This post describes How To Promote Active Directory With GUI In Windows Server 2016

This article walks you through the process of promote up the Active Directory® role with GUI on a Microsoft® Windows Server® 2016 server.

Organisations need to effectively manage and organize their servers, user accounts, security policies and above all business processes, to succeed .

Active Directory (AD) is one such automated mechanism that provides a centralized solution for managing servers and users, verifies the identity of users and authorizes resources on each access. For example, whenever a user, logs into a computer (part of a Windows domain), Active Directory verifies the password submitted by the user and determines the user identity accordingly-i.e. a system administrator or normal user. AD is an umbrella of different identity related services.

Windows Server 2016 provides advancements to every area of IT services, and that certainly includes Active Directory.

Procedure:
- Login into your server via administrator user.
- Open the Server Manager from the task bar.
- Next select and click on Add roles and features from the Server Manager dashboard. This will open Add Roles and Features Wizard page and will allow modifications that need to be performed on the Windows Server 2016 instance.
- Click Next to proceed
- Select Role-based or feature-based installation option and click on Next.
- Click on Server Selection tab and select the option- Select a server from the server pool and select server name. Click on Next to proceed to next tab-Server Roles.
- Select Active Directory Domain Services from the Server Roles page.
- Click on Add Features.
- Review on features and select them. Once done click on Next
- Click on AD DS tab and review the information about AD DS on the current page. Click on Next.
- Click on Install to initiate installation.
- The AD DS installation progress will be displayed on the screen and once it is installed, it will be displayed on the landing page of Server Manager.Once installation is done. Click on close button.

After the installation of AD DS, promote this server as a domain controller.
- Open the Server Manager from the task bar . In server manager you will get yellow icon on top of the screen. Click on this icon and click on the option: Promote this server to a domain controller.
- Select Add a new forest option from the Deployment Configuration tab. Now insert your root domain name into the Root domain name field.
Click on Next.
- Put DSRM (Directory server restore mode) password and confirm the password. This password is used during the restoration of Active Directory. Click on Next.
- Click on Next.
- Verify and enter NetBIOS name of domain. Click on Next.
- Here you can see location of your Active Directory database and log folders. Click on Next.
- Review the options and click on Next.
- All the prerequisite to be installed are checked by the system prior to moving forward. Once this check is done proceed to click on Install.
- Congratulations! Installation of Active Directory completes here.

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