Over the years, Microsoft has developed great-solid OSes platforms for Enterprises such as Windows Server 2003 that had been used in lots of network environments all over the world. A few years ago, the great technology titan released Microsoft Windows Server 2008 that possesses a wide variety of features that former versions of the OS didn't have.
In this opportunity, Tips4Teks will show you How to setup a Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2008.
In the example given on the images, I'm using Windows Server 2008 Datacenter running on a VirtualBox virtual machine. Follow the steps below to complete the setup.
- When you login to Windows Server 2008, you will get "Initial configuration Tools" Window. Click on Add roles
- Click on Next
- Select the role Active Directory Domain Services and click on next
- Click on Next
- Click on Next
- Click on Close to close the wizard.
- Click on Start - Run - and type dcpromo as seen on the image below and hit enter.
- Click on Next
- Click on Next
- Choose the option Create a new domain in a new forest if you haven't created any forest before or don't want to add the domain to any existing forest.
- Here, choose what's going to be your domain name.
- This step is very important because if you choose a high functional level, then any domains part of the forest will have to on that level or higher.
- This step is also very important because if you choose a high functional level, then any domain controllers part of the domain will have to on that level or higher. In this example, I've chosen Windows Server 2003
- Click on Next
- You need a DNS server in order to setup your domain. In this example, Tips4Teks has decided to use the same server as a DNS server and also domain controller. To setup the DNS server, is highly recommended that you use static IP address for your DNS server.
- The following steps show you how to setup the static IP address.
- Notice that we have made an ipconfig on the server and then assigned the same IP that DHCP had assigned as static IP address but you could assign a different one if required.
- Click on Next
- Click on Next
- Put in a highly secured password and then Click on Next
- Click on Finish and restart your server.
- Once you restarted, log onto the server and Open Active Directory Users and Computers as shown in the image below.
Here we have our domain setup!
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