An Active Directory server can be a great addition to your lab environment. It can provide centralized user, group, DNS, Certificate Authority, and DHCP services. While many may not “need” this in a “LAB” environment, it is always good experience to use corporate/enterprise types of tooling when setting up a Lab environment. Unfortunately not everyone has the funds available to get Microsoft Windows Server Licenses, so this video highlights Zentyal Development Edition by walking you through a basic installation and configuration. By the end of this 20~ish minute video, we will have an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server configured to provide the following functionality: