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Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
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Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
Sams
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Active Directory-Integrated Zones

The most dramatic change in Windows 2000’s DNS implementation was the concept of directory-integrated DNS zones, known as AD-integrated zones. These zones were stored in Active Directory, as opposed to a text file as in standard DNS. When the Active Directory was replicated, the DNS zone was replicated as well. This also allowed for secure updates, using Kerberos authentication, as well as the concept of multimaster DNS, in which no one server is the master server and all DNS servers contain a writable copy of the zone.

Windows Server 2012, like Windows Server 2008, utilizes AD-integrated zones, but with one major change to the design: Instead of storing the zone information directly in the naming contexts of ...

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