The next step in creating a test lab is to take my first cloned machine created previously, and make it a domain controller. Although this is an critical and necessary step, I am not going to write about it much, because I followed another blogger’s instructions step-by-step. Thomas Shinder has put together a great tutorial that I will not attempt to improve on. For all of the details, go to http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/running-windows-server-2008-r2-installing-creating-lab-domain-controller-part1.html.