Creating an Active Directory Forest Covered

This article shows how to create an Active Directory forest covered in the article.   You could have another domain name, we used SteveSchofield.local as the test forest.  To start your forest, load your first VPC called DC1, login as Administrator and type DCPromo.  This will start the process.

Step1:

Type DC Promo in Search

Step2:

Type DC Promo in Search

After the box reboots, you'll have a working AD forest.  You would follow the process on DC2, instead of creating a new forest, you'll add an domain controller to an existing forest.    After both DC's are up and going, you can adjust the ip settings to fit the architecture listed article.   Once the forest is up and going, you can create two additional member servers and add them to the forest.  You just need to make sure the primary DNS settings on member servers are pointed to one of the DCs.   This will help resolve the domain, in our example it's SteveSchofield.local.