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Active Directory: Domain Controllers, Operations Masters, GC (Udemy.com)

AD DS components: domain controllers, global catalog, cloning domain controllers, operations masters (FSMO), and more...

Created by: Vitalii Shumylo

Last updated September 2026

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What you will learn

  • What is a domain controller?
  • What is a global catalog?
  • What are operations masters?
  • Transferring and seizing FSMO roles
  • Deploying a domain controller
  • Cloning domain controllers
  • Managing domain controllers with Powershell
  • Powershell Key Concepts

How it compares

Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in Windows Server on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 88% of them
  • Reviews360#77 of 113 by number of reviews
  • Length2.8 hoursshorter than 83% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 92% of them

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Course Description

This course is aimed to IT Pros and is supposed to give the viewer the information they need to know to get started with Active Directory (AD DS) and its key concepts. The goal is to provide coverage of AD DS main concepts like AD DS components: domain controllers, global catalog, cloning domain controllers, operations masters (FSMO), and more...

The course is targeted to help learning Active Directory and do your job more efficiently. 

After completing this course, you will be able to describe:

What is a domain controller?

What is a global catalog?

Give an overview of domain controller SRV records

AD DS sign-in process

What are operations masters?

Transfer and seize FSMO roles

Deploy a domain controller

Install a domain controller from Server Manager

Install a domain controller on a Server Core installation of Windows Server

Install a domain controller by installing from media

Clone domain controllers

Add Another domain controllers

Powershell Key Concepts

Install a domain controller and manage FSMO roles with Powershell

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Instructor Details

Vitalii Shumylo

Vitalii Shumylo is an experienced online tutor with over 20 years of experience in the field of technology and computer science. His expertise ranges from Microsoft technologies, Azure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, SuSe, and MacOS, to a wide variety of other software and operating systems.

He has helped countless students become more effective in the pursuit of their professional goals. Vitalii is highly dedicated to providing the highest quality of support to as many individuals as he can. He is passionate about creating educational opportunities that will help people achieve success in their fields of study. With his help, you can gain the skills and knowledge you need to achieve your goals and become a tech expert.


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Reviews

4.7

360 ratings on Udemy

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By Ashwani Kumar Singh on 8/20/2026

Awesome as always from the creator of this Course. From this course, any AD Administrator can easily go through the entire process of Windows Active Directory Roles & Services because no one will keep nt only to teach but along with teaching as per mutiple mindsets to understand the the exact mechanism of Active Directory so that in any complex environment even now most of the organizations using the "Identity And Authentication" architecture by combining other cloud Identity platforms like Entra ID/OKTA/Sailpoint/CybrArk and many more... but not all of them from IT professionals actually Involved in Integration plan by designing and Implementation plan which includes multiple level of performance tuning and providing the dsired solutions for the customer/client and why they are able to perfom the above threshold of client expectation, the answer is that; they understood the background picture of how Windows AD integration mechanism is actually works with other cloud based solutions for authentication and improving the security posture so that they can finetune accordingly. Many thanks to Mr. Vitalii Shumylo [https://www.udemy.com/user/vitalii-shumylo/] for sharing their lifetime research with us. Thank you, Ashwani Singh

By Fabien Makuikila on 2/20/2026

AD is the great tools to give users permission to access to the company 'confident and privates data. So, given access and credentials to internals and externals users need to gain specials access privileges .

By Tudor Boanca on 4/10/2025

Hard for someone that never heard of most of those concepts and only used AD for managing accesses and creating accounts, but very informative!

By Mishu Khondoker on 3/24/2025

This course provided a lot of valuable insights with easy-to-follow explanations, and I'm excited to dive into the hands-on lab sections next!

By Wise Man on 3/24/2025

The instructor breaks things down so simply, making it easy to follow, and I'm progressing really well with the material.

By Sv Sobuj on 9/30/2024

This course taught me a lot about Windows servers, and I admire it enough to suggest it to others as the best online education.

By Yuth Peter on 9/26/2024

I have no words to express my gratitude to this course person. The most fantastic teacher I've ever met, remotely.

By Marvin Nakajima on 8/22/2023

Just starting but already having concerns that since the captions and transcript are auto-generated they contain some errors that may throw those new to the subject. Please create an accurate transcript that removes the auto generated mistakes. (e.g. 'RODC' was transcribed as 'ROTC')

By Obaid Mohabir on 8/6/2023

This was a great informative course with clear explanations. Looking forward to the sections to create a lab environment.

By Julia Pequeña Rebelde on 8/6/2023

Great Course. I am a beginner but learned a ton from this course. My goal is to move ahead in my company and this course has been highly beneficial!

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Overall Score : 94 / 100