Setting Up a Domain Controller

Domain Controller:-

• Domain controllers provide network users and computers with the Active Directory directory service, which stores and replicates directory data and manages user interactions with the domain, including user logon processes, authentication, and directory searches.
• Every domain must contain at least one domain controller.
• You install a domain controller by installing Active Directory on any member or stand-alone server
• When you install the first domain controller in your organization, you are creating the first domain (also called the root domain) and the first forest.

1.configuring a static IP address:- 

The first step in setting up a domain controller is to set a static IP address. Domain controllers require static IP addresses to function correctly.

 

 2.Installing Active Directory:-

 Once the domain controller setup is complete, you can add the other virtual machines to the domain.