Most may have Guessed I am not a Windows Guy, I prefer Linux, Mainly Debian for Servers and Arch for my Desktop and Laptops.
I do dabble to keep my window skills sharp enough to be dangerous, From spinning up a new Active Directory Server every major Windows Server Revision, Installing and getting a fully functioning Exchange environment last fall and a Windows Distribution Server (PXE boot Windows installs over the network) Most of these don’t last longer then there intended projects and all being virtual I keep them around and updated for around 6 months to a year before killing them and starting over.
One thing I haven’t been able to do over the years was tie a Linux box to MS AD for authentication, I have tried for years (read once, for maybe a a max of a week per year for years) and could just never get it to work.
Cant say that anymore:
I got the Server tied to AD, a test user created:
Initial Login was successful with the only quirk being the home folder being broken.
I fixed that and made a new group for “LinuxAdmins” to give anyone in it ‘sudo’ access:
End result:
