This blog's focus will be on the Active Directory suite of technologies. These technologies provide the underpinning for the majority of Microsoft's suite of business-ready products. As such, this blog will touch on all aspects of Active Directory including Security, Group Policy, Kerberos, Authentication, Authorization, Operations, Migrations, and Troubleshooting.

Feel free to join me as I learn about this core set of technologies.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Installing Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory Domain Services - Part 1

In this video, I explain how to use the built-in graphical tools on your Windows 2008 R2 Server to install a new Active Directory forest.  In this video, I demonstrate the use of the DCPROMO tool to perform a local install of AD DS.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

The tools we use in this video are:

  1. DCPromo - this command line tool is used to install ("promote") or uninstall ("demote) Domain Controllers (DC) into an Active Directory Directory Services (AD DS) forest.  It can be used to create a new forest, create a new domain within a forest, and/or add DCs to an existing domain or forest.

Next time I’ll show how to add a 2nd DC to an existing forest via the GUI.  Until then…

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