Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is the heart of a Windows Server 2008 domain. It acts as a centralized directory and security hub, storing information about users, computers, and shared resources. In this lab, you will organize objects into Organizational Units (OUs), create groups, and add user accounts (both manually and using .ps1 scripts) on a Windows Server 2008 VM. To learn how to install this OS in VBox, click here.

You can watch my YouTube video that walks through this Active Directory user management lab using VirtualBox.