Domain Controller Best Practices

How to set up a domain controller best practices.

Domain controller best practices. Backup domain controller considerations. Backing up domain controller. Read the full series.

Configure a stand alone server for your domain controller. There are a few more best practices which can help to maintain a healthy domain controller. Update static ip addresses that are pointing to decommissioned domain controller.

The pdce creates this group when that fsmo role transfers to a windows server 2012 domain controller. Always start by assessing your situation before you begin determine what you want your final domain controller situation to look like how small failures will be handled and how you ll recover from any catastrophic disasters. If you are using azure ad as your domain controller you can ignore this step.

An rodc is a new type of domain controller that hosts read only partitions of the active directory database. Avoid direct login to domain controllers for day to day work. Microsoft strongly recommends that you register a public domain and use subdomains for the internal dns.

Demote domain controller to a member server. If not your dc should act exclusively as a dc. How to back up a physical domain controller.

Limit both physical and remote access to your dc as much as possible. Remove server from sites and services. Restrict membership of critical groups like administrators schema admins enterprise admins domain admins.