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Installing a Domain Controller – Best Practices for Windows Server 2008 R2

Alice AUSTIN

In this guide I go through all the configurations to prepare your Windows Server 2008 R2 server to promote it to a Domain Controller. I cover everything from activating Windows to setting the static IP address, to a fully functional domain controller.

Best Practices in this video:

1. Do not create your domain with the same FQDN as your external site (web hosting). For example, in this tutorial i create a domain called testdomain.net. I could not use testdomain.com because that is the web address I would like to use. If you where to use the same FQDN for both the internal and external namespace your DNS server would have a harder time to distinguish between the two. So its best to create your internal domain with a separate namespace as your external (web site) name.

2. When choosing the location of the NTDS.dit, NTDS logs, and SYSVOL they should all three be stored on a separate HDD with no other applications or files. This helps with speed in accessing your database and authentication.

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Alice AUSTIN

Alice AUSTIN is studying Cisco Systems Engineering. He has passion with both hardware and software and writes articles and reviews for many IT websites.

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20 thoughts on “Installing a Domain Controller – Best Practices for Windows Server 2008 R2”

  • Im assuming that I can use a single hard drive with three equal partitons for the NTDS, NTDSLOGS and SYSVOL. It it a good practice to do it that way?

  • man my college is using this video to teach i hope they are paying you

  • THANK YOU!!!!! You really need to do more of these vids

  • Great stuff. Enjoyed using the video to verify I did everything right on my test server. Keep up the great work.

  • Conclusion

     

    During the build of the test environment everything was
    working correctly. We’ve added a new image file which contains the required
    software. This method of deploying operating systems is a great method because
    this is a very fast way to deploy incase of upgrades and updates.

     

    Advise:

    My Advise is to make a new image file every 6 month. Also i
    advise to make more images for different end stations, for example a laptop. I
    also think that the limit of the users their homefolders is too low.  50 MB is not enough, and i advise to increase
    the capacity.

  • While setting up IP address, here is a little mistake with subnet mask, instead of subnet mask 255.255.255.0, it should be 255.0.0.0….thought to inform to avoid any misunderstanding.

  • VPNTOAST is the best service for my needs and recommend everyone to try VPNTOAST for anonymity and p2p.

  • I did this a number of times back in college on server 03, but i was feeling nervous and rusty. you my friend are amazing. the calm mentality the relate-able style of explanation. i thank you sir. one subscriber well earned 🙂

  • That taskbar reminds me that its windows 7

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