Windows Server 2022 — Active Directory and DNS Installation
Step-by-step installation guide for Active Directory Domain Services and DNS on Windows Server 2022 in a VMware Fusion lab environment. With screenshots of every step.
In this article I describe step by step how I installed Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and DNS on a Windows Server 2022 Datacenter VM in a VMware Fusion lab environment. The result is a fully functional domain controller for the domain lab.local, as the foundation for a Windows DevOps lab.
Environment Component Value Virtualisation VMware Fusion (macOS) Guest operating system Windows Server 2022 Datacenter (Desktop Experience) Hostname DC01 Domain name lab.