Free windows domain server

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File Name:. Date Published:. File Size:. System Requirements Supported Operating System. Do not download an RSAT package from this page. Select and install the specific RSAT tools you need. To see installation progress, click the Back button to view status on the "Manage optional features" page. One benefit of Features on Demand is that installed features persist across Windows 10 version upgrades! Note that in some cases, you will need to manually uninstall dependencies.

Also note that in some cases, uninstalling an RSAT tool may appear to succeed even though the tool is still installed. In this case, restarting the PC will complete the removal of the tool.

See the list of RSAT tools including dependencies. Download the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 package that is appropriate for your computer's architecture. You can either run the installer from the Download Center website, or save the download package to a local computer or share.

When you are prompted by the Windows Update Standalone Installer dialog box to install the update, click Yes. Read and accept the license terms. The 01 simply means that this is the first domain controller in this network. Click OK and click OK again when you are notified you must restart. Server manager allows you to manage your local server as well as other servers on your local network.

From here you can manage the computer name, IP address, firewall settings, Windows updates, view Events, Services, and much, much more. The first three items relate to the server or remote servers. Whenever you install new server roles they will appear in this pane. The dashboard gives a quick overview of your server and allows you to configure the server quickly. If there are any issues with the local server or remote servers such as a service that failed to start you will see them on this screen.

To see errors with remote servers you need to first add them as a remotely managed server. The local server tab will give you detailed information about the server you are currently logged into. If you need to change anything from the computer name, domain membership, firewall, network settings etc, this is the place to do it. You will also have all of your events and services listed here. There is much more to the local server tab, but this is the most important parts of it.

The all servers tab allows you to view the same information on the local server and for remote servers, but you cannot change the server properties computer name, domain, firewall settings, etc. The last tab is File and Storage Services.

This server role includes technologies that help you set up and manage one or more file servers, which are servers that provide central locations on your network where you can store files and share them with users. The windows for adding and removing roles are nearly identical. One allowing you to check checkboxes for roles and the other allowing you to uncheck role checkboxes.

The Installation Type tab gives you two options. The first option is the most common and is for installing roles and features on a single server. The second option is for installing roles onto a virtual machine not related to VirtualBox. Choose the first option and click next. If you have added remote servers to manage then they will be listed here. You can also choose to install the roles on a virtual hard disk.

Click next. On the Server Roles tab, you can choose any of the roles you would like to add to the server. If you only want to install features, you do not have to check any of these checkboxes.

For this lecture, we are going to install and uninstall roles and features so you understand how it works. You will get a popup stating that you need to add required features in order to install this role.

The Features tab looks very similar to Server Roles tab. If we had not selected any roles to install, we would not be able to progress past this screen.

It is important for you to know that you do not have to install roles, but you must at least install features in order to complete this wizard. The features required by the Fax Server role are already checked for installation, so simply click next to continue. The next screen will prompt us about the new Fax Server role we are installing. Generally when you add a new server role, you will have some type of informational tabs added to the wizard.

Click Next through the prompts. When you are brought to the Role Services tab, you can check additional services if you would like them. Since this role is temporary and just an example, I am not going to include any of these optional role services. Click Next. Now we are brought to the Confirmation tab. As a general rule, it is a good idea to check this checkbox. Note that you may close this wizard at any time, and the installation will still continue. Once the window is closed, you may view the progress by clicking on the flag icon on the top right-hand corner of Server Manager.

Once the installation is complete, refresh Server Manager by either pressing F5 or by pressing the refresh button next to the notifications button. On the notifications button you will see new notification stating that you must complete the post-deployment configurations.

Just about every role you install will require some type of post-deployment configuration — since we are about to uninstall this role, we do not need to complete this. You will get the popup stating that you can remove the features that were required by the server role. Notice that this list is not exactly the same as the features we were required to install. This is because we will need to uninstall additional roles as well. Again, you will be prompted to remove features that require the role.

Click the Remove Features button. Click Next until you reach the confirmation Window. Select Yes when you receive the warning message about the reboot. Click the Remove button and wait for the uninstall to finish and the Server to reboot. Windows Domains have been around since with the release of Windows NT. They provide System Administrators an efficient way to manage small or large networks. Domain controllers hold the tools Active Directory and Group Policy among others - so when you need to create new user accounts or change domain policies, this is all done from a domain controller.

You can have several domain controllers within a domain but there is only one primary or main domain controller. The primary reason for having more than one DC is fault tolerance. The critical information user, computer account information, etc is replicated between the DCs so if one goes down the client computers will switch to the other DC that is still functioning. This tool is used to not only manage user and computer accounts but also acts as a directory service for resources on your network like printers, file shares etc.

When a domain user searches for a printer to install, they will find all the printers that have been added to the Domain Controller with AD. AD is a tool to manage domain users, computers, printers, file shares, groups, and more — these are all considered AD objects. Groups contain members which can be any valid AD object user, computer, etc. All of these AD objects are stored within folders called Organizational Units.

It allows an administrator to manage all domain users or domain computers remotely. You can target specific AD objects, specific OUs, or the entire domain. Remember that any server running the AD DS role is considered a domain controller. This is the name of my website and if you would like you can create any domain name you want.

You should already know how to install a server role on the server you are currently logged in to but I am going to cover the steps again.

You will see a popup window stating you cannot install AD DS unless certain role services or features are also installed:. We do not need any additional features as all the required features were already added.

Again click Next. Now you will be brought to the AD DS screen. It tells us that we will also need install the DNS role if we do not already have it set up. Click Next and continue on to the Confirmation screen. Here we can see the roles and features we are about to install. Click Install and wait for the installation to finish. Once the installation is complete you will have post-deployment configuration steps to complete as well:.

The AD DS configuration wizard will appear giving us three options:. This option is not suitable for us now because we have not created a domain yet.

Let me explain. We are going to create a domain called itflee. If that domain already existed we could create a sub or child domain called courses. In theory we could setup this sub domain called courses. You could configure this sub domain so that Admins from the itflee. Again this is not an appropriate option for us because the itflee. This allows us to create and specify a new domain. Choose this option and specify a root domain name.

I am going to enter itflee. It will take a second before the Domain Controller Options screen will appear to just be patient while it processes. You need to specify the OS you are using in this case it is Windows Server If you remember, when we installed the AD DS role it said that we had to install this in order for the DC to function properly. The Global Catalog option means that the server will list all active directory objects.

This is a requirement for a primary domain controller or when we are creating a new domain forest. If you choose the Read Only Domain Controller option, then the domain controller will not be able to make changes to the domain.

We will want to make changes to our domain so do not check this checkbox. Type in a DSRM password and make sure that you either write it down or memorize it.

Click next to proceed on to the DNS options. This warning means that people on the internet will not be able to resolve local DNS names on your local DNS server names like itflee. Click next and proceed on to the Additional Options. I recommend that you leave them at the default setting and click next.

We are brought to the Review Options screen where we can see all of the options we have chosen so far. Close the PowerShell script and click next. The wizard is going to go verify that the server is ready to be promoted as a DC. This will take a few minutes before it is ready so just be patient wait for it to complete the checks.

Once the checks complete at the top you will see that all prerequisite checks have passed:. If you have errors, you can address the errors Google is your friend and click the rerun prerequisite checks text:. Under the view results window we can see there are various warnings. None of these are critical but it is worth reading through them. We can see that the first one is a security setting stating that anything with crypography not compatible with Windows NT 4.

This is not an issue for us because we are not using old servers or old technology. The second is in regards to our first networking adapter not having a static IP address. This is because the first adapter is connected to our NAT adapter and will not be used for our local domain.

This can be ignored. The third warning is about the DNS delegation. Again we do not care if people on the internet can resolve our DNS records within our network. Click the install button and wait for the installation to complete and the server to reboot. This can take a good while depending on the speed of your server so you will need to be patient while it works.

If we had multiple domain names we could specify a different domain name by typing the name of the domain we want to use followed by a backslash and the name of the user account you want to log into. Type in the password you used to create the administrator account when you installed the server and log in. That is all we have to do to get our Windows Domain and Domain Controller fully operational.

To download Windows 10, open your preferred web-browser on your Host computer and navigate to google. The first result with be Microsofts software downloads page that allows us to download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.

Click the Download tool now button and wait for the download to complete. Once the installation has begun, accept the license terms and on the following screen you want to select Create installation media for another PC and click Next. On the next screen you can leave the default settings or if you want you could customize them by unchecking the Use the recommended options for this PC checkbox.

I am going to leave them at the default setting and click Next. On the next screen choose the ISO file checkbox. Click Next and choose where you want to save the new ISO file. I recommend that you change the name from Windows.

How to create a domain on Windows Server by w10feditor Dec 8, Networking 24 comments. Sachin Gaikwad on August 24, at am. Nice information…. Mina on August 24, at am. Paul Washington on August 25, at pm. Can this be done if the computer isnt activated? Mina on August 28, at pm. Paul Washington on August 30, at pm. Is it possible to upgrade my current activation for this use? Mina on September 3, at am.

Ronnie on September 21, at pm. Mina on September 24, at pm. Denis on October 11, at pm. Mina Magued Mounir on October 14, at pm. Lemba on October 14, at am. Felipe on November 22, at pm. Hi I want to access my data on my server without being on the same network.

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