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Posted inActive Directory DNS PowerShell

New Script: Update Active Directory DNS Reverse Lookup Zones from Sites and Services Subnets (Update-ReverseZonesFromSubnets.ps1)

While Active Directory (AD) does not need DNS Reverse Lookup Zones, most Citrix and VMware products do. If you are visiting my website, you probably use Citrix and VMware products.  If you have heard or read any of my AD conference or CUGC presentations, you know how important AD Sites and Services Subnets and DNS Reverse Lookup Zones are to Citrix and VMware.

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Posted inDHCP

The Mysterious Microsoft DHCP Option ID 81

Recently I worked on a project where I needed to create a PowerShell script to automate the creation of numerous Microsoft DHCP servers and all their scopes, scope options, reservations, all settings. The original DHCP servers were in an old Active Directory domain, and a new AD Forest was created with a different networking scheme. I used the output from the DHCP documentation script to gather all the info needed, but there was one scope option that had me stumped.