September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
Installation of AD DS is more complex and vital to the operation of the environment and therefore deserves more detailed attention. Installation of the role using Add-WindowsFeature AD-domain-services will install the required binaries but not configure the server as a domain controller.
In earlier versions, the recommended tool for that is the dcpromo utility. The problem is that dcpromo normally starts a wizard with a GUI that is not supported on Server Core. As a result, the dcpromo utility on server core is a command-line utility that requires input by supplying the operation parameters or by using an answer file.
The dcpromo utility can accept more than 30 different operation parameters. ...
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