ACTIVE DIRECTORY Windows 2016

1) Open Server Manager

Open the Run box using Win+R, type servermanager.exe, and click

or

Search Server Manager in the Start Menu and click it

2) Choose either “Add Roles and Features” Option

4) Click Next
5) Select the server

If installing to the local machine, simply click next

6) Check “Active Directory Domain Services” and click Next

8) Click Next

9) Click Next
10) Click Install
11) Wait for the install to finish and click “Promote this server to a domain controller”
12) Choose “Add a new forest”, enter a Domain Name, and Click Next

This is assuming that the server is not going to be part of a pre-existing domain and the new domain is not going
to be added to a pre-existing forest.

13) Enter a password for DSRM and click next

Again, this is assuming that the server is a new, stand-alone, Domain Controller. If it will be joining a pre-
existing forest and/or domain, the functional levels may need to be changed to match the function levels
currently in place.
14) Click Next

This is assuming you do not have existing DNS servers for which delegation may be required.

15) Click Next

17) Click Next

19) Wait for Install to Finish

See Windows Administrative Tools to find the management applications

DHCP Server Windows 2016

 Launch Server Manager and select “Add roles and features”. Choose the first item "Role-based or
feature-based installation":
 Specify the server on which we will install the DHCP role:

 Next, you need to find and select the DHCP role in the list. We agree to add the components required
for the DHCP service to work properly. Since the components were added at the “Server Roles” step,
we skip the “Features” step:
 The wizard reminds you to plan your subnets, areas, and exceptions:

 We check the installed components and click "Install":

The initial setup process takes place in two stages:

1. Create a “Security Group” to manage this DHCP server. There are two of them:

 DHCP Administrators - group members have full rights to manage the DHCP server;
 DHCP Users - members of the group can view server settings and a list of connected devices.

2. Authorization of a DHCP server in Active Directory (if it is joined to a domain). This setting is necessary to
avoid the appearance of extraneous DHCP servers on the network. The server must be authorized for the DHCP
service to start:
 Enter the administrator credentials and click on the “Commit” button. If the server is not joined to the
domain, then select the last item:

 If everything is done correctly, the wizard notifies that the configuration was successful:
Setup process

Launch the "Server Manager". We find the DHCP item in the "Tools" drop-down list:

In our version, we are considering issuing IPv4 addresses, so we need to create a new area (Scope) - a pool of IP
addresses issued to clients. Right-click on IPv4 and select “New Scope ...”:
The Create Area Wizard opens, where we enter the name of the pool. If necessary, you can enter a description:

We determine the boundaries of our pool by setting the start and end IP addresses. Also, enter the subnet mask:
If necessary, you can add one or more IP addresses from the created pool to the exceptions. This range may
include network devices that are already assigned a static IP. There is also a parameter for delaying the response
of the server before sending data to the request from the host:

Next, you can specify the lease time of the IP address. The default is 8 days:
Now the Wizard will offer to specify the network parameters (Gateway, DNS, WINS) issued to clients on the
network:

Specify the address of the network gateway:

The next step allows to add a WINS server:

After setting up the pool, you can check if the server is working. You can see connected clients by going to the
Address Leases section. In our case, we see that one device is connected:
If we go to the client machine, we can check the correctness of the received settings:

Although we considered the configuration on Windows Server 2016, this instruction is also suitable for
Windows Server 2008-2012, since the process is not much different.

FOLDER REDIRECTION Windows Server 2016

01 – Create a Shared Folder

1 – On DC-CLOUD, on the taskbar, click the File Explorer icon, In the navigation pane, click This PC.
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2 – In the details pane, double-click Local Disk (C:), and then on the Home tab, click New folder.
3 – In the Name text box, type Redir, and then press Enter.
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4 – Right-click the Redir folder, click Share with, and then click Specific people.
5 – In the File Sharing dialog box, click the drop-down arrow, select Everyone, and then click Add.
6 – For the Everyone group, click the Permission Level drop-down arrow, and then click Read/Write.
7 – Click Share, and then click Done.
Close the Local Disk (C:) window

02 – Create a GPO to redirect the Documents folder

1 – In Server Manager, click Tools and then click Group Policy Management.
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2 – In the navigation pane, right-click the Windows.ae domain, and then click Create a GPO in this domain
and Link it here.
3 – In the New GPO dialog box, in the Name text box, type Folder Redirection, and then click OK.
4 – In the navigation pane, right-click Folder Redirection, and then click Edit.
5 – In the Group Policy Management Editor window, under User Configuration, expand Policies,expand
Windows Settings, and then expand Folder Redirection.
6 – Right-click Documents, and then click Properties.
7 – In the Document Properties dialog box, on the Target tab, click the Setting drop-down arrow, and then
select Basic-Redirect everyone’s folder to the same location.
8 – Ensure that the Target folder location box is set to Create a folder for each user under the root path.
9 – In the Root Path text box, type \\DC-CLOUD\Redir, and then click OK.
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10 – In the Warning dialog box, click Yes.

03 – Test Folder Redirection

1 – Sign in to CLIENT-10 as Windows\Administrator with the password asd@123.

Gpupdate /force
4 – In the command prompt window, when prompted, type the following, and then press Enter:

Y
5 – Sign in to CLIENT-10 as Windows\Administrator with the password asd@123.
6 – On the taskbar, click the File Explorer icon.
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7 – In the navigation pane, in the Quick Access section, right-click Documents, and then click Properties.
8 – Verify that on the General tab, the Location field has a value of \\DC-CLOUD\redir\Administrator.
If this is not successful, repeat steps 2 through 7, and then check the redirection once again.

9 – Sign out of CLIENT-10.

SOFTWARE Deployment Windows Server 2016

1 – In your Domain Server, open Server Manager, click Tools and open Group Policy Management.
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2 – In the Group Policy Management console, right click domain name which is Windows.ae, and click
Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here.
3 – In the New GPO box, in the Name box, type Deploy Software, and then click OK.
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4 – Next, on the Group Policy Management console, right click Deploy Software GPO and click Edit.
5 – In the Group Policy Management Editor, under Computer Configuration, expand Policies, and then
expand Software Settings.
6 – Right-click Software installation. From the context menu, click New, and then click Package.
7 – In the Open dialog box, browse to \\172.16.1.254\Software, click 7z1700-x64.msi, and then click Open.

Note : In the Open dialog box, type the full UNC path of the shared installer package that you want. For
example, \\file server\share\file name.msi.
8 – In the Deploy Software window, ensure that the Assigned option is selected, and then click OK.
9 – Wait for few second and verify that the 7-zip is listed in the Group Policy Management Editor.
10 – Now lets switch to our Windows 10 client PC, i do recommend that you run gpupdate /force in the client
PC and then restart the client PC.
11 – after restarting your client PC and log in as domain user, you can verify that 7-zip is installed.
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i will continue later with Configuring Deploy Microsoft Office 2016 in Windows Server 2016