This Post is part of SharePoint 2010 Installation Series
This topic describes to Scenarios Create AD or Connect to AD
Connect To Active Directory
- Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then Server Manager
- In the feature tab select Add Features
- Under Remote Server Administration Tools
- Under Role Administration Tools
- Under Ad DS and AD LDS Tools
- Select AD DS Tools Add Required Features
- Click Next , Install
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Restart Your Server
Create Active Directory
For more information about Cretin Active Directory in windows Server 2008 see this topic
You only need to read this article if you are going to deploy SharePoint 2010 in an isolated Hyper-V environment. Otherwise your organization should have an existing Active Directory.
- Open the "Run" dialog box and type dcpromo.
- Click next checking "Use advanced mode installation".
- Click next and after that check "Create a new domain in a new forest"
- Type a new full qualified domain name like "dev.local".
- Type a NetBIOS name like "AGLASER"
- Select a forest functional level.
- Select a domain functional level.
- Make sure "DNS server" is checked.
- After clicking next you may get a warning that one of your network adapters has a dynamically assigned IP address. Click "Yes" if you are sure you have one network adapter with a static IP address.
- Click "Yes" because you don’t have to care about a DNS server in a parent zone since this is a testing environment.
- Click next again.
- Type in a "Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator Password".
- Click next to start the installation wizard.
- After installing the AD and the DNS server you have to restart your computer.
