Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete the tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to ensure that the technical requirements from Chapter 1, Exam Overview and the Current State of Cloud Workflows, have been completed in full. We will focus on the requirements, best practices, and walkthroughs in this chapter that align with the AZ-801 exam objectives.

Let’s begin with a general overview of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), including what features are new and notable in Windows Server 2022.

OSs continually reach the end of their support cycle and many organizations undergo a process to migrate away from these legacy and unsupported OSs via either server life cycle or workload modernization. Active Directory migrations from legacy operating systems tend to follow a similar process. With Windows Server 2008 R2 leaving extended support, and Windows Server 2012 R2 nearing...