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This OVA appliance allows deploying an Active Directory Domain Controller fully automated:

When provisioning the appliance through the vCenter 'Deploy OVF template...' wizard, or through vApp-compatible Infrastructure as code tooling (e.g. HashiCorp Terraform), it is possible to provide all relevant configuration through vApp properties.

vSphere 'Deploy OVF template...' wizard

HashiCorp Terraform vSphere provider

vapp { properties = { "guestinfo.hostname" = "DC01" "guestinfo.ipaddress" = "10.0.0.21" "guestinfo.prefixlength" = "24" "guestinfo.dnsserver" = "0.0.0.0" "guestinfo.gateway" = "10.0.0.1" "addsconfig.domainname" = "contoso.com" "addsconfig.netbiosname" = "CONTOSO" "addsconfig.administratorpw" = "{{user `adds_administratorpw`}}" "addsconfig.safemodepw" = "{{user `adds_safemodepw`}}" "addsconfig.ntpserver" = "0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org" "dhcpconfig.startip" = "10.0.0.50" "dhcpconfig.endip" = "10.0.0.250" "dhcpconfig.subnetmask" = "255.255.255.0" "dhcpconfig.gateway" = "10.0.0.1" "dhcpconfig.leaseduration" = "01:00:00.00" } }

On first boot, the appliance will start configuring itself without any further user-input, by performing the following steps:

• Change hostname
• Configure network
• Set password for local administrator
• Promote to Domain Controller
• Iterate through all payload scripts:
  • Create Active Directory Organizational Units
  • Create Active Directory security groups
  • Create Active Directory user accounts
  • Set up Delegation of Control
  • Configure Active Directory Group Policy Objects with Windows Firewall settings
  • Configure DHCP (scopes, options and Failover relationship)
  • Create DNS records
  • Define Active Directory Group Policy WMI Filters
  • Define and link Active Directory Group Policy Objects and Preferences
  • Set Active Directory Default domain Password policy