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Installing a site hierarchy

Installing a site hierarchy

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Installing a site hierarchy

- In this demonstration, we're going to install the central administrative site via the stand-alone primary site expansion. So, the first thing we need to do is go to the force root domain controller and add the new computer accounts, that are going to be new site servers in this case. We're going to have to put them into the ownership or full control of the system management folder in the active directory. So, we're going to Tools and we're going to go to ADSI Edit. In ADSI Edit, we need to add a naming contact, so we're going to say Connect to, and then in this case we want to connect to, in the connection settings, the default naming context and then expand the default naming context. Expand through the domain name and then go down to the system folder and find the system management folder. And what we want to do in the system management folder is right click it and go to Properties and then the Security tab. So, in this case you see the NORTHAM-CFG2$, which is the computer account…

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