TABLE OF CONTENTS With the release of Windows NT 4.0 in August of 1996, the Domain Name Service (DNS) Server entered the Microsoft Windows Server market, allowing for the first time an out-of-the-box solution for host name to IP address resolution in your Microsoft Windows TCP/IP network environment. Before this time, backend Microsoft shops were reliant upon third-party DNS solutions, like MetaIP or Berkley s BIND implementation. This created some configuration headaches and compatibility problems.
With the introduction of DNS into the Windows operating system, Microsoft started to tackle just one of the customer-dependant needs that have made them such a market leader in today s network operating systems shuffle. Since then, the Microsoft DNS Service has become the central brain for all communication within your native Active Directory Windows environment.
With this chapter, we will focus on installing, configuring, and integrating the Windows Server 2003 DNS service in your current environment. We will also discuss some basic monitoring and troubleshooting steps guided to help you solve some of the more common DNS problems facing most administrators today.
EXAM 70-291 OBJECTIVE 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2
Installing the DNS server service into your Windows Server 2003 computer can be done in a number of different ways. For many, it will be installed via the first installation of a domain controller during the construction of a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain implementation. Others will find that a simple upgrade from their current Windows...
