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