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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Install Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 Core Step by Step Guide

Posted on 02:44 by Unknown
Windows 2008 core its great creation of Microsoft. It's basically a light version of windows 2008 and comes without all the GUI stuff. There are tools that you can install in core installation and get the GUI. In here I'm going to demonstrate how to setup domain control using Command prompt.
Requirement :
Minimum: 1 GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4 GHz (x64 processor)
Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Minimum (32-bit systems): 20 GB or greater
Minimum (64-bit systems): 32 GB or greater
  • First option is to assign a dedicated ip to the server.
At command prompt type
netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces

This will show all the network interfaces that available in the server. Please keep note on idx number of the interface that you need to assign the ip in our case its 10
netsh interface ipv4 set address name="10" source=static address=10.0.0.15 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.0.0.1
in here I wanted to apply ip address 10.0.0.15 to the interface. Here you can see after the command the server got the new ip address

Next step was to assign DNS server ip 10.0.0.15
netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name="10" address=10.0.0.15 index=1

  • Now its ready for the DC install. Now we need to create unattend answer file for the domain install
notepad unattend.txt
then you need to type the file with the requirement
[DCINSTALL]
UserName=administrator
NewDomain=forest
NewDomainDNSName=rebeladmin.com
Password=Pa$$w0rd
SiteName=Default-First-Site-Name
ReplicaOrNewDomain=domain
DatabasePath="%systemroot%'NTDS"
LogPath="%systemroot%'NTDS"
SYSVOLPath="%systemroot%'SYSVOL"
InstallDNS=yes
ConfirmGC=yes
SafeModeAdminPassword=Pa$$w0rd
RebootOnCompletion=yes
In here this will install domain rebeladmin.com with DNS

Now we ready for the install. You can execute it from
dcpromo /answer:c:\unattend.txt

it will take some time to install and after install it will automatically restart. After restart its done. Now you have DC with Server 2008 core.
If you have nay question feel free to ask me on psrjadhav@gmail.com
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