Configuring DNS Integration with Active Directory

There are many benefits to integrating Active Directory and DNS services:

  • You can configure and manage replication along with other Active Directory components.
  • You can automate much of the maintenance of DNS resource records through the use of dynamic updates.
  • You will be able to set specific security options on the various properties of the DNS service.

Exercise 3.5 shows the steps that you can take to ensure that these integration features are enabled. You’ll look at the various DNS functions that are specific to interoperability with Active Directory.

Before you begin this exercise, make sure that the local machine is configured as an Active Directory domain controller and that DNS services ...

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