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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Deploying DNS in the Enterprise

When you installed Active Directory in Chapter 6, Managing Active Directory, you added a single DNS server on DC1. When you added a replica DC, DC2, and when you added the child domain with UKDC1, you did not set up any additional DNS servers in your forest. In an enterprise organization, this is not best practice. You always want to configure your clients and servers so that they use at least two DNS servers. For servers with a static DNS setting, you should also update the DHCP DNS server option settings to ensure that your DHCP servers also provide two DNS server entries to DHCP clients.

In most organizations, there are several DNS service configuration options you may wish to set. These include whether to allow DNS server recursion on the server, the maximum size of the DNS cache, and whether to use Extended DNS (EDNS).

EDNS (also referred to as EDNS0 or, more recently, EDNS(0)) is an extension mechanism that enables more recent DNS servers...

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