While taking this Pluralsight course, I followed along by creating a Windows Active Directory Domain like the one demonstrated in the course. I am hosting this in Hyper-V on my localhost. Below I showcase my implementation.

Here is the site topology for the domain controllers in the Company.pri domain.

Since Hyper-V doesn’t provide routers at the hypervisor level, there isn’t a way to route traffic between subnets. So, I created and setup a Remote Access Server which has the routing role enabled.

One of the domain controllers is Read-Only. Ideally, it would be placed in its own site, as the course explains, but wasn’t implemented that way in the course.

And finally, I created a completely separate domain, othercompany.pri, and created a two-way transitive forest-to-forest trust between company.pri and othercompany.pri. As part of this, I needed to create a DNS conditional forwarder in each domain, so both domains can resolve DNS queries for records in the other’s domain.

And that’s it for this post! Thank you for reading!