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Active Directory from scratch

Active Directory from scratch

- [Narrator] Since so many organizations use on-Premises Active Directory and plan on doing so for many years to come, understanding Active Directory is going to be an important part of your job as a CIS admin. And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to give a demonstration of installing Active Directory. Now, in most cases, you won't need to do that, but understanding how Active Directory has been installed will help you understand better how to troubleshoot and manage it. Also, if you end up working for a managed service provider as a consultant, you may have some opportunities to set up Active directory for the first time for a new startup company. So I'm going to go into add roles and features inside Server Manager and set up a brand new active directory domain in Forest. So I'm going to choose my server that you see here. Click next. And here you can see I've already installed the Active Directory Domain services. If you have not done that, just go ahead and check that box. It…

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