Active Directory Administration Cookbook

Promoting the server to a domain controller

Follow these steps to promote the server to a domain controller:

1. Open Server Manager ( servermanager.exe) or return to it, when you've accomplished the previous steps.
2. In the left navigation pane, click AD DS.
3. Click the More... link in the yellow ribbon (as shown in the following screenshot) titled Configuration required for Active Directory Domain Services at server:

4. In the All servers Task Details and Notifications screen, follow the link to Promote this server to a domain controller. This starts the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard.

In the top-right corner of every Active ...