What does it take to build a secure, resilient, and highly available infrastructure from scratch? In this hands-on lab, you’ll explore the process step by step, from setting up your first server to building a production-ready environment.

You’ll work with Active Directory in both on-premises and cloud environments, exploring its capabilities through practical examples and real-world production scenarios. Along the way, you’ll go through the essential stages of building a modern infrastructure, including initial installation and configuration, security policy implementation, and system hardening.

A key focus will be on building a highly available infrastructure with Hyper-V Clustering. You’ll walk through storage and network configuration, explore failover mechanisms, and see how high availability is planned and implemented in practice. Through real-world scenarios, you’ll discover how failover works, how infrastructure components work together to maintain service continuity, and how thoughtful infrastructure design improves both security and system resilience.

By the end of the lab, you’ll have a clearer understanding of the entire process from a bare server to a fully functional, secure, and redundant infrastructure ready for production. You’ll also gain practical insight into the configuration choices and design principles that help create reliable, resilient IT environments.

Bring a laptop with the OpenVPN client installed,