Active Directory Basics - A Complete Guide for Beginners
In this video, I'm going to teach you the basics of Active Directory, including:
0:00 - Introduction - What is it used for?
1:20 - How it works
3:20 - Before we begin - We'll prepare your PC for the course (Virtualization with VirtualBox or Hyper-V)
8:25 - Installing Windows Server 2025 from scratch
13:25 - Deploying the Active Directory role
17:25 - Promoting the server to an Active Directory server - Creating the domain
20:05 - Managing Active Directory
20:50 - What are "OUs"?
23:40 - Creating a group
26:30 - User management
28:30 - Managing rights and groups
31:40 - Delegating control (continued rights)
36:28 - Joining a Windows 11 machine to the domain
50:15 - Bug - Password change loop on first login
51:35 - Managing Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
56:17 - Creating a first group policy
1:00:10 - Best practices for GPOs
1:02:00 - Verifying that the GPO is working correctly
1:02:40 - Debugging a GPO that isn't working
1:11:14 - Brief recap of what we've covered so far
1:12:35 - Examples / Practical cases
Links:
Download Windows Server 2025 evaluation: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/evalc...
Download VirtualBox: https://www.oracle.com/virtualization...