Create a 2 new Windows VMs, create a new AD Forest, Domain and 2 DCs in an availability set

This template will deploy 2 new VMs (along with a new VNet, Storage Account and Load Balancer) and create a new AD forest and domain, each VM will be created as a DC for the new domain and will be placed in an availability set. Each VM will also have an RDP endpoint added with a public load balanced IP address.

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Below are the parameters that the template expects

Name	Description
newStorageAccountName	Name of the storage account to create
storageAccountType	Type of the storage account Allowed Values Standard_LRS (default) Standard_GRS "Standard_RAGRS" "Standard_ZRS" "Premium_RS"
deploymentLocation	Location where to deploy the resource Allowed Values West US East US West Europe (default) East Asia Southeast Asia
virtualNetworkName	Name of the Virtual Network
virtualNetworkAddressRange	Virtual Network Address Range 10.0.0.0/16 (default)
adSubnetName	Name of Subnet for AD VM
adSubnet	Address prefix for adSubnetName 10.0.0.0/24 (default)
adPDCNicName	The name of the NIC attached to the new PDC
adPDCNicIPAddress	The IP address of the new AD PDC 10.0.0.4 (default)
adBDCNicName	The name of the NIC attached to the new BDC
adBDCNicIPAddress	The IP address of the new AD BDC 10.0.0.5 (default)
publicIPAddressName	Name of the public IP address to create
publicIPAddressType	Type of Public IP Address Allowed Values Dynamic (default) Static
adPDCVMName	Name for the PDC
adBDCVMName	Name for the BDC
adminUsername	Admin username for the VM This will also be used as the domain admin user name
adminPassword	Admin password for the VM This will also be used as the domain admin password and the SafeMode password
adVMSize	Size of the VM Allowed Values Standard_D1 Standard_DS1 Standard_D2**(default)** Standard_DS2 Standard_D3 Standard_DS3 Standard_D4 Standard_DS11 Standard_D11 Standard_DS11 Standard_D12 Standard_DS12 Standard_D13 Standard_DS13 Standard_D14 Standard_DS14
imagePublisher	The name of the pulisher of the Image
imageOffer	The Image Offer
imageSKU	The Image SKU
adAvailabilitySetName	The name of the availability set that the AD VM is created in
domainName	The FQDN of the AD Domain created
dnsPrefix	The DNS prefix for the public IP address used by the Load Balancer
pdcRDPPort	The public RDP port for the PDC VM
bdcRDPPort	The public RDP port for the BDC VM
AssetLocation	The location of resources such as templates and DSC modules that the script is dependent https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/active-directory-new-domain-ha-2-dc (default)

Known Issues

• This template is entirely serial due to some concurrency issues between the platform agent and the DSC extension which cause problems when multiple VM and\or extension resources are deployed concurrently, this will be fixed in the near future