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Systems Integration Hands-on Labs Training Manual

Install Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain Controller HowTo

Kefa Rabah
Global Open Versity, Vancouver Canada
krabah@globalopenversity.org
www.globalopenversity.org

Table of Contents Page No.

INSTALL WINDOWS SERVER 2003 ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN CONTROLLER 3

Part 1: Install & setup Windows Server 2k3 Active Directory 3

Step 1: Install Windows Ser 2003 and Setup Active Directory DC 3
Step 2: Setup Reverse DNS Reverse Lookup Zone 13
Step 3: Configure DHCP Server 18

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Global Open Versity

Systems Integration Hands-on Labs Training Manual

Install Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Domain Controller

By Kefa Rabah, krabah@globalopenversity.org Dec 12, 2009 GTS Institute

Introduction
A central component of the Windows platform, Active Directory directory service provides the means to
manage the identities and relationships that make up network environments. Windows Server 2003
makes Active Directory simpler to manage, easing migration and deployment.

Active directory has been around since the release of Windows 2000 several years ago, and is now a
standard sight in many offices. Its inclusion marked a radical change at the heart of the Windows Server
platform, one that people are still adjusting to today.

For organizations using Win 2k3 AD infrastructure that require flexible support for directory-enabled
applications, Microsoft has developed Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM). ADAM is a Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service that runs as a user service, rather than as a system
service. Active Directory Application Mode represents a breakthrough in directory services technology that
provides flexibility and helps organizations avoid increased infrastructure costs.

LDAP is an acronym for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol; it is a simplified version of the X.500
protocol. The directory setup in this training manual will be later used for authentication. Nevertheless,
LDAP can be used in numerous ways: authentication, shared directory (for mail clients), address book,
etc.

In this Hands-on Systems Integration Training Lab, we’re going undertake a step-by-step installation,
configuration of Windows Server 2003 Active Directory DC.

This project was demonstrated entirely using VMware, however, once you perfect the setup you can
migrated them into physical servers if you so wish. You may also Virtual PC instead of VMware for your
demo setup.

Part 1: Install & setup Windows Server 2k3 Active Directory

It’s assumed that you have already installed Windows server 2k3 or know how to install Windows server
2003.

Step 1: Install Windows Ser 2003 and Setup Active Directory DC

Here is a summary. Once you decide on the domain name, in our case, mycompany.loc, on server-
name server03, then just follow this procedure:

1. Install Win2k3 Enterprise server or whatever option you have.

2. Configure the server with static IP address, as shown in Fig. 1.

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Fig. 1: Configure static IP address as shown.

3. 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.
4. finally open your CMD. First ensure that your static IP address is configured properly by issuing the
following command, see also Fig. 2:

c:\ipconfig /all

5. Next issue the dcpromo command to promote your server to AD DC as follows (see Fig. 2):

c:\dcpromo

6. Follow the link below to access the full document.

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