Microsoft Active Directory provides the structure to
centralize the network management and store information about network resources
across the entire domain. Active Directory uses Domain Controllers to keep this
centralized storage available to network users. In order to configure a Windows
Server 2008 machine to act as Domain Controller, several considerations and
prerequisites should be taken into account, and several steps should be
performed. In this article I will guide you through these prerequisites and
steps of creating a new Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller for a new Active
Directory domain in a new forest.
Considerations when Installing a new Windows Server
2008 forest