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Windows Server & AD Simulator

Learn to run an office network on Windows Server without a real server. Twenty lessons – PowerShell basics, roles, domain controllers, OUs, user accounts and passwords, leavers, groups, Group Policy and which policy wins, DNS, DHCP, shared folders and their permissions, good habits – with PowerShell to try. Then manage a pretend domain, learn.local: add roles, create OUs, users, groups and computers, write and link Group Policy (Block Inheritance and Enforced behave as on a real domain) and see the result per user, add DNS records, hand out DHCP leases, share folders and check effective access, or do it all in a PowerShell window with the real cmdlet names. Thirteen missions, plus day-to-day jobs: computers in the domain, moving people between OUs, unlocking accounts, applying and checking policy, several domain controllers, backup and the AD Recycle Bin, and securing the domain.

Ready to try · Learn to run an office network on Windows Server without a real server. Twenty lessons – PowerShell basics, roles, domain controllers, OUs, user accounts and passwords, leavers, groups, Group Policy and which policy wins, DNS, DHCP, shared folders and their permissions, good habits – with PowerShell to try. Then manage a pretend domain, learn.local: add roles, create OUs, users, groups and computers, write and link Group Policy (Block Inheritance and Enforced behave as on a real domain) and see the result per user, add DNS records, hand out DHCP leases, share folders and check effective access, or do it all in a PowerShell window with the real cmdlet names. Thirteen missions, plus day-to-day jobs: computers in the domain, moving people between OUs, unlocking accounts, applying and checking policy, several domain controllers, backup and the AD Recycle Bin, and securing the domain.