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Windows Server "Longhorn" Nugget #2

I set out on a mission a couple of months ago to post  more about under-the-radar features in Windows Server "Longhorn"......there are a lot. 

So I was messing around with some DNS settings earlier today.....as I needed to setup some conditional forwarders.  To my pleasant surprise, I didnt need to drill into the properties of the DNS server to configure forwarder.....but rather the new interface has a node just for setting up conditional forwarders.  See?

COnditional Forwarders in DNS

 

Pretty neat? One part that I particuarly enjoyed was that it validated that the forwarder I typed in......what's more - I can choose to replicate this conditional forwarder to all my other servers that support AD-Integrated zones.

Cheers,

 

Ward

 

Published Monday, July 10, 2006 10:47 AM by WindowsServer

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Monday, July 10, 2006 4:34 PM by Brian W. McCann

# re: Windows Server "Longhorn" Nugget #2

Hey Ward,

Another tasty nugget I wrote about in an article on Longhorn was the rebirth of the System Configuration tool.  This little guy hasn't seen the "official" light of day since Windows 98.

Brian
Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:36 AM by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

# re: Windows Server "Longhorn" Nugget #2

Hi Ward,

AD-Integrated Forwarders are also available in Windows Server 2003. You only need to create the conditional forwarder using dnscmd.exe, afterwards youll see the forwarder in the MMC as DS-integrated. However new in Longhorn is that you are finally able to configure them in the MMC as well.

dnscmd /ZoneAdd myexample.net /DsForwarder 10.1.2.3

<img width="50%" height="50%" src="http://www.windowsserverfaq.org/weblog/ds-forwarder.jpg">

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner
http://msmvps.com/ulfbsimonweidner

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