at various check points
 Student will continue with the next part of that chapter’s Lab
 or Student will have finished that chapter, and will discard the machines

Microsoft Lab Launcher Demonstration

In the following demonstration, the Instructor will familiarize the students with the Microsoft Lab
launcher environment in which they will work to complete the course’s labs.

You will show the students:

• How to start the Microsoft Lab Launcher.
• How to launch a Virtual Machine.
• How to shut down a Virtual Machine and discard changes.

Keyboard Shortcuts

While working in the Lab Launcher Client environment, you might find it helpful to use
keyboard shortcuts. All keyboard shortcuts include a key that is referred to as the HOST
key or the RIGHT-ALT key. By default, the HOST key is the ALT key on the right side
of your keyboard.

Some useful shortcuts include:

• RIGHT-ALT+DELETE to log on to the virtual machine.
• RIGHT-ALT+ENTER to switch between full-screen and window modes.

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 How to start the Microsoft Lab Launcher

Virtual Machines for each course are conveniently grouped together on a special
Lab Launcher. Other courses have their own group of machines, and this Lab
Launcher keeps them organized for the Student. This example shows launching
of the 5115B course (Configuring Win Vista) from the Start Menu | All Programs.

Log in : Student with password Pa$$w0rd (number zero, not letter o)

(Note that menu layout labels may be slightly different, or change in the future!)

Note that the standard icon for

the Lab Launcher is a two color
square with a course number.

The corresponding Lab

instructions are a circular icon.

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The menu under “Microsoft Learning” will display all of the MOC courses that are
currently installed on this machine. This example starts the 5115B Lab Launcher:

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 How to launch a Virtual Machine

This will open the 5115B Lab Launcher, displaying the group of 5 Virtual Machines that
will be used for that particular course’s Labs. ****Remind students that a Domain
Controller needs to be started first, before any other machines are launched.

Click on the Launch button to start up any Virtual Machine. This example starts the
machine named 5115B-SEA-DC1 (it is a Server 2008 Domain Controller)

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The Virtual Machine boots up, and is displayed automatically through VMRC ---

(Virtual Machine Remote Control interface). In order to log in, you must click the mouse
inside this window, to make sure that this machine is selected.

Use the 2 key sequence (RIGHT-ALT + DEL) ***** do NOT use CTL ALT DEL

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All MOC courses use the same password for every account Pa$$w0rd

(that is a number zero, not the letter o !)

This example logs in as Administrator of the Adatum domain. Advise students to read
their Lab Instructions very carefully. They will be logging in under many different users.

If a different User Name is needed for a Lab, click on the “Switch User” button.

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The User is successfully logged in.

Note that the background is configured to display the name of the Computer, and the
name of the User who is currently logged in, which will be very valuable for
troubleshooting purposes. This will be especially useful in Labs where multiple
machines will be opened and various Users will be needed to demonstrate different
aspects of a Lab.

It will be very common to have 2 or more Virtual Machines running to perform a Lab.

Students will follow the Instructions for their Lab, either from the book, or on the
computer, as appropriate.

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 How to launch the Lab Instructions
Complete Lab instructions for each Course are available from the Start Menu. Simply
select the correct menu icon for the appropriate Course. It is a “circular” icon.

Here is an example of 4 courses in our F.C.C. curriculum, with the corresponding MOC
course numbers:

 CDA-210 (Windows Desktop) --- MOC 5115B (Windows Vista)

 CDA-216 (Windows Infrastructure) --- MOC 6421A (Server 2008 Infrastructure)
 CDA-217 (Active Directory) ---- MOC 6425A (Config. 2008 Active Directory)

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  CDA-218 (Managing Server 2008) --- MOC 6419A (Manage 2008 Servers)

This opens a link to the documentation files on this computer:

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Click on the left side bar link to “Lab Answer Keys” as shown, which displays a listing of
Lab pdf files for each Module. This example will open the top one on the right, Lab 1.

This will now open a 10 page .PDF document with exact instructions for this Lab.

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Remind students to read extremely carefully, and follow instructions exactly. All of the
Labs have been proven to work perfectly during our pilot program, provided that the
Student performs the actions exactly as the document states.

There will occasionally be a requirement to change the contents of the CD drive that a
Virtual Machine is using, and the procedure is called “Mounting the ISO image”. This is
performed outside of the Virtual Machine, and needs to be performed precisely.

The next section documents how to do this correctly.

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 How to “Mount the ISO Image”

There will be times when the contents of a CD drive needs to be changed on several
machines. This can only be done outside of the Virtual Machine, through an
Administration Website for Virtual Server.

The “Student” account has been granted permission to do this, and is part of several
Labs.

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The Administration website is displayed as shown.

The console is displaying a thumbnail view of all currently running virtual machines. The
configuration of the machine needs to be modified so that an ISO file can be found and
used by the CD drive.

To access the Configuration, hover the mouse just to the right of the thumbnail, where
the name is displayed, and a menu will fly out. Select by clicking on “Edit Configuration”

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The configuration screen for the machine “5115B-SEA-DC1” is displayed. To change the
contents of the CD drive, click on the CD/DVD link (highlighted in red) :

The configuration for the CD drive includes a path to an ISO file that acts as the CD
media. As an example, in the 5115B course, this path must be set as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft

Learning\5115\Drives\Vista_Enterprise.iso

Observe the path very carefully; it uses spaces exactly as shown.

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Enter the exact path by clicking on the radio button “Known image files”, then type in
the path in the box for “Fully qualified path to file” as shown here:

Click “OK”, and the Virtual Machine will immediately recognize it in its CD drive.

The Administration website can then be safely closed by simply clicking on the X in the
red box.

In the 5115B Vista course, this configuration is performed on several machines as a

normal part of the Lab. Again, the Student account has been configured to give them
Full Control permission on this website only.

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 How to Shutdown a Virtual Machine and DISCARD changes

MOC Labs are designed to be discarded when they are completed. This properly returns
that machine to a known starting point that all Labs are designed to begin from.

REMINDER: Do NOT save any work. Do NOT use a normal shutdown process.

Simply close the VMRC console window on the RED close button for each machine.

A Close warning box will appear, and notice that the choice box defaults to :

“Shutdown virtual machine and save changes” (THIS MUST BE CHANGED!)

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Make sure that Students click on the dropdown select box, and choose the bottom item:

“Turn off machine and discard changes” as shown:

If students make a mistake, and end up Saving a machine, there is a backup failsafe to
restore all machines back to the original state.

On the Lab Launcher, there is a special button that is active only when all virtual
machines are turned off. Click on this “Reset All” button to correct this type of error.

This button can be very helpful if the virtual machines are indicating that they need to
be Activated. “Reset All” will typically take care of this problem.

Note --- by design, none of these virtual machines are activated. As long as they are
shutdown properly, or at least reset properly, it should not be an issue.

When students have completed their work, they simply close the Lab Launcher, and log
off of their student machine.

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