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1. WINDOWS SERVER 2012 ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES HOW TO
2. WINDOWS SERVER 2012 ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES INSTALL

Once the wizard has completed notice we can select to promote this server to a domain controller Promote serverīut if we forget to click it here, we can go to AD DS where we’ll see a warning that configuration is required for active directory domain services.

WINDOWS SERVER 2012 ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES INSTALL

We can click OK and Next until we get to the Install button. We see that this tool will automatically add other tools that we will need. When we do that, the following windows will appear. On the next screen we will check the box for Active Directory Domain Services. We only have one server here but later when we have a domain involved we can add a bunch of different servers here, and we can actually do the same function on multiple servers at once. On the next screen we’ll choose the Role-based or feature-based installation for our local computer. We’ll click Next on the Before You Begin page. Now that’s all included in Add Roles and Features option. We had to do that because the schema is the structure of active directory that defines how objects are created and managed. That would actually modify the active directory schema of the old 2003 active directory to the 2008 active directory. For example, when we upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to 2008, you have to run a adprep /forestprep and adprep /domainprep. When we join this Windows Server 2012 domain controller to the existing domain it will now automate a lot of things that we had to do manually. If we already have an existing domain, for example, Windows Server 2008 domain controller and now we want to add a Windows Server 2012 domain controller to that existing domain. Add Roles and FeaturesĮverything that we need to install the domain controller is included in this. Now we go to Add Roles and Features option in Server Manager. So, we don’t do the command line version of that anymore.

We see that the domain services installation wizard is now relocated to Server Manager. That doesn’t work anymore and we will get this warning if we try to do that. In the older versions of Windows Server we would go to command prompt and type dcpromo.

WINDOWS SERVER 2012 ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES HOW TO

Now let’s see how to install a domain controller using Windows Server 2012. We already talked about AD infrastructure and common AD objects.