Synology Windows Domain Controller Setup

In this video we'll setup a Synology NAS Windows Domain Controller. Written instructions now included! See link below!

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[plrpilot]

This video series is spot on for what I need. You can't get this series out fast enough. Thanks!!!

[JeremyMcMahan]

Really looking forward to the whole series Willie!

[CliffWroe]

Glad to see this series. Having moved to this for some larger customers, I have been very impressed with how well it works. Using it with High Availability, Snapshots, and HyperBackup has brought the customers and me much peace of mind.

[LThibx]

Good job Willie. Really enjoyed what you presented here. Looking forward to the next one. 👍

[QuikTechSolutions]

Excellent video W! Looking forward to the rest. Working in a Mac environment we used Open Directory. Never had to setup an Active Directory server.

[MitchellWetherby]

You, my sir, are my new God! Exactly what I was looking for! TY much!

[ntfsguy]

Came across your channel while looking for Synology vids. I've been wanting to add a domain environment to my home network. Synology rules!

[sayubu]

Willie, this is amazing, please keep those next videos on AD coming !!!

[strikesbac]

I appreciate that Synology offer this and I’ve played around with it in the past but there isn’t any scenario outside of a home network or lab that I would be willing to implement this.

[flyos]

Right on time, I'm currently deploying it

[andya]

Fantastic series Willie! Half of my customers already run Synology for years as they are pretty small offices but this year I am fully transitioning and upgrading/replacing traditional Windows server/AD/primary vendor hardware based solutions entirely with fully redundant Synology based private cloud solution adding in some C2 services. All in one package and provider and easy to secure. I'm quite excited but I can't tell if it's a little sort of Novell/NetWare vibe from way back when, (I do miss NetWare, those were the days) or just that I have a consolidated vendor solution I can replace these others with for far less headache hassle and cost which I guess also relates to the NetWare vibe a little. I don't know, either way very excited to see your perspective on this as I just might learn something and that's always a good thing in my book.

[MactelecomNetworks]

Nice video never used this in Synology before going to try it out

[derekwalton]

Another like from me for this idea. Wife's very small office (8-10 users) looking to get rid of an old, huge Dell R710 and use something small form factor such as this 👍

[jeep_in_mb]

Thanks for the series. Most interesting. Always HATED dealing with MS Licensing. Many hours of my life gone and unrecoverable dealing with it. The WORST. If this is a truly supportable AD Platform then I am real interested in what is to come.

For this to be truly supportable platform it must have a video regarding Disaster Recovery Planning. Recovery to bare metal or maybe it requires a Second Domain Controller and transfer of FSMO roles.

Must include a video or 2 on actual BACKUP - RESTORE Process. A truly tested Backup and duplicatable Recovery process .

This AD Solution should not be used in Production without a robust Disaster Recovery Process.

Thanks again for the content.

[PEDoers]

Willie, could you cover Drive Mappings that follow the Users and Roaming Profiles?

[ryanhafen]

Awesome video Willie. I would love to see how you would handle/setup Synology ADS in an Unifi network, with the UDM acting as a dns server.

[cheerlin]

Wonderful, can’t wait to see how to mapped network drive automatically, setup wake on lan, and setup default settings like Wi-Fi password, VPN

[davidanderson]

Dumped DC and AD great video though, been a long time coming!

[richacevedo]

great video I want to see adding a client to the domain next.

[tokoiaoben]

Appreciate your video and many thanks. I have several vlans in my LAN office network. Do I need to setup separate ms active directory for each vlan or I just create one global active directory and allow inter-vlan routing access to this active directory.