Mastering DNS on Windows Server

Learn to Install, Configure and Troubleshoot a Windows DNS Server

What you'll learn:

• You will know what DNS is, and how it works.
• You will Master the DNS Manager Console - The foundation of DNS server management.
• You will Demonstrate proficiency by installing, configuring the DNS server role, mastering record types and queries.
• Maximize your experience level by creating Zones, Zone Replication and Zone Delegation, and installing DNS Security, and troubleshooting your DNS server.

This course is designed to provide you with a solid foundation for Windows DNSserver. You will learn by completing the following tasks. Here is a description of each section in the course.

• Section 1 - What is DNS

• Section 2 - What's New in DNSserver

• Section 3 - Installing the DNSServer Role

• Section 4 - The Hosts file, NETBIOS, DNSConsole, DNSrecord types, Creating the mytestzone forward lookup zone, DNSResource records, Recursive and Iterative queries.

• Section 5 - Understanding DNSZones, Creating a forward and Reverse Lookup Zone, Creating a secondary zone, Stub Zone creation, Implementing DNSforwarding, DNSConditional forwarding, Zone transfer.
  

• Section 6 - DNSDelegation, Domain Name System
  

• Section 7 - DNSSecurity techniques - Techniques overview, Configuring DNSCache locking, Configuring DNSSocket Pools, Configuring Response Rate Limiting.
  

• Section 8 - Advanced DNSTopics - Enabling Round Robin and Netmask ordering, IPV4 and IPV6 Root Hints, Configuring Recursion

• Section 9 - DNSSecurity - Windows DNSSecurity Overview, Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption, Installing DNSSEC, DNSSECclient installation.

• Section 10 - DNSPolicies - DNSPolicies, Configuring DNSFiltering, Configuring Split brain DNS policy, Configuring Selective Recursion policy, Configuring a Traffic Management policy.

• Section 11 - PowerShell for DNS - Intro to Powershell for DNS, PowerShell for DNSpart 2 thru 4.

• Section 12 - Troubleshooting DNSIssues - Troubleshooting Tools every ITpro must know, The event viewer, Subscriptions, Monitoring and debug logging, Troubleshooting DNSclient issues.

Great News - I have just added 14 lectures to my DNS course! Checkout the DNS Update promo in the New Features Section for details.

As a bonus, I just added a PowerShell for DNSsection. Here you will learn how to create DNS records all using Windows PowerShell.