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How to configure Active Directory Domain Services Configuration if i dont have a domain.

problem statement I have a server and i want to install RDS inorder to have session based virtualisation so that 5-6 users can access this server .

so i wanted to install RDS from adding roles and features. when i start this process i get an error saying local server must be joined to the domain to complete the RDS installation

please help me out

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  • So this question is a little confusing. Are you asking for help setting up RDS without a domain, or for help creating a domain that you can use to complete your RDS install?
    – Rob Moir
    Oct 20, 2013 at 8:21
  • i wanted to create a domain and then complete RDS install. I hope that i have created a domain using ad ds wizard.
    – shiva
    Oct 20, 2013 at 10:37

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RDS requires the server to be a domain member for this scenario. If I recall correctly, it won't behave properly on a domain controller either, so it needs to specifically be a domain member server.

Therefore, what I would suggest if this is a physical server, is installing a DC and the RDS server as two different virtualised servers on top of a HyperV host. If that doesn't work for you then you may need to completely re-think what you're trying to accomplish.

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  • robm what i have done is i promoted my server to be the domain controller using active directory domain service configuration. I want to ask you , if i can go and change my server to the domain that i have created and then go ahead installing RDS
    – shiva
    Oct 20, 2013 at 10:36
  • If you've promoted the server you were trying to install RDS on to a DC then you don't need to make that server a member of the domain - Domain Controllers are always members of their own domains, if you see what I mean. As for installing RDS on the DC, you can certainly install some of the roles, maybe even all of them (I'm not sure offhand), so by all means have a go. I'd still say you'd be better off creating two virtual servers using HyperV and splitting the DC and RDS roles up, depending on what the 6 users who you're trying to give access to are planning to do with that access.
    – Rob Moir
    Oct 20, 2013 at 11:10
  • RobM thanks a lot for answering these questions. I am a novice in this field. So my questions may seem very childish. I want to give these users access to only certain applications.for ex nodejs to one particular user and some other app to someone else. I dont want them to do a RDP to the server. So i want to create a session virtualization and provide restricted access.
    – shiva
    Oct 20, 2013 at 11:40
  • @shiva in that case I'd definitely go back to setting this up with separate servers in hyperv.
    – Rob Moir
    Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45
  • Is this a new requirement of 2012? Oct 20, 2013 at 22:53

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