Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Chapter 6. Installing Active Directory

The process of installing Active Directory directory service on a server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is straightforward. This is due to the well-designed Active Directory Installation Wizard; the user interface used to install the service. When Active Directory is installed on a server running Windows Server 2003, the computer becomes, de facto, a domain controller. If this is the first domain controller in a new domain and forest, a pristine directory database is created, ready and waiting for you to populate the directory service objects. If this is an additional domain controller in an existing domain, the replication process will soon propagate to this new domain controller all of the directory ...