Build an Active Directory Lab in Microsoft Azure in 1 Hour

Using Microsoft Azure to Host a Traditional Active Directory Lab for Training Purposes

Learn how to build a traditional Active Directory forest in Microsoft Azure in ONE HOUR!

In this quick-hitting, information-packed course, you'll learn, step-by-step, how to deploy, in Microsoft Azure, a working Active Directory forest that you can use for training purposes. This course was designed so that it can be completed within a lunch break!

Throughout this course, you will perform ALL the following tasks:

• Deploy an Azure resource group

• Deploy a virtual network

• Configure the address space of the virtual network

• Provision a subnet and configure the address range of the subnet

• Deploy two virtual machines in an availability set

• Create virtual machine data disks

• Install Active Directory Domain Services

• Promote VMs to domain controllers

• Configure custom DNS on the Azure virtual network

• Configure Active Directory Sites and Services

• Test Active Directory replication

After working through the steps in this course, we’ll wrap up with some final thoughts.

By the time you complete this course, you’ll have a working Active Directory environment that you can use as a launching pad for any other labs you might need or want to run through. You can even use this lab simply to learn how to manage an on-prem Active Directory environment.