If you’ve been reading along with my previous posts, you’ll know that I have created a small group of virtual machine guests on my MacBook Pro 16 in order to create an Active Directory domain.
There are 3 servers running Windows Server 2016. They are member servers for now and are named DC-1, DC-2 and DC-3 respectively. I’m also keeping it simple with a 192.168.0.x network.
For this topic, I will add the AD DS role to DC-1. It will have an IP address of 192.168.0.5. The gateway will be 192.168.0.1.
Note: Each guest NIC is running in bridged mode…
After my success with binding an old MacBook Pro running Catalina to a physical Windows Server 2016 AD environment, I decided to move forward to bigger things.
I have a MacBook Pro 16 with 32GB of RAM and a fast GPU and I9 processor, I knew I could just build out my environment of Windows Server 2016 servers in VirtualBox on it. So I did.
First, I went ahead and installed VirtualBox and then installed three Windows Server 2016 guest servers. It all went pretty well and I got it setup pretty fast.
Right after I built up my servers…
Now that my blog is setup and my planning is complete, I decided to get started building my small Active Directory network.
The first thing I did was build out a really small network with just two computers. I wanted to build out a Windows Server 2016 domain controller on an Intel NUC 5i5RYB and then bind a MacBook Pro 13 laptop client running Catalina to it. These are the items I had to work with for now.
To do this, I first did some research and ended up referring to the these pages on the Internet. …
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