Chapter 5
Promoting Your Server to Domain Controller
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding Active Directory domains and why you want them
Preparing to create your domain with Windows Server 2019
Performing the domain configuration prerequisites
Configuring your server as a domain controller
In the last chapter, I explain how to create and use workgroups. Although workgroups work well for smaller environments with few systems (less than 15 systems), they do not scale at all for enterprise environments.
In most enterprise environments, you’ll be using a domain. A domain provides one central source of truth for all authentication events. You only need to create a user account once, assign it to the appropriate groups, and then you’re able to assign the group to whatever resources the user needs to access. This simplifies user management significantly and improves your organization’s security standing because you’re able to enforce settings across the domain with Group Policy (see Book 3, Chapter 2).
Understanding Domains
Before I dive into how to create a domain controller, I think it’s ...
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