My previous home lab setup was getting a little cramped, and I’d have to pick and choose which VMs I wanted to run and couldn’t run everything at the same time. Thanks to the relatively low cost of refurbished servers ($449 on Amazon for the specs above at the time of writing), it was time to migrate from the Antsle I’ve been using as a mini-test environment.
Plotting out my first layer of goals for the new environment, I want to create a test environment where I can test things out in a pre-production environment that could be translated to my work environment.
Up first:
Set up an Active Directory domain
Set up Azure AD Sync from the local domain to my M365 Dev Tenant
Set up Azure AD Password proxy to reset on-prem passwords from the cloud
Set up a local Certificate Authority
Set up a Windows Admin Center shared gateway
Tweaking and tuning M365 security
I intend for this section of edtechirl to be more overview than how-to, so I’ll include links to tutorials where feasible, but otherwise I’m planning for this to be more of a portfolio than a handbook.