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Manage Active Directory in Windows Server 2022
In this lab, you’ll practice Active Directory administration. When you’re finished with this lab, you’ll have a functional Active Directory infrastructure.

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Challenge
Get Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Create Users, Groups, and OUs in Active Directory
To start this lab, you will create a new Organizational Unit (OU) in the existing Active Directory domain. You will then create a new group and user inside this OU, and add the user to the group. Finally, you will assign this group to a file share to grant permissions.
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Join a New Server to the Active Directory Domain
You will prepare a new server to join an existing Active Directory domain, join the server to the domain, and verify that the computer object appears in Active Directory Users and Computers.
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Create a GPO and Link it to an OU
To finish up the lab, you will create a new Group Policy Object in Active Directory and link it to an Organizational Unit.
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The Final Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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