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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…
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Hyper-V hosts with Windows Server 2012 R2 installation – Part 2 – Configuration of the Hyper-V hosts
This article is not part of the System Center Cloud series but we will use the these servers as our Hyper-V hosts. Naming convention We should continue and set names of the new servers. The nodes will be named: conthostclu0n0 cont – Our fictional company is Contoso host – It will be Hyper-V host clu0 – It will…
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Hyper-V hosts with Windows Server 2012 R2 installation – Part 1 – Physical servers installation – HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8
This article is not part of the System Center Cloud series but we will use the these servers as our Hyper-V hosts. Introduction Very probably you do not have the same hardware so skip this part if you want. Update firmware (BIOS for those who do not have EFI / UEFI) You should always start with…
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