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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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The LDS installation

In the Windows Server 2022 operating system, LDS can be installed using Server Manager. In order to install LDS, a user needs to log in to the selected systems with local administrator privileges.

Once logged in, launch Server Manager and click on Add Roles and Features. Then, follow the wizard, select Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services under Server Roles, and proceed:

Figure 11.1: AD LDS role

Once the role is installed, click on the Post-Deployment Configuration wizard in Server Manager. LDS can be set up in two ways: one is by using a unique instance and the other one is by using a replica of an existing instance. The replica option is similar to using the cloned copy of an existing instance.

This is useful, especially in an application development environment where engineers need to maintain a number of application versions:

Figure 11.2: AD LDS instance type

In the next window, we can define the name and description...

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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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