This is an excellent tutorial:
It is helpful ahead of time to get a a grasp and have listed the following: domain name, NetBIOS name, FQDN because it will be asked during the setup.
Our actual domain address is riverviewpediatrics.org, but our domain name for our network could be anything. It's best to keep it short or you will have a weird NetBIOS name which Windows continues to make necessary. So, it will ask for your:
domain: (you could make it something short of what would be your actual domain address if you have one or if you are going to have one. So if the name of your office is Best Family Practices and you were going to have a
www.bestfamilypractices.com, you may choose familypractices as your domain name. So:
domain: familypractices, so your inside domain name would be familypractices.local
NetBIOS: Windows chooses the first 15 characters of your domain
Each client after joining the domain would have a Fully Qualified Domain Name:
FQDN: reception.familypractices.local
http://greigmitchell.wordpress.com/...dows-domain-with-windows-server-2008-r2/Attaching a client computer to the domain:
http://www.petri.co.il/joining_a_domain_in_windows_xp_pro.htmI am not as familiar as setting up a domain manually as the Small Business Servers do everything based on wizards. The domain controller is already promoted and active directory is already established, and it is as simply as going to each client and typing:
http://connect in a browser and the rest is done for your.
Windows Server 2008 uses a wizard-like setup once you type dcpromo in the Run command.
Of course, a Microsoft SMB specialist could set it up for you in under two hours.
