Active Directory Administration Cookbook

Promoting the server to a read-only domain controller

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

1. Open Server Manager 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 titled: Configuration required for Active Directory Domain Services at server.

4. In the All Servers Task Details and Notifications, follow the link to Promote this server to a domain controller:

5. This starts the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard.

In the top-right corner of every Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard screen, ...