
So I can see the list of what they're going to add. A little pop up window comes up that basically says that there are other features that are required in order for active directory domain services to be fully installed. Now, before I check the box I want to tell you to watch that something's going to happen. And I had said that the role we're going to install is active directory domain services. So I would click next and now is where we actually choose the role that we want to install. In this case, I do want to install on this server the one we're on DC-1. If I was managing multiple servers I could choose which ones I want to install on. I have not implemented that in my environment but that's why it's asking me to choose a server. Now, one of the neat things about server manager is we have the ability to add additional servers that we can manage remotely from this one location. Now I need to choose what server I want to install this role on.

So I'm going to take the default right up top and click next. I now have to decide, is this going to be a role or feature installation, or is this going to be a remote desktop services installation used in a virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI? Well, this is just a basic role installation. So I'm going to go ahead and click on next. We'll see this every time we go through this particular wizard, if you don't want to see it you can actually check the box to say skip this page by default.

Alright? So I'm going to tell you, yes, we're done. Before you do that, you want to make sure that it's secure things like having an administrator account with a strong password and that your network settings are appropriately configured and that you have the latest and greatest security updates. First thing that comes up is a before you begin screen, that basically says, Hey you're about to make this server, doing something important.

Step number two is add roles and features. So here in the server manager, you'll notice that step number one is configured to local server. And other than some basic configuration like assigning the computer name and IP address and things like that, nothing else has been done to it. I have called DC-1, and it is nothing more than a newly installed copy of windows server 2022. So here I will tell you, I am on virtual machine. So here, I want to show you the first of these two steps and that would be to install the actual active directory domain services role. The process of turning a server into a domain controller is really a two step process.
