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 install them.

• In the previous article I forgot to add the optical drive so please add it.
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• Change the boot order.
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• And install Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2.
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Configure the new OS

Now we can continue with the standard steps.

• Rename computer using Rename-Computer cmdlet (or in GUI if it is faster for you).
• Format all additional disks that we added in the previous article. Let’s make fun and do it in PowerShell.

Get-Disk | Sort-Object -Property Number | Select-Object -Skip 1 | Initialize-Disk -PassThru | New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume

• I am sorry. I really like one liners. But I have to admit that I made a mistake for the first time. I did not use Sort-Object and I got ugly red error.
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• Assign IPv4 and IPv6.

Get-NetAdapter | New-NetIPAddress -IPAddress 123.123.123.123 -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway 123.123.123.1
Get-NetAdapter | New-NetIPAddress -IPAddress fd::1 -PrefixLength 64

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• Now we are ready to install Active Directory Domain Services and DNS.

Get-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services | Install-WindowsFeature -IncludeAllSubFeature
Get-WindowsFeature DNS | Install-WindowsFeature -IncludeAllSubFeature

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• Administration tools should be installed on your management server.

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-AD-AdminCenter, RSAT-DNS-Server

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• And it is not bad idea to install the latest patches…
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• And of course do not forgot to disable the old stuff.
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  • [ ] Enable LMHOSTS lookup
  • (o) Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP