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Chapter 9. Promoting and Demoting a Doma... > Promoting a DC with dcpromo
Promoting a DC with dcpromo
You use the dcpromo wizard to promote a Windows Server 2008 server to a domain controller (DC). The dcpromo wizard is a rich wizard that enables you to promote a server to a DC. The following steps show how to run dcpromo to promote a server as the first DC in the first domain of a forest. In these steps, the domain is named pearson.pub.
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The server should have a statically assigned IP address. Also, it’s best to ensure that you have named the server before starting the process. You can rename the server after it’s promoted, but this occasionally causes problems. It’s easier to avoid the problems by renaming it before promoting it.
