Technical requirements and lab setup

To successfully follow along and complete tasks and exercises throughout this chapter and the following chapters in this book, we will need to establish both a Windows Server 2022 domain controller and a Windows 2022 file server. While there are a few ways for administrators to configure Windows Server 2022 as a domain controller, I believe it is beneficial to utilize PowerShell to complete this configuration simply for ease and speed of deployment. Let’s begin with the following set of steps to configure your Windows Server 2022 domain controller.

Installing a new Windows Server 2022 domain controller

In Chapter 1, we successfully created a virtual machine named AZ801PacktLab-DC-01 and installed the Windows Server 2022 operating system onto the virtual machine. We followed our first best practice, which is naming the domain controller appropriately so that it can be properly identified. A second prerequisite for a successful domain...