In this case, click Yes. Choose default option to replicate data over the network from an existing domain controller, or You can choose replicate data from media at the following location to create the domain controller. The best practice in a production environment is to store files on separate volumes that do not contain applications or other files. This practice design improves performance and increases the efficiency of backup and restore.
Choose default option to replicate data from other existing DC in a network, or click Use this specific domain controller to specify a domain controller that you want to provide as a source for replication to create the new domain controller, and then click Next. Click Next. On the Summary page, review your selections. If any settings are incorrect, click Back to make modifications and if you want to save the settings that you have selected to an answer file that you can use to automate subsequent AD DS operations, click Export settings.
Type the name for your answer file, and then click Save. In this step we need to select our Forest Functional Level. Easiest way to decide what to use is if you still have Windows domain controllers in your Active Directory select Windows If you have Windows domain controllers in your Activie Directory select Windows , same applies for Windows However if your domain controllers only contain Windows R2 servers, select Windows R2.
You can alway raise the Forest Functional Level, i. Always select DNS server with a domain controller. The Role will be installed automatically when you select this option.
Set a directory services restore password, be sure to remember this password or keep it in a safe place, as this password is used to restore active directory in the event of a disaster where Active Directory needs to be restored. We are now presented with a summary of the setup wizard. If you are happy with the summary click Next. Remove From My Forums.
Answered by:. Archived Forums. Directory Services. Sign in to vote. Hi, I'm setting up a brand new domain for use in a very small office less than 10 people and I've got a few questions which I'd appreciate people's thoughts on. With this in mind: 1 Are there any specific best-practice steps to follow which are relevant to this single-DC configuration?
Tuesday, June 12, PM. Couple other additional comments: Install Exchange on DC many people will be horrified and so do I in reality if you have business case and have no other choice and clearly understand the Exchange application and how it works, considering your deployment scenario 10 user , probably would not hurt to do it. Wednesday, June 13, PM. Hello, 1. Meinolf, Thanks for your response - to be clear, you're saying that a single partition drive i. Cheers again, Andy.
Hello, that is too much size, just use at least the mentioned 80 GB within one partition, or even GB. Hi - what I'm unsure of, is the benefit of decreasing the partition sizes to 80GB etc.? Are you able to explain the reasoning behind why you wouldn't have a 1. Thanks again, Andy. Oz, Thanks for the input - what you're saying makes sense and, for me, seems to be the extra information I was after to understand and justify the decisions that the others in this thread have been suggesting.
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