Convert From Workgroup To Domain

[muchservices]

Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition install setup as workgroup rather than domain. Need to convert from workgroup to domain.

 

Any published articles on this conversion process.

 

Please advise.

 

 

 

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[mmthomas]

Here is a short article on running dcpromo.exe on Server 2008. That will install active directory and DNS if it isn't already installed. You will need to know what you want to call your domain (yourcompany.local is pretty standard). If you have something (your server, a router) providing DHCP already, you will want it to give out the server's IP address for DNS after this change rather than your ISP's DNS.

 

After that is complete and the server is restarted and running, create active directory user accounts for your users.

 

Join your workstations to the domain. Win XP or Win 7

 

That is the very basics. If you are going to have shared drives on the servers, you will need to set permissions on the shares for people to access.

[muchservices]

Thank You - so MUCH - this helps me greatly.

 

Kirk