Moving AD-Integrated DNS Zones to Application Partitions

The final step in a Windows Server 2012 Active Directory upgrade is to move any AD-integrated DNS zones into the newly created application partitions that Windows Server 2008 R2 uses to store DNS information. To accomplish this, follow these steps:

1. Launch DNS Manager.

2. Navigate to DNS\<Servername>\Forward Lookup Zones and select the zone to be moved.

3. Right-click the zone to be moved, and click Properties.

4. Click the Change button to the right of the replication description.

5. Select either To All DNS Servers Running on Domain Controllers in This Forest or To All DNS Servers Running on Domain Controllers in This Domain, depending on the level of replication you want, as shown ...

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