Grant a Member the Right to Logon Locally

1. Open Administrative Tools>Local Security Settings.

2. Expand Local Policies.

3. Click on User Rights Assignments.

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3. Click on Allow logon through Terminal Services

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STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO SETUP ACTIVE DIRECTORY ON WINDOWS SERVER 2008

This tutorial will explain how to install AD on server 2008. This will valid for windows 2008 R2 as well.

Requirement:

Minimum: Single processor with 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or 1.3GHz (Dual Core)

Minimum: 512 MB RAM

Minimum: 32 GB or greater

• • The first step is to assign a ip to the server that you going to deploy the AD. Its nessary to install it as DNS server too. So its better to have fixed ip it doesn't mean you cannot install AD without fixed ip address but it will solve lot of issues if you used fixed ip.

In here the server ip is 10.0.0.14. Since we going to make it as DNS server too you should use the same ip as the preferred DNS server.

• • Next step is to install the Active directory roles. Unlikely the older version of windows servers Microsoft highly recommend to use server manager option to install roles before you run dcpromo.

• • Click on start menu and select the Server Manager

• • Select the roles from the right hand panel and click on add roles option.

• • From the roles list select the "Active Directory Domain Services" role and Click "Next"

• • Review the confirmation and click on "Next"

• • Review the installation confirmation and click on "Next"

• • It will take few minutes to complete and when its done you will get this confirmation. And then click on "Close"

After that you will need to do a reboot.

• • After reboot please open up the "server Manager" again. And then click on "Roles" there you will see the "Active Directory Domain Services" is successfully installed in there. click on it then you will get a window like below.

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    • In their please pay attention to the message

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    • So please click on that link and it will start the DCPROMO wizard.

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• • So next step to go through the DC promo wizard.

  • To start the installation click on "Next"

• • Click on "Next"

• • Since we going to install New domain Controller in new forest please select the option "Create a new domain in new forest" option and click on "Next"

• • Now we have to provide the name for our domain controller. It must be FQDN. In our case I used rebeladmin.com as the domain. Please click "Next" after it.

• • In this window it will ask to select forest function level. If you going to add server 2003 domain controller to your forest later don't select the function level as server 2008. If you going to use full features of 2008 Ad you must select forest function level as server 2008. In my case I used server 2008. Click on "Next" after the select.

• • In next window since it's the first DC we should make it as DNS server too. Leave the default selection and click on "Next"

• • If the wizard cannot create a delegation for the DNS server, it displays a message to indicate that you can create the delegation manually. To continue, click "Yes"

• • In next window it will show up the database location. It its going to be bigger AD its good if you can keep NTDS database in different partition. Click on "Next" after changes.

• • In next window its asking to define a restore mode password. Its more important if you had to do a restore from backup in a server crash. Click on "Next" after filling it.

• • Next window is giving you a brief of the installation. Click on "Next"

• • Then it will start the installation of the AD. It will take some time to complete. After complete of the installation perform a server reboot.

• • After the reboot now you can login to the domain. Please use the login as following example

18. In order to solve this issue you need to choose the “Switch User” button and login with your Domain Administrator account which is basically the same user account and password but now it belongs to a domain the domain name is needed. For example: PPSP2010\Administrator.

That’s it. In the next post, I’ll discuss how to install SQL 2012 Business Intelligence with Reporting Services, Power View, and PowerPivot for SharePoint.

Install and configure DNS Server in Windows Server 2008

nstall DNS Server in Windows Server 2008

• • Launch Server Manager by clicking Start > Administrative Tools > Server Manager. Click Roles and then Add Roles.

• • Select DNS Server from the list and then click Next button.

• • A little introduction to DNS Server and a few useful links for further details as shown in below image. Click Next to move on.

• • Click Install button.

• • DNS Server has been installed successfully as per below snapshot. Click Close to finish the Add Roles Wizard.

Creating Forward Lookup Zone

• • Launch DNS Manager by clicking Start > Administrative Tools > DNS or type dnsmgmt.msc in Run window (Press Windows Key + R) and press Enter.

  • Expand Server (e.g. WIN2008) > Right click Forward Lookup Zones > New Zonewhich will launch New Zone wizard.

• •  Click Next on Welcome to the New Zone wizard.

• • Since this is our primary DNS Server for the zone select Primary zone. Then move on by clicking Next button.

• • Enter the domain name for which you want to create the zone for e.g. gopalthorve.com. Say you want to build up DNS Server for your own Windows Server 2008 based hosting server then enter your registered domain name here otherwise if it is for intranet only it can be anything (domain naming conventions must be followed). The zone can also be created for subdomain e.g. us.gopalthorve.com.

• •  Zone File Options:

    • • Create a new file with this file name: Enter the physical zone file name where all zone information will be stored for this domain/subdomain. This file will be created under %systemroot%\system32\dns. Follow standard zone file naming convention e.g. gopalthorve.com.dns.

      • Use this existing file: If you already have a zone file for this domain/subdomain then select this option and specify zone file name here. You need to put this zone file under %systemroot%\system32\dns folder

• • Dynamic Update: Here you can specify if this DNS zone will accept secure, nonsecure or no dynamic updates from client.

    • • Allow only secure dynamic updates (recommended for Active Directory): This is available only for Active Directory integrated zones. This setting allows Active Directory client machines to register their name as resource records pointing towards their dynamic/static IP address.

      • Allow both nonsecure and secure dynamic updates: This should never be enabled because it allows all clients secure and nonsecure both to update from all clients.

      • Do not allow dynamic updates: This should be the preferred setting if you are setting up this zone for your own hosting server. This denies dynamic updates to zone resource records from all client and you will need to change them manually whenever required. We will choose this option and then move on.

• • Forward lookup zone has been created successfully for gopalthorve.com and shows the summary as in below image. Click Finish to close the New Zone Wizard.

Configure Forward Lookup Zone

• • Right click on gopalthorve.com (forward lookup zone recently created) and then click Properties.

• • Name Servers: Here we can configure nameservers for the zone gopalthorve.com.

    • • Remove the default entry from the list.

      • Click Add… button to add new nameserver record.

      • Tye fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the nameserver for your domain. I am configuring my own live DNS Server and hence I entered ns1.gopalthorve.com.

      • Enter the IP addresses to which ns1.gopalthorve.com will resolve to. I am entering private IP address of my computer here for example purpose only. Please replace it by your Public IP Address allotted by your ISP or dedicated or VPS hosting provider.

      • Similarly create another nameserver record. I created it as ns2.gopalthorve.com pointing to 192.168.0.99 (Please replace it by your Public IP Address allotted by your ISP or dedicated or VPS hosting provider.). Second nameserver record is required because your domain name registrar will require atleast two nameservers for pointing your domain to the DNS server we are configuring. We are configuring both nameservers pointing to the same DNS Server configured with multiple IP Addresses. (ns1.gopalthorve.com >> 192.168.0.98 and ns2.gopalthorve.com >> 192.168.0.99).

      • Click Apply to save changes.

• Start of Authority (SOA)

  • • Serial number: This is the serial number for the zone. This should be set to YYYYMMDDNN where YYYY is the year, MM is the month, DD is the day and NN is the count is the count indiciating how many times the zone modified on that particular day. Whenever you change zone data occurs this serial number must be incremented by one. When slave nameserver contacts master for zone data it compares its own serial number with master’s serial number and its less than masters serial number then slave nameserver updates its zone data from master.

    • Primary server: This is the FQDN of nameserver which you want to set as primary nameserver for this zone. In my case its ns1.gopalthorve.com.

    • Responsible person: Specify the email address of the administrator who is responsible for maintaining this zone. Here email address must be specified in dotted format e.g. hostmaster@gopalthorve.com must be specified as hostmaster.gopalthorve.com. This is required when other webmasters wants to contact the maintainer of the zone in case of any issues.

    • Refresh interval: This value instructs the slave nameserver how often to check that the data for this zone is up to date. Set this to 1 day if zone doesn’t change frequently. For the DNS server for hosting purpose 1 day is idle.

    • Retry interval: In case slave nameserver failed to connect to master after Refresh interval (in case master is down or unreachable), slave tries to connect to master every interval specified here. Generally Retry interval is shorter than Refresh interval but its not compulsory. Enter 2 hours here.

    • Expires after: If the slave fails to connect master for this much time, the slave expires the zone. Expiring the zone means it slave stops responding to queries for this zone because the zone data that slave is having is very old. Enter 7 days here.

    • Minimum (default) TTL: TTL stands for Time To Leave. This applies to all negative responses from the authoratative nameservers. Enter 1 day here.

    • TTL for this record: TTL for SOA record.

    • Click Apply to save changes.

• • Zone Transfers: Zone transfer is the process of transferring entire zone to the requesting server/client. The best practice is to not allow every one to connect and transfer the zones. You can allow only specific server for zone transfers i.e. the slave nameserver for the zone. We can setup to notify the servers if any zone updates happen on this zone.

    • • Allow zone transfers: Enables/disables zone transfers.

        • • To any server: All server/clients will be allowed to transfer zones. Not recommended.

          • Only to servers listed on the Name Servers tab: Zone transfers will only be allowed to the nameservers specified under Name Servers tab (ns1.gopalthorve.com, ns2.gopalthorve.com). Highly recommended for DNS Servers for web hosting servers.

          • Only to the following servers: If you want to enter IP/FQDN to which zone transfers will be allowed select this option and then click on Edit button and list all IP/FQDN allowed for zone transfers.

• • Notify…:

    • • Automatically notify: Enables/disables automatic notification of zone changes to either nameserver listed on Nameservers tab or specified IP addresses/FQDN names.

      • Servers listed on the Name Servers tab: Selecting this will only zone update notification will only be sent to nameservers listed under Name Servers tab. This is the recommended setting.

      • The following servers: You can specify list of other name servers to whom you want to send automatic notification of zone updates.

Configure DNS Server Properties

• • Open DNS Manager by clicking Start > Administrative Tools > DNS.

  • Right Click on the DNS Server for which you want to configure Properties for and click Properties.

  • Interfaces: You can configure DNS Server to listen on specific interfaces/IP Addresses or all IP addresses. If the server has multiple interfaces then you can configure DNS Server to listen on specific interface. If the server is having only single interface with multiple IP addresses configured then you can configure it to listen on specific IP addresses. By default it is configured to listen on all interfaces and all IP addresses.

• • Forwarders: You can add other DNS Servers provided by your ISP to forward DNS queries to in case this server doesn’t hold zones for the domains. These forwarder addresses are only used recursion is enabled. Forwarders are required if you are having an intranet/extranet DNS server serving a few zones and want to allow same server to resolve other DNS queries too.

• •  Advanced: You can configure some advanced aspects of DNS Server here. A very important options I want to discuss here is Disable recursion (also disables forwarders). If you are setting up this DNS server to serve zones for domains hosted on your DNS server (dedicated server, VPS Server, Cloud VPS Server) then enable “Disable recursion” which also disables forwarders, doing this will only allow the zones hosted on this server to be served.

• •  Root Hints: This is the list of root name servers.

• • Debug Logging: For debugging purpose the debug logs can be enabled from here.

• • Event Logging: DNS Server events can be enabled for troubleshooting purpose.

DNS Server listens on TCP and UDP port 53, so make sure to allow traffic on these ports in Windows Firewall. Also make sure that if you are having any router or firewall device and DNS server is behind any of these device, do necessary configuration to allow connection to DNS Server.

Register Name Servers at Domain Name Registrar

If you have a registered domain name and want to host DNS services for the domain on the DNS Server you recently configured then you have to create child name server at your Domain Name Registrar. If you have administrative control of your domain you can do this with the help of your domain name registrar otherwise ask them to do this for you. Create child name server like this:

ns1.gopalthorve.com >> 192.168.0.98ns2.gopalthorve.com >> 192.168.0.99