Setting up an Active Directory (AD) Home Lab

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  • Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
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    In this how-to video I show how to setup an Active Directory home lab using Microsoft Server 2022 and Windows 11 with VMware Workstation.
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    0:00 - Intro
    0:35 - Creating Server 2022 VM
    7:10 - Creating Windows 11 VM
    11:38 - Configuring Server 2022
    19:25 - Configuring Windows 11
    22:54 - Installing Active Directory Domain Services
    35:30 - Continuing configuration of Windows 11
    29:23 - Promoting server to Domain Controller (DC)
    39:45 - Logging into domain as domain admin for first time
    42:14 - Managing the domain (AD users and computer, group policy, etc.)
    45:55 - Joining Windows 11 computer to domain
    50:07 - Creating domain user accounts
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    If you have any questions or would like to see any other videos, feel free to mention it below! I'll keep an eye on the comment section.
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  • @nri_raj
    @nri_raj 4 місяці тому +3

    This is the video I was looking for last one year, full end to end tutorial

  • @Noflexing100
    @Noflexing100 Рік тому +6

    You explained everything so well. Even gave extra as to why. Other videos I watched they just said what to do and didn't work. This one works and I know why it works!

  • @MushiiSushi69
    @MushiiSushi69 Рік тому +12

    If you're going to use VirtualBox for this, make sure to set the network settings of your VMs to "NAT Network" so that they are able to communicate. I had trouble with the DNS part and this has resolved it. Hope this helps.

  • @christophercahall3092
    @christophercahall3092 10 місяців тому

    Greetings, Jim Schultz
    You live in the Milwaukee region, as do I here in Kenosha, Wisconsin, I noted. I wanted to thank you for your educational films, which have been a great help to me as I want to work in the IT industry.

  • @bluz1864
    @bluz1864 6 місяців тому

    I've worked in IT for sometime now (a mix of Help Desk/desktop and even systems admin) but have only really set up my own lab DC now. Thank you!

  • @rascaI
    @rascaI Рік тому +3

    This was an absolutely fantastic video, thank you Jim!

  • @johnc1065
    @johnc1065 Рік тому +1

    Highly recommend this video! Building out my home lab currently and this is the video to watch and get a grasp on AD DS configuration. You deserve more subs bro

  • @mxolisimsabalabhengu8739
    @mxolisimsabalabhengu8739 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for this great video Jim. 10/10. ✅👌

  • @BhargavIndurthi
    @BhargavIndurthi Місяць тому

    This was very useful. @Jim Schultz waiting on your Active Directory Walkthrough Video ! Also for those of us folks that would like to get this done relatively quickly perhaps building both the Windows Machine and AD on Azure VM would be very helpful. Cheers!

  • @tari-ebisuobo
    @tari-ebisuobo Рік тому +1

    Thank you so much Jim for the amazing, detailed tutorial. I really appreciate it.

  • @fairchild9able
    @fairchild9able 6 місяців тому

    TOTALLY AWSOME . Thank you sooo much. great video!

  • @jetbob309
    @jetbob309 11 місяців тому

    Awesome tutorial! Thanks Jim!

  • @oscarhenry7412
    @oscarhenry7412 Рік тому

    Great job, really easy to follow along

  • @Visual_Learner89
    @Visual_Learner89 Рік тому

    Thank you Jim!

  • @HSapien99
    @HSapien99 2 роки тому

    Really helpful thanks

  • @alimuttaqee4254
    @alimuttaqee4254 9 місяців тому

    Great video very helpful for new users

  • @zaghamarshad
    @zaghamarshad Рік тому

    WOw sir you made my day thank you so much

  • @BACKSPIN9ball
    @BACKSPIN9ball Рік тому +1

    thanks for this wonderful video am doing this exact setup but definitely your computer is blazing fast ,i had to pause multiple times to wait for my i7 32GB ram to catch up.
    Just created this exact lab set up took me about 4hrs .thanks a lot looking forward to do the practice

    • @nanapoku5259
      @nanapoku5259 Рік тому

      Wow 4 hours? Did you do all that on a laptop or desktop?

  • @zaghamarshad
    @zaghamarshad Рік тому

    Please do posting more videos on AD

  • @BACKSPIN9ball
    @BACKSPIN9ball Рік тому +3

    Do you have a link to a follow up video by any chance ?

  • @chaosmassive8627
    @chaosmassive8627 Рік тому +4

    8GB for DC and PC for labbing purposes is way overkill, currently I running 2 DC one of them have AAD installed with 3 and 2 GB respectively, SCCM 8GB and 5 PC with 2 GB each, and its running quite fast on NVMe drive.

    • @elcolin_
      @elcolin_ Рік тому

      What kind of hardware?

    • @daviddunkelheit9952
      @daviddunkelheit9952 Рік тому

      PC = Primary Domain Controller or do you mean Processor Cores or do you mean Personal Computers?
      Otw I can’t follow very well although I agree that his allocations of RAM are silly but so is using Windows 11 😅

  • @RatoAx
    @RatoAx 4 місяці тому

    Great video!
    What is the host machine specs and SO you are using? Can I use VMware for free for testing kn my homelab? Thanks in advance.

  • @CyberTronics
    @CyberTronics Місяць тому

    41:57 about the DNS, my Windows Server had only loopback address too... however was able to make domain lookups for whatever site i went to; after some research and using nslookup I found my windows server did not know what DNS server it was using.
    this is because DNS Forwarding was active on the server. go to DNS then properties somewhere and I had 2 of my ISP DNS services listed there. :)
    so technically you dont need to configure DNS server to your server?

  • @user-jj8gb5lo8w
    @user-jj8gb5lo8w Рік тому

    Should I try this even though my laptop is only 16 gb?

  • @markwilliams1193
    @markwilliams1193 2 роки тому

    I watched a similar video setting this up. However, in that video the person used 2 network adapters. How would you do this in VMware? The 2nd network adapter was internal and clients connected through this adapter to get to the internet. Also in that video the adapter connected to the internet used dhcp.

    • @Jim_Schultz
      @Jim_Schultz  Рік тому

      In VMware you can go into the machine and select "Edit virtual machine settings", then under the hardware tab click "add" to select a second network adapter. From within that same hardware tab of the VM settings panel you can also select if it will use NAT, Bridged, etc.

  • @swatisharma7691
    @swatisharma7691 2 роки тому

    Can you suggest which other app to use on M1chip instead of vmware as its not supported on Macbook pro m1

    • @Jim_Schultz
      @Jim_Schultz  2 роки тому

      I would check out Parallels as they supposedly support the M1: www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-m1/
      I believe VMware is also releasing a product soon but it is still in beta: blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html

  • @Brian-ld9wk
    @Brian-ld9wk 9 місяців тому

    I followed the steps exactly, but I can't get the Server VM to connect to the internet!

  • @Dwayneff
    @Dwayneff Рік тому +1

    DNS is not working on my VM...I triple checked the ip address and DNS to make sure they matched and when I pinged the server, it didn't respond.

    • @Dwayneff
      @Dwayneff Рік тому +1

      I use VirtualBox VM, so I had to play with the settings, BUT I GOT IT!! :D

  • @alkhattababdelaziz7496
    @alkhattababdelaziz7496 Рік тому

    How did you change the size of the command prompt's fonts?

    • @tvd6860
      @tvd6860 Рік тому

      ctrl and scroll at the same time

  • @elcolin_
    @elcolin_ Рік тому

    So I'm doing this, following along step by step minus the fact that I am using an actual physical server I picked up for a good refurb price to practice on at home. All is going well except now I restarted my server after setting IPv4, DNS, the Server Roles/Features Wizard etc and I can't log in now upon normal Windows Server 2022 restart. It now has my login credentials as my made up domain i.e. EXAMPLE\ADMINISTRATOR with a message when I try to log in with my normal password, "the securty database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" wtf

  • @yg78t76t7
    @yg78t76t7 2 роки тому +1

    Quick question. Why did you decide to go with Windows 11, when most businesses are still using Windows 10?

    • @Jim_Schultz
      @Jim_Schultz  Рік тому +1

      To future proof the content. Business are starting to move to Windows 11 and sooner or later Microsoft will force it.

    • @daviddunkelheit9952
      @daviddunkelheit9952 Рік тому

      I was going to ask the same question? Why would you choose Windows 10X aka 11 when it is an experimental version

    • @daviddunkelheit9952
      @daviddunkelheit9952 Рік тому

      @@Jim_Schultz businesses are only moving to Windows 11 because they are operating from various desktops/laptops in their home offices. Windows 11 is an interim OS originally known as Windows 10X. Its biggest improvement is WSL for Android and TPM integration

    • @khari83637
      @khari83637 9 місяців тому

      Does it really matter if the purpose is to learn server admin not windows 11?

  • @snowbjim
    @snowbjim 11 місяців тому +1

    Didn't work, When you say the issue might be DNS maybe show people what to check where to check and how to change things. Also not everyone is running windows 11. DO things manually so everyone can follow.

    • @robertstahl8835
      @robertstahl8835 7 місяців тому +1

      I'm going to guess you didn't encrypt your user VM and then install the security module he does in the beginning.
      Windows 10 needs that as well

  • @belaynehbeyene511
    @belaynehbeyene511 Рік тому +1

    Ppppppllij