Pi-Hole config for Windows Server 2019 Domain Controller

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Hello everyone,

Recently, I have setup successfully Pi-Hole on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Tested and worked fine with individual PC.
However, I want to implement the Pi-hole server on the Windows Server 2019, running as Active Directory and Domain Controller. Under this DC, we have 5 PC joined its domain. My goal is to setup Pi-hole on the DC and hopefully, it could block the Ads for the server and 5 PC which joined its domain
Any idea how I can do this?
Thank you very much

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You mean actually running Pi-hole on the DC itself? I don't think you'll be able to do that without some virtualization or docker.

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Sorry for the confusion.
No, I actually want to config the DC to use Pi-Hole as DNS server so that all joined computers can have the Ads blocked from the server level.
I have tried the configuration of DNS forwarders but somehow, the Ads are in visible on the joined computers...
Any idea?

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Can you provide some more details of what you have configured and where you have configured it?

Can you show the ipconfig /all DNS servers output on a client? And pihole -d? Does nslookup pi.hole work? And nslookup doubleclick.net?

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Nevermind, I have figured this out below

  • Open DNS Manager from your Windows server
  • Right-click on the machine from the left panel, select "Properties"
  • Go to "Forwarder" tab and add your Pi-Hole IP address
  • Deselect "Root hints" option right below
  • (Optional, Save it first) Delete the list of the servers in the "Root Hints" tab

That's about it. All domain-joined computer can now benefit from Ad-blocked features from Pi-Hole server.

Hope it helps someone like me :slight_smile:

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