Active Directory,Dns,Gpos On Windows Server 2025 100% Labs

Active Directory,Dns,Gpos On Windows Server 2025 100% Labs.
Published 3/2025
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Learn How To Manage AD/DNS/ GPOs On Windows Server 2025 As Working In The Field. (Build Servers/Clients From Scratch).
What you’ll learn

What is Active Directory and its benefit in a Corporate Organization . How to install and configure AD on Windows Server 2025.
What are GPOs . How can they affect a user or a computer. The Difference between applying GPOs at Site Level vs Domain Level vs OU Level vs Local PC.

DNS The most Critical Service in Windows . The importance of DNS . Install and Create DNS
Creating/Managing DNS Zones Either Forward Lookup or Reverse Lookup Zones that include different type of resource records and the integration of zones in AD.

Deploying a Windows Server 2025 And Windows 11 Using VMware/VirtualBox And HyperV
What is the difference between a GC and a DC.

What are the FSMO Roles and how do they operate. The Difference between between transferring and seizing roles.

Restoring AD Objects Using The AD Recycle Bin

Setting Up A Replica DC For Backup

Manage Replication Through AD Sites And Services

Establishing Trust Relationship Through AD Domains and Trusts

Whats Is DNS and Its Relationship with the Internet

What Are Root Hints and Forwarders

Resource Records A,PTR,SOA,NS,CNAME,MX,SRV

Requirements

To Perform All The Labs that i am doing so You would have the actual understanding of How It Works.

A Computer that has at least 16 GB Of RAM

Anyone that want to put at least 9 Hours of their Life to enhance and sharpen there AD/DNS/GPO Skills.

Description

Overview

Section 1: Intro to Active Directory, DNS And GPOs

Lecture 1 Intro To The Entire Course Setup

Section 2: Setting UP Your Lab Using VMware Player

Lecture 2 Download And Install VMware Player

Lecture 3 Download The ISO Of Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11
Lecture 4 Install Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11.
Section 3: Setting Your Lab Environment Using Hyper-V

Lecture 5 Enable Hyper-V On Your System,

Lecture 6 Install Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11.
Section 4: Setting Your Lab Environment Using VirtualBox

Lecture 7 Download And Install VirtualBox

Lecture 8 Install Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11.
Section 5: Testing Your Virtual Environment ( One Server 2025 and Two Windows 11 PCs)
Lecture 9 Change Computer and Server Names and Setting Up IP Addresses

Lecture 10 Testing Connectivity Between all Systems (Server 2025,11)

Section 6: The Life Of A Workgroup (Peer-Peer Network)

Lecture 11 How Workgroups Work and There Limitations and Lack Of Centralization.

Section 7: Installing Active Directory On The Server and Join Both Clients To The Domain.

Lecture 12 Install AD On The Server The Proper Way

Lecture 13 Join Both Clients To The Domain

Section 8: A Brief Overview Of All Active Directory Consoles

Lecture 15 Active Directory Domains and Trusts

Lecture 16 Active Directory Sites and Services

Lecture 17 Active Directory Administrative Center

Lecture 18 Creating and Managing OUs

Lecture 19 Creating and Managing User Accts

Lecture 20 User Account Management (Reset,Disable,Expire,Change)

Lecture 21 User Account Management (Acct and Time Restriction)

Lecture 22 User Account Management (User Profiles, Home Directories)

Lecture 23 User Account Management (Template Account)

Lecture 24 Filtering ,Searching and Queries In AD.

Lecture 25 Groups Types and Scopes

Lecture 26 Working With The Command Line (DSADD)

Lecture 27 Working With The Command Line (DSRM)

Lecture 28 Working With The Command Line (DSMOVE)

Lecture 29 Working With The Command Line (DSQUERY)

Lecture 30 Working With The Net User Command Line

Section 11: How to Manage and Control AD From a Client Machine (RSAT)

Lecture 31 What is RSAT . Enable On Your Windows 11 System
Lecture 32 Test Management and Control Of AD using the RSAT Tools

Lecture 33 Delegate and Remove Control To Junior Administrators to Manage AD using W11

Lecture 34 Enterprise Admins VS Domain Admins VS Administrators VS Domain Users

Section 12: Working With AD Administrative Center

Lecture 35 Deleting And Recovering Objects Using The AD Recycle Bin

Section 13: Installing Active Directory On Multiple Windows Server 2025 for Redundancy .
Lecture 36 Install DNS And Make Both Servers Domain Controllers

Lecture 37 What is A GC and DC and the difference between them Including DNS.

Lecture 38 Manage Replication Between both Servers Using AD Sites And Services And The CLI.

Section 14: FSMO Roles

Lecture 39 What are the FSMO Roles and How to display Them

Lecture 40 Testing and transferring FSMO Roles using the GUI

Lecture 41 Testing and transferring FSMO Roles using the CLI

Lecture 42 Testing and Seizing FSMO Roles

Section 15: Removing AD From Both DCs

Lecture 43 Demoting The 2nd DC

Lecture 44 Demoting The 1st DC

Section 16: Establishing A Trust Between Different Companies Using AD Domains and Trusts

Lecture 45 Create 2 Separate Forests

Lecture 46 Create A Trust Between Them (Make Sure To Create a Stub Zone In DNS)

Section 17: DNS

Lecture 47 What is DNS and Change Computer names and IPs and test Connectivity using names.

Lecture 48 Install DNS On the 1st Server and test Connectivity to the Internet.

Lecture 49 Create a Forward and Reverse Lookup Zone.

Lecture 50 Create Resource Records In Both Zones

Section 18: Group Policy Objects (GPOs) using Group Policy Management Console.

Lecture 51 Install AD On The Server and Join Both Clients To The Domain

Lecture 52 Default Domain Policy (Password Policies, Account Lockout, Audit Policies)

Lecture 53 Default Domain Policy (User Right Assignment and Security Options)

Lecture 54 Default Domain Controller Policy

Lecture 55 Creating and Linking a GPO at the Domain Level

Lecture 56 Creating and Linking a GPO at the OU Level

Lecture 57 GPOs (Block Inheritance, Enforced, Link Disabled)

Lecture 58 Backup and Restore GPOs

Section 19: TCP/IP Classes. (FLSM) Full Length Subnet Mask. (Classful Networks).

Lecture 61 Class C

Lecture 62 Class B

Lecture 63 Class A

Lecture 64 Class D And E

Lecture 67 Reverse Engineering Subnetting For Class C.

Lecture 70 Reverse Engineering Subnetting For Class B.

Lecture 73 Reverse Engineering Subnetting For Class A.

Section 21: Conclusion And Final Thoughts

Lecture 74 In A NutShell

To Become a Successful Network Administrator,To Be able to Manage Windows Server 2025 AD/DNS/GPOs,To Enter The IT Field With Real World Experience,To Feel Confidence About Your IT Skills.