Windows Server 2012 Active Directory

Installing Windows Server 2012 and Active Directory:

Today we will continue the discovery of Windows Server 2012 by installing the role Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

1: As a first step, we will change the name of our server. To do this, we will in our Server Manager and click on Local Server and the name of our computer:

2: The interface does not change on changing the name of the computer. In my case, I'll call AD:

3: After the change, you must restart. We will do after we first change the IP settings of the server:

4: It therefore makes the new start menu of Windows Server 2012. To bring up the Control Panel, you need to right click and from the menu that appears, click Show all items. Now select the Control Panel:

5: Once the control panel display, we will be on Windows Server 2008 to access our network cards:

8: Once you find your network card, always as in previous versions of Windows, we choose Properties, then Edit IPV4 address:

9: Information on the IP settings that you want:

10: We then returned to our Server Manager to restart the server. You do not have the button to start Stop, or Restart your server, but you have a new option: Right click on the server and restart the server:

11: Our server is restarted now; we need to install Active Directory:

12: In our Server Manager, click on Manage Add roles, and then you get a window like this:

13: Then select the type of installation you wish toper form. In our case, we directly connect to our server so a typical installation you will:

14: The server on which you want to prepare for the installation is selected:

15: Then select the role to install Active Directory Domain Services here:

16: Installation requires prerequisites that must be installed:

17: Here the features that we were asked just before and can be selected if you wish to add another:

18: Then information about Active Directory Domain Services:

19: You check the available box, which tells us that if the installation requires a reboot, the server will restart itself. It confirms our choice by clicking yes:

20: Can you confirm that you can begin the installation prerequisites:

21: The installation begins:

22: Once installation is complete, we will do our DCPROMO:

23: We will create a new forest it will call computer786.pk:

24: Functional areas of the forest and domain are chosen. In my case I have only Windows Server 2012 servers so my forest functional level and domain is Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. We also define a password backup:

25: Continue and arrive on a page to create a DNS delegation:

26: My NETBIOS name is too long, it offers me to change:

27: Then specify where will be stored our database and logs:

28: Here we have a summary of the installation options. It can also export the configuration (to install Server Core mode for example):

29: The prerequisites have been validated so we can begin the installation:

30: AD DS is being installed:

31: We must now restart the server to connect to the domain:

32: Once the server is restarted, we choose our way of connection (local or domain specifying domain \username) can be noted here that I'll log on to my domain with the Administrator account:

33: To open Active Directory Users and Computers directly from the Server Manager, you go to the side panel of ADDS and right click on our server and Active Directory Users and Computers (you can also open it from the menu that was saw it all the time to open the Control Panel):

34: We are on the same interface as the 2008 version:

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