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Hey, Scripting Guy! What can I do with Windows PowerShell to manage my DNS infrastructure?<\/p>\n<\/b><\/p>\n
Summary<\/b>: Manage DNS in a Windows environment by using Windows PowerShell. Guest Blogger Richard Siddaway shows how to do it in a simple and effective manner.<\/p>\n
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Hey, Scripting Guy! What can I do with Windows PowerShell to manage my DNS infrastructure?<\/p>\n
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Hello RS, <\/p>\n
Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I am happy to announce that this is Guest Blogger Week. I love to host these guest bloggers because they give our readers a glimpse into other professionals\u2019 minds and knowledge. Today, we have Richard Siddaway. Richard is a technical architect for Serco in the United Kingdom. He works on transformation projects in the local government and commercial arena. With more than 20 years of experience in various aspects of information technology, Richard specializes in the Microsoft environment at an architectural level, especially around Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, and infrastructure optimization. <\/p>\n
Richard is always looking for the opportunity to automate a process, preferably with Windows PowerShell. Richard founded and currently leads the UK Windows PowerShell User Group. Microsoft has recognized his technical expertise and community activities by presenting him with a Microsoft Most Valued Professional award. Richard has presented to the Directory Experts Conference, at various events at Microsoft in the UK and Europe, and for other UK User Groups. He has a number of articles and technical publications to his credit, and his first print book has recently been released. The subject? Windows PowerShell, of course.<\/p>\n
Blog: http:\/\/msmvps.com\/blogs\/RichardSiddaway\/Default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n Book details: http:\/\/www.manning.com\/siddaway<\/a><\/p>\n Take it away, Richard\u2026<\/p>\n _______<\/p>\n RS, the short answer to the question about using Windows PowerShell to manage DNS is that you can do anything you want. The longer answer is that you have to work at it a bit. Some areas of working with DNS have already been blogged about by Ed Wilson of the Microsoft Scripting Guys. Here are links to his articles:<\/p>\n Windows PowerShell doesn\u2019t have any way of directly working with DNS. However, there is a great set of WMI classes. They are installed automatically when DNS is installed. At this point, you might be groaning \u201cI don\u2019t like WMI; it\u2019s too hard\u201d. It used to be. Windows PowerShell has brilliant WMI support that makes using it easy and well worth spending a bit of time learning, as you will see.<\/p>\n A new namespace is created for the DNS WMI classes: root\\MicrosoftDNS<\/b>. Because we are using WMI, we can access the DNS server remotely (which makes administration easier). The classes available to work with DNS can be found by using Windows PowerShell:<\/p>\n\n
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