Prerequisites:
Installing the Windows Server2012 R2 Datacenter version
Configure the appropriate host name and IP address
Official installation:
- Open Server Manager.
- Select Add roles and features.
- Select Role-based or feature-based installation.
- Select Active Directory Domain Services and select Next installation.
- Wait for the installation to complete, and then open Server Manager to promote the domain controller.
- Because we are a newly installed environment, there is no domain forest or domain in the environment. So we select the New Forest and fill in the name of the new domain.
- Select the forest and domain control level, default to the most Windows Server2012 R2, and enter the DSRM password.
- Specifies the NetBIOS domain name, which is the default.
- Specify the file location for AD DS db and log, which is the default.
- Review the options, and then next.
- Prerequisite check, there is no error, directly select the installation can be.
- After the installation is complete, restart the operating system, log in to the user will be prompted to use the domain name \ username to enter the log in.
Windows server Active Directory Domain Services installation