It is important to keep the domain environments running with its latest versions. It allow organizations to use new features, enhancements available on new directory services. Typically when we upgrade from old DC to new version, we add a new server or servers to the same network and then add it to the existing forest, domain. Then promote it as DC and move roles to the new system. Later on we…
Few of the blog readers asked me on few occasions if they can change the AD domain name to the different domain name. Answer is yes you can, but you need to aware of the issues it can occur as well. Otherwise you will be end up in a mess with non-functioning infrastructure. Idea of this post is to demonstrate how to rename AD and also to point out some issues you may face with a domain…
This tutorial will explain how to install AD on server 2008. This will valid for windows 2008 R2 as well.
Requirement:
Minimum: Single processor with 1.4 GHz (x64 processor) or 1.3GHz (Dual Core)
Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Minimum: 32 GB or greater
The first step is to assign a ip to the server that you going to deploy the AD. Its nessary to install it as DNS server too. So its better to have fixed ip…
