Creating Trial and Development environments for a large Active Directory Domain
Rather than working directly with a production active directory environment, I would like to have an identical setups for trial and development environments.
How would I go about replicating the production AD environment into the dev and trial ones and keep things in sync.
Also how can I be certain that when I try something in the test / dev environments it will perform exactly like performing it in production.
How would I deal with the domain naming convention so apps can work seamlessly in all three environments, but have them co-exist so they would need to use different name-spaces.
How would I go about replicating the production AD environment into the dev and trial ones and keep things in sync.
Also how can I be certain that when I try something in the test / dev environments it will perform exactly like performing it in production.
How would I deal with the domain naming convention so apps can work seamlessly in all three environments, but have them co-exist so they would need to use different name-spaces.
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the dev and trail environments for the real world active directory can be built using the virtualization .
like vmware or hyper-v or any of the choice of virtualization software hypervisors .
it depends on the complexity of active directory real world and scalabilty to select exactly the correct hypervisors .
many of the trivial and trail experiments can be done on the such a trail and duplicate simulating active directory .
but still some diffence will arise which are quite normal , you can have completely same real world and trail simulating AD environments exactly .
thanks ,