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Windows Domain controller

Author: Mohanad Aly

Cyber Security Engineering

Page Created: 8 February 2017

‎Last modified: 27 February 2017

Introduction

This article introduces how to install and configure the Windows server domain controller.

What is Windows Domain controller

On Microsoft Servers, a domain controller (DC) is a server computer that responds to security authentication requests (logging in, checking permissions, etc.) within a Windows domain. A domain is a concept introduced in Windows NT whereby a user may be granted access to a number of computer resources with the use of a single username and password combination. ^[1]

What is Active Directory

The following picture shows what is the active directory means or what it does.

Active directory has the manageability and security and interoperability.
Windows server has management profile, network information, printers, file shares and policy.
Windows users has account information, users privileges, profiles, and policy.
Windows clients has management profile, network information, and policy.
Windows network devices has configuration of quality service policy and security policy.
Firewall has the configuration, security policy and VPN policy.
Applications has the configuration of the server, single sign-on, application specific directory and the information policy.
Email servers has the mailbox information and address book.
Other NOS has the user registry, security and policy

Manageability

Windows Server 2012 enhances the manageability of data centers through significant improvements in the standards-based infrastructure. It does this by delivering application programming interfaces (APIs) that are easier for developers and IT Pros to use. These APIs provide support for recent standards and add new kinds of Windows Power-Shell cmd lets that make it simpler and more cost-effective to connect to and manage multiple servers and devices in the data center. ^[2]

Preparing and configuring the Virtual Manger before installing the Windows server 2012 R2

First user need to download the ISO file of the windows server 2012 R2 from the Microsoft official web site ISO link
After download the the ISO file, user need to import it in the Virtual manager

This how the user will import the ISO file in the Virtual manager

User need to select the memory for the machine it recommended to use more than 2GB for the machine it used 4GB which is 4096MB

User after choosing the memory and the CPU which recommended for the Windows machine, user need to select the storage also the following figure show that how the user will chose the storage and it's better to make it more than 20G and it's up to the user