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Active Directory

We have another chicken and egg problem. We need to build a server to host ADDS. We also need a Server 2019 Base VM. We are going to attempt to do both. Cloning is not yet an option because we don't have vcenter installed. The plan will be to fully build, update and sysprep a windows server. We will take a syprepped and powered off snapshot called Base and later extract that snapshot as a reusable standalone Base VM using PowerCLI.

Hypervisor Deployment

We have a chicken and egg problem. We can't really deploy ADDS until such time as we have a hypervisor to run it on. You could have a physical host with ADDS but let's leverage virtualization to the extent possible. The rough process will be

Management

We still have some house keeping to do before we can install vCenter. We are going to