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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 5 – DNS configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. DNS Servers Your serves point to your DNS servers (your DCs) so you may change configuration of the DNS servers. Bug in Windows Server 2012 –…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 4 – Advanced configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Create a central store for GPO administrative templates You should do this for every domain that you create because it is always easier to do that…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 3 – Active Directory – Installation and basic configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Naming domain Naming domain is very important step. It is not a problem to use local TLD in the testing environment but I will rather use the…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 2 – Installing DC as a Virtual Machine
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Hyper-V VM installation In the previous article we discussed how to configure hardware for our first virtual machines that will be our Domain Controllers. Now we have to…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 1 – Create and configure virtual machine
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we will need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Now it is a good time to deploy VMs that will be our DCs. These VMs will not be highly-available (clustered) and the VMs will…