Setting up the server

So installing the DHCP before setting up a Domain Controller with Active Directory is not a good idea. Various roles needs the Domain Controller to make changes as we experienced with DHCP.

So we decided to reinstall the Server, it’s a very simple step-by-step process’s.

Then comes the step to install the Domain Controller and Active Directory. So we will run a program called dcpromo that will install both the Domain Controller and Active Directory together in one step.

Follow this step-by-step, in method 1 go to step 10 and follow the dcpromo guide from step 1 to 14.

This is what we put in, in some of the steps:

5: mariaserver.dk

6/7: Windows Server 2008

8: Untick DNS server

9: Choose to assign the static IP addresses.
IP address: 198.162.2.2
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.240

Now comes the task of installing DHCP that delegates IP addresses to connected devices.

Here is a nice step-by-step guide that we followed to set up ours.

Figure 4: Here is what we filled in.
Scope Name: maria pool
Starting IP Address: 198.162.2.3
Ending IP Address: 198.162.2.5
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.240
Default Gateway: N/A

All computers can ping each other and the server.