Active Directory, Second Edition

Creating and Manipulating Zones

The MicrosoftDNS_Zone class provides a plethora of properties and methods to aid in managing your zones. Even if you are using AD-integrated zones, which help reduce the amount of work it takes to maintain DNS, you will inevitably need to configure settings on a zone or create additional zones. In Table 27-3 and Table 27-4, the list of available properties and methods for the MicrosoftDNS_Zone class are presented.

Table 27-3. MicrosoftDNS_Zone class properties

Property name	Property description
AllowUpdate	Flag indicating whether dynamic updates are allowed.
AutoCreated	Flag indicating whether the zone was auto-created.
DataFile	Name of zone file.
DisableWINSRecordReplication	If TRUE, WINS record replication is disabled.
MastersIPAddressesArray	If zone is a secondary, this contains the list of master servers to receive updates from.
Notify	If set to 1, the master server will notify secondaries of zone updates.
NotifyIPAddressesArray	Servers that will be notified when there are updates to the zone.
Paused	Flag indicating whether the zone is paused and therefore not responding to requests.
Reverse	If TRUE, zone is a reverse (in-addr.arpa) zone. If FALSE, zone is a forward zone.
SecondariesIPAddressesArray	Servers allowed to receive zone transfers.
SecureSecondaries	Flag indicating whether zone transfers are allowed only to servers specified in SecondariesIPAddressesArray.
Shutdown	If TRUE, zone has expired (or shutdown).
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