CONFIGURING
NETWORK
CONNECTIONS
This lab contains the following exercises and activities:
Exercise 7.1 Using the Network and Sharing Center
Exercise 7.2 Enabling Network Map
Exercise 7.3 Manually Configuring TCP/IP
Exercise 7.4 Testing Network Connections
Lab Challenge 7.1 Using Nslookup.exe
SCENARIO
You are a Windows 7 technical specialist for Contoso, Ltd., a company with workstations in a variety of different environments. The IT director wants to create a permanent software testing lab where engineers can run updates and new applications prior to deploying them on the network. The lab will consist of a network that can function in complete isolation from the company’s production network. You have been assigned the task of building the lab network using Windows 7 computers borrowed from the production network.
Estimated lab time: 55 minutes
Use the Windows 7 Network and Sharing Center
Use Network Map
Manually configure the Windows 7 TCP/IP client
Test network connections with Ping.exe
Exercise 7.1 Using the Network and Sharing Center
Overview
On a Windows 7 computer, the Network and Sharing Center provides
access to most of the operating system’s networking tools and
configuration parameters. In Exercise 7.1, you examine the current
Sharing and Discovery settings on one of the computers that will
become part of the lab network.
Completion time
10 minutes
1. Turn on the NYC-CL1 workstation and log on using the contoso\Administrator account and the password Pa$$w0rd.
2. Click Start and then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window appears.
3. Click Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center. The Network and Sharing Center control panel appears, as shown in Figure 7-1.
Figure 7-1
The Network and Sharing Center
4. Click See full map. The