Validating and Configuring Active Directory Requirements

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager installation has mandatory and optional AD requirements:

Mandatory: All site systems must be members of an AD domain. You must use a domain user account that is a local administrator on the site server for the installation.

Optional: You can extend the AD forest schema to support the publishing of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager data. Though the schema extension is optional, there are many benefits and feature dependencies discussed in Chapter 4. The schema extension step and configuration is discussed in Chapter 3, “Looking Inside Configuration Manager.” (There are no changes in the schema if you previously extended it for ConfigMgr ...

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