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Recipe 13.5 Moving AD-Integrated Zones into an Application Partition
13.5.1 ProblemYou want to move AD-integrated zones into an application partition. 13.5.2 Solution13.5.2.1 Using a graphical user interface
13.5.2.2 Using a command-line interfaceThe following command will move a zone to the default application partition that replicates across all domain controllers that are DNS servers in the domain: > dnscmd <DNSServerName> /zonechangedirectorypartition <ZoneName> /domain 13.5.2.3 Using VBScriptAt the time of publication of this book, the DNS WMI Provider did not support programmatically moving a zone into an application partition. 13.5.3 DiscussionWith Windows 2000 Active Directory, if you had AD-integrated zones, those zones were replicated to every domain controller in the domain where they were stored. In many cases, not every domain controller also serves as a DNS server, which results in increased and unnecessary traffic to replicate changes with the zone(s). Windows Server 2003 provides an elegant solution to this issue by using application partitions. Application partitions are user-defined partitions that can be configured to replicate with any domain controller in a forest. This provides a lot more flexibility for how you store and replicate your AD-integrated zones. You could, in fact, have a couple domain controllers from each domain act as DNS servers for all of your AD domains. 13.5.4 See AlsoChapter 17 for more information on application partitions |
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