Configuration of Windows 2000 Server or Advanced 2000 Server:

Thanks to updated management utilities and a slightly enhanced user interface, Windows 2000 Server can be easily configured by using new and improved configuration wizards. If this is your first boot-up of the new operating system, you’ll see the Configure Your Server utility when you start your server, which will facilitate some of the basic configuration techniques. From the flexible interface at the left menu, simply choose the services that you want to run on this server.

We’ll start with Active Directory or initial state of Configuring Windows Server 2000 or Advanced Server 2000

Windows 2000 Configure Your Server

Note If this is not the first boot-up of the new operating system, and you've selected not to be greeted by the configuration utility, you can retrieve it from Start/Programs/Administrative Tools/Configure Your Server. It’s a good idea to do that now so you can follow along here.

Creating a New Domain
To create a new domain, we’ll install Active Directory using the Active Directory Installation wizard, which installs and configures components that provide Active Directory service to network users and computers. In the menu listing of the configuration utility as you can see, click the Active Directory icon to reached at given the screen. At that screen, click Next; then click Start the Active Directory Installation wizard.
Click Next to continue.

Active Directory wizard front end

                                                        
Recall that a domain controller is a computer running Windows 2000 Server, which stores directory data and manages user domain interactions, including user logon processes, authentication, and directory searches. Windows 2000 Server domain controllers provide an extension of the capabilities and features provided by Windows NT Server 4.0 domain controllers. A domain can have one or more domain controllers. For high availability and fault tolerance, a small organization using a single local area network
(LAN) might need only one domain with two domain controllers, whereas a large company with many network locations would need one or more domain controllers in each location.

A domain controller in Windows 2000 is also configured using the Active Directory Installation wizard. Active Directory supports multimaster replication of directory data between all domain controllers in the domain. Multimaster replication is an evolution of the primary and backup domain controller (BDC) model used in Windows NT Server 4.0, in which only one server, the primary domain controller (PDC), had a read and-write copy of the directory. Windows 2000 Server multimaster replication synchronizes directory data on each domain controller, ensuring consistency of information over time. Changes in the PDC can be impractical to perform in a multimaster fashion; therefore, only one domain controller, the operations master, accepts requests for such changes. In any Active Directory forest, there are at least five different

operations’ master roles that are assigned to one or more domain controllers.

Starting the Active Directory wizard

Let’s create a new domain in Active Directory: 

Step 1. Once Active Directory is installed, from the Configure Your Server utility, click Active Directory; from the Active Directory window, choose the domain controller type to create a new domain by selecting Domain controller for a new domain; then click Next.

Step 2. In the next window, choose to create a new domain tree by selecting Create
a new Domain Tree and then click Next.

Step 3. Next, choose to create a New Forest of domain trees by selecting Create a
new forest of domain trees; then click Next.

Step 4. Specify a name for the new domain by typing the full DNS name then click Next.

Step 5. Specify the Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) name for the new domain. Earlier versions of Windows will use this to identify the new domain. Click Next.

Step 6. In the next window, specify in the fields provided the locations of the Active Directory database and log, either by accepting the default locations or by clicking Browse to find new ones. Click Next to continue.

Step 7. In the next window, you must specify the folder to be shared as the system volume. The Sysvol folder stores the server’s copy of the domain’s public files. Either accept the default location or click Browse to find a new one. Click Next to continue.

Step 8. DNS must be installed. If DNS is not available; the wizard will configure it for the new domain. Select Yes to install DNS and then click Next.

Specifying a new domain

Step 9. In the next window, you must select the default permissions for user and group objects. You do this by selecting Permissions compatible with Pre-Windows 2000 servers over Permissions compatible only with Windows 2000 servers to be compatible with our NT server programs. Click Next to continue.

Step 10. specify an administrator password to use when starting the computer in restore mode; then click Next.

Step 11. In the next window, review and confirm the previously selected options; then click Next. The wizard will configure Active Directory, as shown

Step 12. In the next window, click Finish to close the wizard; then click Restart
Now to reboot the server.

I thinks it goes to Interesting but it completed and from Now you’re ready to learn how to manage Active Directory.

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