
The actual act of installing AD DS, however, can be thought of as the tip of the iceberg. You need only run the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Installation Wizard from the Add Roles Wizard of Server Manager and provide answers to the questions the wizard asks. The act of installing Active Directory on a server is conceptually very simple. Now you begin to create an actual Active Directory forest and domain structure. You were also introduced to the concept of sites for distinguishing portions of the network separated physically by slow WAN links. In Chapter 1, "Getting Started with Active Directory," you were introduced to the basic building blocks of the logical Active Directory structure: forests, trees, domain, and organizational units (OUs). This section discusses verifying your Active Directory installation, using the Active Directory Migration tool (ADMT), and creating alternative user principal name (UPN) suffixes.
Additional Forest and Domain Configuration Tasks: After you have installed and configured your first domain, you should perform several additional tasks. In addition, it introduces you to the concept of forest and domain functional levels, as well as the benefits of the newest Windows Server 2008 R2 functional levels. This section takes you through the preparatory tasks you must perform before you can add a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller as well as the actual upgrading of older domain controllers. Interoperability with Previous Versions of Active Directory: Many organizations are using Active Directory domains based on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. #ADMT 3.2 INSTALL ON WINDOWS 2008 STANDARD HOW TO#
You then learn how to add additional domain controllers to your forest and create child domains.
Creating Forests and Domains: In this section, you learn how to create your first domain controller in a new Active Directory forest. Planning the Active Directory Namespace: This section provides a basic introduction to best practices you should follow in planning and designing an Active Directory namespace that will serve your company properly both now and in the years to come. This chapter covers the following subjects: MCTS 70-640 Cert Guide: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring