Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller

1. Open the Server Manager  "Add roles and features"

 

2. On Installation Type page, select the first option “Role-based or Feature-based Installation“.Scenario-based Installation option applied only to Remote Desktop services.

3.   select a server from the server pool 

4. To install AD DS, select Active Directory Domain Services in turn it will pop-up to add other AD DS related tools. Click on Add Features.

  

5. On the “Select Features” Page, Group Policy Management feature automatically installed during the promotion 

Now you can select which operation the DC will perform. We plan to create a new forrest, so please click on "Add a new forest". 

Specify the FFL, DFL, whether or not it should be a DNS Server and also the DSRM administrator password. As you can see, it has selected the GC option by default and you cannot deselect it. The reason for this is that is the very first DC of the AD forest and at least one needs to be a GC.

Normaly you could select in this Wizzard a DNS delegation but currently we have no DNS Server in this domain, so we have no option to delegate. 

Now the NetBIOS Name will created. You are able to change it but you don't have to do it.  

After this you can set the Database folder, Log files path and SYSVOL folder for ADDS Service. You can change the default path but I wouldn't do this, you only force problems with this. 

At next you get a install summary and you are able to view the Power Shell Script the will be executed.

 

All prerequisites are checked. If All prerequisite checks are passed successfully then click Install. 

When you click Install, DNS and the GPMC are installed automatically.

Once the server is booted and you logon to it, click on  Server Manager | Tools ,  will notice that following have been installed :

•Active Directory Administrative Center
•Active Directory Domains and Trusts
•Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell
•Active Directory Sites and Services
•Active Directory Users and Computers
•ADSI Edit
•DNS
•Group Policy Management

 

 Thanks & Regards  
 Srikanth Goud-  Virtualization Administrator