Windows Server 2022 Home Lab — AD DS, DNS, CA and Secured RDP

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article describes the full setup of a two-server Windows Server 2022 home lab in Proxmox VE. Together the two virtual machines provide Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, Group Policy and a Certificate Authority (ADCS). RDP connections are secured with PKI certificates so that the Mac Mini M1 management workstation connects without certificate warnings.

This is part 3 of the series on building a Windows DevOps lab in Proxmox. In part 1 I described how to create a VM, and in part 2 how to prepare the template.

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Windows Server 2022 Home Lab — AD DS, DNS, CA and Secured RDP