How To Deploying An ADDS In Azure VM (IaaS) By Using Azure Portal

Introduction

Azure AD DS can run on Azure Virtual Machine (VM) in the same concept as an On-premises instance. This article taught how to deploy ADDS on Azure VM in Azure Infrastructure As a Service (Iaas).

Prerequisites

• Resource Group (RG)
• Virtual Network (VNet)
• Two Virtual Machines (VMs)

Step 1

Sign in to your Azure portal.

Step 2

These are my VMs as per my diagram.

Step 3

Open Server Manager -> Local Server and you can see my domain details and Network adapter

Step 3

Check connectivity from client pc to DC using IP address 174.100.0.4

Step 4

But I couldn’t ping via domain name example shanuka.local

Implement a DNS server IP address

Step 1

Go to your Virtual Network and Select DNS Servers and select Custom add your DNS Server IP address and save.

Step 2

Following the appropriate steps and restart your client PC

Step 3

Once you have done the steps you can able to ping with your domain name in my case I have ping shanuka.local

Step 7

I have created one user as rootdomain with Domain Administrator privileges

Joining a client computer 

Step 1

Select Domain and enter the domain name. In my case, I have given shanuka.local and given your domain administrator privileges account.

Step 2

Successfully joined my client PC to the domain

Step 3

You can verify your domain from client PC with whoami command

Conclusion 

This article taught us how to set up Active Directory Domain Services in Azure VM. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thanks.