This article provides prerequisites and steps for installing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit.
This article does not provide instructions for adding a Domain Controller (DC) to an already existing Active Directory Forest infrastructure.
Before you install AD DS on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit, you must perform the following tasks.
Note: Your domain name should be unique. Do not use the same domain as your website, for example, and avoid extensions like .local unless you have registered that domain name in DNS. Try using a domain name that is not used for anything else, like internal.example.com.
Windows Server 2008 can properly install and configure DNS during the AD DS installation if it knows that the DNS is local. To accomplish this do the following:
Adding the Active Directory Domain Services role installs the framework for Windows Server 2008 to become a DC and run AD DS. It does not promote the server to a DC or install AD DS.
Enable remote management
Now that you have prepared the server, you can install AD DS (DCPROMO).
Note: As an alternative to performing steps 1 through 3, you can type dcpromo.exe
at the command prompt. Then, skip to step 4.
To log in, perform the following steps:
Click Switch User, and then click Other User.
For the user, enter the full domain name that you chose, followed by a back slash and **Administrator** (for example, **internal.example.com\\Administrator**).
Enter the password that was emailed to you when you first built the server. If you changed your password for the local admin account on this server before you began the installation of AD DS, use that password.
Click the log in button.
The installation of Active Directory Domain Services on your server is complete.