DNS

Active Directory DNS role by default was installed during the installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory in my earlier post. DNS is comprised of two zones “Forward Lookup Zone – Resolves hostname to IP address” and “Reverse Lookup Zone – Resolves IP address to hostname”. In this post I will configure the Reverse Lookup Zone which isn’t configured by default. Requirements: Ensure Active Directory had been installed. Refer to this post

[table id=1 /] When a server is promoted to a Domain Controller, the following event logs are created “DFS Replication, Directory Service, DNS Server and File Replication Service“. As best practice (but not compulsory), set the Maximum Log size for each of the above events to 20mb.