Create a new Windows VM and create a new AD Forest, Domain and DC

This template will deploy a new VM (along with a new VNet, Storage Account and Load Balancer) and will configure it as a Domain Controller and create a new forest and domain.

There are a number of issues\workarounds in this template and the associated DSC Script:

1. There is no way (that I can find) to modify a VNet (or any other resource) after it has been created in a template, this template creates a DNS Server and therefore the IP address of that server needs to be specified as a DNS Server in the VNet, however in order for this VM to sucessfully deploy and be configured there needs to be a DNS Server available, this DNS Server is specified as a parameter () ideally we would update the VNet with the IP Address of the new VM once it has been deployed instead. This value should be provided in the DNSServerAddress parameter, the default value is 8.8.8.8.

2. Version 1.7 of the DSC Extension has a problem whereby the script execution policy will not allow scripts to be executed , therefore the DSC script provided updates the execution policy before the DSC extension is run and then sets it back to default once the configuration has been applied.

3. The template deployment may report failure even thought the script succeeds

Click the button below to deploy

Below are the parameters that the template expects

Name	Description
newStorageAccountName	Name of the storage account to create
storageAccountType	Type of the storage account Allowed Values Standard_LRS (default) Standard_GRS "Standard_ZRS"
deploymentLocation	Location where to deploy the resource Allowed Values West US East US West Europe (default) East Asia Southeast Asia
subscriptionId	Your Azure Subscription Id
virtualNetworkName	Name of the Virtual Network
virtualNetworkAddressRange	Virtual Network Address Range 10.0.0.0/16 (default)
adSubnetName	Name of Subnet for AD VM
adSubnet	Address prefix for adSubnetName 10.0.0.0/24 (default)
adNicName	The name of the NIC attached to the new VM
adNicIPAddress	The IP address of the new AD VM 10.0.0.4 (default)
publicIPAddressName	Name of the public IP address to create
publicIPAddressType	Type of Public IP Address Allowed Values Dynamic (default) Static
adVMName	Name for the VM
adminUsername	Admin username for the VM This will also be used as the domain admin user name
adminPassword	Admin password for the VM This will also be used as the domain admin password and the SafeMode password
adVMSize	Size of the VM Allowed Values Standard_A0 Standard_A1**(default)** Standard_A2 Standard_A3 Standard_A4
adImageName	Name of image to use for the VM a699494373c04fc0bc8f2bb1389d6106__Windows-Server-2012-Datacenter-201502.01-en.us-127GB.vhd (default)
vmContainerName	The container name in the storage account where VM disks are stored
adAvailabilitySetName	The name of the availability set that the AD VM is created in
domainName	The FQDN of the AD Domain created
domainNetbiosName	The NetBIOS name of the AD Domain created
adModulesURL	The URL to the zip containing the DSC package that creates and installs AD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simongdavies/AzureRMActiveDirectory/master/CreateADPDC.ps1.zip (default)
adConfigurationFunction	The name of the DSC Configuration Function that configures the VM , creates the AD Domain etc. CreateADPDC.ps1\CreateADPDC(default)
addnsName	The DNS prefix for the public IP address used by the Load Balancer
DNSServerAddress	The DNS address of the first DNS Server used by the VNET 8.8.8.8 (default)
RDPPort	The public RDP port for the VM