Add physical laptop to Hyper-V domain controller

Anonymous
2021-10-12T21:53:30.223+00:00

I have a small lab running on my Windows 10 Laptop, It consists of a DC, a MECM Server and a number of Clients. I have created an Internal only network switch which I have shared on my WIFI adaptor so I can access the internet.

I want to start testing Bios and Dell Drivers with MECM Third Party Updates in my Lab, I have 2 physical laptops that I want to add to my Lab domain. This raises the questions:

  1. Can this be done?
  2. How do you do this?

Many Thanks.

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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2021-10-12T22:20:32.427+00:00

    The laptops will need to have the static ip address of domain controller listed for DNS and no others such as router or public DNS in order to join the domain. The required ports also need to be flowing between networks.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/config-firewall-for-ad-domains-and-trusts
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24009

    you mentioned an internal vSwitch? If so this seems problematic.
    https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jhoward/2008/06/17/hyper-v-what-are-the-uses-for-different-types-of-virtual-networks/

    An external vSwitch may be more appropriate but note that many consumer-grade network adapters do a poor job of hosting an external virtual switch so expect some slowness.

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