Installing Active Directory on The First Domain Controller Learning Objectives Create a Windows 2003 domain Understand the role of DCPromo exe and the Configure Your Server wizard Promote a member server to a domain controller Demote a domain controller to a member server Understand the role of the Active Directory database 2 Learning Objectives Understand the role of the shared system volume Understand Active Directory domain modes Install Active Directory on a Windows 2003 server Add additional domain controllers to a domain Change the mode of a Windows 2003 domain 3 Roles DC s Store the AD database DC s are peers Provide logon security and management Member Servers Participate in Domain providing services Do not run AD service AD Clients 4 Preparing for AD Installation Don t necessarily follow all the defaults when configuring your first Windows 2003 DC Issues to consider IP addressing schemes and DNS Existing naming convention may be NETBIOS based Domain context Relationship to other Domains AD wizard provides info about existing Domains If none exist creates a new Domain 5 Preparing for AD Installation Possible domain organizations for Texas Pinball and Cattle Company Geographically organized Organized by business function 6 Domain Tree T e x a s P in b a ll C o m n o r t h t e x a s p in b a ll c o m d e n t o n n o r t h t e x a s p i n b a ll c o m d f w n o r t h t e x a s p in b a ll c o m c o r p t e x a s p in b a l l c o m s o u t h t e x a s p i n b a ll c o m h o u s t o n s o u t h t e x a s p i n b a l l c o m s a n a n t o n i o s o u t h t e x a s p i n b a ll c o m c o m p u te rs p r in t e rs o r g a n iz a tio n a l u n its u s e rs s h a re d re s o u rc e s e tc 7 Installing AD On a previously configured server use dcpromo exe to activate the AD Installation Wizard Launching dcpromo exe Configure Your Server 8 Installing AD You can also use dcpromo exe to demote a DC to a member server 9 Creating Windows 2003 Domains Recall Domains computers sharing a security boundary Everything shares the same security rights and relationships Domain trees domains sharing a schema GC and contiguous namespace Domain forests domains trees sharing a common schema configuration and GC but not a contiguous namespace 10 Starting DC Promo Start Run DCPromo Installation Wizard appears 11 Setting the DC role 12 Setting the Domain type 13 Establishing a DNS Name FQDN 14 NetBIOS Domain Name 15 Database and Log Folder Locations Specify the AD database and logfile locations systemroot NTDS default Separate drives 16 Shared System Volume Location Specify the shared system volume location Scripts Policies NT netlogon NTFS Disk Manager convert 17 Setting Permissions Compatibility 18 Setting DS Restore Mode Administrator Password 19 Review of Options 20 Active Directory Installation Complete 21 22
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