Welcome To My Journey

I have created this blog to record the things I learn as I progress in my studies of the Windows Operating System. My focus will primarily be the latest Operating System offerings by Microsoft, but much of the content below may also apply to earlier versions. I invite you to join me as I explore and learn about Microsoft Windows!

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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