May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
21h 41m
English
Content preview from Active Directory Administration Cookbook
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How to do it...
When you've properly prepared the Windows Server installation you intend to promote to a read-only domain controller, or when you've successfully managed such a Windows Server installation, you can use the GUI of the Server Manager tool, to promote it.
Promoting a domain controller using the GUI consists of two parts:
- Executing the Add Roles and Features Wizard to install the Active Directory Domain Services role
- Executing the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard to promote the server to a read-only domain controller