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Install Guide Windows Server 2008 Active Directory DC

Kefa Rabah
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krabah@globalopenversity.org
www.globalopenversity.org

Table of Contents Page No.

INSTALL GUIDE WINDOWS SERVER 2008 ACTIVE DIRECTORY DC 3

Introduction 3

Part 1: Install & setup Windows Server 2008 Active Directory 4

Step 1: Install Windows Ser 2008 and Setup Active Directory DC 4
Step 2: Setup Reverse DNS Reverse Lookup Zone 19

Part 2: Configure DHCP Server 25

Part 3: Hands-on Labs Assignments 36

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Systems Integration Hands-on Labs Training Manual

Install Guide Windows Server 2008 Active Directory DC

By Kefa Rabah, krabah@globalopenversity.org Dec 19, 2009 GTS Institute

Introduction
Microsoft wants administrators of Windows Server 2008 editions (which ships in the usual flavors of
Standard, Enterprise, Data Center and Itanium-specific code) to think of the server as playing certain
roles. Server roles are aggregated objects that suit commonly thought-of services, such as print services,
file sharing, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory Domain Controller and IIS-based Web services. Microsoft has
defined 18 roles in all.

Microsoft Active Directory provides the structure to centralize the network management and store
information about network resources across the entire domain. Active Directory uses Domain Controllers
to keep this centralized storage available to network users. In order to configure a Windows Server 2008
machine to act as Domain Controller, several considerations and prerequisites should be taken into
account, and several steps should be performed. In this install guide, I will guide you through these
prerequisites and steps of creating a new Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller for a new Active
Directory domain in a new forest. We’re also going to look at how to install DNS and DHCP servers.

Domain Name System (DNS) is a system that is used in TCP/IP networks for naming computers and
network services that is organized into a hierarchy of domains. DNS naming locates computers and
services through user-friendly names. When a user enters a DNS name in an application, DNS services
can resolve the name to other information that is associated with the name, such as an IP address.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a core infrastructure service on any network that provides
IP addressing and DNS server information to PC clients and any other device. DHCP is used so that you
do not have to statically assign IP addresses to every device on your network and manage the issues that
static IP addressing can create. More and more, DHCP is being expanded to fit into new network services
like the Windows Health Service and Network Access Protection (NAP).

In this Hands-on Systems Integration Training Lab, we’re going undertake a step-by-step installation,
configuration of Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller, DNS Server and DHCP
Server..

This project was demonstrated entirely using VMware; however, once you perfect the setup and
configuration steps, you can migrate to physical servers to take advantage of the power of Windows
Server 2008.

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Part 1: Install & setup Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

It’s assumed that you have already installed Windows server 2008 or know how to install it. If not then
head to Scribd.com and check out an excellent article by the same author entitled "Step-By-Step Windows
Server 2008 Installation v1.0", to get you started.

Before we start there considerations that we need to look into when installing a new Windows Server 2008
forest: When you install AD to create the first domain controller in a new Windows Server 2008 forest, you
must keep the following considerations in mind:

• You must make forest and domain functional level decisions that determine whether your forest
and domain can contain domain controllers that run Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003,
or both.
• Domain controllers running the Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 operating system are NOT
supported with Windows Server 2008.
• Servers running Windows NT Server 4.0 are NOT supported by domain controllers that are
running Windows Server 2008, meaning you MUST have additional DCs running Windows
2000/2003 to support older NT 4.0 servers.
• The first Windows Server 2008 domain controller in a forest must be a global catalog server and it
cannot be a read-only domain controller (RODC).

Step 1: Install Windows Ser 2008 and Setup Active Directory DC

Here is a summary. Once you decide on the domain name, in our case, rabahtech.com, on server-
name server01, then just follow this procedure:

1. Install Win2k8 Enterprise server or whatever option you have.

2. From your server’s Initial Configuration Tasks page, section 1; click "Provide computer
name and domain", to change the computer see Fig. 1.

Fig: 1: Click k "Provide computer name and domain", to change computer name

3. From Fig. 1, click the "Change…" button, to change the computer name as desired, in case it’s
"server01", click OK Apply, but do not restart the computer yet, when prompted.

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Fig: 2: Click k "Provide computer name and domain", to change computer name
4. Again from your server’s Initial Configuration Tasks page, section 1, Fig. 1; click "Configure
networking, to change the computer’s NIC IP address to static IP Address.
5. Configure the server’s NIC with static IP address, as shown in Fig. 3, and then click OK and Close to
twice to exit. Restart the computer when prom

Fig. 3: Configure static IP address as shown.

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6. This time, restart the computer when prompted, see Fig. 4

Fig. 4
7. Send the server to Windows Updates site to super-juice it with heavy dose of the latest Service Packs,
security updates and hot-fixes – and thereby acquiring a clean bill of health for our setup process.
8. Finally, open your CMD. First ensure that your static IP address is configured properly by issuing the
following command, see also Fig. 5: c:\ipconfig /all

Fig. 5
9. Next click Start > Run, see Fig. 6.

Fig. 6

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10. From Fig. 7, type "dcpromo" and then click OK to promote your Windows 2008 Server to Active
Directory Domain Controller:

Fig. 7

11. The system will start checking if Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) binaries are
installed, if not, then it will start installing them, see Fig. 8.

Fig. 8

12. On Fig. 9, the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard will start, either enable the
checkbox beside Use Advanced mode installation and Click Next, or keep it unselected and click on
Next

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Fig. 9

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Kefa Rabah is the Founder of Global Technology Solutions Institute. Kefa is knowledgeable in several
fields of Science & Technology, Information Security Compliance and Project Management, and
Renewable Energy Systems. He is also the founder of Global Open Versity, a place to enhance your
educating and career goals using the latest innovations and technologies.

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