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Greg here with a quick post where the new DNS PowerShell cmdlets in AD made a task much easier. Many of our customers use Microsoft DNS and a feature of Microsoft DNS is the ability to remove stale records. By default this feature is disabled and some people never enable it, and others disable...

Here’s an interesting question that came to us from one of the readers. If you have a question for us, don't forget that you can contact us using the Contact tile just to the right of this article when viewed from our TechNet blog . Question: With an AD-Integrated zone, when a record is added or updated...

Hey y’all, Mark here again. When visiting a customer PFEs tend to get a bunch of questions that have been “saved up” over time. One of my frequent customers always has a massive list for me when I get there. If they are reading this, they know who they are. Many of these questions are the types where...

Fellow PFE and blogger Michael “Hilde” Hildebrand makes a great case for being able to inventory the IP configuration of your hosts – especially those that have static IP configurations (like most of your servers). For example, audit the DNS server search order (primary and secondary...

If the title of this blog hasn’t already put you off, you’re probably interested in the interaction between Microsoft DNS and DHCP services . Specifically, you should understand how Microsoft DHCP servers can be configured to dynamically register A and PTR records in DNS on behalf of their...

Hi, my name is Doug Gabbard and also a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) with Microsoft for about the past 8 years.  I hope to add to the Ask PFE Platform blog with the others already here.  I get the opportunity to see challenges our customers face and how they resolve them.  I hope to share...

Introduction With the introduction of Windows 2003 and the new DNS application partitions, I have helped numerous customers resolve the issue of having multiple copies of the same DNS zone. So, today we're going to cover the following: 1.) What exactly does this mean? 2.) What are the symptoms...