Installing Active Directory and DHCP Server Roles
Installing Active Directory and DHCP Server Roles
Click OK
Select the server that you want to install the role on and click the next button
On the next screen tick Active Directory Domain Services and DHCP Server.
On the next screens leave the default settings and select next and then install.
Once the installation of DHCP and Active Directory roles is complete you will get a notification in the Server
Manager console to “Promote this server to a domain controller” and to “Complete DHCP configuration”. You
can to run the “Promote this server to a domain controller” first, click on that.
This will bring up the Active Directory Domain Services Configuration Wizard
Wizard.. You want to select “Add a new
forest” and give the domain a name. It is better to use the <domain name>.local or a sub-domain
sub of a domain
that you control. Then select next.
Next choose the forest function level. If you are just using server 2012 R2 then select that otherwise select
the lowest version of Windows Server that you are going to have joined to the domain, give the domain a
DSRM password(make sure you document this password) and select next.
Leave the rest of the settings as default and keep clicking next though the wizard. At the end of the
configuration wizard you will be signed out and the server will be rebooted. Once the server is rebooted it
will be a domain controller.
Log into the server and open DHCP in the start menu. You will notice that it is not configured yet.
This will open the “New Scope Wizard”, give the sco
scope
pe a name and description and click next.
Now you will need to set the IP range. To do this enter a start IP and end IP that is on the same subnet as you.
You will want to make sure that these IP addresses are available.
Then you can set your lease duration time, set this and select next.
Then you will want to configure your scope options, this is where you configure your router and default
gateway address and anything else that needs to be allocated by DHCP. Go though these settings and allocate
as needed for your network.
All done, now you have a domain controller that also runs DHCP.