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Integrating iDRAC7 with Active Directory
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Promoting Server To Domain Controller and Installing DNS
The steps in this section are for Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The steps for other supported
Windows Server operating systems are similar.
1. Promote the server to a Domain Controller. Click Start > Run > dcpromo.
2. In the Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard, click Next.
Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard. Figure 2.
3. In the Operating System Compatibility page, click Next.
4. Select Create a new domain in a new forest, and then click Next.
5. Provide the FQDN of the forest root domain (for example, test.lab).
6. For both Forest & Domain functional levels, choose either Windows Server 2003
or Windows
Server 2008, and then click Next twice.
If DNS is not installed, you are prompted to install it. Accept the default options and install DNS.
7. Accept the default locations for the Database, Log files, and SYSVOL, and then click Next.
8. Assign a Directory Services Restore Mode Administrator Password, and then click Next.