Build an Active Directory Lab in Microsoft Azure in 1 Hour

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.