Mastering DNS on Windows Server

This course is designed to provide you with a solid foundation for Windows DNS server. You will learn by completing the following tasks. Here is a description of each section in the course.

• Section 1 - What is DNS

• Section 2 - What's New in DNS server

• Section 3 - Installing the DNS Server Role

• Section 4 - The Hosts file, NETBIOS, DNS Console, DNS record types, Creating the mytestzone forward lookup zone, DNS Resource records, Recursive and Iterative queries.

• Section 5 - Understanding DNS Zones, Creating a forward and Reverse Lookup Zone, Creating a secondary zone, Stub Zone creation, Implementing DNS forwarding, DNS Conditional forwarding, Zone transfer.
  

• Section 6 - DNS Delegation, Domain Name System
  

• Section 7 - DNS Security techniques - Techniques overview, Configuring DNS Cache locking, Configuring DNS Socket Pools, Configuring Response Rate Limiting.
  

• Section 8 - Advanced DNS Topics - Enabling Round Robin and Netmask ordering, IPV4 and IPV6 Root Hints, Configuring Recursion

• Section 9 - DNS Security - Windows DNS Security Overview, Symmetric vs Asymmetric Encryption, Installing DNSSEC, DNSSEC client installation.

• Section 10 - DNS Policies - DNS Policies, Configuring DNS Filtering, Configuring Split brain DNS policy, Configuring Selective Recursion policy, Configuring a Traffic Management policy.

• Section 11 - PowerShell for DNS - Intro to Powershell for DNS, PowerShell for DNS part 2 thru 4.

• Section 12 - Troubleshooting DNS Issues - Troubleshooting Tools every IT pro must know, The event viewer, Subscriptions, Monitoring and debug logging, Troubleshooting DNS client issues.

Great News - I have just added 14 lectures to my DNS course! Checkout the DNS Update promo in the New Features Section for details.

As a bonus, I just added a PowerShell for DNS section. Here you will learn how to create DNS records all using Windows PowerShell.