I'm working on a client's network, and have noticed that old DNS records are
not being scavenged. From what I can tell, everything is configured properly:
- Zone is AD integrated
- IP addresses in question are being assigned via DHCP

My network has 2 DC's.  DC1 is already setup with DNS.  Works fine.  
DC2 does not have DNS installed, so, when I drop DC1, the network, well, ya
know.
I decided to install DNS on DC2, but it wants to install it either as

I'm new to managing the DNS entries on our server.  We're a small
company so i'm learning fast.
Basically we have one main server ServerX that all the computers in
our office us for DNS.

Microsft KB816592(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816592) said,
windows 2003 server will dynamic update its DNS record every 24 hours
with DNS server. How do I know it really happen? Is there any way I
can track this event?

We are setting up a new branch office. The office has VPN connectivity to
our HQ office and I have just promoted a new local DC in the branch office by
pointing it AD integrated DNS servers in the HQ office.
I am now trying to install an AD integrated DNS server on the DC in teh

Hi
I want setup dynamic DNS update via linux dhcp, but completly I don't known
how to do it. I have 2003 dns with integrated dns zone and only secure update
allowed.

During a domain rename stunt, I realized that the GUI dns 'manager' had
lost vital objects (or icons).
Normally, in the dns gui's left pane the following icons / folders are
present:

I've recently changed the IP address of my domain controller (running
Windows 2003).
After the change, events 1058 and 1030 are logged every 5 minutes.
The event looks like this:

Hey.  I was wondering if I should cluster or load balance DNS servers on
WIndows 2003.  These are not Active Directory servers are being used as
external name servers.
I would like to load balance if possible, but I don't know how to change the

I have  AD integrated DNS running on my Windows 2003 domain located on a
10.10.1.x subnet. Everything is running fine. There are correct entries for
forward and reverse lookup records. I added a second subnet 10.10.3.x which
is part of my domain. It has its own DC w/DNS server ...

I have a question about a new server, VPN, and DNS.
I am getting this Company that i am doing contract IT for a new Windows 2003
Standard Server, and i was wondering about a few things.
1.  Their website is hosted offsite.

In our domain, we have some servers with static IP address.
The domain name is like ourcompany.domain.
The servers are named server1 and server 2.
I'd like to redirect all subdomains "server1" and "server2" to the correct

So we have a file server in production called "filesrv1".  There are
a  lot of *.xls files are stored on this machine.   The *.xls have
macros and links within them.  The problem is, the person that created
these macros and links hard coded "filesrv1" within them.  So...now

I have a server named server and domain named mywebsite.com
There www site www.mywebsite.com is hosted at an ISP
How do I configure a windows 2003 DNS to goto this outside website for
www.mywebsite.com

We currently have 4 (2003 ent server) DC’s doing various roles (none of
these are dns servers) and 1 DC as an active directory integrated dns.  I
just setup another dns server to replace our original.  It takes like 20 min
to boot up.  I have the new dns as primary pointing to ...