Add Domain Controller Server 2016

Additional domain controllers setup on the server you want to add open server manager and click on add roles and features.

Add domain controller server 2016. In server manager under add roles and features install active directory domain services on the new windows server 2016. Change the server name to dc2. At the deployment configuration screen select add a domain controller to an existing domain select the domain set the credentials to use and then click next. In server manager click the yellow triangle and from the drop down click promote the server to a domain controller.

Dans gestionnaire de serveur sous ajouter des rôles et des fonctionnalités installez active directory domain services sur le nouveau windows server 2016. Find out your domain schema version. Install all current windows security updates. It can be a physical or virtual server.

Select add new forest and choose your root domain name. Sign in to the new windows server 2016 with a domain admin account. Click next until you re on server roles and tick active directory domain services click add features on the box that pops up. Read any warnings install.

In server manager under add roles and features install active directory domain services on the new windows server 2016. Make sure the dns option is checked and because this is my first server the global catalog gc is already checked. Because we are installing a forest root domain controller that is using active. Go have a coffee we ticked reboot earlier so it will complete then reboot the server which will come back up as a domain controller.

Sign in to the new windows server 2016 with a domain admin account. Choose the appropriate options for this example we are going to select domain name system dns server and global catalog gc so that our dc acts as a proper secondary dc and dns server for our domain. This is the process we will implement in the current article which is just as easy and simple as the previous one. After your first domain controller is already in use it s time to add another windows server 2016 dc to your active directory environment either for redundancy load balancing or just because another dc feels the right way to go.

If this is your first domain controller choose windows server 2016 as the forest and domain functional level. You will notice if you re interested that your schema version is now 88 server 2019 or 87 server 2016. Set the correct time and time zone.