What is this blog post about? It is about my journey to learn Active Directory as much as I could on a non-domain network. I began this journey last year. I understand the importance of Active Directory in the domain and felt that I am best served to learn it on my own. That is…
Category: Active Directory
Active Directory: Managing Users
In this blog post, I will go over managing users in an Active Directory environment. Figure A. From the Server Manager, select Tools. Under tools, select Active Directory Users and Computers. Figure B. Active Directory Users and Computers Dialog. Here you can see my created domain, molenda.hme. This is where the users and computers will…
Promoting a Windows Server 2016 to a Domain Server
In order to create the Lab environment for Active Directory, the server must be promoted to a Domain Server. In this blog post, I am going to show how I promoted this server to a domain server while installing Active Directory Service. The first thing we must do is assign a static IP address. Severs…
Installing Windows Sever 2016 in VirtualBox
This is a post on how I accomplished installing Windows Server 2016 (Evaluation Version) in VirtualBox on an iMac. At the end of the post, I will share with you my sources that I used to help me accomplish this task. Additionally, there will be at least 2 more entries in this series of posts:…



