How do you create an Active Directory-integrated zone?

Answer 1

1. Click Start, Administrative Tools, and then click DNS to open the DNS console.

2. In the console tree, select the DNS server that you want to create a new DNS zone.

3. From the Action menu, click the New Zone option.

4. On the initial page of the New Zone Wizard, click Next.

5. Select the zone type that you want to create. The options are Primary, to create a new standard primary zone; Secondary, to create a copy of the primary zone; and Stub, to create a copy of zone but for only the NS record, SOA record, and the glue A record.

6. Select the default selected option - Primary zone.

7. To integrate the new zone with Active Directory, and if the DNS server is a domain controller; then you can select the Store the zone in Active Directory (available only if DNS server is a domain controller) checkbox.

8. Click Next.

9. On the Active Directory Zone Replication Scope page, accept the default setting for DNS replication: To all domain controllers in the Active Directory domain. Click Next.

10. Select the Forward lookup zone option on the following page which is displayed by the New Zone Wizard, and then click Next. 1

11. Enter a zone name for the new zone. Click Next. 1

12. The options that you can select on the following page pertain to dynamic updates. The Allow only secure dynamic updates (recommended for Active Directory) option is only available if you are using Active Directory-integrated zones. Click Next. 1

13. Click Finish to add the new zone to your DNS server.