Promoting a server member as a Domain Controller (DC) in Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) is a critical task in managing a network infrastructure. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to promote a server member as a Domain Controller:
Pre-requisites:
- The server should be running a Windows Server operating system. Here using this link you can download the iso.
- NIC — Driver installed , Link UP , Static ip with Preferred DNS server ip configured.
- Any one of the partition formatted with NTFS (New Technology File System)
Now lets move on to the configuration:
Go to Server manger > Dashboard > Add roles and features
you will see “Before you begin” click next> than you will see “Installation type” select “Role-based or future-based installation”
Next select your server :
Next “select Active Directory Domain Services”
Next you will see the “features” select next and give next to the following steps , finally you will see the installation
Installation has been completed
Now it will ask “promote this server to a domain controller” click on it
Here you need to select deployment operation , i have given “Add a new forest” and give your root domain name
Next you need to select your Domain controller options and give DSRM password
Give next the option “DNS option” and in the next page verify the NetBIOS name of your domain and select next set your paths
next review the options and check Prerequisites
give install and you can see the progress , then the system will get a reboot .It will take a few while to reboot.
after the reboot your system will login as a domain controller , to verify the our domain account go to Server manger> Tools > Active Directory users and computers > Domain Controllers
now lets check our DNS , go to PowerShell and give use
nslookup
There we can see the server is unknown , we need to fix that . So we need to create a new reverse lookup zone in dns , go to “DNS” in “TOOLS”
Go to “reverse lookup zone” and right click and select “new zone” .
Now select the IPv4 option and give your ip
Finish it , now we need to update the PTR in the forward look up . Go to forward look up and go to the domain and Select our server — Check its properties
Tick the box “update PTR” Select apply and ok
Now go to PowerShell and check again
Here you can see our server name and domain details , We have Successfully Promoting a server member as a Domain Controller (DC) in Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
