Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring

To install Active Directory and DNS using the Server Manager. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson Select Server Manager. Or from the Quick Launch Taskbar. Select Roles. Then Add Roles. Before you continue verify that; You can skip this page by default. Click Next to continue Select Active Directory Domain Services. There…

Before installing DNS it is imperative that the server has a static IP address. DNS is installed using the Server Manager Utility. N.B. DNS is not available on Windows Server 2008 Web Edition or machines running Windows XP or Vista. Although DNS can be remotely managed from these machines. Use the buttons below to navigate…

Primary DNS Servers A DNS Server contains zone files. If a DNS Server is authoritative over a zone file, it has full control over it. A Primary DNS Server can update, make additions to, modify and delete records in the zone file. The Primary DNS Server is the only place modifications to the domain can…

WINS worked well for internal networks as all machines are part of the same organisation. However, with the advent of the Internet where there are many networks connected, a method of structuring names became essential. A flat database, such as WINS, would be too cumbersome, as the resolver would have to search the entire database…

Name resolution is a method of reconciling an IP address to a user friendly computer name. Originally networks used host files to resolve names to IP addresses. They came in the form of a text file that the computer accessed if name resolution was required. All the computers on the network and their IP address…