In this article, I want to show you how easy it is to create a new Active Directory domain for demo environments. If you want something for production, there are some additional steps to take, but I won’t cover that here.

You can use Azure DSC for many configurations, like setting up a domain controller, as I will show here. It is also possible to install Windows Roles and Feature and create your own resources to install and configure software. If you want to read more about Azure DSC, you can go here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/dsc-overview  If you want to know more about DSC in general, you can read about it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dsc/getting-started/wingettingstarted?view=powershell-7.1