Installation of Active Directory in Core server

• Checking name of your computer.

• echo %computername%

• Changing of name to the computer.

• netdom renamecomputer localhost /NewName DC2

• For checking interface of your computer.

• netsh interface IPv4 show interface
1. this command gives network interfaces along with its index number.

• For assign ip address to network interface.

• netsh interface IPv4 set address name=21 source=static address=192.168.0.2 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1
1. here interface=2 is an index number of your network interface card
2. you can assign IP address from dhcp using source=dhcp in above command

• For changing IPv6 address of interface.

• netsh interface IPv6 set address interface=21 address=fd00:0:0:1::2
1. here interface=2 is an index number of your network interface card

• Set DNS for interface.

• netsh interface IPv4 add dnsserver name=2 address=192.168.0.1 index=1
1. here name=2 is an index number of your network interface card

• For checking which roles are install in server.

• oclist | more

• Install DNS server role in core server.

• start /w ocsetup DNS-Server-Core-Role

• Now Restart server using shutdown /r /t 0 command.
• Installing Active Directory using command line.

• dcpromo /replicaOrnewDomain:domain /NewDomain:forest /NewDomainDNSName:windows2k8.com /ConfirmGC:yes /userdomain:abd.com /Username=administrator /Password=123@abd /SafeModeAdminPassword=123456