Some active directory and configuring a new domain controller install 2008 r2 from the boot media to make things easier like especially when you need to create a domain or configure permissions you should know your computers name In the control panel under system settings and system change your computer name to something easy to remember (computername) to set up raid 1 go to the server manager in mmc and find the disk manager and open it so you see your active disk and when you do this you gotta have enough memory to backup a full disk image on another unallocated disk so go ahead and set the disks to dynamic and add a mirror of the system, boot and cache plug in the rj45 Ethernet cord to the network adapter or whatever one of the first things we have to do is set the ip and promote our machine to a domain controller go to the control panel in the network and sharing center adapter settings set the tcp/ip (198.168.100.2) and the subnet mask (255.255.255.0) and the def...