Installing and configuring domain services

As the next step, let's install and configure the core of any Windows-based corporate network: the domain and its services.

Creating a domain

In the next step, we create a domain and its services based on Microsoft Active Directory. It will provide the central services for managing application levels of our infrastructure (managing users and computers, name service, and so on).

First, we create a new virtual machine by cloning our Windows server template in VirtualBox. For this, we just need to select Clone… from the context menu of the virtual machine list of the VirtualBox management interface. In the wizard, we should check the option Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards in the first window ...

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