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Monday, 11 July 2016

Install and Configure DNS in Windows Server 2012

  •  Once you have access to windows server 2012, on the home screen search    for "Server Manager" as depicted below.      




  •       Open Server Manager



  •        Click on "Manage" and choose "Add roles and Features"



  •        Choose "Role based or feature-based installation". Click on Next



  •       On Server Roles select "DNS Server" and click on Next



  •        Click on Next on all other installation steps by which the installation will start.



  •        Once the DNS Server is installed, your Dashboard will depict DNS.


  •     Click on Tools  and then click on DNS so that DNS Manager will be launched



  •     Below is how a default DNS Manager configuration will look like



  •     Now you can add an Authoritative Zone on this DNS Server. You can also add delegation which in our case is "gslb".
  •  Click on "Action" and then click on "New Zone". Click on Next. Then click on "Primary   Zone" and then select "Forward Lookup Zone". Mention the Zone Name , Don't allow    Dynamic Updates and then click on Next and Finish.




  •      Conditional Forwarders [to access resources in some other authoritative domain] and Global Forwarders [To access resources hosted in internet] can be added as suggested below.



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