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Mastering Active Directory
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Mastering Active Directory

by Dishan Francis
June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Secondary zone

A secondary zone keeps a read-only copy of a primary zone. It needs to refresh the zone data by contacting the primary zone hosted on another server. Network connectivity and zone transfer permissions are used to maintain a secondary zone. Secondary zones cannot be stored in AD DS.

I have an AD-integrated primary zone running. I have a standalone DNS server, and for application requirement, I need to set up a secondary zone in it.

Before the secondary zone setup, I need to adjust the permission for zone transfer. By default, zone transfer is not allowed in AD DS-integrated zones:

Set-DnsServerPrimaryZone -Name "rebeladmin.net" -SecureSecondaries TransferToSecureServers -SecondaryServers 192.168.0.106

In the preceding command, ...

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