This article describes the full setup of a two-server Windows Server 2022 home lab in Proxmox VE. Together the two virtual machines provide Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy and a Certificate Authority (ADCS). RDP connections are secured with PKI certificates so that the Mac Mini M1 management workstation connects without certificate warnings. This is part 3 of the series on building a Windows DevOps lab in Proxmox. In part 1 I described how to create a VM, and in part 2 how to...

In this article I describe step by step how I installed Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and DNS on a Windows Server 2022 Datacenter VM in a VMware Fusion lab environment. The result is a fully functional domain controller for the domain lab.local, as the foundation for a Windows DevOps lab. Environment Component Value Virtualisation VMware Fusion (macOS) Guest operating system Windows Server 2022 Datacenter (Desktop Experience) Hostname DC01 Domain name lab.