Installation of Active Directory: in-depth Active Directory series (ii)

First, the preparation before the installation

Prerequisites for installing the Active Directory:

1, select the operating system: in Windows Server 2003, in addition to the web version of the unsupported Active Directory, the other standard version, Enterprise version, Datacenter version support the Active Directory. We are in this section of the Enterprise version.

2,dns Server: Active Directory is tightly integrated with DNS, and resolution of domain names in the Active Directory requires DNS support. The domain controller (the computer with the Active Directory becomes the domain controller) also needs to register itself in the DNS server so that other computers can find the domain controller through the DNS server, so we must prepare a DNS server. The DNS server must also support local Service resource records (SRV resource records) and dynamic update capabilities.

3, an NTFS disk partition: During the installation of the Active Directory, the SYSVOL folder must be stored on an NTFS disk partition. The Sysvol folder stores data related to Group Policy, and so on. So we have to prepare an NTFS partition. Of course, we now rarely run into non-NTFS partitions (such as Fat,fat32).

4, set the native static IP address and DNS server IP address: Most of the time we install the process is not smooth or the installation is not successful, because we do not have to install a live directory on this computer to specify the IP address of the DNS server and its own IP address.

To install the Active Directory method classification:

Method 1, the DNS server is installed during the Active Directory installation on a computer. This computer acts as both a domain controller role and as a DNS server. Method 1 is the most common method, but you must configure static IP for this computer before you install it, and configure the IP address of the DNS server to be the local IP address.

Method 2, first prepare a DNS server, either an existing DNS server or the one we just installed, meaning that the DNS server is installed before the Active Directory is installed. Now whether we are looking for another computer to install the Active Directory or to install the Active Directory on a computer that is already a DNS server, we need to create a forward lookup zone in DNS and enable the Dynamic Update feature. Also, the name of the forward lookup zone must be the same as the name of the domain we are going to install, for example, I want to install a domain with domain name contoso.com, then the name of the forward lookup zone must also be contoso.com. At the same time, you must configure static IP for this computer to install the Active Directory, and configure the IP address of this computer's DNS server to the IP address of the DNS server that already exists. It sounds really Shang.