bonezzz Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Well, setting up a image for SRV 2008 & trying to install exchange 2007. added the role for AD Domain Services. how should i deal with dcpromo & the issue of naming the domain... since it is a test lab and i do not need to control a domain so when entering something like test.lab23.com or any non registered real domain will produce errors down the line with the dns servers.any help will help, thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 When building a lab that will not be accessible anywhere but in the virtual network, I tend to use any old domain name. You will get errors about DNS delegation, but that isn't an issue when setting up a DC on an isolated network and you can click "Yes" to continue. For my DCs in test labs, I usually install DHCP, DNS, and AD DS, and then run dcpromo (saving the configuration log on the first run, so I can re-use it every other time I rebuild the domain). Again, if you have an isolated network, you will get one DNS delegation error on dcpromo, but it can be safely ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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