April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
7h 18m
English
Configuring your first DC is essential to having a successful Microsoft Windows network. Now that the roles are installed for AD, DNS, and DHCP, we have the core infrastructure in place to start joining computers to the domain, adding users to the network, and shuttling around some network traffic! Each of these technologies has enough depth to warrant their own book, so there is no way that we can cover everything here. I hope that this tutorial will get you comfortable with enabling these system-critical functions in your own network. Having the ability to create a network from scratch is priceless ammunition to a server administrator.