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In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Active Directory Domain Services using PowerShell cmdlets Before proceeding to install, we will check the available features to install. We will use Get-WindowsFeature cmdlet to get the available features to install.   Result will be as below and you can see Active Directory Domain Services is available to install. Run the below cmdlet to install the Active Directory Domain Services including all the management tools (Need reboot the complete the installation). Install-WindowsFeature -IncludeManagementTools AD-Domain-Services To cross verify installation you can run the Get-WindowsFeature once again and check the results, status of Active Directory Domain Services should change to Installed as in below screen shot.   Post this we need to promote this server as Domain controller to complete the configuration. As this is a totally new setup we are configuring as First domain controller in new forest as we don&

In today’s topic, we are going to learn about the installation and configuration of Active Directory Domain Services in windows server 2016. Before proceeding with the installation and configuration I would like to put some lights to know about Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Domain controllers and Domain. What is Active Directory Domain Services? Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) stores information about objects on the network and makes this information available to users and network administrators. AD DS uses domain controllers to give network users access to permitted resources anywhere on the network through a single logon process. Active directory uses Ports like LDAP (389 for communication), Kerberos (88) for authentication and DNS (53) for name resolution. What is Domain Controller? A Server running Active directory domain services is called as Domain controllers and it will authenticate and authorize all users and computers within a windows domain

Below is the list of operating systems with respective AD schema version. Windows Server Operating Systems Active Directory Schema Versions Windows Server 2000 13 Windows Server 2003 30 Windows Server 2003 R2 31 Windows Server 2008 44 Windows Server 2008 R2 47 Windows Server 2012 56 Windows Server 2012 R2 69 Windows Server 2016 87

In today’s tutorial, we will learn about creating Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure. Follow the below steps to create the VM in Azure. Login to Microsoft Azure console with valid credentials and follow below. Click on Virtual machine in the console. Then click on create virtual machine to proceed further. Select recommended Operating system as per your requirement from the below window. In this example, I am selecting Windows Server Operating system to proceed with. Select the Operating system as Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter and select a deployment model as Resource Manager and click on create to proceed further for more info related to deployment model go through below link from Microsoft. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-manager-deployment-model Configure the basic settings for Virtual machine as below. - Provide the Virtual Machine Name - Select the VM disk type as per your requirement - Provide username and passw