Windows Server 2016 deployment of additional domain controllers

secondary domain controller deployment

If you have more than one domain controller in a domain, you have the following advantages:

• Improve user logon efficiency: If there are multiple domain controllers at the same time to provide authentication to the client, can share the user identity authentication burden, improve user logon speed.

• Fault tolerance: If a domain controller fails, it can still be serviced by another normal controller, so service to the user does not stop

Deploying additional domain controllers The other steps are the same as in the previous Windows Server 2016 deployment of the first active drectory domain controller.

After you add the " Under Active Directory Domain Services , Click Deploy Configuration's Select deployment action, and select promote this server to a domain controller.

Enter the first domain controller to configure the domain name "test.local", click Change Input has the right to add and control the account with the password, complete the next stand-alone.

Other operations leave the default stand-alone "next" until the prerequisite condition is checked by the stand-alone "install".

the server restarts automatically when the installation is complete. Reboot complete, secondary domain controller and creation complete,

The next step is to check the replication status between the primary and secondary domain controllers through repadmin/replsummary, without failure and error, which means replication is normal.

Windows Server 2016 deployment of additional domain controllers