I was working with a large Exchange 2010 migration and had 50+ Accepted Domains in Exchange 2010 to take care of, many of them very old so nobody could tell me if they were in use. This company also had gone through many changes so we had to verify that each accepted domain had the correct MX record specified in the public DNS. The external domains were hosted on external DNS:es and the mailgateways were 3rd party. So instead of [...]
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These are my best practices when it comes to setting up DNS and DHCP at a new customer site. Of course, many settings are on case-by-case basis, but this is where I start. Feel free to comment if you have any suggestions! First, there are some basics which I probably don't need to mention, but here goes... DNS Setup (at least, depending on your setup) two DNS-servers. As for zone settings, I setup: Rest of the tabs are quite self [...]
So you had this Windows Domain Controller also running DNS on the network for years and years. Uninstalling the Domain Controller role is not a problem since computers will start using another DC on the network. But what about the DNS role? You might have a bunch of servers and clients using it, but how do you know? Many clients run DHCP but all those devices configured with a static IP configuration like servers, clients, printers, switches, routers and other [...]
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