Configuring a home domain controller in Server 2008 R2 on Hyper-V

Hi all, Today i have configured a domain controller. I did this so i can create my own SharePoint Farm at home.
Later this blog i will tell you how to configure a domain controller in Server 2008 R2. Beside this i am looking for a mini Android PC to put in my TV so if anyone has any recommendations please let me know.

OK lets go to the Configuration of A domain controller. (You need to have server 2008 R2 installed)

1. First of all open up the Network Adapter settings and assign a static IP address to the IPv4 configuration from the block of static IP addresses that you have set aside.
2. If you need to enter a default gateway, configure the default gateway as the IP address of your router (usually something like 192.168.0.1)
3. If you need to enter a Primary DNS server, you can enter the IP address of your router as well (such as 192.168.0.1) or take in my case the ip of my Debian DNS.
4. Once you have entered your settings, click OK to save all of your network adapter settings.
5. If you have customized or disabled any Windows Services, you will need to ensure that the appropriate Windows services are enabled and started:
1. Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service
2. Remote Registry Service
3. Also make sure that Remote desktop services is activated.
6. Now, at the run command, you can run dcpromo, or you can press the link at the end of the wizard
7. This should now initiate the process to install the Active Directory binaries on your machine as well as launch the Active Directory configuration wizard. 
8. While configuring Active Directory through the configuration wizard, you will be prompted for setting up a new forest or using an existing forest.  Since you don't have an existing domain infrastructure in place, you will want to create a new forest.  In terms of forest compatibility, I would recommend either configuring the compatibility to either Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 compatibility mode.
9. [Skip this if you have a Debian DNS] After proceeding through several other configuration steps, you will be prompted to configure DNS on the server.  You can allow the domain controller to be configured as its own DNS Server.  This will effectively modify the network adapter settings to include 127.0.0.1 as the Primary DNS Server IP Address

If there were no hiccups in the configuration wizard process, you should be done with successfully configuring a domain controller within your virtual machine. :)

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