
In the left pane of the Settings app, click Ethernet under Network & Internet. Right click the network icon in the system tray in the bottom right of the taskbar and click Open Network & Internet settings. Log in to Windows Server 2019 with a local administrator account.

To complete the instructions below, you will need to have an account with administrator privileges in Windows Server 2019.īefore you configure AD on your server, you should make sure that the server’s network adapter has been assigned a valid static IP address on your local network. Your server will be the first DC in a new AD forest and domain. The second step is to configure your server as a domain controller. The first is to install the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) server role.

There are two steps to installing AD in Windows Server 2019. Alternatively, you can set up AD in Windows Server 2019 Server Core using Server Manager running on a remote device. We’ll be using Server Manager to install and configure AD, so you’ll need to be running a version of Windows Server 2019 that includes the Desktop Experience server role.

In this article, I show you how to install your first Windows Server 2019 Active Directory (AD) domain controller (DC).
