Lesson 2: How to Install Server 2008 and Active Directory

Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Coach Culbertson

Today we’ll start with Installing Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory.

You can watch the whole video below or download it and watch it at your convenience — I included iPod/iPhone files for you too.

 
Here’s what I cover in this video:

  • The scenario — I’ll start off by introducing you to the scenario that we’ll be working with all throughout this training

  • Quick edition check — we’ll go through the different flavors of Server 2008 and the requirements to make sure that your box is ready

  • Installation & configuration — installation and initial configuration steps are explained and demonstrated on a virtual machine

  • Adding Active Directory — next I’ll show you how to add the AD role by installing Active Directory Domain Services

  • Promotion to Domain Controller — using dcpromo.exe we will create a new domain in a new forest and then install the DNS server

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  • Felix Rabinovich Says:

    September 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am

    These two lessons (2 and 3) left me with a feeling of “almost done”. Let me explain. I am a developer, last time I did any serious administration was Novell 3.12. AD and Domain controller set up seemed quite complex in “home environment”. These lessons with VM looks just what the doctor order. I have the router and a domain name that points to my IP, but the DNS is maintained by ISP.

    Anyway, I finished Lessons 2 and 3 – and what I am left is an obvious (I think) question – how can the users log in to this domain from *other* machines. To use your coffe shop example, how can I verify that the users can log in from 10 customer stations, or from 2 back office employee machines? In my situation no other computer on the network sees this domain controller.

    I also went through the other tutorial (Setup External Internet DNS Server), but it *adds* the zone to the DNS, whereas I already have a zone that was created during the configuration of AD… it is not clear if this tutorial is applicable to the domain controller.

    Perhaps, there is another tutorial that covers this material and I am just missing it, but the next lesson already deals with competely different subject (Windows Server Core) – so it is not obvious where to look.

    Thanks for building this tutorial – and if you extend it to the remaining 5 per cent, I think many students would be very grateful!

  • asherl Says:

    November 10th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    let me say this is very informative and educative.

  • amerdoul Says:

    May 9th, 2010 at 9:58 am

    hello best here I want to learn how i can configure them srver Windows
    2008

    pliz pix for the cd

  • Salim Says:

    August 6th, 2010 at 11:33 pm

    These are fantastic training videos. Many thanks for providing them free of charges.

    I am trying to follow each video with some practicals of my own. However I have problem getting server core VM talking to AD VM. netdom join fails. Ping from core to AD VM only works in one direction i.e from core to AD but not otherwise. That is probably why netdom fails. I have tried this using vmware workstation 7.1 and VirtualBox 3.2.6, using windows vista and ubuntu 9.10 as host OSs respectively. The host I am trying all this, is connected to a wired lan and I do assign static IP addresses using my router as default gateway and dns server, same as what you do in 2nd video. I would appreciate if you can write a couple of lines on which networking models in vmware have you used in this training video.

    Thanks
    Salim

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