Joining the Domain

Now, we will join our Workstation to homelab.local

Turn on the DC1 machine

Open PowerShell on Workstation machine and use the following commands to change the DNS server to the Domain Controller at IP address 192.168.126.155.

Get-NetIPAddress
Get-DnsClientServerAddress

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceIndex 4 -ServerAddresses 192.168.126.155

On the 'Search' tab at the bottom left, search for the keyword 'Access work or school'. When the settings window pops up, click the 'Connect' button.

Click "Join this device to a local Active Directory domain"

Enter domain name

Enter the Adminstrator credential