use Automated Promotion of windows 2003 or windows 2008 DC

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 14:48

for automated Promotion of windows 2003 or windows 2008 Domain Controller using an answer file write the
following line in command line:

dcpromo /answer:<PathToYourAnswerFile>

dcpromo answer file may look like this:

[DCINSTALL]
UserName=director
Password=Password1111
UserDomain=latino.com
DatabasePath=%systemroot%\ntds
LogPath=%systemroot%\ntds
SYSVOLPath=%systemroot%\sysvol
SafeModeAdminPassword=DSrestoreModePassword
CriticalReplicationOnly=no
ReplicaOrNewDomain=Replica
ReplicaDomainDNSName=latino.com
RebootOnSuccess=yes
CreateOrJoin=Join