Let the AI do ALL the work - How I Used ChatGPT and Codex to Run an AI-Operated Employee Lifecycle in My Homelab
From Active Directory to a Real Hybrid Windows Sign-In How I Used ChatGPT and Codex to Run an AI-Operated Employee Lifecycle in My Homelab I already had the hybrid Microsoft environment. See my vmware and Server 2025 post for documentation. Active Directory was running on DC01. Microsoft Entra Connect synchronized a deliberately limited part of the domain into my test tenant. CLIENT01 remained my cloud-only Intune client, while the physical computer STEUERN was my Hybrid Microsoft Entra Join pilot. So the next question was not really: Can I create another user? I already knew how to do that. The more interesting question was: What happens if I give an AI administrator access to the lab and tell it what business outcome I want, instead of telling it which buttons to press and which commands to run? That became this experiment. I wanted ChatGPT and Codex to provision a fictional employee through the complete hybrid identity chain: Active Directory ...