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How to activate Active Directory?
Name: steff80 Date: January 16, 2002 at 13:41:34 Pacific
Comment:
Hello
I want to use Active Directory. I have Windows 2000 Pro. How can i activate it?
Name: jmp Date: January 16, 2002 at 14:04:27 Pacific
Reply:
AD could be activated only on 2000 Server editions (Adv. and Datacenter) using the DCPROMO command.
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Response Number 2
Name: Twenty7 Date: January 16, 2002 at 14:05:38 Pacific
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If I'm thinking correctly you need to be a domain controller, and you cannot be one unless you are running win 2000 server.
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Response Number 3
Name: Todd O Date: January 16, 2002 at 14:09:07 Pacific
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Active directory is part of W2K server not Pro. You cannot activate it. You set it up during the W2K sever install.
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Response Number 4
Name: stu Date: January 16, 2002 at 21:30:55 Pacific
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dcpromo makes it a domain controller
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Response Number 5
Name: hrishikesh Date: January 16, 2002 at 22:01:41 Pacific
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want to make my Pc a primary domain controller.i have finished my win200 server installation. please help me
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Response Number 6
Name: ramesh Date: January 16, 2002 at 22:05:05 Pacific
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already made the pc a pdc.after running dcpromo get a page showing should ur pc be the last member in the domain.selected yes here and the domain could not be located.how do i get this domain???? or can i modify this domain??? pl help me
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Response Number 7
Name: Glen Date: January 17, 2002 at 05:54:40 Pacific
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You guys that are trying to create w2k Active Directory Domains really should get some training first and not rely on info in here. I'm amazed at the amount of incorrect info handed out in here. There is no PDC in w2k. A Windows 2000 domain is an Active Directory domain. There is no such thing as a w2k domain that is not Active Directory - it is the same thing.
You 'create' AD by running DCPROMO from the Run command on a computer running the Server version of W2k only.
There is way too much to AD to explain it here. If you have no training and no experience and you are trying to configure AD on your own with no help or without reading up on it first and having trouble, you deserve it. It's a complex system so you just have to be patient and take it a step at a time.
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Response Number 8
Name: ramesh Date: January 17, 2002 at 21:06:47 Pacific
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already made the pc a pdc.after running dcpromo get a page showing should ur pc be the last member in the domain.selected yes here and the domain could not be located.how do i get this domain???? or can i modify this domain??? pl help me
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