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 before the environment is switched from the Deployment status to the Production status.

• Create PolicyDefinitions in \\<Domain FQDN>\SYSVOL\<Domain FQDN>\Policies and copy the .admx and .adml files.
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• The best practice is to download the current Administrative Templates (.admx and .adml files) from the Microsoft Downloads because you can usually find there a few files that you do not have in your local store. In our case I just copied them from the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions.
  • Microsoft Download Center
    • Administrative Templates for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Administrative Templates for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Update 1

Enable the Active Directory Recycle Bin

• Active Directory Administrative Center – Enable Recycle Bin…
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• Once Recycle Bin has been enabled, it cannot be disabled.
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