Windows Server 2019 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies

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 ...