PowerPoint slides created for the Course Configuring Windows Server 2008 Active Directory for Instructor use. Exam: 70-640 Installation of Active Directory is the main issue in this presentation

1. Configuring Windows
Server 2008 Active
Directory
Chapter 1 – Installation
NæringsAkademiet Fredrikstad
Jørn Jensen - jorn.jensen@na.no

2. Installing AD
En løsning for Indentity and Access(IDA) :
Stores information about:
Users
Groups
Computers
Other networking objects
Authenitcation of identy
Control Access
Audit

3. AD
Consist of five tecnologies:
Active Directory Domain Services (Identity)
Active Directory Lighweight Services (Application)
Active Directory Certificate Services (Trust)
Active Directory Right Management Services (Integrity)
documents
Active Directory Federation Services (Partnership) andre
tecnologys

4. What is AD?
Active Directory consist of objects
The Schema defines objects classes and attributes
Example:
 The Object User uses among others the attributes username and
password
Replication services distributes informationa across the network to
Domain Controllers (DC)
Windows server is based on Policy Based administration
Global Catalog is an index that is used to find objects in AD
NTDS.DIT in the Windowsntds folder is the main AD databasefile
Domain Controller – stores the AD database in the network and
syncronise each other

5. AD
Domain – is an administrative unit
Forest – a collection of domains (First root domain, is of
course the first)
Tree - continuous domains in an Forest
Functional Level – compatible with older version of AS
Organizational units (OU)
Site (a limited part of the network with good connection)

6. Create a new forrest
Domain name, must be unique
Nafr.na.no
Short name or NetBios name, uses by units that do not
support the AD name scheme
Nafr
Depends on a DNS service, not necessarily Microsoft
DNS, others can also be used
To install AD use dcpromo.exe
First install Server 2008
Then run Dcpromo to install AD on the first domain
controller

7. Server 2008 Core Installation
An installation of Windows Server 2008 that contains
only the most necessary files
Size is about 3 GB
Contains noe GUI (Graphic User Interface)
Can be managed from other machines with GUI
Locally, one is dependent on using command line tools

8. Some commands
Netsh interface ipv4
Cscript – runs VB script
Slmgr.vbs – a VB script that activates Windows server
Netdom – join a domain
Ocsetup.exe add roles, components or features
Oclist.exe – view installes components
Scregedit.wsf
Dnscmd.exe – configures DNS
Dfscmd.exe – configures DFS (Distributed File System)