To install AD DS complete the following steps: The Local Administrator account should have a strong password as it will become the first Administrator of the Domain and will be automatically added to the following groups: Administrators, Domain Admins, and Group Policy Creators Owners. Now that DNS is configured to support AD DS we can begin the installation.

After the computer has restarted verify the host has registered it A and Pointer records in DNS.

On the server that AD DS will be installed on the properties sheet the DNS suffix has been modified to represent the new AD DS Domain name and the computer restarted.

A static IP Address was configured with the DNS entry pointing to its own address.

A new Forward Lookup and Reverse Lookup Zones allowing both Secure and Non-Secure Dynamic Updates were created.To following steps have been accomplished: Using Microsoft’s best practices the Domain Name System (DNS) will be installed in the forest root domain and configured to support our new domain. The Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) design team has finished the design phase for your new AD DS environment and now it is time to implement the new child domain. In Part 3 ( Installing Active Directory Adding a child domain to an existing Active Directory Domain Services Forest in Windows Server – Part 3) we will be adding a second tree to the forest.

In this blog we will explore how to add a child domain to an existing AD DS Forest. In Part 1 of this series ( Installing Active Directory Domain Services – Establishing an AD DS Forest in Windows Server – Part 1) I wrote on how to establish an Active Directory Forest.

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