Step By Step Installation Of Active Directory On Windows Server 2019 Core

To explore Server 2019 further, we will try to run Active Directory services with Server 2019 Core edition. For the Installation of Server 2019 Core check out this link (select the version shown in the below figure).

I have recently started using Windows Server Core which not only saves space but also uses very low memory to run my domain controllers.

To install Active Directory, we need to set our Server as per the recommended configuration for AD.

• System Name
• Static IP
• Date and Time

This will make sure that everything is set as per the recommendation. Once your server is ready, open the command prompt and type start PowerShell

Then, you need to run the sconfig command. This gives you the system details.

Next, we need to change the system name. It will prompt you to restart the system.

The next step will be to set the static IP for the system.

By opening PowerShell, type the following commands.

Run

Get-NetAdapter

This will give the name of the adapter which we will use as the interface alias.

$ipaddress = “10.0.64.2”

$dnsaddress = “127.0.0.1”

New-NetIPAddress –InterfaceAlias Ethernet –IPAddress –AddressFamily IPv4 -PrefixLength 24

Update DNS

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias Ethernet -ServerAddresses $dnsaddress

Once done, restart the server.

Now, let us set the time zone. For that, type the following commands in PowerShell.

Get-timezone

Set-TimeZone -Id "Eastern Standard Time"

Once everything is set, it will start installing AD Service.

We can do the installation in two ways here.

• Windows Admin Center (this will help you to install roles and features but to configure the same, we need to use PowerShell only).
• PowerShell command

Using Windows Admin Center

For Windows Admin Center, we need to set up and add a server (Follow Link).

Once the server is connected to Windows Admin Center, you need to connect the server.

Once the server is connected, you will find the overview of the system utilization page.