Home Lab Setup Part 3 of 3

The lab isn't done until there's a domain. In Part 3 of the Home Lab Setup
series, we add Active Directory — the foundation of most enterprise Windows environments and the target of most enterprise attacks. This is the build that makes everything that comes next possible.

🎯 What We'll Cover
- Standing up a Windows Server VM and promoting it to a domain controller
- Adding a Windows workstation to the domain — your first functional AD environment
- Getting Nessus Essentials running inside the lab
- Basic log visibility — where to look when something happens on your network
- What a complete, assessment-ready home lab looks like before the next series

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