How to: Set up Active Directory in Windows Server 2016 

Before the AD install however it is important to understand what is the minimum requirement to install windows server 2016. Details are as follows:

Processor

Coreinfo is a tool you can use to confirm which of these capabilities you CPU has.

RAM

Storage controller and disk space requirements

Computers that run Windows Server 2016 must include a storage adapter that is compliant with the PCI Express architecture specification. Persistent storage devices on servers classified as hard disk drives must not be PATA. Windows Server 2016 does not allow ATA/PATA/IDE/EIDE for boot, page, or data drives.

The following are the estimated minimum disk space requirements for the system partition.

Minimum: 32 GB

Network adapter requirements

Minimum:

A network adapter that supports network debugging (KDNet) is useful, but not a requirement.

So in my demo I am using a virtual server with windows server 2016 datacenter. In order to setup active directory we need to log in as local administrator. First thing to check is IP address configuration.

1) Once Active directory setup on the server, it also going to act as DNS server. There for change the DNS settings in network interface and set the server IP address (or local host IP 127.0.0.1) as the primary DNS server.

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