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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

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