- #YOU NEED TO ADD THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES ROLE TO A WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 SYSTEM HOW TO#
- #YOU NEED TO ADD THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES ROLE TO A WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 SYSTEM INSTALL#
You want to select “Add a new forest” and give the domain a name. This will bring up the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard. You can to run the “Promote this server to a domain controller” first, click on that. Once the installation of DHCP and Active Directory roles is complete you will get a notification in the Server Manager console to “Promote this server to a domain controller” and to “Complete DHCP configuration”. On the next screens leave the default settings and select next and then install. On the next screen tick Active Directory Domain Services and DHCP Server.
#YOU NEED TO ADD THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES ROLE TO A WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 SYSTEM INSTALL#
Select the server that you want to install the role on and click the next button Select Role-based or feature-based installation and click the next button. On the Before You Begin screen select next
#YOU NEED TO ADD THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES ROLE TO A WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2 SYSTEM HOW TO#
This assumes that you already have a fresh installation of Windows Server, if you don’t yet follow the steps on how to install Windows Server article. Installing Active Directory and DHCP Server Roles I recommend using better specs then that but it will work on a computer or VM that has those specs. You can watch the video or follow the steps on the page. TODO: Next step is to install the replica domain controller for high availability.This tutorial shows you how to Install Active Directory, DNS and DHCP to create a Domain Controller. Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell.Once the server is booted and you logon to it, click on Server Manager | Tools, will notice that following have been installed: When you click Install, DNS and the GPMC are installed automatically.Īfter the promotion of the server to a DC finished server restart automatically. If All prerequisite checks are passed successfully then click
Summary Of All Installation Options/Selections.Ĭlick View script for single command line PowerShell script for dcpromo.īefore the actual install of AD, all prerequisites are checked. Specify the location of the AD related folders and then click next. The reason for this is that is the very first DC of the AD forest and at least one needs to be a GC.Ĭhecks the NetBIOS name already assigned. Specify the FFL, DFL, whether or not it should be a DNS Server and also the DSRM administrator password.Īs you can see, it has selected the GC option by default and you cannot deselect it. To create a new AD forest called “ArabITPro.local”, select add a new forest. Promoting Windows 2012 Server to Domain Controller