{"id":185,"date":"2013-10-16T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.wordpress.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2013-10-16T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T21:42:22","slug":"how-to-promote-windows-server-2012-to-a-domain-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"How to promote Windows Server 2012 to a Domain Controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has done away with dcpromo when it comes to Windows Server 2012.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been so accustomed to using dcpromo that I actually struggled a bit to promote a 2012 server to a DC in one of my labs. This short video shows how to install the Active Directory Directory Services role on the server and that there is a small step you need to complete after the installation as just installing the role does not promote your server to DC status.<\/p>\n<p>This small step cost me 5 minute of head scratching and going back to my training manual. Easy to forget and find but here&#8217;s a quick how to.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not an AD expert but it&#8217;s good to practice this once in a while as you might get tasked to &#8220;quickly&#8221; set-up an environment for a client and practice makes perfect \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Promoting a Windows 2012 server to a Domain Controller\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AoPQKh3mlSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has done away with dcpromo when it comes to Windows Server 2012. We&#8217;ve been so accustomed to using dcpromo that I actually struggled a bit to promote a 2012 server to a DC in one of my labs. This short video shows how to install the Active Directory Directory Services role on the server and that there is a small step you need to complete after the installation as just installing the role does not promote your server to DC status. This small step cost me 5 minute of head scratching and going back to my training manual. Easy to forget and find but here&#8217;s a quick how to. I&#8217;m not an AD expert but it&#8217;s good to practice this once in a while as you might get tasked to &#8220;quickly&#8221; set-up an environment for a client and practice makes perfect \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[44,112],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server-2012","tag-dcpromo-in-windows-server-2012","tag-promote-windows-server-2012-to-a-domain-controller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}