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Build a safe practice lab: domain controller and client

Set up an isolated lab (one domain controller VM and one Windows client VM) to practice joining, policy, drive maps and DNS failures without touching production.

Level
Intermediate
Length
About 90 minutes
Contents
3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
Status
Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
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Skills you'll practise

  • Build an isolated two-VM lab domain
  • Join a client and apply a GPO and drive map
  • Reproduce and fix a DNS-caused sign-in failure, with evidence

Course outline

  1. 1.Build a safe practice lab: domain controller and clientVideo · 5 min
  2. 2.Lab setup: isolated, disposable, documentedLesson · 25 min
  3. 3.Break-fix drills: practising faults on purposeLesson · 15 min
  4. 4.Writing lab notes that read like real ticketsLesson · 11 min
  5. 5.Build a safe practice lab: domain controller and client: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 14 questions
  6. 6.Build a safe practice lab: domain controller and client: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
  7. 7.Final exam4 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

  • Microsoft Learn: Install Active Directory Domain Services
  • Microsoft Learn: Hyper-V virtual switch types
  • Proxmox VE documentation: network configuration

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