Configuring a Windows Domain Controller (DC) using puppet

[Harsh Desai]

Hi

Has anyone tried configuring a windows 2008 server as a Domain controller using puppet manifests?

I am looking for the DC to act as a DHCP, DNS server and setup Active Directory Domain services.

Thanks

Harsh

[Rich Siegel]

I wrote this for managing dns.
https://github.com/rismoney/puppet-windns

If you want to build a dc, dcpromo creates and uses a scripted unattended file.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732887.aspx

You could easily use an exec resource to run dcpromo. Use an unless param script to see if target is a dc already.

Dhcp shouldn't be colo on a dc, but you could add roles with dism module and leverage powershell module to do anything you want. In 2012 dcpromo is powershell...

HTH,
Rich

[Harsh Desai]

Hi Rich

dcpromo.exe with an answers file is a great idea. Thanks for that ! This will give me a machine with DC and DNS (but not a DHCP server).

Since I am working with a test environment, I will be having DHCP, DNS and DC on the same 2008 R2 machine. Do you have references I can use to add a DHCP role too? I am not too familiar with dism.

Thanks

Harsh