Preparing Mobile Active Directory Infrastructure

English (versi Indonesia)

Often, we need to use Active Directory (AD) infrastructure during presentation. For example, AD is necessary infrastructure to demonstrate profile synchronization, audience grouping, approval hierarchy configuration using Sharepoint Designer, etc. Therefore we need mobile AD infrastructure – in a laptop or in VPC.

Installing AD in the laptop is the easiest way, but it will bring in some problem, ie.

• AD is running all the time even if we don’t need it – wasting unecessary resources
• we are only showing operation in AD controller – hiding complete AD infrastructure behaviour

Surely we can demonstrate AD infrastructure by preparing client environment in VPC, however running AD everytime in our laptop is still undesireable. Thus, installing AD in VPC is the best option in our case – and for a complete AD infrastructure we need 2 virtual machine, for the Domain Controller and for the client box.