How To Configure Active Directory In Windows Server 2016

How to setup Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 as a new domain controller.

Hither we are going to tackle the first function of setting upward a domain; promoting our make new server as a domain controller.

This is considered tutorial number three in a video series titled: Server Basics 2016. Tutorial number ane was well-nigh downloading Server 2016 and a brief overview. Tutorial number 2 was on installing Server 2016.

It's a fairly simple procedure these days since the organisation walks you through the entire thing. Join me within the video, or in the text instructions below.

Remember, we are merely setting up a test surround here in a virtual test lab. I am using VirtualBox for my VM foundation since it'southward gratis and super easy to employ.

Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Advert DS (Domain Controller)

Steps to setup Active Directory

From the Server Director Dashboard, click on Add roles and features.
Select Role-based or characteristic-based installation and clickNext.
Select the server by highlighting the row and select Next.
Select Agile Directory Domain Services so select Next.
Click Add Features.
You shouldn't have to select anything at the Select features, and then merely select Adjacent.
Click Next in the Ad DS section.
On the confirmation window, review everything and then click Install.
The installation will begin.
When the installation is consummate, you lot demand to now promote the server to a domain controller.
Click Promote this server to a domain controller(modest hyperlink in the results window)
Or, if you lot are similar me and y'all clicked Close, click on the yellow exclamation mark in the upper-right department of the Server Director Dashboard.
Select Add a new forest, type in a domain name that yous desire to use (pro-tip: utilize something like <something>.internal), then click Next.
Type in a password you want to use for DSRM, then click Next.
Click Next on the NDS Options page.
Click Side by side in the Additional Options folio.
Click Next on the Paths sections.
Click Next on the Review Options screen, then click Install on the Prerequisites Check page.
The installation (promotion process) volition begin. The server volition reboot during this process.
When the installation is complete, log back in (this time you will be logging into the server with domain credentials).
Let's verify Active Directory is setup and our server is classified equally a DC (domain controller).
From inside Server Manager, click Tools and so Active Directory Users and Computers.
Expand the domain root (in my case, it's TESTDOMAIN.internal), and then click on Domain Controllers.
Yous should see your new server existence displayed.
One las thing I want to exercise at this point is enable RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).
From Server Manager Dashboard, click Local Server and so click Disabled next to Remote Desktop.
Select Allow remote connections to this reckoner
Uncheck the choice Allow connections simply from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication, then click OK.