Ever wanted to install the Domain Services with PowerShell? Well I did. If you would like to know more just read below.
- Run PowerShell as an Administrator.
- Import the ServerManager Module with the following command
“Import-Module ServerManager”
- This command will not have any feedback
- Run the command Get-WindowsFeature to see what you need to install. From the screen shot below we will need to install the Active Directory Domain Services (AD-Domain-Services) and Active Directory Domain Controller (ADDS-Domain-Controller)
- Before we commit the command lets do this, run “Add-WindowsFeature AD-domain-Services,ADDS-Domain-Controller –WhatIf”. this command will tell us what is going to happen. Notice the Screen shot below. It is letting us know that this command will also install .NET Framework 3.5.1 Features, which is needed for AD DS.
“Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services,ADDS-Domain-Controller”
- Lets go ahead and add the Features
“Add-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services, ADDS-Domain-Controller”
- This command will take a few minutes to complete. Now to make sure we have everything we need we can run the Get-WindowsFeature again. Anything with a “X” means the feature is installed and ready to use. You can export this command to a file so you can keep it for your documentation.
“Get-WindowsFeature > C:\WindowsFeature.txt”
- This will save the Text file to your C: Root.
- The output will match the following
Display Name Name
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[ ] Active Directory Certificate Services AD-Certificate
[ ] Certification Authority ADCS-Cert-Authority
[ ] Certification Authority Web Enrollment ADCS-Web-Enrollment
[ ] Online Responder ADCS-Online-Cert
[ ] Network Device Enrollment Service ADCS-Device-Enrollment
[ ] Certificate Enrollment Web Service ADCS-Enroll-Web-Svc
[ ] Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service ADCS-Enroll-Web-Pol
[X] Active Directory Domain Services AD-Domain-Services
[X] Active Directory Domain Controller ADDS-Domain-Controller
[ ] Identity Management for UNIX ADDS-Identity-Mgmt
[ ] Server for Network Information Services ADDS-NIS
[ ] Password Synchronization ADDS-Password-Sync
[ ] Administration Tools ADDS-IDMU-Tools
[ ] Active Directory Federation Services AD-Federation-Services
[ ] Federation Service ADFS-Federation
[ ] Federation Service Proxy ADFS-Proxy
[ ] AD FS Web Agents ADFS-Web-Agents
[ ] Claims-aware Agent ADFS-Claims
[ ] Windows Token-based Agent ADFS-Windows-Token
[ ] Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services ADLDS
[ ] Active Directory Rights Management Services ADRMS
[ ] Active Directory Rights Management Server ADRMS-Server
[ ] Identity Federation Support ADRMS-Identity
[ ] Application Server Application-Server
[ ] .NET Framework 3.5.1 AS-NET-Framework
[ ] Web Server (IIS) Support AS-Web-Support
[ ] COM+ Network Access AS-Ent-Services
[ ] TCP Port Sharing AS-TCP-Port-Sharing
[ ] Windows Process Activation Service Support AS-WAS-Support
[ ] HTTP Activation AS-HTTP-Activation
[ ] Message Queuing Activation AS-MSMQ-Activation
[ ] TCP Activation AS-TCP-Activation
[ ] Named Pipes Activation AS-Named-Pipes
[ ] Distributed Transactions AS-Dist-Transaction
[ ] Incoming Remote Transactions AS-Incoming-Trans
[ ] Outgoing Remote Transactions AS-Outgoing-Trans
[ ] WS-Atomic Transactions AS-WS-Atomic
[ ] DHCP Server DHCP
[ ] DNS Server DNS
[ ] Fax Server Fax
[ ] File Services File-Services
[ ] File Server FS-FileServer
[ ] Distributed File System FS-DFS
[ ] DFS Namespaces FS-DFS-Namespace
[ ] DFS Replication FS-DFS-Replication
[ ] File Server Resource Manager FS-Resource-Manager
[ ] Services for Network File System FS-NFS-Services
[ ] Windows Search Service FS-Search-Service
[ ] Windows Server 2003 File Services FS-Win2003-Services
[ ] Indexing Service FS-Indexing-Service
[ ] BranchCache for network files FS-BranchCache
[ ] Hyper-V Hyper-V
[ ] Network Policy and Access Services NPAS
[ ] Network Policy Server NPAS-Policy-Server
[ ] Routing and Remote Access Services NPAS-RRAS-Services
[ ] Remote Access Service NPAS-RRAS
[ ] Routing NPAS-Routing
[ ] Health Registration Authority NPAS-Health
[ ] Host Credential Authorization Protocol NPAS-Host-Cred
[ ] Print and Document Services Print-Services
[ ] Print Server Print-Server
[ ] LPD Service Print-LPD-Service
[ ] Internet Printing Print-Internet
[ ] Distributed Scan Server Print-Scan-Server
[ ] Remote Desktop Services Remote-Desktop-Services
[ ] Remote Desktop Session Host RDS-RD-Server
[ ] Remote Desktop Virtualization Host RDS-Virtualization
[ ] Core Services RDS-Virtualization-Core
[ ] RemoteFX RDS-RemoteFX
[ ] Remote Desktop Licensing RDS-Licensing
[ ] Remote Desktop Connection Broker RDS-Connection-Broker
[ ] Remote Desktop Gateway RDS-Gateway
[ ] Remote Desktop Web Access RDS-Web-Access
[ ] Web Server (IIS) Web-Server
[ ] Web Server Web-WebServer
[ ] Common HTTP Features Web-Common-Http
[ ] Static Content Web-Static-Content
[ ] Default Document Web-Default-Doc
[ ] Directory Browsing Web-Dir-Browsing
[ ] HTTP Errors Web-Http-Errors
[ ] HTTP Redirection Web-Http-Redirect
[ ] WebDAV Publishing Web-DAV-Publishing
[ ] Application Development Web-App-Dev
[ ] ASP.NET Web-Asp-Net
[ ] .NET Extensibility Web-Net-Ext
[ ] ASP Web-ASP
[ ] CGI Web-CGI
[ ] ISAPI Extensions Web-ISAPI-Ext
[ ] ISAPI Filters Web-ISAPI-Filter
[ ] Server Side Includes Web-Includes
[ ] Health and Diagnostics Web-Health
[ ] HTTP Logging Web-Http-Logging
[ ] Logging Tools Web-Log-Libraries
[ ] Request Monitor Web-Request-Monitor
[ ] Tracing Web-Http-Tracing
[ ] Custom Logging Web-Custom-Logging
[ ] ODBC Logging Web-ODBC-Logging
[ ] Security Web-Security
[ ] Basic Authentication Web-Basic-Auth
[ ] Windows Authentication Web-Windows-Auth
[ ] Digest Authentication Web-Digest-Auth
[ ] Client Certificate Mapping Authentic… Web-Client-Auth
[ ] IIS Client Certificate Mapping Authe… Web-Cert-Auth
[ ] URL Authorization Web-Url-Auth
[ ] Request Filtering Web-Filtering
[ ] IP and Domain Restrictions Web-IP-Security
[ ] Performance Web-Performance
[ ] Static Content Compression Web-Stat-Compression
[ ] Dynamic Content Compression Web-Dyn-Compression
[ ] Management Tools Web-Mgmt-Tools
[ ] IIS Management Console Web-Mgmt-Console
[ ] IIS Management Scripts and Tools Web-Scripting-Tools
[ ] Management Service Web-Mgmt-Service
[ ] IIS 6 Management Compatibility Web-Mgmt-Compat
[ ] IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility Web-Metabase
[ ] IIS 6 WMI Compatibility Web-WMI
[ ] IIS 6 Scripting Tools Web-Lgcy-Scripting
[ ] IIS 6 Management Console Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
[ ] FTP Server Web-Ftp-Server
[ ] FTP Service Web-Ftp-Service
[ ] FTP Extensibility Web-Ftp-Ext
[ ] IIS Hostable Web Core Web-WHC
[ ] Windows Deployment Services WDS
[ ] Deployment Server WDS-Deployment
[ ] Transport Server WDS-Transport
[ ] Windows Server Update Services OOB-WSUS
[X] .NET Framework 3.5.1 Features NET-Framework
[X] .NET Framework 3.5.1 NET-Framework-Core
[ ] WCF Activation NET-Win-CFAC
[ ] HTTP Activation NET-HTTP-Activation
[ ] Non-HTTP Activation NET-Non-HTTP-Activ
[ ] Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) BITS
[ ] Compact Server BITS-Compact-Server
[ ] IIS Server Extension BITS-IIS-Ext
[ ] BitLocker Drive Encryption BitLocker
[ ] BranchCache BranchCache
[ ] Connection Manager Administration Kit CMAK
[ ] Desktop Experience Desktop-Experience
[ ] DirectAccess Management Console DAMC
[ ] Failover Clustering Failover-Clustering
[ ] Group Policy Management GPMC
[ ] Ink and Handwriting Services Ink-Handwriting
[ ] Ink Support IH-Ink-Support
[ ] Handwriting Recognition IH-Handwriting
[ ] Internet Printing Client Internet-Print-Client
[ ] Internet Storage Name Server ISNS
[ ] LPR Port Monitor LPR-Port-Monitor
[ ] Message Queuing MSMQ
[ ] Message Queuing Services MSMQ-Services
[ ] Message Queuing Server MSMQ-Server
[ ] Directory Service Integration MSMQ-Directory
[ ] Message Queuing Triggers MSMQ-Triggers
[ ] HTTP Support MSMQ-HTTP-Support
[ ] Multicasting Support MSMQ-Multicasting
[ ] Routing Service MSMQ-Routing
[ ] Message Queuing DCOM Proxy MSMQ-DCOM
[ ] Multipath I/O Multipath-IO
[ ] Network Load Balancing NLB
[ ] Peer Name Resolution Protocol PNRP
[ ] Quality Windows Audio Video Experience qWave
[ ] Remote Assistance Remote-Assistance
[ ] Remote Differential Compression RDC
[X] Remote Server Administration Tools RSAT
[X] Role Administration Tools RSAT-Role-Tools
[ ] Active Directory Certificate Services Tools RSAT-ADCS
[ ] Certification Authority Tools RSAT-ADCS-Mgmt
[ ] Online Responder Tools RSAT-Online-Responder
[X] AD DS and AD LDS Tools RSAT-AD-Tools
[X] AD DS Tools RSAT-ADDS
[X] AD DS Snap-Ins and Command-Line … RSAT-ADDS-Tools
[X] Active Directory Administrative … RSAT-AD-AdminCenter
[ ] Server for NIS Tools RSAT-SNIS
[ ] AD LDS Snap-Ins and Command-Line Tools RSAT-ADLDS
[X] Active Directory module for Windows … RSAT-AD-PowerShell
[ ] Active Directory Rights Management Servi… RSAT-RMS
[ ] DHCP Server Tools RSAT-DHCP
[ ] DNS Server Tools RSAT-DNS-Server
[ ] Fax Server Tools RSAT-Fax
[ ] File Services Tools RSAT-File-Services
[ ] Distributed File System Tools RSAT-DFS-Mgmt-Con
[ ] File Server Resource Manager Tools RSAT-FSRM-Mgmt
[ ] Services for Network File System Tools RSAT-NFS-Admin
[ ] Hyper-V Tools RSAT-Hyper-V
[ ] Network Policy and Access Services Tools RSAT-NPAS
[ ] Print and Document Services Tools RSAT-Print-Services
[ ] Remote Desktop Services Tools RSAT-RDS
[ ] Remote Desktop Session Host Tools RSAT-RDS-RemoteApp
[ ] Remote Desktop Gateway Tools RSAT-RDS-Gateway
[ ] Remote Desktop Licensing Tools RSAT-RDS-Licensing
[ ] Remote Desktop Connection Broker Tools RSAT-RDS-Conn-Broker
[ ] Web Server (IIS) Tools RSAT-Web-Server
[ ] Windows Deployment Services Tools RSAT-WDS
[ ] Feature Administration Tools RSAT-Feature-Tools
[ ] BitLocker Drive Encryption Administratio… RSAT-BitLocker
[ ] BitLocker Drive Encryption Tools RSAT-Bitlocker-DriveEnc
[ ] BitLocker Recovery Password Viewer RSAT-Bitlocker-RecPwd
[ ] BITS Server Extensions Tools RSAT-Bits-Server
[ ] Failover Clustering Tools RSAT-Clustering
[ ] Network Load Balancing Tools RSAT-NLB
[ ] SMTP Server Tools RSAT-SMTP
[ ] WINS Server Tools RSAT-WINS
[ ] RPC over HTTP Proxy RPC-over-HTTP-Proxy
[ ] Simple TCP/IP Services Simple-TCPIP
[ ] SMTP Server SMTP-Server
[ ] SNMP Services SNMP-Services
[ ] SNMP Service SNMP-Service
[ ] SNMP WMI Provider SNMP-WMI-Provider
[ ] Storage Manager for SANs Storage-Mgr-SANS
[ ] Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications Subsystem-UNIX-Apps
[ ] Telnet Client Telnet-Client
[ ] Telnet Server Telnet-Server
[ ] TFTP Client TFTP-Client
[ ] Windows Biometric Framework Biometric-Framework
[ ] Windows Internal Database Windows-Internal-DB
[ ] Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environm… PowerShell-ISE
[ ] Windows Process Activation Service WAS
[ ] Process Model WAS-Process-Model
[ ] .NET Environment WAS-NET-Environment
[ ] Configuration APIs WAS-Config-APIs
[ ] Windows Server Backup Features Backup-Features
[ ] Windows Server Backup Backup
[ ] Command-line Tools Backup-Tools
[ ] Windows Server Migration Tools Migration
[ ] Windows System Resource Manager WSRM
[ ] Windows TIFF IFilter TIFF-IFilter
[ ] WinRM IIS Extension WinRM-IIS-Ext
[ ] WINS Server WINS-Server
[ ] Wireless LAN Service Wireless-Networking
[ ] XPS Viewer XPS-Viewer
- With all of the required Features installed we can now run DCpromo.exe to finish the install of our Domain Controller, New Domain, or New Forest.
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