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install Active Directory Domain Services on a newly installed Windows server 2019.

Step 1: Open Server Manager

Hit “Windows” key on your keyboard and type “Server Manager” to search for the application. Once it is
open as illustrated by the figure below, let us now proceed to the next step of installing Active Directory
Domain Services.

Step 2: Add Roles and Features

Right-click on “Manage” on the “Server Manager” window and choose “Add Roles and Features“. This
will open the “Add Roles and Features Wizard” which ushers us to the part where we install Active
Directory Domain Services. Click on next.

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Step 3: Installation Type

On the “Installation Type”, leave “Role-based or feature-based installation” radio button selected and
click on next.

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Step 4: Server Selection

On this stage titled “Select destination server“, select the server you are to install AD DS and click next. I
am going to choose my local server.

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Step 5: Server Roles

The previous step will lead you to the next page as shown below. Here, you will see many options with
square checklist box against them. As you can guess, we are going to choose “Active Directory Domain
Services“.
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Step 6: Add Features

Immediately you choose that option, a new part comes up. On the page, just click on “Add Features” tab
and hit “Next“

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Step 7: Select Features

On the next page after Step 6 titled “Select features“, just hit “Next” to lead you to installations of AD
DS.

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Step 8: AD DS

As shown below, you will be presented with the next page titled “Active Directory Domain Services“.
Here, click on “Next“

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Step 9: Confirm your selections

The next page is about Confirming what you need to install before actually installing them. If you are
sure about what you have chosen, click on install. You can optionally choose the option that restarts the
server whenever required. Click on close once it is done.

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Step 10: Promote to Domain Controller

After you have finished installing Active Directory Domain Services, the last step is to promote it to a
Domain Controller. Go over to Server Manager where you will notice a yellow exclamation notification
beside the “Manage” tab as shown below. Click on it and choose “Promote this server to a domain
controller“

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Step 11: Add a new Forest

A new window titled “Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard” as shown below will pop
up. We are going to Add a new Forest but in case you would wish to do something different in this Step,
you are free to choose the other options. Add your organization’s root domain name. Click on “Next”
after you pick your choice.

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Step 12: Domain Controller Options

On the Domain Controller options, leave the defaults checked and input your password. After that, click
“Next“.

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Step 13: DNS Options

On the next page ( DNS Options ), you will probably see an error on top with the words “A delegation for
this DNS server cannot be created because the authoritative parent zone nameserver cannot be found”.
Ignore it and click “Next“

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Step 14: NetBIOS domain name

On the next page, leave the NetBIOS domain name as default or you can change it as long as it is not
longer than 15 characters. Click “Next” after that.

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Step 15: Paths

Leave paths as default and click “Next” as shown below.

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Step 16: Review Selections

In this step, the server allows you to review what you have done so far. If you are good with the
selections you have done. Hit “Next“.

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Step 17: Prerequisites Check

In this step prerequisites will be validated before Active Directory Domain Services is installed. If you get
any errors here, please look at it and fix anything in the previous steps. If all is okay, click “Install“.

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After that, the Server will reboot and you can then log into the Domain with the credentials you set in
Step 12 as shown below:

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Conclusion

You have Active Directory Domain Services Installed and can be managed by Active Directory
Administrative Center. We hope it was informative and you enjoyed. Thank you for reading through.

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