Start->Manage Your Server-> Add or Remove Role, then check Active Directory and follow instructions. Note: 1: start>program>manage your server>add or Remove Role>Active Directory then follow instructions. 2: Start>Run> dcpromo Note: Dcpromo is a command installation of active directorey. wheh open run command just type dcpromo and click ok. then follow instructions.
netlogon dns rpc active directory services(it is in form of service in win2008 only) these are the major ones
The command is DCPROMO
The DNS Server Role and the active directory is not installed till the adds service is started on the server 2008.if the service is not started(one needs to check the option under roles of the server)the active directory installation wont happen.this feature is only in 2008 not in 2003.The active directory works as service in 2008
Active Directory Sites and Services
Install active directory on the server run- type DCPROMO and carry on with the installation
DCPROMO Unattended Installation
Active Directory was previewed in 1999, released first with Windows 2000 Server edition, and revised to extend functionality and improve administration in Windows Server 2003. Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2. Active Directory was refined further in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and was renamed Active Directory Domain Services. Active Directory was called NTDS (NT Directory Service) in older Microsoft documents. This name can still be seen in some Active Directory binaries.
Active Directory Domain Services. in server 2008 AD work as a service
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In Windows Server 2008, unlike previous server operating Systems, there is an additional step that needs to be taken before running DCPROMO to promote the server to Domain Controller and installing Active Directory on it. This step is the installation of Active Directory Domain Services (AD-DS) role on the server.(dcpromo ad-ds) The AD-DS role is what enables the server to act as a Domain Controller, but you will still need to run DCPROMO from the run.
No, you do not. You only install Active Directory if the system is going to be a domain controller. If it is a member server or a standalone server Active Directory should not be installed.
A simple 2003 installed server in domain is known as the Member server. When we install AD on it then It becomes Domain Controller.