- #TURN ON ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES INSTALL#
- #TURN ON ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES WINDOWS#
We will be creating a new domain, so choose Create a new domain in a new forest. On the Installation Results page, click on close this wizard and launch the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard.Ĭheck the box Use advanced mode installation. The computer is currently in Workgroup and after installing the AD DS role, the computer will be a Domain Controller.Ĭheck the box Active Directory Domain Services and click on Next.
Installing Active Directory Domain ServicesĬlick on Server Manager, right click on Roles and click on Add Roles.
Configuration Manager uses Active Directory Domain Services for security, service location, configuration, and to discover the users and devices that you want to manage.
#TURN ON ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES WINDOWS#
An AD domain controller authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. Server computers that run Active Directory are called domain controllers. So what is Active Directory ? Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. This is the first step in the process of deploying system center configuration manager 2012 SP1. We have our lab setup diagram with us and a server installed with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 enterprise edition OS. If you do not extend the Active Directory schema for Configuration Manager, management points cannot be published to Active Directory Domain Services and clients must have an alternative mechanism to locate their default management point. When you extend the Active Directory schema for Configuration Manager and a site is configured to publish to Active Directory Domain Services, Configuration Manager clients can automatically find management points through Active Directory publishing using an LDAP query to a global catalog server. If you extend the Active Directory schema for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, you can publish Configuration Manager sites to Active Directory Domain Services so that Active Directory computers can securely retrieve site information from a trusted source.
#TURN ON ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN SERVICES INSTALL#
We will install the AD DS on the server, install and configure the DHCP service, create a container and extend the active directory schema. Installing And Configuring Active Directory Domain Services for SCCM 2012 SP1 – In this post we will see the steps to Install and Configure Active Directory Domain Services on windows server 2008 R2 SP1.