From the course: Windows Server 2016: Install and Configure Active Directory
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Installing additional DCs - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: Install and Configure Active Directory
Installing additional DCs
- [Instructor] After you've finished installing the first domain controller in the forest, the next step would be to install any additional domain controllers that you need to have in your environment. And I would recommend that no matter how big or small your environment is you should always have at least two domain controllers running so you can have fault tolerance and high availability. So, to demonstrate the installation of an additional domain controller, I'm going to go on a computer I have here named DC-2. Alright, we already installed Active Directory onto DC-1 for the landonhotel.local domain, we're now going to add DC-2 as an additional domain controller. Now here in the Server Manager on DC-2. I would like to point out that I've already gone through the steps of Add roles and features, now as I've gone through that wizard to add the Active Directory Domain Services role, that's why you see that role listed down here, and you'll see this little warning box up here, we're at…
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