This article describes the full setup of a two-server Windows Server 2022 home lab in Proxmox VE. Together the two virtual machines provide Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy and a Certificate Authority (ADCS). RDP connections are secured with PKI certificates so that the Mac Mini M1 management workstation connects without certificate warnings. This is part 3 of the series on building a Windows DevOps lab in Proxmox. In part 1 I described how to create a VM, and in part 2 how to...

This guide covers the complete process of preparing a freshly installed Windows Server 2022 VM as a reusable Proxmox template. All future VMs (CA server, member servers, etc.) are cloned from this template, saving significant time and ensuring a consistent baseline across the entire lab. 📄 Download the full guide with screenshots: WS2022-in-Proxmox-Template-Preparation-Guide.docx Overview The full process consists of these steps: Install VirtIO guest drivers Run Windows Update — fully patch...

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Function Clean-Memory { Get-PSSession | Remove-PSSession [System.GC]::Collect() [GC]::Collect() [GC]::WaitForPendingFinalizers() Get-Variable | #Where-Object { $startupVariables -notcontains $_.Name } | ForEach-Object { try { Clear-Variable -Name "$($_.Name)" -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -WarningAction SilentlyContinue Remove-Variable -Name "$($_.Name)" -Force -Scope "global" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -WarningAction SilentlyContinue Remove-Variable -Name...