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As you already know, we need a Domain Controller server to be the host for everything that is stored inside our domain, including the Group Policy settings. For this purpose, I have installed Windows Server 2016 Standard. I won't walk through the installation of the operating system itself, but when we start the process it will be on a very fresh installation that has not yet been configured in any way.

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