{"id":9714,"date":"2024-12-10T23:44:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2024-12-10T23:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:44:34","slug":"promoting-a-windows-2022-server-to-domain-controller-and-dns-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/promoting-a-windows-2022-server-to-domain-controller-and-dns-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting a Windows 2022 server to Domain Controller and DNS Server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I asked myself what tangible artifacts present on a file system can immediately tell us that the server system in place is a Domain Controller and\/or DNS server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to run a simple experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I installed a test version of Windows Server 2022, took a snapshot of the file system, then added DC and DNS capabilities, then took a snapshot of a file system again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The (slightly edited) diff of these 2 can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/hexacorn.com\/d\/win_srv_2022_dc_dns_diff.txt\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked myself what tangible artifacts present on a file system can immediately tell us that the server system in place is a Domain Controller and\/or DNS server. I decided to run a simple experiment. I installed a test version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/promoting-a-windows-2022-server-to-domain-controller-and-dns-server\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hexacorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}