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If you create new Conditional Forwarder then you will need to restart Domain Controller or DNS service on PDC
My friends found interesting issue. If you create a conditional forwarder (and you do it on PDC) then conditional forwarder will work on all other DNS servers (Domain Controllers) except PDC. This behavior was tested on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2. The solution is to restart DNS service or whole PDC.
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 5 – DNS configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. DNS Servers Your serves point to your DNS servers (your DCs) so you may change configuration of the DNS servers. Bug in Windows Server 2012 –…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 4 – Advanced configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Create a central store for GPO administrative templates You should do this for every domain that you create because it is always easier to do that…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 3 – Active Directory – Installation and basic configuration
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Naming domain Naming domain is very important step. It is not a problem to use local TLD in the testing environment but I will rather use the…
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Building Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual Domain Controller on Hyper-V host – Part 2 – Installing DC as a Virtual Machine
This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we need these DCs for our Hyper-V cluster that we are using in our Cloud series. Hyper-V VM installation In the previous article we discussed how to configure hardware for our first virtual machines that will be our Domain Controllers. Now we have to…