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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition

You're reading from Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook, Fifth Edition Powerful ways to automate, manage, and administrate Windows Server 2022 using PowerShell 7.2

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804614235

Length 714 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Thomas Lee

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise

3. Exploring .NET

4. Managing Active Directory

5. Managing Networking

6. Implementing Enterprise Security

7. Managing Storage

8. Managing Shared Data

9. Managing Printing

10. Exploring Windows Containers

11. Managing Hyper-V

12. Debugging and Troubleshooting Windows Server

13. Managing Windows Server with Window Management Instrumentation (WMI)

14. Managing Windows Update Services

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

16. Index

Implementing DNS in the Enterprise

When you installed Active Directory in Chapter 4, you created a single DNS server on DC1. When you added a replica DC, DC2, and the child domain with UKDC1, you did not set up any additional DNS server in your forest. You always want to configure your clients and servers to use at least two DNS servers. In an enterprise organization, this is a best practice. For servers with a static DNS setting, you should also update the DHCP DNS server option settings to ensure that your DHCP servers 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 to interact with older servers that may not be capable...

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Authors (1)

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is a consultant/trainer/writer based in the UK and has been in the IT business since the late 1960s. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University, Thomas joined ComShare where he was a systems programmer building the Commander II time-sharing operating system, a forerunner of today's cloud computing paradigm. In the mid-1970s, he moved to ICL to work on the VME/K operating system. After a sabbatical in 1980/81, he joined Accenture, leaving in 1988 to run his own consulting and training business, which is still active today. Thomas holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including MCSE (one of the first in the world) and later versions, MCT (25 years), and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award 17 times.

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