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Dcpromo (Installing Adds and Dns Server)

DCPromo is a tool that installs and configures Active Directory Domain Services and promotes servers to domain controllers. It builds forests and domains in Active Directory. The document provides step-by-step instructions for using DCPromo to install a new domain controller for a new forest, including selecting deployment options, naming the forest and domain, setting functional levels, selecting DNS and global catalog roles, and completing additional configuration tasks.

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Dcpromo (Installing Adds and Dns Server)

DCPromo is a tool that installs and configures Active Directory Domain Services and promotes servers to domain controllers. It builds forests and domains in Active Directory. The document provides step-by-step instructions for using DCPromo to install a new domain controller for a new forest, including selecting deployment options, naming the forest and domain, setting functional levels, selecting DNS and global catalog roles, and completing additional configuration tasks.

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DCPROMO (INSTALLING ADDS and DNS SERVER)

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DCPromo (Domain Controller Promoter) is a tool in Active Directory that installs and
removes ActiveDirectory Domain Services and promotes domain controllers. DCPromo, which
builds forests and domains in Active Directory, is found in every version of Windows Server
since Windows 2000. Stored on a local program, it runs from Windows Server in Windows 2000 and
Windows Server 2003. Since Windows Server 2008, it runs from Server Manager.

RUN DCPROMO

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1. Select Start and enter "dcpromo" in the search field, then click dcpromo in the search results.

2. The Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard appears. On the welcome screen, click Next. Do
not select Use advanced mode installation.
3. The Operating System Compatibility informational screen appears. Read it and click Next..

4. The Choose a Deployment Configuration screen appears. Click Create a new domain in a new forest and
then click Next.
5. The Name the Forest Root Domain screen appears.

Enter a fully qualified domain name for the forest root domain. Click Next.
server.local

6. The Set Forest Functional Level screen appears. Select "Windows Server 2008 R2 and then click Next.

7. The Additional Domain Controller Options screen appears.


Make sure DNS server is selected and Global catalog is selected by default. Click Next. The wizard
prompts you to create a delegation to the DNS server. Click Yes.

8. The Location for Database, Log Files, and SYSVOL screen appears. Select folders for the domain controller
database, log files, and SYSVOL. Click Next.
9. The Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator Password screen appears. Enter and confirm a
password. Click Next.

10. The Summary screen appears. Review your selections and click Next.
11. A process screen appears while the installation runs. Click Reboot on completion.

After the installation finishes, your machine reboots.


12. After the machine reboots, the Install Configuration Tasks screen appears.

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