I have this situation that i have to deal with and i dont know where to start correctly and i just need the steps that i have to do to builed my work correctly i hope you help me: "MR. Submarine is an Ontariobased fast-food company, specialized in healthy food and considered one of the major retailers of submarine sandwiches in the country. MR. Submarine Corp. has hired you on a contract basis, to help with the implementation of a new Windows 2008 domain. You have been given the task of installing the first domain controller on the network at the headquarter office, which will install Active Directory and create a new domain for MR. Submarine Corp. You are also in charge of making sure that all client computers, which have been installed, are able to join the new domain. In this part, you will create a new domain for MR. Submarine Corp., called submarinefastfood.com, by building the first domain controller on the network using the Active Directory installation program. You will then configure DNS to work with Active Directory and test that it is working properly on the network. Once your domain controller is working properly, you will join a Windows server 2008 and a Windows XP Professional machine to the domain. Finally, you will create a second domain controller for higher reliability and better performance on your domain and test replication between the two domain controllers" until now i installed the win server 2008 and i learned how to build the domain but im still dont know if it need specific configuration, and not understanding where to configure the site and where to configure the DNS. I now that im totally newbie but i just need the Action sequence? Thanks in advance.

Hello, you said that you installed the first DC and you created your domain. Now, you have to proceed like the following: In IPv4 settings of your new DC, make sure that your DC is pointing to its local IP address as primary DNS server Make sure that the DNS service is installed (Make sure that it is installed as a role) If it is not installed then install it as a role, create a primary DNS zone for you domain and make it AD integrated To administer the DNS service, use MMC and the DNS console Make sure that your client computers are using your DC as primary DNS server (Using IPv4 settings) Go to the properties of your client computers, specify your domain DNS name and join them to the domain To add an additional DC, make sure that this server is pointing to your DC as primary DNS server Run dcpromo and promote it Install the DNS service on it (At the next AD replication, your domain zones will be replicated) Make sure that your new DC points to itseld as primary DNS server and to the other DC as secondary one Make sure that your old DC is pointing to the new DC as secondary DNS server This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

In addition to MrX. Check the following documentation. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733027(WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753720(WS.10).aspx Thanks

i want to ask you about the IP that i should but for the server is it a class C as usual, or i should give it class A as I'm building the sever for a large company.

This depends of you need. You can give the server a private IP address based on the IP addressing schema that you are using. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

In my case here I'm just installing the the server with a virtual win xp inside to test the DNS but in the question they didn't munition any thing about it so can i continue with 192.168.1.1?

As it is a test environment, you can use what you want. When using it in a production environment, contact your network administrator that will specify the IP addresses to use for DCs based on an IP addressing schema. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

OK So now i reached installing the second dc. But the problem that when i go to dcpromo the only available option is to uninstall the first ad dc. and there is no option to add ac to the forest. so what should i do? like this link: http://helewix.com/blog//index.php/Microsoft-Solutions/2011/03/15/server-2008-dcpromo-remove-active-directory-domain-controller-using-dcpromo

Hello, as I see you are running dcpromo on the first DC so this is perfectly normal what you see. You should have another server to install a second DC. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

Mr X: You should have another server to install a second DC How should i do so?

Install Windows Server on another server. Join it to the domain (Make sure that it points to the DNS serer of your DC as primary one) and then run dcpromo. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

I'm Sorry but im not understandidng, im workig in vmware with one win 2008 and one xp, What you are telling to do is making a new virtaual OS on the vmware network and installing a win server 2008 on it, and then configer the dcpromo? Thanks

Yes, that is it. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

Can you help me about how to test the replication between the 2 dc?

Use dcdiag.exe to check that all is okay. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776854(WS.10).aspx This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

Thanks for Helping. How can you disable the My Network Places icon on the desktop to prevent the users from browsing the network and instead, just allowing them to use their mapped network drives that are pre-assigned?

Thanks for Helping. How can you disable the My Network Places icon on the desktop to prevent the users from browsing the network and instead, just allowing them to use their mapped network drives that are pre-assigned? Any ideas??